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Today I departed on a search for a task manager (AKA To-Do list) for os x that would suite my fancy. I guess I’m pretty picky because I didn’t really find anything computer application I really liked. Most of the applications I found were either too tied to iCal (which I don’t use at all), made 2+ years ago and haven’t been updated since, just to complicated to be simply a glorified to-do list, or just plain ugly to look at. I guess I’m more picky than most when it comes to Mac applications: I want a great looking fully functional Cocoa based mac application. My search finally ended, but instead of finding a mac application to suite my needs, I found a nifty little web-application; GTDTiddlyWiki…

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Applying Filters To a Loaded Image I haven’t done any Flash work in awhile, and I guess I forgot the amount of quirks it has (although its getting much better). Applying filters to a loaded image doesn’t work. I loaded a MC using this code: [code] var loader = new MovieClipLoader(); var listener = {onLoadInit:Delegate.create(this, imageLoaded)}; loader.addListener(listener); loader.loadClip(“pic.png”, holder); [/code] Then tried to apply a filter like so: [code] var blur = new flash.filters.BlurFilter(30, 0, 3); holder.filters = [blur]; [/code] But nothing happened. The filter works fine on a MC containing a image from the library. The solution?..

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Converting a semi-transparent PNG to a JPG without severe artifacts or “transparent area color meshing” is a much harder task than you would expect. I thought it would be as simple as loading the image into Image_Transform and using _generate(null, ‘jpg’) to convert the image to a jpeg. Well, that code will convert it to a jpeg, but all the areas that are semi-transparent end up looking absolutely horrible becoming sort of flattened…

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Just got back from a three day church retreat at Stuebenville Ohio (which was an awesome experience). I’m happy to be back and have alot of new things in the pipeline. Within the next couple weeks I should have the following available: XASH 1.3 (you can actually download it from the SVN repo right now) XTrace 1.1 App Stop 1.2 (with intel compatibility!) A few PHP scripts along with some new AS classes

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Continuing with the trend of moving all my projects to using SVN, a repo for XTrace is now available. You can checkout the latest source with the following command:[code lang=”bash”]svn co http://svn.mabwebdesign.com/XTrace/[/code] For anyone using TextMate as their primary editor, you should checkout this article which explains how to use XTrace, TextMate, and MTASC to create a slick Flash dev environment.

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I’ve recently created a SVN repo for XASH, anybody whose interested in the latest source can anonymously checkout through the following command:[code lang=”bash”]svn co http://svn.mabwebdesign.com/XASH/[/code] Juan Carlos Anorga (thanks Juan!) has committed some great changes that are worth checking out if you have Xcode and are willing to compile XASH from source. I’ll be releasing XASH 1.3 which will include his changes within the next week.

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iDictionary 1.1 has just been released, new features include: iDictionary Lite has been merged into iDictionary, this means that if you don’t own a license you can still use iDictionary; but, your dictionaries will be restricted to letters a-z. Added “Created Dictionaries” window. You can now view and select all previously created dictionaries to easily copy them to your iPod. The “Created Dictionaries” window also features a “Reveal in Finder” function which allows you to see where the selected dictionary is located on your computer. User interface improvements to the dictionary & iPod selection tables “Under-the-hood” improvements to the iDictionary code base. You find a little more detail about the release on the new Prosit Blog…

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I’ve made some progress on App Stop on intel macs. I’m currently working with a couple people trying to resolve the remaining issues and I should have a stable build out in a week or two. To make the App Stop source code more accessible to developers who may want to help with App Stop development I’ve set up a SVN repository. Anybody can view the source and you can checkout a copy of the source code using the following command: [code lang=”bash”]svn co http://svn.mabwebdesign.com/AppStop/[/code]

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I’ve never really spent time creating a mail “workflow” that worked for me; but recently I’ve had trouble keeping up with the email in my inbox and remebering what emails I needed to reply to. I decided to spend some time streamlining my email workflow. Mailboxes The first thing I proceeded to do was to create e-mail folders (or mailboxes as they are called in Apple Mail). I was greeted by a lovely “Mailbox Creation Failed” alert panel. Using my computer troubleshooting skillz I first looked at Mail’s troubleshooting section – nothing. Next I googled “Unable To Create Mailbox Apple Mail”, all i found were unanswered questions…

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Many users have come to me saying App Stop isn’t working on their new intel Macs. I’m aware of this problem but I’m unable to do anything about it. Their is a bug in the intel build, but I can’t find it since I don’t have a intel mac to debug on. If you have any experience with Xcode/Objective-C and have a intel mac please email me, I could really use your help (If you have a spare MacBook or intel MacMini laying around that would work too :)).

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