The stuff that people are doing now with Flash blows my mind. A couple months ago, I found this site through Adobe’s Edge newsletter. After playing just one level I was hooked. I stayed up for hours playin the thing and didn’t even realize that time was passing. Interestingly enough though, I realized that it was sharpening my problem solving skills. It would be very difficult to spend any amount of time trying to figure these out and not get your solve on. And unlike Sudoku or crosswords, this thing is incredibly engaging from an interactive standpoint. I know action scripting is complicated, but Lord have mercy on the person that figured out how to apply Newton’s law to it!
January, 2008
24 Jan 08
Launchball Game
18 Jan 08
Make it Fluid
I fell upon this nifty little tool yesterday called Fluid. It’s created just for us Mac users to turn our most commonly used web apps into their own app in our dock. I just set up three of them and it’s working great so far. I did one for my Backpack site, my blog, and my Google Analytics account.
For some reason, I’ve not succeeded in setting up Gmail. Fluid keeps shutting down with an error. I’m sure I’ll come up with plenty more uses for it though. I also like that I can create my own icons for it as well. I just did simple little PNG images quick in Photoshop and saved them to my desktop. Then when setting up a new app, plug it in, and then delete it. The other nice thing is that if your browser freezes up for some reason and you have to force quit, the app runs independently of it, so it won’t be automatically shut down.
17 Jan 08
The Repeaters
So everybody goes through those phases where there’s songs that you just keep listening to over and over and over. Just for kicks, I put together a playlist of those guilty pleasures I find myself wearing out on a regular basis. Click on the photo to see all the song info if you’re lookin’ for some fun new tunes.