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Archive for December, 2008
Lynda.com Title In Development – Creating a Flash Website

My latest lynda.com title is “Creating a First Web Site with Flash CS4 Professional” is now live! Check it out! Description: Information on how to learn Flash is prevalent, but it can be frustrating to understand how to make an entire working web site using this unique technology. Here’s a course that cuts through the [...]

Music to Work By: Best of 2008

Although I’ve still been listening to some great albums from previous years, like The National, The Rocket Summer and Silversun Pickups, here is my favorite tracks from 2008: Head Rolls Off – Frightened Rabbit Crack the Shutters - Snow Patrol Paper Planes – M.I.A. - Most Creative You Appearing – M83 - Most Nostalgic Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend [...]

Augmented Reality Advertisements

The collaboration between print and online becomes more exciting every day.  MINI recently ran an augmented reality advertisement in some German publications such as Auto, Mortor und SPort and some others.  So if you have a magazine, just go to the website and hold the ad up to your webcam, and viola a 3D version [...]

Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia – Displayed Using Bridge CS4 Web Gallery

So after the Adobe MAX Conference me and my wife flew directly to Thailand to see family and the area for Thanksgiving.  Luckily we got there when we did because protesters soon took over the airports after we arrived.  So in order to get out we had to drive to Cambodia and take a flight [...]

Happy Holidays 2008

Happy Holidays Everyone!  Props to Grant Skinner for providing the code.