Imagine yourself, in a midst of a battle scene where, you are about to use the shift key to dash and stuff. All the sudden, you accidentaly tap the SHIFT couple of times and poof your are out of the game screen. What a bummer. That my friend is the annoying StickyKeys it is designed to assist user in input however, not that useful in gaming – duh.Â
It you are still bitching about your poor experience with Windows Vista, perhaps this is the ebook for you. This ebook written by Rich from mintywhite.com and it covers installation tweaks , new registry system , disabling the annoying User Account Control to Boot screen and Theme hacks.
This book is designed to aim at users of all skill levels – even if you’re new to Windows Vista or computers in general, you can still follow along easily. Go ahead download the pdf version of the ebook here Download. This is a free ebook, if you paid for this book, do get a refund .
OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies. OpenDNS is used today by millions of users and organizations around the world.
With OpenDNS configured to your network settings, whenever you served into the dangerous site it will automatically filter it out for you. It also comes with SMARTCache - a feature that enables SmartCache, a new DNS record handling technology that allows users of its service to access Web sites when they are inaccessible everywhere else on the Internet.
Sometimes, if we encounter problem with DNS updating in local ISP, you may try to switch to OpenDNS for a while after all is a FREE service.
To switch to OpenDNS switch your DNS in network adapter to this IP.
During one of my flash game development project, I soon found out that I need to use some kind shape based hit test. Yes, basically – in older days of hittest, this can be accomplish with either an insane amount of mini invisible movieclip stacked around the shape of the object, or they do it using some mathematically formula. This is because, the function hitTest doesn’t work exactly like the shape of the movieclip but, takes the entire movieclip as whole.
Well, this tutorial isn’t about the two method above but, a way simpler method to do collision detection based on shape.
Take a good look at the sample flash below in action.
Over the weekends, I was trying to learn the ways on how to work faster without typing much codes and minimizing errors. The solution is learning to use Aptana’s Snippet View. Firstly, before we start – I would like to suggest rearranging your IDE into more simpler view.
I like to close unwanted views and combine three of my mostly used View into ones dock to the left side of the IDE namely, File, Project and Snippets.
Let’s move on, we will then need to create our own set of snippets – be it JS script, XML, HTML, CSS or whatever you are programming with this IDE.