after6ix

The iChat Experience

I know this is probably going to banish me to the hellish abyss of mac-geek-dom but I feel compelled to do it. It is just wrong not to.

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Scrybe: Initial Thoughts

I just got an invitation to open a Scrybe™ account. Like all recent web applications, Scrybe offers beta testing on a sign-up basis.

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Canon Digital IXUS 70

I bought my first digital camera today.. hmm make that my first camera period.

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Flex Builder 3 Bug?

I came across something really unusual today on the Adobe Flex Builder 3 Beta (codenamed “Moxie"). For clarification sake, I installed it as a Eclipse plugin rather than the Flex Builder 3 standalone.

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Mike Downey talks AIR in Singapore

Mike Downey swinged by Singapore for the iX2007 Academic Forum and the nice folks at Adobe Singapore arranged for him to share a informal session of Adobe Integrated Runtime love with us folks.

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NativeWindow in AIR

NativeWindow is one of the two supported API for creating native operating system windows. The alternative would be going through the HTML-oriented JavaScript Window class.

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Apple reveals goodies!

Just when you thought it is all quiet on the Apple side after the announcement on the iPhone sales date, Apple dishes out a couple of updates.

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Adobe Integrated Runtime

Adobe has finally christened their latest piece of technology, Apollo. It is now officially known as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

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Product Packaging

I was doing a bit of cleaning up of my room when I unearthed something which I have stashed away for ages… the original product packaging for my very first apple purchase, the iPod.

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FlashDevelop

The latest update for FlashDevelop has been released. For the faint-hearted, do take note that this is an alpha release, be prepared to expect bugs and missing features.

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Declaration of stage instances

For ActionScript 2.0, whenever you are writing a class for a movieclip that contains other child movieclips, to obtain references to these movieclips, declarations for the child movieclips would typically be done within the parent class code.

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Relaunched

I am pleased to announce that after6ix.net is live. This is as much an announcement post as well as a post to remind myself of the outstanding items which I have yet to fix. 

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Buzzwords 2.0

There is just simply too much hype over buzzwords.

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Apple Showtime!

Apple may have just released the 24-inch iMac but that is not stopping them from announcing a series of new iPod products.

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iMac. Faster, bigger, brighter.

The word is out. Apple has just introduced a 24-inch iMac. 

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Usable Design

Usable Design. Sad to say, amidst one of my dinner conversations, this phrase got referred to as a oxymoron. 

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The thing about Mac

I cannot say often enough how huge a Mac fan I am.

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