http://spreadingfunkyness.com Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:28:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I took some time to test Posty on Linux. Inspite the fact that Adobe Air for Linux is still alpha version, I am surprised that Posty runs fine on major Linux distributions. The only issue, first identified by Daria, is that Posty is memoryless, that is you set it to ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty-runs-on-linux/ I created a quick screencast which shows how simple is to microblog by means of Posty. Posty Screencast from funkyboy on Vimeo. http://spreadingfunkyness.com/microblogging-is-simple-with-posty/ Adobe Air apis allow storing encrypted data on your hard drive. During a conversation with an Adobe engineer I discovered that data are stored in this directory: Adobe/AIR/ELS/ For example on my mac data are stored in: /Users/MYUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS Of course you ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/deleting-encrypted-data-in-adobe-air/ Sometimes I have the need to associate two different actions to the same button. It is not always a good solution. Indeed, good user interfaces should have a clear layout and buttons should always do the same thing. Sometimes, but very rarely, you can disregard such a rule and associate ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/dynamic-function-calling-in-flex/ I like StumbleUpon. My website gets many visits from there. But as many ( blahblahtech and traffikd ) I have an issue with the friends limit. Said briefly you can be fan of at most 200 people. After that you get a warning and you cannot add more fans. ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/stumbleupon-my-algorithm-to-deal-with-friends-limit/  auto-explicative screenshot. Check Posty out! http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty-star-pownce-notes/ I am a fan of json. I use it extensively but sometimes I am forced to use xml. A pretty well know way to parse xml in Flex and Adobe air is the following: var xml:XML = new XML("<data><tag>content</tag></data>"); private function parse():void { for each (var t:XML ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/parsing-xml-in-flex-the-case-of-tag-names-with-a-dash/ Update: Final version available here. A new release of Posty is available, with support to four networks: twitter, jaiku, pownce and tumblr. A quick recap of the features: write a message a post it to each service with one click browse personal and public notes reply to twitter and pownce notes full ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty-beta2/ Hi, I am iTunes. I feel like ... puff puff ... pant pant. I am busy. No, it's not the spring. I am really busy. What I do? Play songs Synch with ipods/iphones/apple tvs Get covers/titles from the internet Manage podcasts (what an effort!) Sell songs Rent movies Play streaming radio Soon I will sell iPhone appsDarn! Stevie. ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/hi-i-am-itunes-i-am-busy-pant-pant/ I started using stumbleupon. I like it! But I also like Safari. As you might know there is no Safari bar (just for firefox and the other well spread browser). I often have the need to stumble a url, to simply state that it is my favorite. So I created ... http://spreadingfunkyness.com/stumble-with-safari-the-easy-way/