Monthly Archives: November 2005

Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard for my Nokia 6680 Phone

Posted on November 28, 2005 by admin

My Nokia Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard arrived today for my Nokia 6680 cell phone. Retails for $199, but I got it for about $139 at Mobile City Online. It’s only fitting that I get a keyboard for a phone that boots. … Continue reading →

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AS3 Chronicles #3: Enter Frame Event & _root Class

Posted on November 27, 2005 by admin

You can finally add event listeners to MovieClip events. Whats more, you can register for the enterFrame event and you don’t have to have something “visual” to do it. You just create a new MovieClip or Sprite in your class, … Continue reading →

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Winter: Fireworks MX 2004 Painting

Posted on November 26, 2005 by admin

Hit a snag last night trying to figure out why my BitmapData was getting cropped when I was sure my Bitmap was not using a scrollRect. If you don’t know what that means, neither did I at 10:00pm… I just … Continue reading →

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Machines Enter the Cellular Mundane Push

Posted on November 25, 2005 by admin

Old tech, new, more personal application. Pre-recorded messages have been the norm for call help. If you call just about anywhere for help, excluding your local power company in a small, southern, American town, you’ll get a pre-recorded message, usually … Continue reading →

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AS3 Chronicles #2: Using Embedded Images

Posted on November 24, 2005 by admin

Remember in Flash when you wanted to use a simple bitmap? You had to: import the bitmap put it in a new MovieClip give it a unique linkage ID use attachMovie/createObject(v2) on that linkage ID In Flex 1.5, you had … Continue reading →

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