The property ‘htmlText’ is gone in spark TextArea. It was obviously making life too easy

A work around is to use the spark.utils.TextFlowUtil and shove the html code in it. It formats it for TextArea to display.

This example goes a step further and shows how to add more to an existing TextArea with HTML in it.

// Required: spark.utils.TextFlowUtil
// output is a <s:TextArea />

output.textFlow = TextFlowUtil.importFromString(output.text + htmlSourceToAdd + "<br />");

Here is a great concept for a CAPTCHA.

The ROTCAPTCHA (PDF, 1.4MB).

It’s a CAPTCHA based on image orientation.

The ROTCAPTCHA system requires users to adjust randomly rotated images to their upright position. This is a task most people will be familiar with given the state of early digital cameras, etc.

This system has many advantages, such as being language independent and support many input sources.

Brilliant. Why didn’t I think of that? yooouuutuuube.com

Here is a great little site I stumbled upon today.

It’s called java2s and it’s basically example source code (snippets) of many languages, organized by topic.

Here is the Flex / Flash / Actionscript category.

Do you know other ones (categorized)? If so, let us know.

The Digg Mob experiment is a flash application that follows the comment as they are posted lived on Digg, regardless of the post.

It’s freaky to see that there are comments posted every 2-3 seconds, sometimes faster.

The app is beta but it’s browsable. Each comment is shown on one line and is clickable. From there you can read the blurb about the Digg post and/or visit the site straight from Digg Mob.

Just a quick personal update. I’m in the process of going Freelance in Adelaide for Flash development and Flex development.

If you need or know someone who needs a senior Flash/Flex/AIR developer with experience, please don’t hesitate to forward my details.

I’m open for freelance and contract work, remotely or on location anywhere in Australia.

I’ve been developing and designing websites and web applications since the late 90ies and I’ve been full-time Flash-ist for 6 years. I started as a Web Designer. With experience on both sides, I manage my time efficiently and take care of a project from specifications to deployment.

Cheers
Nicolas

When you program features for (web) application, it’s often useful & good practice to allow users shortcuts for common actions.

This easy snippets shows how to capture ‘new’ or Control+N or Command+N on the Mac.

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDown);

private function keyDown(e:KeyboardEvent) :void
{
        if(e.commandKey || e.ctrlKey)
        {
                switch(e.keyCode)
                {
                        case Keyboard.N:
                                // do stuff
                        break;
                }
        }

}

Another great use of the useless Twitter is My Tiny Jesus. No explanation as to what it does besides pumping recent Twitts.

That said, anybody using Twitter data is either looking for art or fun. So having no explanation sure fits the bill.

Twitter is not my favourite application as you must know by now, but I am often amazed by the things people come up with using their api. It’s filled with tons and tons of useless information. Brilliant for a weirdo mashup.

I will definitely have a play with the Twitter API myself once I’m done with Digg Mob Talk.

Twittearth was brilliant.

And so was Twistori.

Now be sure to check out My Tiny Jesus.

Twittearth is pretty cool and a great use of 3D!

Finally something that gives Twitter some sense of usefulness. It’s like a mood chart for the world at present time. I also like how day/night time are represented.

Probably one of the best ideas for writers on strike to get some money was to come up with alternative ways of working, while being on strike.

Joss Whedon, the creator of the highly rated Firefly / Serenity teamed up with a few actors such as Nathan Fillion (do they sleep together?) and Barney from How I met your mother.

And they came with with a great concept; Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. A blog that publishes a quality TV show on a budget.

The story and the characters is wacky, cheesy and highly addictive. Recommended.

Cool portfolio. Simple and elegant.

Fontstruct is a font building application that lets you design your own fonts. You paint with ‘bricks’ into a grid. The interface is quite similar to pixel editing or image editing software, with quite similar but more simplistic tools. You built letters up one at a time, and it’s all very simple and intuitive to use, if a little visually flat. Once you have designed a true type font is generated and published on the site, allowing you to share your creation.

While now where near as powerful as dedicated font generation applications, the gallery of fonts made on the site is quite impressive, and it’s evident that while being simple, the application does allow you to create very unique and fun typefaces. I like xtrude myself.

Overall, it’s a fun little app for a while but not particularly useful. The execution was pretty effective, but nothing to write home about. Imagine if this site had come out a few years ago when absolutely everyone was pixel font mad!

Check out the Automatic screen cleaner. Awesome app.

Cute little flash app by Grant Robinson. Use keywords to generate montages of thumbs from Google Image.

Check out Montage-a-google

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Awesome web app sorts all the famous video ads by client. The application itself is really well made with a sense of depth and stage.

It has, however, consistently crashed Safari on close.

Check out Firebrand

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This full on app by M&M’s lets you create your own, dress it up, and star it in a photo or movie!

It’s quite useless and frankly I doubt they got much out of it (considering the budget behind it). But when something is cool, who cares?

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Love how the windows wobble, the navigation and even their work is great.

Check out Varywell…

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Funny Puff Seats - flash site

Funny penis and boobs seats. Great concept! The website allow customization of the puffy seats via a flash web app.

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Digg’s newest lab experiment called pics lets you browse their images content. Looks cool, but somehow it feels a bit too basic.

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Very close to the dodgy ladder website (which is now unfortunately offline) is the Fight the Indooritis microsite.

Visit the Lipton tea viral site.

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