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Introducing SuperLoader: a better AS3 library for fetching images

This post is way overdue but in any case, I’d like to introduce (rather belatedly) SuperLoader, an image loading library for AS3. The library grew out of my work when I was building the magazine view for EspressoReader. The magazine view builds a visual grid from the images found in a collection of blogs you [...]

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Its comments like these …

…that keep me working on EspressoReader I know this video was posted a year back. Could not stop myself from praising about your marvelous work. Really made my Google Reader mess an enjoyable read. Thanks and congrats for the awesome piece of software On the first “sneak peek” video of EspressoReader posted July of last [...]

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The grand 2010 recap post

Wow, cant believe its that time already. 2010 was a pretty great year for me. In Nov 2009 I moved to the User Experience team hoping to be the voice of technology as new projects were conceived and features enhanced. So the year began with me learning the workings of the UX team which was [...]

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[Video] New Magazine View in EspressoReader: Your Google Reader feeds never looked so pretty

I am pretty proud of the new version of EspressoReader that was released yesterday. While the build included numerous bugfixes, the biggest change in the app is a much improved Magazine View that is centered around the images in a feed. Here is a screenshot +video of the new view: The view is fully navigable [...]

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Whats new in EspressoReader 0.8: Twitter profile “guesses”

I posted an update to EspressoReader on the Adobe AIR marketplace yesterday (if you are using an older version of the application, restart it to get the auto update message). While the application does have a number of features and bugfixes, the feature I am definitely most excited about is the Twitter profile guesses. Here is [...]

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