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May
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Levi Brooks on May 17th, 2012
Today, we’re kicking off a two week sprint for Google+ Hangouts! With the Google+ Hangouts API out of preview, Google asked us to take a look and see what we can hack together. What excites us is the possibility of building games and toys on top of a baked-in social platform with multi-user videochat. In [...]
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Sep
12
Jason Farrell on September 12th, 2011
When designing for the web, I often need to take pieces from bigger PSDs and create smaller Photoshop files out of them. My typical process involves creating a new file—one equal in size to the document I’m working on—and then dragging all the selected layers over. Afterwards, I go through a handful of more time-consuming [...]
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Jun
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Jason Farrell on June 1st, 2011
There’s been a lot of debate over the last year or so about ditching Flash for HTML5. It seems like every other article in the web design world is about how awesome HTML5 is. There have also been an uprise in Flash-to-HTML5 converters on the market (don’t even think about going that route). HTML5 has [...]
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Aug
31
Jason Farrell on August 31st, 2009
We’ve been working rigorously on a startup that needed a Firefox plugin to accomplish all of the goals for the site. After learning that Firefox extensions are built primarily of Javascript, CSS and a markup language similar to that of Flex, called XUL, we decided we had the skill-set to build it in-house. There were [...]
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Apr
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Jason Farrell on April 10th, 2009
Papervision (the awesome 3D engine for ActionScript 3) is limited when it comes to standard flash interactivity. Specifically something called buttonMode. When you put buttonMode = true on a 2D sprite in flash, it puts a nice cursor over your sprite, hence making it look like a button or a link. We use Pv3d’s MovieMaterial [...]
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