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24 October, 2005

AS3 on OS X - Gentlefolk, We Have the Technology...
Like any Mac wielding Flash platform developer there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth in my household when it was announced that the Zorn alpha would be PC only (actually it was rather restrained as it was 2am Sydney time and my daughters were asleep across the hall from my office)....more

Robin Hilliard on 24 October, 2005 | Link | Flex, OS X | Comments (4)
12 July, 2005

Flash Player 8 Public Beta
I just found this now on VersionTracker via an RSS feed, Flash Player 8 Public Beta now appears to be available, so I guess for those of you who like to be bleeding edge, in the words of the Rolling Stones - "let it bleed".

Links below....more


Andrew Muller on 12 July, 2005 | Link | OS X, Flash | Comments (0)
29 April, 2005

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
My copy of Tiger has just arrived by courier and the dilema is whether to install or carry on with the code that I'm debugging.

The delights of Spotlight & Dashboard will have to wait until tonight as I want to do a backup of the current drive image before boldly installing....more


Andrew Muller on 29 April, 2005 | Link | OS X | Comments (1)
16 March, 2005

OT: Useful Free OS X Apps for Managing PVR Files
I've recently purchased a digital set top box with multiple tuners and a hard drive with the ability to transfer the recordings to computer via USB and have been hunting around for applications for my PowerBook that would help me to edit, compress and store MPEG2 files....more

Andrew Muller on 16 March, 2005 | Link | Technology, OS X | Comments (2)
2 October, 2004

Screen Recording Directly to a Flash Movie
It's possible, using Vnc2swf, to record screen activity directly to Flash movies (SWF format) on either X-Window (X11), Windows or OS X....more

Andrew Muller on 2 October, 2004 | Link | OS X, Flash | Comments (2)

Another Reason Why I've Never Installed RealPlayer
In the process of deciding what software "essentials" to install on the PowerBook that I had bought when joining RocketBoots there were conscience choices of what not to install. Top of that no go list was RealPlayer....more

Andrew Muller on 2 October, 2004 | Link | OS X, Connected | Comments (3)
30 September, 2004

Making a Good Thing Better
I've admitted here previously that I'm a news junkie, and to satisfy my habit I've been searching for a personal RSS aggregator that meets my needs....more

Andrew Muller on 30 September, 2004 | Link | Connected, OS X | Comments (9)
29 September, 2004

Virtual PC 7 Arrived
I received Virtual PC 7 in the post yesterday and tried it out (some other sofware called Office that came with it is still lying around on my desk somewhere). I have OSX 10.3.5 on a new G4 Powerbook. The initial install was straightforward, and you can install it alongside VPC 6....more

Robin Hilliard on 29 September, 2004 | Link | OS X | Comments (3)
31 August, 2004

Skype Beta for OS X Available
Skype just has to be one of those current "must have" bits of software, it gives you the ability to same big dollars by delivering free internet telephony via P2P.

It's been available for Windows for some time, with a Linux beta also available....more


Andrew Muller on 31 August, 2004 | Link | Connected, OS X | Comments (0)
24 August, 2004

Contribute 3 & FlashPaper 2
Sneaking under the blog radar last week was the online release of Contribute 3 along with FlashPaper 2, For Mac users it means that they now also have the ability to produce FlashPaper content.

Is FlashPaper content easy to produce? Way too easy......more


Andrew Muller on 24 August, 2004 | Link | OS X, Contribute | Comments (3)
20 August, 2004

CocoaMySQL - A MySQL GUI for OS X
New to the OS X environment I've been going through a list of software requirements, one of which has been a client to manage my MySQL databases. While I've trailed a number of commercial applications, NaviCat for example, my choice for now is a free open source program called CocoaMySQL....more

Andrew Muller on 20 August, 2004 | Link | OS X | Comments (3)
15 August, 2004

Audium X, a better multi-IM client
Having used Trillian previously on Windows I've been dipping my toes in the multi-IM client waters for a while on my PowerBook trying to suss out what was the best fit for me.

I've been playing with Fire (http://fire....more


Andrew Muller on 15 August, 2004 | Link | OS X | Comments (6)
4 August, 2004

More on Flex, MXML, Eclipse & the oXygen Plug-in
As mentioned previously I've been trying out the oXygen plug-in for Eclipse to write MXML for Flex on OS X, in this post I thought I'd give some more detail on just what the plug-in is capable of doing.

The first thing is setting oXygen up so that you can author MXML....more


Andrew Muller on 4 August, 2004 | Link | OS X, Flex | Comments (21)
31 July, 2004

Flash 7.2 Updater Hiccup Redux
It appears now that the activation problem that occured on my PowerBook after running the Flash 7.2 updater was not a unique problem....more

Andrew Muller on 31 July, 2004 | Link | OS X, Flash | Comments (0)
30 July, 2004

Authoring MXML for Flex on the Mac
There's been a syntax definition for TextPad on Windows almost from Flex's release, it's about time we found a tool to author MXML for the Mac....more

Andrew Muller on 30 July, 2004 | Link | Flex, OS X | Comments (1)

Installing Flex on OS X
I mentioned earlier that setting up Flex on my PowerBook was very straight foward, there's been a thread on FlexCoders recently about doing just that....more

Andrew Muller on 30 July, 2004 | Link | OS X, Flex | Comments (4)
27 July, 2004

Flash 7.2 Updater Hiccup
The Flash 7.2 updater install went smoothly on my PowerBook with the exception of launching Flash afterwards. Should have had Matt's post to read before I started.

The activation software for Flash wouldn't let me activate because it had thought that I had done this too many times already....more


Andrew Muller on 27 July, 2004 | Link | Flash, OS X | Comments (2)

Safari, Firefox from the source
Using OS X Safari is easy because it's just there, kinda like IE on Windows, and it's a pretty good browser - easy to use right from the start but using it as a development tool is another story....more

Andrew Muller on 27 July, 2004 | Link | OS X | Comments (0)
25 July, 2004

gCount - Tasty Gmail Menu Bar Item for OS X
Came across this one yesterday, gCount is a menu bar item for OS X that'll check and display the number of unread messages you currently have in your Gmail inbox - quite handy....more

Andrew Muller on 25 July, 2004 | Link | OS X | Comments (0)
22 July, 2004

Making The Switch
One of the first things needed when joining RocketBoots was a laptop, and after lusting after a Mac for so long I decided to make the switch and buy a PowerBook....more

Andrew Muller on 22 July, 2004 | Link | OS X | Comments (1)