Archive | January, 2010

IPad and the era of the digital magazine?

The reactions to the recent iPad launch have been fascinating to watch. My personal reaction is kind of mixed. For the last month or so I have been looking at ebook readers and am tempted to get the Kindle. The reader itself is a means to an end for me: its the Amazon library that [...]

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Thoughts on DaringFireball’s latest post on Apple and Flash. Lets Call a Spade a Spade can we?

Quotes from the post and counter arguments: Apple isn’t trying to replace Flash with its own proprietary thing. They’re replacing it with H.264 and HTML5. This is good for everyone but Adobe. h264 is NOT part of the open web. Its proprietary technology that Apple (and Adobe) happen to license and Apple has adopted that [...]

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AIR Utility code: Window Management for applications that run in the background

This is something I thought would take me a couple of hours to implement for the application I am working on but ended up taking way too long validating behavior and the gotchas between the PC and Mac OS’s so its definitely good utility code to keep in your toolbox. The behavior I was trying [...]

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Congratulations to the CIM CrossPlatform team: Comcast’s MyDVRManager gets Gizmodo’d

There is a lot of blood sweat and tears behind this product, but its pretty satisfying when you see how much people like it. CIM’s MyDVRManager application for remotely managing your DVR hit Gizmodo yesterday. The service is being rolled out in phases and a good way to check if you may have access to [...]

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The obligatory 2009 recap post

I dont think I have done an end of the year post ever, but 2009 was definitely eventful enough so here goes: Goodbye Flash Team: I began 2009 less than super excited. The Flash team I had worked with for the previous 4 years was disbanded in an internal reorg and I was now UI [...]

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