Archive for July, 2007

Photoshop Plug-in Woes w/ Vista

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

A friend of mine just bought a new system with Vista, but after installing CS3, all of his old Photoshop plugins just don’t work.  Hopefully it’s only a problem with the Data Execution Prevention.  We’ll find out soon enough.  Just in case, here’s some additional links to use for troubleshooting:

iPhone User Agent Spoof

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Here’s a nifty little trick I figured out, used in conjunction with the Firefox extension User Agent Switcher:

Description:    iPhone
User Agent:    Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
App Name:    AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
App Version:    Version/3.0
Platform:    Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3

Guides: My New Best Friend

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Y’know, I’m still amazed by how much Flash Professional has to offer, even after using it for almost a decade. Sure, I’d worked with rulers & guides in photoshop, etc, and I had forgotten they’re also in Flash too because I never really needed them.

This morning, I was looking for a good way to properly align elements inside of a MC without having to edit it within the stage’s context each time. Guess what? Those silly guides remain specific to each MC, not to the stage in general as I previously thought. Oh, Macromedia Adobe, what would I do without your geniuses? (I guess try an annoying workaround like I always do.)