File this one in the case of ‘why didn’t i think of that’. Swoopo.com is a mix of ebay/woot and gambling all rolled into one.
The site employs an auction model for a select set of goods where each bid on an item costs $.75. Each time a bid is placed (bid increments are [...]
This video (below) made me remember my first computer, it was the The 1987 Mac Plus (pictured above) which I used to create choose your own adventure style video games on.
My favorite part of the video is the people’s reaction to the text2voice of simpletext.
It seems silly today, but that must have been truly awe [...]
I stumbled across this article that has some good tips for developing rich web based mobile apps for the iPhone and other devices using just html,css and javascript. These tools look like they could be pretty useful if you want to ‘mobilize’ the content of your existing website but don’t want to go through the hastle of developing a new app for each new platform.
Recently I had to find a method to include external images in a flex project.
After much searching I found the following which was the simplest:
First, you must check the domain you are pulling images from to make sure
that they allow access in their crossdomain.xml file: