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Archive for August, 2008
It's Alive! Bring Your Design to Life with Flash!

With some fancy code that you can get here, you can bring your designs to life using Flash.  A little ActionScript and a little thing called parallax, you can give designs depth.  Check out the example and download fully commented code here.  Enjoy!

Google not hip enough for ya? Navigaya.com is sick!

So I stumbled upon Navigaya.com and can’t get over how sick it is.  It’s sweet.  Just hard to describe.  Think of it as Google’s hipper, older brother that lives in SoHo in a trendy studio and money to burn. In general, it enables you to search multiple search engines at one time, and you also [...]

AIGA – Cross Media Presentation

Earlier in the week I presented at an AIGA meeting at the Adobe HQ.  It was a great group and a lot of fun!  I have been asked for the slides and other resouces I shared during the meeting, so I thought I’d post the link here.  Everything you ever wanted to know about going [...]

Application Mockup Creator Making Good Money (done in AIR)

Balsamiq, an application mockup creation tool built on Adobe AIR, has generated more than $10,000 in revenue less than 6 weeks after the $79 tool launched. The one-man company was profitable within 3 weeks after launch and the application itself is quite remarkable.