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Flash development articles and a spectrum of topics from various fields of IT and computer arts.
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How to enable Caps Lock on iPhone
Those of you wondering on how to enable Caps Lock feature on iPhone, here’s a quick rundown: Turn on Caps Lock from the Settings > General > Enable Caps Lock: Return to your application, double-tap Shift so it turns blue and there you...
Flash CS4 graphics importer lacks precision
Importing graphics from Adobe Illustrator to Flash is a nightmare when it comes to precision graphics. Incredibly enough, an utterly fine graphic in Illustrator may turn up all shoddy in Flash. To prove a point, here’s a clip of the vector curv...
First impressions on Flash Player 10.1 prerelease and AIR 2 beta
Adobe announced 2 great releases today: Adobe AIR 2 beta and Flash Player 10.1 prerelease, both aiming high with Flash Player 10.1 being the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project and AIR 2 offering a significant performance boost with comp...
ActionScript 3 Array constructor vs Array literals benchmark
By the latest Coding Convention of ActionScript 3, the usage of the Array constructor is only encouraged for size allocation, e.g. var myArr:Array = new Array(2); for an array with 2 elements in it. In all other cases literals should be used, e.g. va...
Thawte closes down its WoT and Personal E-mail Certificate
Thawte, a leading global SSL certificate authority, announced today that the Thawte Personal E-mail Certificates* and WoT (Web of Trust)** are being discontinued. What it basically means, is that many users enjoying Thawte’s free email certifi...
Replacement for deprecated OL/LI start/value HTML attributes
As by the HTML 4.01 specification, all attribute definitions of lists, such as ordered lists and unordered lists, are deprecated, meaning that you can’t make a list purely in HTML that would skip some numbers, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5 skipping 4. Previo...

