14 Tips for Safari 4 Beta

Here is a blog post on useful Safari 4 Beta tips:

http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/12-tips-for-safari-4-beta.html

Project Launched: Metro Loft Management NYC

Another site launched this week. Welcome to metroloftnyc.com where elegance meets downtown NYC. It was most enjoyable to work on this. All done within the Flash IDE and a bit of animation scripting. The Metro Loft was beautifully designed by my wife, Trina Elstner Cintron.

Project Launched: unbundled - a creative company

The former chairman of Leon Burnett hired me to develop a small simple site for her portfolio. I was honored and very excited to do such a task. Here I present to you unbundledcreative.com

This site was entirely done via AS3 using the Flash Player 10 API. The work section is not done in Papervision, it was all FP10. I'm glad to launch this elegant simplistically clean site. Enjoy all the video spots they have to offer, most of them are classics.

Flash Paginator: Get total of pages

Here is a really simple algorithm to get total of pages in a paginator.

var itemsTotal:int = 33;

var itemsPerPage:int = 6;

var remainder:int = itemsTotal % itemsPerPage;

var totalOfPages:Number = Math.round(itemsTotal / itemsPerPage);

if ( remainder > 0 )

{

totalOfPages = totalOfPages + 1;

}

trace(remainder + " = how many items are left.");

trace(totalOfPages + " = total of pages");

GTweenFilter Error - no filter at index

I'm not sure how many people are playing with Flash Player 10. I'm enjoying this current project. It is all being coded via Textmate using the Player 10 API. I'm currently using GTween for all my animation/transitions and have a simple tip for adding GTweenFilters to dynamic objects.

If you're trying to apply a GTweenFilter effect on a programmatic object you may get a 'no filter at index [number]'. Don't forget the filter for your object hasn't been created yet. You need to create a new filter and add it to your objects filters array. Here is a short example:

clip.filters = [ new BlurFilter( 0, 0, BitmapQuality.MEDIUM ) ];

new GTweenFilter( clip, 0.6, { blurX: 40, blurY: 40 }, { reflect:true, ease:Sine.easeInOut } );

Play with Vectors in Flash CS4

Play With Vectors in Flash CS4

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Microsoft Silverlight & Adobe AIR/Flex Battle

Check out this video debate on Silverlight and Adobe Flex. When will Microsoft know that they are very smart, but not at all cool and creative.

Click here to view video