Jan 31st, 2008
RIAs, Dumb Terminals and Business Applications
There has been a lot of talk recently about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and how they are dramatically changing the way we interact with the web. Nearly every day, I discover a cool new RIA that once again raises the bar and reveals yet another way to employ this new technology. I’m always amazed at [...]
Jan 15th, 2008
AIR Application for Google Analytics gets Google's Support
If you don’t know what AIR is yet, start here. Ok, let’s take a look at some cool applications being built of this technology. The image above is actually a slideshow of 3 screens of data from my aerial photography website, http://www.tigeraerial.com. The application runs on my desktop and gives me instant access to tons [...]
Jan 12th, 2008
The Most Amazing Jet Picture – new details emerge on how it was taken
In September, 2003, the picture below showed up on several websites. I remember the day it came out because it was absolutely amazing, but it seemed to be an impossible shot. The aviation boards were full of rumors about the picture being fake but few days later, more details surfaced on the accident and how [...]
Jan 12th, 2008
Buzzword – Online Wordprocessing – Another great RIA!
Ok, there are thousands of rich internet applications (RIAs) out there that I could write about but I’m trying to be very selective in order to provide a good sampling of different uses of RIAs and their advantages. Being pretty is one thing, but being incredibly functional is what makes RIAs exciting. For example, check [...]
Jan 11th, 2008
Adobe Flex and AIR Pre-release tour coming to a city near you!
Adobe Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR product and evangelism teams are traveling to select cities to show off the great new features for this exciting launch. Check the listings at http://flex.org/tour/ to hook up with the local user group in the city [...]
Jan 11th, 2008
Yourminis.com – Another Cool Flex app that I use daily
Several months ago, a friend/co-worker suggested that I take a look at Yourminis.com as a possible RSS reader. I had tried several but didn’t really find anything I liked. I’ve used Yourminis ever since. Yourminis is much more than an RSS reader – it is a Widget Server or as some would say, a “webtop“. [...]
Jan 9th, 2008
Online Photo Editing Site built on Flex – Picnik
At the intersection of my two worlds, Adobe and Photography, is a website called Picnik. Picnik allows it’s users to do many common photo editing tasks without installing any software. You basically go to the Picnik.com, point it to your photo and adjust cropping, brightness, contrast, color balance, sharpness, etc. When the site was first [...]
Jan 9th, 2008
LiveCycle Product Blog Growing…
For any of you already using Adobe LiveCycle, add the following blog to your daily reading – http://blogs.adobe.com/livecycle (RSS) This frequency and quality of the articles is increasing. More is coming. Here are some recent posts: LiveCycle – LDAP Directory Synch Verification Invoke LiveCycle with Visual Basic .NET 2005/2008 Filling in Forms with Sample Data [...]
Jan 7th, 2008
A very good Nikon D200 D300 comparison
VS Steve Bingham, a great photographer in Payson, AZ performed his own test comparing images from a Nikon D200 and Nikon D300. The test are across multiple ISO values under low-level tungsten light. It is one of the better comparisons I’ve seen since it reproduces the type of light that is a challenge to shoot. [...]
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