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Making QuickLook show .AS and .MXML files in Finder

QuickLook for Mac is absolutely one of the most handy tools around for previewing files on your system, but i bugged me I could not preview AS and MXML files. After digging around trying to get a fix to let QuickLook on Mac OSX Snow Leopard to show Actionscript and MXML files i have found [...]

More digital magazines on the iPad

For quite some time now i’ve been following the developments of digital magazines especially on devices, because this opens up a whole new realm of communication Today i’ve found a really cool app, called Flipboard. This concept is something me and my friends have been talking about building. Really glad somebody else did and in [...]

The Semantic Web

I know i’m kinda late to this party, but i dont want to keep this from you, in case you haven’t seen it yet. Takes about 15 minutes and is realy spot on. Below are some quotes from the video. Clay Shirky: If I was going to start a news business tomorrow, I would start [...]

HTTPS + IE7 + CrossDomain weirdness

While doing a project at LBi Lost Boys (place where i work) I encountered some super weird bug/feature when requesting data over HTTPS from an insecure domain. Here is the situation: We have a swf hosted on Domain A, which uses vanilla HTTP and we request data from Domain B over HTTPS. First thing we [...]

Embedding Fonts in the ComboBox Component

There comes a time when you dont have the time to create a combobox yourself and start using the standard components that Flash provides you. The problem I had was embedding the fonts in to it. I wrote alot on font embedding. But there are always special cases . Here’s how to do it: var [...]