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  • How to disable Snap.com popups in Firefox

    If you know of an IE PC fix and/or a Mac Safari fix, feel free to link in the comments.

    If you, like me, loathe Snap.com‘s popups, and refuse to have a cookie from their site as a removal solution, here’s what you do.

    For Firefox:

    1. Go here.
    2. Install the plugin (click link at bottom)
    3. Restart Firefox.
    4. Click “Adblock” on bottom right of Firefox
    5. Add “spa.snap.com/snap_preview_anywhere.js” into the text field. Click Ok.

    If the link in step 1 link rots, search Google for “AdBlock”. If you can’t install the plugin, make sure Firefox isn’t blocking the installation from it. You should see a yellow bar at the top of the page letting you know the installation failed. You can click the edit button there to allow that site to install plugins.

    Additionally, you can use it for Intellitxt as well, the gents who make the ad pop-ups for the double underlined green links (not always green).

    Via Boing Boing.

  • Flex 2 Template Project Files

    For those of you who wish to just start working on a Flex project immediately, it can be quite daunting to do. New Project, setup Cairngorm, etc. Obviously daunting is quite the dramatic flair, but regardless, it should be quicker. If you don’t have any integrated code generation tools, one quick way is to just copy and paste these template files into your newly created Flex project folder. They contain:

    • Cairngorm 2.1 class files (no SWC) (without the WSDL fix)
    • my Cairngorm callback modification (allows View’s to get strongly typed responses from Commands)
    • default MainView (all your Views are belong to MainView)
    • default CSS file
    • default project folder setup
    • simple debugger window

    Download ZIP

    …one of these days, I’ll make an ANT script to do this automatically or one of the code gen makers will make a suite. Till then, copy paste, sucka!

  • mProjector 3 Released

    mProjector, a Flash Player projector creator has just released version 3. This is a me too post, but just had to blog it since mProjector is my favorite out compared to Zinc and SWFStudio. If you can’t wait for Apollo, and/or want to create applications using Flex or Flash on the desktop today, mProjector 3 is definately something you should check out. Here’s what I did using Flex 1.5 over a year ago using mProjector 2.

    Having problems getting a working example up using a Flex 2 SWF; if someone beats me to it, let me know!

    Via Flashmagazine.

    Disclaimer: I typically do not do get projector paying gigs. Therefore, my opinion on what is the best projector tool is framed by testing them all out over 2 years ago. I highly suggest if you are serious about doing desktop work using one of these tools, you investigate for yourself the options, and build a demo with each to get a feel for the API.

  • Dynamic Flash Example – 3 of 3: Yahoo Maps + FlightAware Mashup

    Yahoo Maps provides a component that you can use in your Flash and Flex applications. FlightAware provides an API (you have to pay, not free) that allows you to get tracking information about air traffic. Together, you get a mashup of tracking the progress of an airplane currently in flight over the USA via an animated map.

    This example shows how to get dynamic data onto a YahooMap component from FlightAware’s DirectFlight API using Flash 8, AS2, and PHP. PHP converts FlightAware’s XML to a smaller, more Flash friendly, JSON format.

    Yahoo Maps & FlightAware Mashup – Source ZIP

    You can get more plane ID’s for Atlanta here, or choose a state & airport here.