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.

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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.

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How do I work in an environment where there’s alot of flash developers each having their own styles and approach in doing flash application? This thought always came accross my mind whenever I started doing any flash projects together with other new/unknown developers.

The answer is simple, we just agree to use a good actionscript framework. Reason being, Flash development is always 50% coming from design aspect and the other 50% comes from the coders aspect – there is really no good methodology or best practice out there that can satisfy two of the world. Recently, I’ve tried to use this open source framework called GAIA FRAMEWORK. Using this framework, the designers and coders are unified at least under one common understanding of how GAIA FRAMEWORK functions.

It comes with a MXP (extension file) which create a special panel for developers and designers to start a project. Once, a project is created with agreed dimensions and flash version, GAIA basically auto creates all the low level stuff needed by flash developers and designers.

They have the scalfolding method which rapidly create a prototype skeleton of the site. Designers can then, take the fla file to start their work and coder can begin to start their with the classes. GAIA even focus on providing all the javascript file such as swfobject and swfaddress to enable SEO flash concept. This allows site owners to keep track of specific pages within the flash using google analytic.

It may be chaotic at first try, but please try it out at least a week or two to familiarize in how GAIA handles the flash development and you will soon find out the benefits of it.

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Introducing  the free CD Recovery Toolbox software for windows. (works in Windows 98 – latest Windows Vista Sp2).

This is a mini tool which tries to copy content from the damaged disc and apply some error correction to extract data stored in it to the hard drive. You can then, copy back the data to a new disc. The CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool not only has a complete set of data recovery features, but is also user-friendly and convenient.

The program interface is designed as a step-by step wizard, where the user has to perform a single action on each page of the wizard. The wizard makes the use of the tool very simple and convenient even for a beginner.

CD Recovery Toolbox Free is absolutely free. Anyone can install it on the computer and use the program for an unlimited time. This fact is one of its main advantages over the rival software. Moreover, the functionality of the tool is equal to that of most paid software. Check it out here!

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Simply put, a registry cleaner is a tool designed to remove unwanted information and repair invalid information in the Windows registry. A registry cleaner tool has many benefits. Let’s take a look at some of the most useful ones.

• The first and perhaps most important benefit is that a registry cleaner helps you maintain a healthy and error-free registry. This is required because the registry is a centralized database in which all configuration information related to software, hardware, system settings, and user profiles is stored and it controls almost all operations on your Windows computer. Windows does provide a registry tool, Registry Editor (regedit), however, it is very difficult to repair the complex registry using it. So, you can opt to use a good third-party registry cleaner tool that simplifies registry cleanup and repair by automating the whole process. In other words, by using a good registry cleaner you can repair and clean your registry within 2-5 minutes.
• Most of the registry cleaner tools available today are GUI-based and have a very simple-to-understand interface. So, even if you are not aware of the technicalities of your computer, you can use registry cleaner to perform regular registry maintenance.
• Many times, when you remove programs from your computer, some no-longer-required orphan keys and place-holder empty keys are left behind. These unwanted entries unnecessarily fill up the registry and generate registry errors. A registry cleaner tool helps you easily detect and get rid of these unwanted entries and enables you to fix registry errors.
• A registry cleaner also comes in handy when you are trying to remove some malicious virus or spyware from your computer. Many of these malicious programs add entries in the registry that are quite difficult to detect and remove. Using a reliable registry cleaner Vista or XP tool, you can perform a deep scan of the registry tree and weed out all malicious information. Additionally, you may use the tool to repair any registry entries that may be altered by these malicious programs.
• If the registry is large in size, it tends to get fragmented. As a result, the data access speed of the registry goes down. This, in turn, affects your PC performance and you may start encountering frequent system freezes and crashes. To help you counter this problem, a good registry tool helps you defrag your registry to rearrange the fragmented files and make them contiguous. Defragmenting the registry also helps in compressing the size of the registry. So, when you defrag, the size of your registry goes down and its files are contiguous. This helps in speeding up the registry and as a result enhances the performance of your computer.
• Because the registry is so important for your computer, it is a good idea to make regular backups of it. A good registry cleaner makes it very easy to create these backups by automating the backup and restore process. Also, a good feature that almost all good registry tools have is that they make a registry backup before making any changes to it during the registry cleanup and defrag process. So, if anything goes wrong with the repair process, you can easily restore the registry from the backup taken earlier.

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