Category Archives: Open source / Freeware

Lightweight CMS For simple projects

I use WordPress for this blog, and happy with it. But it’s not for everybody: you need a database, it’s very impressive, plugins, themes, users, comments, regular update, kinda geeky install and the default installment is 7.9 mb. And I needed a CMS for a small website/portfolio; it needs something small, not impressive (visually), easy [...]

FlashDevelop 3.0.0 released

My favorite open source project ever, FlashDevelop has released: FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RTM (English, 4MB) . I started with coding in the Flash IDE, when I realized that there are better programs to code in I started working with SE|PY (ActionScript 2 only). I really loved that program, but it never made it to ActionScript 3 [...]

Updated Syntaxhighlighter

Update #1: hmmmm, stupid but I write these post sometimes weeks ahead…. and this one caught up on me… The new version of SyntaxHighlighter Evolved has ActionScript support.. Update #2: I could remove everything below, but I’m keeping this here, perhaps someone can use it…. and it took some time to write, so I really [...]

TextMate AS3

I’ve been using a code-editor for years now. I started with SEPY and now I’m using FlashDevelop. Both on Windows. A colleague of mine still uses the Flash IDE (on a mac), so I decide to help him with his transition. Sadly there is no free editor for the OSX that handles AS2/AS3, but TextMate [...]

FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RC2 released

I said it before: I don’t like to regurgitate, but program is so good that I can’t help myself…. As we are now approaching the final release of FlashDevelop 3, this release is the last feature release. FlashDevelop.org – View topic – FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RC2 released. FlashDevelop is awesome! If you never used it, give [...]

Convert SWF to AVI – part 3

Update #1: when I wrote this post, this all worked… And I have good hope that the site will return. For now I can only say: try again later…. Update #2: well the site didn’t return: it’s as dead as a doorknob … that’s too bad. I couldn’t find a place where you can download [...]

Free PDF viewer

Most of the time you can download papercraft stuff in .JPG or .PDF, and I just realized that I never have written about .PDF. So here we go: I will only explain how to view a .PDF file, not how to create one. All pdf reader here are for free, if you need to pay [...]

List of good, free Graffiti fonts

I wanted to write about this for a long time (about a year now). A list of good, free graffiti fonts. But I’m not really into fonts, so it seems out-of-place on this blog. Recently I needed a good free graffiti font, and saw that there was nobody who had made that list. Well that’s [...]

Headers broken again: sIFR update

My Flash rendered headers didn’t work after my host transferred my site to another server. Well in retrospect it’s easy to blame it on the host (sorry guys), but the fault was/is simpler. I had this problem before : firefox and sifr dont play nice, and just as last time I blamed the wrong person [...]

From AS2 to AS3 – Where did it go – setRGB

Update #1: It seems that .setRGB () has been deprecated in favor of the flash.geom.ColorTransform class. So a little as2 update. In some cases I can’t help thinking that AS3 hasn’t made our live easier. The same happened with the change that happened from the AS2 setRGB to AS3. Specifies an RGB color for a [...]