Category Archives: Cool Shise

Flash game makes the jump to Wii

Defend your Castle (where you fling away attacking stick men) will be one of the first WiiWare games released.
Defend your Castle Wii version

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Rise of the machines

The first video looks like part of a montage you’d see at the beginning of a Terminator or Matrix movie when we made our first mistake. The second one not so much.

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Sprout: The Flex bar gets raised

SproutBuilder is probably the coolest Flex app I’ve seen yet. Picnik is great but Sprout blows my little mind.

They’re still in beta so you’ll get some errors if you have the debugger version of the Flash player.

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So I’d say Apple pretty much killed it today

And by ‘it’ I mean Blockbuster (and possibly Netflix but they’re a bit more agile). If weren’t one of the gazillion people hitting on the Engadget and Gizmodo live blogs Apple released a bunch of new shise today.
The MacBook Air will get most of the attention but I think Movie Rentals is a bigger deal [...]

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Flock this

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Media Temple Tames the Beast – New Ruby on Rails Hosting Service with Mongrel

For a long time deployment has been the giant stinky Grey elephant in the beautiful Ruby colored room. Rails makes developing an app a joy but for many, including me, deployment has been a bit of a nightmare. If you wanted shared hosting you went with folks who seemingly built their Rails set up by [...]

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Flash through the years

Adobe have created a great interactive overview of Flash for it’s tenth anniversary. The piece itself is a showcase for what the Flash player can now do, audio, video, and advanced interaction (make sure to give the world a spin with your mouse).
They do break two of the Vixiom design rules

Don’t use overly long [...]

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Info Art

Found a great website historyshots.com selling information graphic prints. A perfect storm for design nerds.

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