Recent Links: October 20 to October 27

“Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.”

“The Adobe Flex 2 Language ReferenceActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference is a reference manual for the Flash® Player application programming interface (API).

The Adobe Flex 2 Language ReferenceActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference provides information on the syntax and usage of supported elements in the ActionScript language. It includes the following sections:

* Language elements, such as globals, operators, statements, keywords, directives, and special types
* Packages
* Alphabetical entries for class elements
* An index containing all entries
* An appendix that compares some key language and API changes from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0
* Appendixes of errors and warnings with annotations
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“‘ll help you get organized and stay productive by adding smarts to the email you’re already sending.

* Turn your “email to self” into an actual to-do — and get it done.
* Maintain an up-to-date address book without even trying.
* Get appointments into your calendar without wasting time cutting and pasting.
* Automatically gather the web addresses friends email to you.
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“The Open & Closed Project is a new research project headquartered in Toronto. Our main goal is to improve quality by setting standards for the four fields of accessible media – captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.”

A Java applet that graphs the DOM of a page you provide.

“jobberBase is a great open source job board software, foundation of the successful www.jobber.ro”

“Spices are the basis for flavoring your barbecue. They are many and are everywhere in the world. In days of old they were a sign of wealth. They were traded, and the quest for them has spawned new nations and caused wars. Once you learn how to work with spices, you can make your own spice mixtures, to season your barbecue, and even serve at the table instead of or in addition to, salt and pepper.”

A great breakdown of woods and the flavor they impart to barbecue.

“The Superest is a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple:

Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.”

“BusySync allows multiple users to share and edit calendars on a local area network. Changes made by one user are instantly synchronized with all others on the network.”

“MRI is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to test and play with selectors.”

A recipe for making refried beans from scratch.

“an ActionScript class that enables you to apply a background color gradient to a Flex container.”

A walk-through showing how to create a gold metalic skin for Flex.

“Download hundreds of easy-to-install extensions, time-saving functions, code and more.”

“Is there any hope for designers in the online entrepreneur world? As in, people who can for concepts sketches and design layouts, but who can’t program themselves? Or would you say that the ability to program is an absolute must?”

This looks to be a very tasty recipe for a very spicy shrimp dish.

A downloadable template to make your own skull out of card stock.

“Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.”

“Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web. We think the web is a powerful and open platform for this sort of innovation, so our goal is to identify and facilitate the development of enhancements that bring the advantages of desktop apps to the web platform.”

Very interesting…

“Along with the DLLs and REG files mentioned in the original solution, William has put together a detailed PDF explaining the registry changes CS3 users will need to make to get their AI and PSD thumbnails back.”

“A Simunication is a rapidly designed web application prototype designed online using Simunicator to enable users to visualize and test drive the application before the formal development process begins. You can use our design editors to build the prototypes or upload your own HTML, CSS, Flash, script, etc.

Simunications are designed with integrated use case, requirements and feedback traceability. So what is an example of a simunication? You’re interacting with one now, our web site is a simunication that we are incubating …we drink our own kool aid!”

“This site traces bitmap images, turning them into beautiful vector art. Just upload your image and we will convert it for you.” This free service is absolutely amazing!

An explanation of associations in CakePHP

A plugin that makes it easy to upload images to yoru CakePHP app.