Entries from December 2005

Time on your hands?

December 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

When you have too much time on your hands, it seems it’s impossible to hide it.

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts

PortableApps.com launches

December 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

In lieu of purchasing a lap top these applications have kept me going in my recent Freelance ventures. Now they are all bought together on one site.

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Tags: Development · PortableApps

Drives, Partitions, Archives and Data Recovery

December 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

When good disks, go bad, very very bad.

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts

Flash 8 setTimeout Example

December 21st, 2005 · No Comments

http://theflashblog.com has a nice example of the undocumented setTimeout() function

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Tags: ActionScript 2 · Flash 8 · Snippets

SHA-1 Broken

December 20th, 2005 · No Comments

In this week New Scientist there was an article describing the down fall of the SHA-1 to a non-brute force attack.
Bruce Schneier was quoted in the article and also has a couple of posts that go into some more detail.
Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a New Standard
SHA-1 is Broken
Cryptanalysis of SHA-1
While it [...]

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts

Nice Flash 8 Bitmap Technique

December 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Using Flash 8 BitmapData class to streamline loading of high quality transparent images.

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Tags: ActionScript 2 · BitTube Thoughts · Flash 8

Flash Lite Devices

December 8th, 2005 · No Comments

Here are a couple of new(ish) deveices that are making use of the Flash Lite Player.

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Tags: Development · Flash Lite