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80 of the most useful Mac tools and utilities

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Let’s all say it together… NO AUTO PLAY!

Ok, I’m a huge fan of the Adobe Captivate Blog but having videos autoplay is really, really annoying! I do not want any sound on my laptop that I did not ask for or install. I have some whirrs and clicks and itunes running in the background (playing whatever middle eastern pop tune struck my [...]

How can you embed YouTube and still validate XHTML Strict?

There are many places that will help you adjust the embed information from YouTube – however, if your site is XHTML Strict (like this one is) you will still not validate. In swings Tools4Noobs to the rescue! They have many great resources in the Online Tools section. I went through five or six different sites [...]

Need to scale video for a website?

Need to scale video for a website?

Putting video on a website is more tedious than hard. There are resources for getting a video onto a page, post, or sidebar but you usually will need to know what the dimensions should be. If you have a large YouTube video that you want in a sidebar, you will need to scale it to [...]

My new favorite ActionScript/Flash book

If you had asked me last week what the best book for Actionscript 3.0 was, I would have said “Learning ActionScript 3.0″ from O’Reilly press. I have totally changed my mind on that. I recently picked up “Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers” from friends of Ed press. It is a fantastic book for Flash CS4 [...]

Open .exe files on your Mac

Huzzah! FileJuicer is my new favorite thing! Try it if you have a mac – there’s a demo (and it’s cheap)