February 2008
FebruaryFeb 19 Tuesday 08
Rotate and animate dynamic text fields in Flash
By now you've seen the Dylan Messaging viral campaign. It's a pretty hip use of Flash. I was pretty sure I knew how the effect was done, so I was running some Flash experiments to test out my theory. Everything was just as I expected until I hit a snag. How [...]
FebruaryFeb 17 Sunday 08
OmniGraffle maybe the best tool for wireframing a web site layout
I know it goes against every good web design how-to book on the market, but I rarely start with a real pencil and paper. In fact, I rarely sketch out wireframes even digitally. I just go for it.
Part of my design resolution for this year has been to start sketching …
FebruaryFeb 13 Wednesday 08
Illustrator CS3 crashes on "Place...".
I finally dove in and upgraded to Adobe CS3. Unfortunately, Illustrator was crashing whenever I called the "Place.." command.
I found a fix pretty easily though, and an official Adobe TechNote at that.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 products crash when you save, open, or …
FebruaryFeb 3 Sunday 08
Hex color picker for mac copies well to Photoshop
Yea, I know it's been a long time. Busy is a great state for a little shop like ours. Onward.
I like the little Digital Color Meter that comes with the Mac (ApplicationsUtilities), but it falls short when trying to copy colors from the screen and paste them into …