Today I’ve installed Google Desktop Search, a desktop search application that provides full text search over mails, local files, and the web pages viewed.
Once launched the installer, it will create a service which will indexes all your computer (it will took hours the first time), then search can be activated from the taskbar icon. It’s integrated in the browser, in fact it’s the same as using google, but results are files on the computer!
Another cool feature is that When you view a web page in the browser, Google Desktop “caches” the content so that it can be viewed later, the same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you’re offline.
Google Desktop Search organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.
and basically it doesn’t affect the computer performance because it works only when computer is idle.. great
It’s really useful and funny 🙂
Link: http://desktop.google.com/about.html
Year: 2004
A pure Flash Blog. OpenSource!
Guys at Motion4graphics.com have developed a flash blog ( www.flashblog.org ), i think the first Weblog made in Flash/Php/MySQL Opensource.
It is a project that is in Beta test, but that the main features already are already included. As they said: “We wished to be extending benefits little by little, we didn’t want to reinvent the Weblog”.
Next there will be the feature to donwload all the archives.
The main features are actually:
– Front End, developed in Flash.
– BackEnd developed in Php/MySQL
– Creation of categories.
– Searches.
– Limitation of entrances by page.
– extended Entrances (read more..).
– Publisher wysiwyg.
– Multiple users and authors.
– Limitless vertical Stage.
– Function botons back/ahead.
– Source codes FLA including.
Jpegs can be added, including the limitations of flash which can load only non progressive jpegs.. maybe they can add the GD support (or also image magik) in order to let all jpegs compatible and also PNG (waiting for gif support come back in the GD lib) ?
I’m still trying to understand how is set the framework.. how data is transmitted to flash (xml, remoting or flat loadvars)..
It seems a really promising project. take a minute to look at this.
FP XHTML Render
Today I received an email announcing me the new sourceforge project regarding Flash.
This is the direct link to the download area:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/…download
Reading the documentation (contained in the .zip file d/dl):
The project is intended to extend Macromedia Flash player (version 7.x or +) capabilities to parse XHTML formatted pages and render them into the Flash stage.
…
FP XHTML Render supports the most common HTML tags
It also supports various CSS attributes.
In fact, once downloaded the zip file from sourceforge i see at the example provided.
The test html page with table and cells too is perfect rendered, as i can see..
Now, let’s try something more complex than the provided example 😉
author is Marco Sangalli.
thanks!
8 Ball
I know there are already many many topics around the net about the new Flash 8 (codename 8ball)..
So i just want to report you a link of Mike Chambers’ blog where he seems make things clear…
I read too many comments around and I think people is talking too much about something which probably in Macromedia is still only an idea…
Flash 8 is coming?
I hope not too fast.. I have to learn already flash mx 2004!
PearPC Installation
As promised, after come back from my holiday in Warsaw, I publish here all the steps i followed in order to get MacOSX working on my Windows XP system.
First go to the download page and get the win32-sdl-jitc file.
Extract it to your “/PPC” folder.
Be sure your PPC folder contains also these sub directories:
-PPC
-PPC/imgs
-PPC/dev
-PPC/dev/cdrom
You will use later.
Now you need an hdd image file, download it from here and extract the file into your /PPC/imgs directory. Rename the extracted file into “hdd.img” (it’s a 6Gb image file)
Now you need a MAC OSX installation disc. (you can buy it form ebay).
Since PPC does not support cdrom you need to convert cdrom into .iso files ( with Nero or others cd burning utilites ).
Copy all the .iso files into your /PPC/dev/cdrom directory.
Ok, now you need to create your configuration file in order to start. This is my configuration file “alex.config”
#PearPC Configuration File
ppc_start_resolution = “1280x1024x15”
redraw_interval_msec=30
prom_driver_graphic = “video.x”
key_toggle_mouse_grab = “F12”
key_toggle_full_screen = “Alt+Return”
cpu_pvr=0x00088302
# I gave to mac up to 560Mb of RAM
# comment the line below to assign the default 128Mb of RAM
memory_size=0x20800000
prom_bootmethod=”select”
prom_env_machargs=”-v”
# HDD
pci_ide0_master_installed=1
pci_ide0_master_image=”imgs/hdd.img”
pci_ide0_master_type=”hd”
# CD-ROM
pci_ide0_slave_installed=1
pci_ide0_slave_image=”dev/cdrom/Mac Os X 10.3 Panther Cd1.iso”
pci_ide0_slave_type=”cdrom”
# Network
pci_rtl8139_installed=0
pci_rtl8139_mac=”de:ad:ca:fe:12:34″
pci_usb_installed=1
nvram_file=”nvram”
Now, from the command shell just type: ppc.exe alex.config..
Boot from the cd, form the list you will see and let’s wait until mac installation starts. at this point be sure you have a lot of coffe near you, you have to wait a long time… long time (depends on your computer)
P.S. Once you got a working OSX installation you can take a look at this link:
http://www.pearpc.net/guides.php?guides_id=6
Here you can learn how to mount your .img hdd on Windows in order to transfer files between Windows and MAC.
PearPC, MacOSX under Windows!
I was pleased to verify that an emulator of 300kb (less than the flahs player..) is able to run Mac OSX under my WindowsXP machine!
Now i think i will fight as usual against mac 🙂
but at least i hope to i will be able to configure my python/wxPython there too in order to have a way to test sepy there too..
What is PearPC?
PearPC is an Open Source emulator for PowerPC CPUs, licensed under the GPL. It was developed by Sebastian Biallas and Stefan Weyergraf. With this emulator it is possible to run Software, that normally only runs on PPCs, like Mac OS X, GNU/Linux for PPC, etc.
This project is hosted on sourceforge site:
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net
p.s. thanks you valley for suggesting me this link!
BLDoc 1.0 Public Beta Available
Chafic Kazoun from rewindfile.com has released late yesterday the first public beta of BLDoc.
What is BLDoc?
“BLDoc is an ActionScript 2.0 source code documentation tool designed to require minimal commenting to produce complete documentation. BLDoc supports multiple output styles (including the ability to create your own), parsing of AS 2.0 source, MetaData tags, and JavaDoc style comments.”
You can also use BLDoc with SE|PY in order to create autmatically Javadoc style documentation. Latest version of sepy has a new feature which with a simple mouse click will create for you javadoc comment for any method of your source code (thanks to a suggestion of Colin Moock).
Then BLDoc processes a series of customizable commands to run many XSLT transformations on the intermediate file. And it will come in 2 different editions: community edition and professional edition.
Find out more here: http://www.blinex.com/products/bldoc/
Make your suggestion for the next Flash!
Hi, this message is for all Flash Users.
We’re collecting feedbacks and improvements, to turn subsequently to
Macromedia Flash Team, in order to obtain a wished list from who like you
use the program.
This operation has the sole scope to improve the development flash
enviroment and to adapt the software more to the requirements of the
customers.
You can propose new functionalities and improvements on those already
existing, trying to concentrate on aspects not too much general but on
detailed features lists that in your opinion lack or that you found
low-efficient for your daily job.
All messages should be sent to: flashwishlist@riadev.com
For example, some my suggestions:
– Improvements with XPath functionallity
– Regular expression implementation
– Make components smaller!
– Make a REAL try/catch implementation, expecially for runtime env