Brian Behrens

Take a look at the articles:

adobe.com

google.com

This sounds pretty exciting to me.

So I found a little treat with the 10.5.3 update I just did from my hotel room in South Dakota.  You can now sync your gmail address book with your mac!  Amazing.  Such a nice treat on our journey out to Seattle.  You can read more here: tuaw.com.

Incase you haven’t heard the new yet today, Flash Player 10 has become public.  Looks like some exciting new stuff.  Check it out on Adobe Labs.  It’s not as significant as Flash Player 9, but it sounds pretty sweet still.  With native 3D support, will this be the death of Director?

I have known that there’s a javascript/css fix for transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer, but I’ve tried to stay away from this always!  As of today, I was faced with answering this problem on a site I’m working on.  I found it’s quite simple and there’s a great article on this topic at “24 Ways to Impress Your Friends“.  Have at errrrrrrrrr.

I’m sure a lot of people in the Flash community have already heard.  For the few of you who haven’t, this is huge!  When considering what this will do for mobile devices and even the possibilities on gaming systems like the Wii and PS3, it’s very exciting.  Check out a video on the subject.  There are many more blogs out there on this topic.

Straight from the creators of google maps “street view”, there’s is now interactive video that you can scroll and navigate around in while the video plays. I think it shows how impressive flash player really is. Flash is pulling in an FLV file with the 360 degree picture. I believe they built their own 3D rendering engine to allow flash to warp/scale/distort the video properly.

Pretty cool stuff. It brings me back to my days at WIN Media when I used to have to stitch and publish IPIX files. I think they’re out of business now.

So  I know there may be some iTunes hatters out there, but I just discovered a useful thing with iTunes. I’ve used iTunes for many years now, but never noticed this feature. Maybe this is a new feature? You can actually print out different templates for jewel cases based on album artwork and track listings.  iTunes automatically formats it for you.  When you have an album selected go to the file>>print… and you’ll find some nice templates.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/hottips/#printcdinserts

BTW… I use eMusic for downloads.
thank you Marky for eMusic. 

After seeing the ProCable headphones for the iPhone on TUAW.com, I decided to buy a pair for the low price of $24.95.  I wasn’t expecting much, but I was hoping for the best.  I also used the promo code to purchase them, which brought them down in price even more (RTPROMO1).

I received the headphone today.  The sound quality is what I expected, it sucks.  It’s worse than the headphones that come with the iPhone.  I don’t have a lot of experience with other headsets, but I was hoping to get a pair for less than $100 bucks that has the sound control and mic features of the apple headset.  The headphones do look amazing and the sound control and mic features work great, but the sound quality definitely reflects the price.  I guess they’ll be an ok backup to carry around in the car.

I finally bought the hard drive I’ve been waiting for over the past 2 months. I’m really excited I finally have the drive and can faithfully know my data is being written across two hot swappable drives. The drive runs several different RAID modes, but the one I fancy is the RAID 1 (safe 100).

Here are the photos from the un-boxing:

The flex tour came to Milwaukee yesterday. It was a pretty amazing demonstration about all the great new features in being released in Adobe Flex 3. I was pretty amazed with all the new features Kevin Hoyt presented at the meeting.

I give a big thank you to C2 for helping with the event cordination. They always do a great job and also have a great location themselves for hosting regular monthly meetings. If you’re reading this and currently do not attend a local user group, I highly reccommed it. Being part of user groups has allowed me to recconnect with collgues and meet new ones.

The flex presentation went quite well. Its nice to walk away with a free tshirt and cookies in hand!