Flash Photo Album 2 is new version of Flash photo album with new features.

• It is FREE
• Dynamic Picture loading
• Easy to install and easy to change content
• Show pictures automatically with slideshow
• Integrate to any web site
• No server side scripting or database requirement
• Adds great look and functionality to your web site
• Easy to read XML based image captions and configuration file
• Ability to add custom links for each image

Released it a while ago and had some feedback and questions about custom integration to other websites and flash files. Unfortunately I haven’t got much time to tweek and answer those needs. Instead I decided to release source files under same license “Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License”. Think this will help to some of you to figure out how it works and adjust it to your needs.

Flash Photo Album 2 depends on two external classes:

• mc_tween2.as class (need to download seperately from source) by Zeh Fernando for animations
• XMLSA class (included in package) by Max Ziebell for converting xml to simple array.

You can download Free Flash Photo Album 2 from here

This is a handy code that I use very often in actionscript 1 and 2 to convert new lines to one new line as it is visible in html. Flash thinks them as double new lines \n\n instead of \r\n (return and new line). This code removes \n (new line) and leaves \r (return) in string.


function textToFlashTF(text) {
return text.split('\r\n').join('\r');
}


Bloggum Turkish blog service having competition. Blogs compete in design, content, interaction with readers and continuity. Application for competition is going on and will accept users until 8 July 2007. After, each user will have right to use 3 votes for blogs they like. Blog that collects most of the votes will be the winner.

Main prize for competition is Samsung S630 6 mega pixel digital camera. First 5 blogs will receive a handbook “Blogla pazarlama”, about how to make successful marketing blog.

Visit official bloggum blog for competition details.

In past couple years there was great interest for Free Flash Photo Album, which is still great and much faster than any others flash photo album on the internet. But it is a bit difficult to setup, especially if you have a lot of photos to show and each photo has a title. That’s why I wrote new Flash photo album version 2 which uses xml for specifying images and customizing photo album itself.

Here are some main features of flash photo album 2:
• Dynamic Picture loading
• Easy to install and easy to change content
• Show pictures automatically with slideshow
• No server side scripting or database requirement
• Easy to read XML based image captions and configuration file
• Ability to add custom links for each image

Visit Free Flash Photo Album 2 page for more info and download.
Visit live website using photo album, Detail Decoration.

Computer technology is the fastest growing technology in last decade. And It is close to change PC from how it is now to more usable and intuitive multi touch screens. Couple years ago I saw a prototype of universal omni Optimus keyboard at Artlebedev.com website. And was amazed how usable it will be. Keyboard displays keys of active application. Using photoshop will transform it to photoshop shortcut keyboard, playing doom will make it doom keyboard and typing in other language will convert it to Russian or some other language. It is really amazing.

But watching presentation by Jeff Han at ted.com changed my opinion about Optimus keyboard. It is really amazing and usable technology. Remember watching Minority Report ,Matrix and Paycheck. It will make interaction much faster. as we now interacting with only one mouse pointer, and fixed keyboard it takes time to learn shortcuts and perform simple tasks. Also with on screen customizable and resizable keyboard, there will be no need for any other keyboard , not even optimus one.

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

watch presentation at ted.com .

Related article about Jeff Han is published in Fast Company february issue 2007 by Adam L. Penenberg. Article contains brief history and past work of Jeff Hun, technology and inspiration used to create Multi-touch Screen, existing and future products aimed for consumer markets. Article contains an other video presentation done on wall mounted two 8-foot-by-3-foot panels.

I have a MySql database table as shown in image . Where table has thousands of records with any integer and varchar values in id1 and id2.

I want to select values where id1=(1 and (2 or 3)). Which will result in id2=a,b,c.

Result may be several hundred records for real table and I will be using LIMIT start, records for showing results on each page.

• For selecting records id1= 1 and 2 and 3:
  SELECT *, count(*) as total_count FROM table WHERE id1=1 OR id1=2 OR id1=3 GROUP BY id2 HAVING l_count=’3′;
• For selecting records id1= 1 or 2 or 3:
  SELECT *, count(*) as total_count FROM table WHERE id1=1 OR id1=2 OR id1=3 GROUP BY id2;

But how to select mixed and , or statements, like id1=(1 and (2 or 3))?
I found some solution.

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This is a really simple but attractive flash website of Javier Ferrer Vidal , Spanish photographer. Site contains 2 sections about page with video animation playing related to mouse location and movement. Which gives you feeling of rotating 3d object. Video is a bit crappy because is full screen and requires a lot of computer CPU and memory to play smoothly. And portfolio page, which I like most, loads external images and moves as a 3D cloud of images. I like that 3D feeling and small circle particles place holding before images are loaded.

Also it blurs background as you navigate into each section. Which is also cool feeling focusing on front objects. And the home page is designed like a magazine cover also having the 3D effect. Site is also featured on Favourite website awards today, as a site of the day.

Honored to announce an experimental web site Margiana (www.margiana.com). Web site collects news from various news websites and tags them according to their contents. Margiana gives you ability to monitor news for a specific tag. Now it is listing all tag related news. Abilities exploring tag relations, group similar tags, visualize tag cloud, display most viewed news for week and month are some of the future aspects of he website.

Recently I was looking for funky navigation to make www.margiana.com web site interesting. And found several dynamic flash tutorials and distributed source codes. Read the rest of this entry »

This guy took everyday mugshots for 8 years. And here is preview. For me it the difficult part is doing it everyday, which requires really strong deduction. But here it is, and he changed much.