Archive for April, 2008

Actionscript 3 frameworks to speed up development

Animation

Tweener One of my favorite toolkits. Tweener makes it much simpler to create advanced animations. It has a Javascript version as well, which is a lightweight alternative to the Scriptaculous effects.

Visualisation

flare visualization toolkit Animation and graphs toolkit

Audio

POPForge This is actually a collection of several projects. One of the best is the audio class, which let’s you create audio samples [...]

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Upgrading Wordpress to 2.5

I have just upgraded Wordpress to the current version 2.5 and everything seems to work out of the box! The two step upgrade was truly a matter of five minutes. Delete two directories, upload new files, login to the admin panel which starts the DB upgrade and you’re done. I didn’t bother backing up the DB which I don’t regret.
I think the new interface looks very clear, uncluttered and fresh.
The only negative point is that the ”Visit Site” button is above the ”write” tab in Opera.
But who uses Opera anyway?
The new [...]

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Power saving tips for your notebook

When you spend a lot of time on the road with your notebook, you wish for longer battery times of your notebook now and then. Here are several tips for lowering the power consumption of your notebook. My Dell XPS M1330 with a standard battery has a battery lifetime of 3 hours, but this [...]

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