Core Animation & Flash
Here\’s a discussion from an Adobe Flash Player engineer, regarding the Macintosh support of Flash, and how Adobe is trying to improve the their Macintosh Support… kaourantin.net: Core Animation.
Month: February 2010
The Time Travellers Companion…
What a day this has been for Doctor Who fans! Not only has the BBC screened its new one minute trailer (see below) for the new season (starting at Easter) with Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor (an advert clearly designed with its 3D use in cinemas in mind) – but Game Geeks has done […]
Ease Screen Sharing in Snow Leopard
One method to help automate screen sharing with Mac OS X, was to create a vncloc alias for each system that you were connecting to.  In 10.6 this has been mostly automated. To find these shortcuts, navigate to your user’s Library -> Application Support folder, where you’ll find a folder named Screen Sharing. Inside that […]
New Doctor Who 2010 Trailer
Well, it\’s official. Â Doctor Who will be back on the air this easter (April 4th).
Preference plist was NOT a dictionary — solved?
The full post on this is here, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue…. I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… Â The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message… /System/Library/CoreServices/PreferenceSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/PreferenceSyncClient –sync […]
Primeval\’s back, and its creator vows answers
Who doesn\’t like a show about freakish time-teleporting dinosaurs that terrorize contemporary humanity? If you haven\’t experienced that kind of bizarro fun, then you haven\’t caught up with BBC America\’s sci-fi series Primeval (also shown on Syfy). The premise revolves around a group of scientists, cops and soldiers investigating temporal riffs around England that have […]
Dragon Age: Awakening: Meet Velanna and her army of Ents
With an anticipated release date of March 16, Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening is ramping up the hype quite nicely. Today, we get a short introduction to Velanna, who joins Anders in the \’Guild of Mages Who Totally Have Some Beef With Everybody. I\’m glad to have more mages available to me in Awakening — […]
Be there in a jiffy
I never knew this, but \”Jiffy\” is not just slang… Jiffy is used in different applications for various short, very short, or extremely short periods of time. In informal speech a \”jiffy\” means any unspecified short period of time, as in \”I\’ll be back in a jiffy\”, but in other contexts it has more precise […]