Author: coderman

Lift off — first Apollo app

I have developed a very simple Apollo application. The purpose was to get a handle on the API and basically experiment with Resize, Events, Chromeless and a few others. Here is a screenshot of the application and I will probably post the ".air" file later on. Also...

Apollo alpha now available in Adobe Labs

Apollo Alpha now available. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. Apollo enables developers...

Does the MacBook Pro run hotter?

After reading more of those "hot macbook pro" postings I decided to do a little experimenting. I started off by firing up the MacBook Pro and then my Compaq notebook. After letting them run for a few minutes I noticed both the Mac and PC...

Latest addition to my Mac family

As the title states there is a new addition to the Macs I own. Please welcome the MacBook Pro, which you may have noticed if you visited my Flickr Page in the last couple of days. I decided to go for the 2.66ghz with 2gb...

Putty seen on Prison Break

My favorite SSH application for Windows was spotted on the hit Fox show Prison Break. Michael Scofield, Sara Tancredy and Lincoln Burrows were huddled around a PC laptop listening to an audio recording and when the program was closed I noticed the putty icon sitting...

Design Challenge 7 – Finalists

Yesterday PhotoshopCafe announced the finalists from the Design Challenge. To help promote the contetst I developed a little Flash app that sites atop the forum which randomly displays an entry. The user can rollOver the image and an overlay is displayed showing who created that...