http://www.flexr.org Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:51:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Redbike Multimedia launched a new campaign to promote the online swopping website www.swoppa.nl. Swoppa has been launched this year as a new swopping website, aimed at collectors in the Netherlads. It is one of the most feature rich swopping websites. It offers the possibility to upload pictures of your items by ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/06/19/swopjetop-win-an-ipod-touch/ A very funny comparison of the Macbook Air and the new ultra portable Lenovo X300. The point they make in the movie is a good one. I think the Macbook Air is almost useless, espescially considering the price. But still, this doesn't make the Lenovo good looking. My god, it ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/05/02/lenovo-x300-versus-macbook-air/ Santa Rosa laptops have advanced power consumption limiting features, like trottling and power state transitions. The software that is supplied with your laptop, like that of my Dell is actually pretty good, but gives only limited insight in what your computer is actually doing. To adjust the power consumption of my ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/05/02/advanced-power-management-tools-for-santa-rosa-notebooks/ 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 ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/04/30/actionscript-3-frameworks-to-speed-up-development/ 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 ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/04/12/upgrading-wordpress-to-25/ 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 ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/04/03/power-saving-tips-for-your-notebook/ Check out this personal list to view the current standing in rich web applications. It is clear that 3d websites are the new trend in 2008. No wonder since Papervision offers such a great api for developing these apps. Secondly it appears that most of these websites are either ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/03/18/top-6-rich-internet-websites/ I have my Dell M1330 notebook for about two months now and I really love it. It is light, compact, feature rich, fast and it started to tick like a clock. Quite irritating to be honest, especially in quite surroundings. It appeard that the reason of this clicking was ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/03/15/dell-m1330-clicking/ The services browser of AMFPHP 1.9 is really impressive and the AWI kickstart example works almost out of the box. In the MXML file, the service that has to be connected to (AWI.awiClient) is in lowercase, which causes an Flexbuilder error. It took me some time to get thing started ... http://www.flexr.org/2008/03/11/first-impressions-of-awi/