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flOw

December 10, 2006

in asides

If you haven’t seen flOw, you’ve got to go take a look! It’s an insanely addictive Flash-based game centered on psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of “flow”, wherein the participant achieves “the feeling of complete and energized focus in an activity, with a high level of enjoyment and fulfillment”.

flOw was developed as a part of [...]

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Adobe labs has made the beta of Adobe Digital Editions available.

This looks to be a promising product, having yet another lash at the ebook space. To my mind, ebooks have been cruelled by a number of factors over the several years different vendors have been trying to get in on this idea:

the inconvenience of [...]

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Dear Lazyweb,
Is there some way of getting the latest version of Flash Player installed into a portable (USB key-based) version of Firefox without having to run the installer .exe? I want Flash Player 9 on my Firefox Portable.
I’m on a WinXP system that requires Administrator access to run installers, and there is no up [...]

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Pretty… Fast…

August 17, 2006

in asides

Broadband speed tests are now teh sexxay!
Link thanks to Mike Potter at Adobe.

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Check out Cromm Cruac!
It’s hella fast and has awesome design. Dude’s got 133t sk1llz!

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webDU – get in the game!

March 2, 2006

in Uncategorized

For webDU, moket have created a sweet little Flash Lite game (pity my phone doesn’t do Flash…) where you get to play a variant on “Celebrity Head”, trying to identify webDU speakers from their nectarine-created caricatures.

I’m in there. It’s very cool.

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Heavy-handed Macromedia?

August 30, 2005

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Hey, Macromedia! What’s up with the Flash EULA?
Perhaps after the party celebrating the approval of the Adobe-Macromedia merger, some three-quarters smashed legal intern got their hands on the EULA draft and played around. On first glance it seems that:

you can’t install the Flash Player software on a portable computer (s 2(a))
you agree implicitly [...]

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