June 24, 2008

My New Mac

My New Mac 52 Simple Projects to Get You Started by Wallace Wang April 2008, 480 pp. $29.95 ISBN-13 978-1-59327-164-0 No Starch Press Oh I soooo wish this book had arrived just a few weeks earlier! There are somethings that just require unlearning skills, and moving from a PC to a Mac is one of them. I keep wanting to right click and it took some searching to find a webpage of keyboard shortcuts for the mac. In all reality, Wallace Wang (the author) has hit the nail on the head...some people just learn better and faster by doing... more

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June 11, 2008

Taking truly amazing photos with a consumer camera

I've seen those amazing high speed camera shots of bullets going through apples, water drops exploding on the surface of a pool of water and time-lapse movies of skyscrapers being built. However, the specialized equipment necessary to produce these images has been out of the reach of normal folks -- up until a dedicated group of programmers came up with software to extend the functionality of the Canon Power Shot camera. Their Web site, In Brief, gives you a thumbnail of what this open source project is all about: CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of... more

TAGS: Canon PowerShot, Lab Freaks, Open Source, Toys and tools

June 04, 2008

Flex 3 Cookook

O'Reilly's Flex 3 Cookbook seeks to help developers put their arms around the massive Flex development environment that is touted to help web developers embed flash tools without the pain of learning to develop in native Flash. Designed to complement both open source and commercial development tools the cookbook seeks to address the common pain points of the Flex environment. Flex 3 Cookbook Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers By Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson First Edition May 2008 Pages: 704 Series: Adobe Developer Library ISBN 10: 0-596-52985-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596529857 Press Release $44.99 for print copy _uacct =... more

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