Entries from January 2006

Useful FireFox Extension Combo

January 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I don’t think a single day goes by when something about FireFox amazes me. Today though I hit on a note worthy combination of extensions that bring an end to frequent emails and cross office journeys.

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The sound of a dying hard drive

January 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

So after a previous post detailing the slow painful death of one of my own hard drives, I found some sweet amusement in using these sounds from Hitachi to try and diagnose the exact cause that finally struck my hard drive down.
The closest match was certainly in the realm of ‘Head Damage’ although the quality [...]

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Interesting Maths Fact

January 26th, 2006 · 4 Comments

As some one that has real issues with Math, how it works (or in my case why it doesn’t) I found this nugget rather interesting. I don’t know why, or how, but I like its simplicity.
[as]var int_inPut:Number = 12345678987654321;
trace(”output == ” + Math.sqrt(int_inPut));[/as]
A surprising little maths snippet, unfortunately flash doesn’t display the original equation properly [...]

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Windows XP on an Intel Mac

January 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I must confess the release of the new MacBook Pro really did quite excite me. The possible idea of having the best of both worlds on one machine was just too much. I wan one I really really want one, and as a died in the wall PC/windoze user I never thought I would here [...]

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Ford Multilingual Micro Site

January 16th, 2006 · 9 Comments

So I have been pretty busy of late with development of a simple Ford Micro Site. This is certainly one of the most interesting projects i have been able to work on in a while, and I have to say seems to be showing a trend towards flexible, yet visually strong multilingual sites.
Previously i had [...]

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Tags: ActionScript 2 · BitTube Work · Development · Localization · Snippets