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Unhappy with Flash CS4

5566 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:23:30 +0000

Why “z” is not the shortcut key for zoom any more? There’s no “z” in “Bind Tool” but why it’s configured this way? I thought Adobe is trying to standardize all shortcut keys across all its software?

Why the help page is online? After I managed to set the help offline, I realized they took out Actionscript 2 references.

Fuck you whoever made these decisions!

Processing is 1.0 now

5566 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:15:00 +0000

It only took 162 attempts, but Processing 1.0 is here!?

Attention Singaporeans: StarHub is listed as a SPAM ISP

Shang — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:49:47 +0000

I was trying to send out some legal bulk mail last night but rejected by spamhous.org. If you have any website hosted in Singapore and by StarHub, please take note you’ll have some problem sending emails especially your contact us form.

Microsoft Photosynth – A super mockup?

Shang — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:17:34 +0000

Photosynth form Microsoft’s lab looks really amazing. The program analyzes a group of photos and joins them together forming a 3D model view. But it’s too good to be true.

Based on their “How do you do it” page, it says that the program searches through images for distinctive features, corners, doors etc. If the same feature is found in multiple images, the program will figure out the images’ 3D positions. From the demo we can see that, images are rotated/skewed/scaled in order to fit into the 3D model. So, the question is how the program knows how to rotate/skew/scale images so that it produces the best matching result. It is quite an NP-Complete problem for even just 2 images, let along hundreds of images. Very likely, the program needs to adopt some artificial intelligence algorithm to guess out a good solution (may not be the best). It’s quite impossible for the program to come out a seamless 3D image viewer like the demos.

As conclusion, I suspect the preview demos have some or lots of human touch ups instead of purely computer generated and the final product will be quite far away from what we see from the demos.

Sneak Preview of Levi’s Copper Site

Shang — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:44:35 +0000

I can’t wait for the official launch any more. Here I proudly present my favorite project – Levi’s® Copper™ Jeans.
The idea of the jeans is to go back to the basics. So the site follows that idea too. 0% flash! I love it so much! Best view on Firefox. Works well on IE, Safari and Opera.

Flash Lite 2.1 is out!

Shang — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:39:11 +0000

It’s free for everyone!!! You can download it at adobe now. For symbian system, there are three different files, v2_FP2, v2_FP3 and v3, which is “Developer Platform” (no idea what it means). To find out which one suits your phone, you can check at http://forum.nokia.com/devices/matrix_all_1.html
Just did a quick check. The most exciting function would be XMLSocket support. All the bitmap functions in Flash 8 are not there yet.