Stacks – Quick tip

by leon on January 28, 2008

Quick tip here about how to add a recent item stack to your dock. This takes about 2 mins top; Open up Terminal (this is in the Utilities folder inside Applications) Type in the line of code below (you can (…)

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MacBook (hot) Air!

by leon on January 16, 2008

Just to prove that I don’t just rave about Mac’s and slag off Windows, this post is about Apple’s latest treat – The MacBook Air. Apple is back at doing what it does best. Marketing a product that isn’t that (…)

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Silverlight? hmm

by leon on January 15, 2008

It seems like all I seem to do on this blog is slag of anything related to Microsoft – and i’m about to do it again. In fairness I have included a really big image (above) to make up for (…)

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Spot the error

by leon on January 14, 2008

(click to enlarge) Can anyone spot the error? Well not so much an error but a case of wrong time, wrong place? Answers on a post card – well email! Well – the fact that this is an Apple Blog, (…)

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Not for me thanks

by leon on January 14, 2008

With the release of Microsoft Office 2008, its seems the blogosphere has been sent into a frenzy with reports of excited customers – why?? As you may already no, i’m not Mr Gate’s biggest fan, however I do have to (…)

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Flash Components

by leon on January 6, 2008

I’ve recently signed up to FlashComponents.net . I rarely download or install pre-configured components for Flash partly due to the excessive costs of some components and also as I like the flexibility of creating my own. However I recently stumbled (…)

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Actionscript 3.0 Motion Detection

by leon on January 1, 2008

After a few requests i’ve got around to finding out the source code for my previous post on motion detection using actionscript 3.0. AS3 is still quite new to me and this post was adapted from an original tutorial in (…)

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Festive Wishes

by leon on December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of the SizzlaBlog readers. 2007 has been a great year with over 6,000 visits between the launch in mid September and now. Look forward to more tutorials and Flash things in (…)

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Air desktop RSS reader

by leon on December 20, 2007

I have recently updated my Flash based desktop RSS reader to an Air application. Air is Adobe’s answer to a cross browser runtime that allows developers to further blur the divide between web and desktop. For this example the user (…)

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Flash based matching pairs template

by leon on December 19, 2007

I have recently created a template for creating a Flash based matching pairs game. This can be used in eLearning environments to create a quiz quickly and easily, where the user is given a question and presented with a bank (…)

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