This week while working on another multilingual flash site, this time in Flash 8 I came across this interesting feature/bug with the new Flash 8 text anti aliasing. Let me explain the move below.
The top section of the movie uses text fields with the anti-aliasing setting set to “anti-alias for readability” which is placed inside [...]

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Today I was the proud recipient of an invite to the Windows Live Mail ‘Beta’. The email described the features of the new Hotmail application and very good it sounds too. Although one thought came to mind as i read, re-read and then scoured the source code.
As a ‘beta’ tester i have already become [...]

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Posted on flickr. Screen shots of the new FireFox?
Fire Fox Images

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Those of you that are users of MSN or one of its many alternative clients may or may not be aware of the fact that every conversation you have is clearly readable by any interested party that might monitor your goings on. In fact a simple Google search will throw up a fine list of [...]

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The first release of the FireFox 2 alpha has been ported to a portable distribution. Full details are here.

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As a long time sufferer of the chronic mnemonic disease ‘forgetfulness’ this site offers a service I can see working well for me.hassleme
and by blogging about it I will hopefully not for get where to find it.

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It has been bought to my attention that the ‘Plain Text’ link of the iG:Syntax Hiliter plug-in I have been using for WordPress does not operate to well. Also some of the Flash ActionScripts I have been posting are rather large and so take a while to display and be formatted correctly.
As a result of [...]

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** UPDATE **
Due to issues being reported with regard to the plain text view of the code hilighter i am using here i have zipped the current LoadQueueManager Class and put it on its own downloads page
HERE
** UPDATE **
Previously I had posted a code ’snippet’ for a Load Queue Manager Class that I had [...]

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