19 Feb, 2010
I’m sure right now, some of the adventurous developer will be rushing in to develop their own Iphone apps whether it’s pure apps , web-app or web-app compiled into native app.
Well for those developing web-app and native compiled web-app, you might wanna skip the phase of designing UI themes and just settled with one standard ones but, the problem is, unlike native apps – web apps doesn’t have that kind of build in graphics and text to use as it uses the web technologies like CSS and image files. Fortunely, good news for all developers out there. Check out Universal iPhone UI Kit project. A mini prebuild CSS suitable for all Iphone and Iphone touch platform and also, it comes with all the standard cocoa looking images. Sweet!
Just download it and make reference to the css and image folder. You can start editing index.html and start  your quest in app development. 
11 Feb, 2010
Developing games like Shooter in As3 can be boring without good explosion effects. Over the weekends, I ported a simple class ( from As2 )which does some randomized explosion movie-clips.
This is to be used when there’s an explosion in the game. The class allows you to create explosion effect based on number of particles, size of distance and alpha. All you need is to instantiate it and pass in the variables needed. See sample below.
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21 Jan, 2010
WTH is that? – you asked?
Well, the Principles of User Interface Design are intended to improve the quality of user interface design. And this has nothing to do whether you are an expert programmer, hardcore developer, famous designer and etc.
This article is merely to share with you all out there that trying to develop or design something for client or end-users. Consider yourself by following at least 1 or 2 of this principles as helping mankind. Well enough chatter, and let us begin..
The principles of UI I was yapping about are as follows :-
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4 Dec, 2009
Every wonder that, there’s something to display your run-time variables smoothly without using the laggy trace. Not to say trace command is useless, but at times is much less cpu intensive to debug values especially on enterFrame run time to an on screen textbox instead of using trace.
But, lately I stumbled upon a good console interface like debugger called Flash Console in a form of as3 class package!
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10 Nov, 2009
Need more sound effects for your multimedia or game project ? More and more sites are turning into commercial based sound clip previewer rather than free sound resources. Having to find the correct sound for your project but, later to find out the sound is copyrighted or for sale is indeed frustration at times.
Fortunately enough , this site – freesound.org offers royalty free and free for all sounds recordings from various content providers around the world. You can safely use some of these music, sound effect found there to use for your projects. Besides that, you can create an account and contribute too.
Go ahead check it out here.
