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Cliff Hall has decided to invite all of us to a talk on PureMVC. See his page for more info

Tune in Here!

So my team lead is going to talk at MAX this year. He has in corporation with the video team here at hello made this video:

A beautiful video:

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
 

On the 28th of September I started using Evernote. I found it via Life-hacker and was quite impressed by the functionality. It lets you maintain a notebook both on your desktop and IPhone / Windows mobile, and on the web. This alone is enough functionality to get me interested. It does however not stop here. The system boasts amongst other things OCR, which also works inside images. Tagging. Multiple notebooks, and notebook sharing. You should definitely try it out. My experience with the program is less than one month, but the first impressions are great! The search is super snappy, and the 40 Mb. of free offline storage more than enough for my needs. Of cause there is also a ‘pro’ edition with more storage space available for a small fee..

Try it out here.

I got this from a collegue, it looks promising, and very smooth in the UI, check it out:

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

I just got my hands on a couple of new monitors at work. I like to have a nice discreet wallpaper, but the new monitors have an resolution of 1680*1050, and with two of them, I find it increasingly difficult to find wallpapers which are big enough. Mandolux has the solution, at least for now..

I think that you will need Ultramon or something similar to enjoy these wallpapers as they are mostly made out of two or more images. (Or you could simply make one image out of the two with your favorite image manipulating software)

In the project I have been working on for the last half year, I’ve had a problem with rendering axis labels inside the horizontal axis of a chart in flex. The VERY dirty workaround has for some time been to set the padding of the label to a negative value, forcing the layout manager to render the labels on top of the axis. This however spawned a series of new layout problems. The chart area moves on the y-axis when it receives data with this model.

The solution: Make a label renderer which in turn does the same, but only imposes the negative padding on the labels themselves, thereby ’saving’ the rest of the layout.

The solution can be seen here.

BTW. there is a entry in the Adobe jira describing the problem here.

I’ve been using this nice piece of software over the last month or so. I like it a lot, and hereby recommend it to anyone who haves more than 1 monitor attached to their computer. It puts a task-bar on all the monitors, and is amongst other things able to stretch applications over more than one monitor like maximize does for one app on one monitor. Enjoy!

I Just read a bit of http://hackaday.com and stumbled upon this . Thats about the most clever/ useful combo of the iphone and google maps I’ve seen yet. I have a couple of friends who are iphone users, and commutes by train, even after a night out. This app could save them a lot of time and get them some sleep!