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List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools
0 Comments | Posted by Christian Gehrke in Tools, flex
I just stumbled across this today and thought i’d share.
It’s a wonderful list of resources for anyone who uses or wants to us Flex from Shawn the Flex guy.
Find the link below:
http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2008/05/24/36-new-cool-flex-and-as3-tools-libraries-and-components/
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Tutorial: How to Build an Affordable Camera Stabilizer
0 Comments | Posted by Christian Gehrke in All, Tools, Tutorials
This little video tutorial shows us how to make an effective, affordable and compact stabilizer for our cameras. It’s a bit crude but after testing it out myself it seems to do the trick nicely.
$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera – Lose The Tripod – video powered by Metacafe
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Link: Design Related
0 Comments | Posted by Christian Gehrke in All, Inspiration, News, Tools
Design Related is a new(ish) site that gives designers from all walks of life and trades a tool to create an online portfolio and network with other designers. The site works well and is also very well built.
I just signed up today for free and I think I will be adding all my new and [...]
I have added a little Skype button on the right hand side that will show my status and allow you to easily send me a little message if you have Skype installed. It’s free and becoming a must have tool.
Skype.com
I work with colours all the time and if your a web designer you probably do too. I usually end up opening up Fireworks and use the colour picker to find the exact hex number for my colours but now I have found a new little tool that works wonders.
If your not already using Firefox [...]
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Link: PhotoJojo
0 Comments | Posted by Christian Gehrke in All, Inspiration, Tools, Tutorials
What a wonderful site for photography tips and tricks. From Photoshop and Illustrator tips to actual hands on tips and tricks for both the advanced and novice photographer. You can choose to sign up for their newsletter or if you want to see what you have missed you can surf through their archive.
I am already [...]
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Graphical Speed Test
0 Comments | Posted by Christian Gehrke in All, Inspiration, Tools, flash
It’s always handy to know exactly what your internet connection speed is. There are many sites that offer both free and paid services that do just that. But, none have done it as graphically pleasing as the new and improved Speedtest.net.
With their clean flash interface and smooth matrix-like overview, you can see your speed from [...]
As a web developer one of the most time consuming things can be cutting up your templates from photoshop or fireworks and putting it into html. This process has evolved rapidly over the past few years but it’s still quite time consuming, until now. If you just don’t want the bother of cutting them up [...]