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Making mountains out of a Molehill: How-to
By Steve Woolcock at March 8, 2011 | 9:52 am | 12 Comments
As promised, the second installment of my posts on the new Flash Molehill APIs and the preview release of Away3D 4.0 is here. In this article, I will explain how to set up FlashDevelop 3 to compile the new Flex SDK and Molehill compatible classes, as well as how to setup a basic Away3D project and display some graphics inside Flash. Let's get straight to it. Basic more...
Making mountains out of a Molehill
By Steve Woolcock at March 3, 2011 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
At the Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco this week, Adobe announced the preview release of the long-awaited Molehill API for the Flash Platform. For those not in the know, the Molehill API opens up low-level access for Flash applications to your computer's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). So, what does this mean? Having access to the GPU will allow developers to push more...
Facebook Enhance Pages
By Andy Cronin at February 11, 2011 | 5:37 pm | 0 Comment
Facebook Pages just got a whole lot better with new functionality that’s off the page! You may remember in December 2010 Facebook launched a new design of Facebook profiles, with users personal profiles now including revamped personal info, more prominent pictures that showcase embarrassing photos you’ve been tagged in at the office Christmas party, top interests more...
Facebook launches Friendship Pages
By Simon T Small at November 1, 2010 | 1:56 pm | 0 Comment
In true Facebook style a new feature was recently released called "Friendship Pages" where it sums up the shared activity between you and a friend. I think I like it but I'm not sure - it feels a little creepy... You browse to your friends profile page and click 'View you and X'. See me and a mate Calvin below. It pulls in photos you've both been tagged in, more...
Goodbye Search, Hello Content Curation
By Simon T Small at May 5, 2010 | 10:57 am | 1 Comments
Mashble.com raised the idea of content curation playing a critial role in the media and publishing value chain. They talk the concept of how content curation is needed when search engines fail to deliver useful results. Definition: Content Curation is the act of humans manually organising content. “Curation comes up when search stops working,” says author and NYU more...
7 iPad Apps to look forward to
By Simon T Small at April 28, 2010 | 9:00 am | 0 Comment
It's been less than 3 weeks since launch and some interesting iPad Apps are starting to hit the market. Seeing these Apps - their size, layout & detail - helps realise the potential for different uses in the home. We're lucky enough to have one at the office to play around with, and it is true when Jobs says "You can hold the internet in your hand" - it's really more...
[Like] times infinity
By Sammi Needham at April 22, 2010 | 5:53 pm | 5 Comments
Facebook's changes, announced today, signify a significant shift in the way that the web could work. The Open Graph (and it's brethren) cranks information in and out of Facebook differently to Facebook Connect, it connects to every site and property that wants to be social with Facebook's member base, and does it quickly and easily. On the surface sites will start adding more...
Where’s my (mum’s) iPad?
By Sammi Needham at April 22, 2010 | 5:53 pm | 0 Comment
The Apple Australia site says that iPads will be available in late April May. Well, it's officially late April. Where's my iPad! *Update. iPad orders have been pushed back a month outside of the US. Makes the (potentially) over-priced eBay option look better than ever.* Funnily enough (that's a term my mum used to use, i'm not so sure it's correct grammar more...
President from MySpace shares his vision
By Simon T Small at April 19, 2010 | 9:56 am | 0 Comment
On the first Wednesday of this month, Tim Burrowes of Mumbrella chaired the MySpace hosted event featuring Michael Jones (Co-President, MySpace) to discuss 'The Future of Social Media' - yes everyone thought that was ironic - but I went away with a more positive perception of this social-music-media-platform-thing. I went to this event with a dull memory of using more...
iPhone/Pod OS4 – what it means to us
By Simon T Small at April 10, 2010 | 4:49 pm | 0 Comment
This week Steve Jobs (Apple) announced the new operating system for iPhones & iPod Touch. This release is by far more of an advance than any previous. The new operating system will contiain three new core features: (Check out the video below for yourself) Multi-tasking - letting you switch between 2 or more apps at once iAds - this is the big game more...