Method Studios – Mountain Dew “Spy vs. Spy” – some clever CGI makes for a bit of nostalgia for old MAD magazine fans. SIMILE | Timeline – Javascript library for displaying a draggable/clickable timeline. Free Ports & Network Services Informations Database – AJAXy port number lookup. Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials – some tutorials […]
My ShowMeDo tutorial Secure File Transfer With WASTE has just gone online. ShowMeDo is web site for tech tutorials in flash video – the majority are screencasts on varied programming topics. ShowMeDo has huge potential for learning new technologies, I think its going to get bigger and bigger…
Experimenting with flash video – and time-lapse. This involved a few free source apps: Time-lapse video: MakeAVI, virtualdub to dub the soundtrack (although I found out virtual dub can do the time-lapse stuff itself). Creating the flash video file: FFmpeg, there’s a tutorial on it here: FLV encoding with ffmpeg. Jeroen Wijering’s Flash Video Player
Noticed on the web somewhere TWOCrowds.com is using the flickr api to create a CAPTCHA test. Looks like they are using the flickr api to pull up a photo tagged with a convention that says “this is a photo of a single letter: r”. Wouldn’t this be pretty easy to defeat? The JPG’s are being […]