Following these posts elsewhere in the blogosphere.
flashAnt
avrians place
Information Week
It would appear that some of the earliest flash and generator work myself and some of my colleges were involved in back in the earliest days of flash has broken one of the most ludicrous patent awards I have heard of.
Neil Balthaser has been awarded a Patent [...]

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Taken from Gizmodo vai Boing Boing the idea is using materials bought in bulk from places such as Maplins you can make your very own LED ‘throwies’ to make pretty on those bland city streets, or indeed any metallic surface.

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So my mate Macca found this site that will take an uploaded photo and perform some ‘facial recognition’ on it and compare the image with a database of celebrities. I couldn’t resist. I happened to have a picture on my psp that I use in Tony Hawks so I can ’skate’…. the results follow the [...]

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Over here in blighty (England if you will) we tend to get a bit of a rough deal when it comes to waves. When the waves are ok, the weather sux, and when the weather is ok, you can bet your bottom dollar that the waves will suck.
Enter the cribbar. This surf ‘event’ happens once, [...]

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I have added a small update to the Flash 8 photo gallery I produced. This allows me to specify the XML data source i wish the gallery to load from.
In addition I have done a small amount of tidying up on the server in the build up to categorising some of my photographs, and adding [...]

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Last night was the Adobe Creative suite Launch party. Now I’m not sure i will ever get to use the product itself, is not really my bag, if you follow. But the Suite did look… Brown, now I’m not sure if that was a skin, or a design decision. I’m not saying it was a [...]

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After following a few links about possible “true video” versions of the Apple iPod (link) which mentions some of the patents that Apple own in respect to touch display technology. I came across this set of videos demonstrating some truly beautiful examples of touch screen related Human, Computer Interface design. (link).
The mention of dropping the [...]

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Why not have ago at this. Why, its a Lego Difference Engine… Of course!

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I just stumbled across this on Boing Boing. I haven’t had a chance to look at the application itself but from the interview it sounds quite intriguing. If anyone has already been using SongBird then I would love to hear your opinions.
SongBird Mirrors
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My mate Macca blogged this a little while ago, but I wanted to mention it as well. Firstly because I think it’s a darn good deal on TLD registration
[EDIT: Apparently I have used the wrong acronym here, I know what I meant and evidently I am not alone in my incorrect usage. I admit [...]

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I think the title probably explains the post. My humble little blog has been added to the Macromedia News Aggregator. I only hope my provider, host and content can take the pressure. For those stumbleing on through for the first time….. Which I would think includes most of you. Welcome to my humble blog. I [...]

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