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The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07
Round-Up Basically system hacks to change the colours of menus and the Dock - a strip for launching applications and documents in OS X. Still, there's no guarantee that the greatest technical minds at Redmond will manage to get XP working on the low-spec... [02 Nov 2007]
PC Hacks: Upgrade Your Flash BIOS
White Paper Sometimes only after a product gets to market and is used in a lot of different situations can a vendor learn of problems or limitations. Nearly every system board and PC system on the market undergoes at least one significant revision of the BIOS... [17 Oct 2007]
Flash Hacks: Create a Flash Speech Synthesizer
White Paper This paper uses Flash sound events to splice sound samples seamlessly together to simulate one continuous sound effect, in this case digitized speech using allophones (phonetic speech sections from which the spoken word is built up).Some hacks... [10 Oct 2007]
Flash Hacks: A Custom Color Transform Class
White Paper Using ActionScript 2.0 requires Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004. One must set the ActionScript Version to ActionScript 2.0 under the Flash tab in the File ? One can create and edit such a file in Flash MX Professional 2004 if you select... [10 Oct 2007]
Flash Hacks: Simulate 3D
White Paper Although Flash doesn't support 3D assets, one can simulate 3D in various ways using 2D assets. One simple approach is to arrange slices of 2D imagery but offset them to create the illusion of 3D. That is, a stack of flat 2D slices is used to create... [10 Oct 2007]
Flash Hacks: Undocumented ActionScript
White Paper ActionScript's basic for.in loop effectively says to the Flash interpreter, "Look at the object of interest, and for each of its properties (including its methods stored within properties), execute the body of the loop once. [10 Oct 2007]
Flash Hacks: Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap
White Paper For some images (particularly logos or other graphics that contain text or a "Spiky" edge rather than the smoothly curving butterfly wing), the feathering technique loses the sharp edges of the original. [10 Oct 2007]
Flickr Hacks: Make a Slideshow
White Paper In this paper, one will be making a Flash movie that is compatible with Flash 7. One will need a version of Macromedia Flash that is at least as recent as Flash MX 2004. This paper uses a modified version of the script, so one will need to have... [10 Oct 2007]
12 steps to create a boot diskette to upgrade a PC BIOS
White Paper This sample chapter from O'Reilly's PC Hacks shows how to create a boot diskette for updating a PC with a new BIOS.Title: PC Hacks Chapter: Hack 10: Upgrade Your Flash BIOS Nearly every PC undergoes at least one major BIOS upgrade during its... [24 May 2006]
