January 2008
23 posts
crossdomain.xml
Yay, tumblr now has crossdomain.xml files for everyone’s tumblelogs, so flash developers can access the tumblr api and feeds without having to use a proxy!
Top Tracks of 2007 / The Hype Machine →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-1-27) →
Cat Power
Belle and Sebastian
Rodrigo y Gabriela
She and Him (ft. Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward)
DeVotchKa
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
realizing I only Twitter when I travel. (at the airport bar right now)
Elvis Presley - Blue Hawaii
Off to Maui this...
Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled
Sad to be...
Sing Again - Chris Walla
From Chris’s new...
"charts and graphs that should finally make it... →
Rap lyrics explained through charts and graphs. Ingenious!
MP3 Blogging - Tying Things Back Together →
Awhile back, I was reading Fred’s blog, when he mentioned that it’d be cool to have something that found all the music on your tumblr blog, and put it all into a widget player. I was having a long day, so i decided to take a break for a few hours and made this.
I hadn’t coded in Flash for awhile, so it was a fun little hack job (i didn’t want to circumvent the tumblr...
Transcoding FLVs recorded by Flash
When you record webcam video via flash player using the Microphone and Camera actionscript objects, the audio is encoded using the proprietary Nellymoser codec. This means that if you try and transcode the video to a different format using a lot of tools that supposedly support FLV, you’ll probably get the video but not the audio.
For a long time, the only solution was to license...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-1-20) →
The National
Bruce Springsteen
Fruit Bats
The Killers
Tegan and Sara
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
1 tag
Cut Your Hair - Cassettes Won’t Listen
Fun...
in "quotes"
I’m “occasionally” guilty of the quoted-words style that Jakob takes issue with. Everytime I do it, I cringe, but there is a certain effect that it has, that my writing skills otherwise have problems evoking.
The meaning as I see it: emphasis, while admitting triteness or irony/sarcasm.
Where did it originate? I blame the Zagat Survey. For example:
“lunch time is...
Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES →
This was childish, terrible, and cruel, and shouldn’t be repeated, but it was oh so funny to watch.
FileReference.download() problem →
Maybe there is an intentional reason for this design, but it’s lame..
“Unlike URLLoader instances, FileReference instances do not maintain a hard reference that allow it to remain active in memory after the scope in which it was defined is resolved. As a result, any FileReference instances defined as local variables within function calls will be deleted by the Flash Player at the end...
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