[Android] Pause Fest app
Here it is! The program for Pause Fest 2011!
Get it here.
It sure looks like it's going to be an awesome festival and we're glad we had a chance to be a part of it.
If you're in Melbourne, make sure you have a look at the pause fest site: http://www.pausefest.com.au
In a nutshell: "Pause Fest is an amalgamation of the cultural, creative and commercial world, the global digital scene and national impetus, showcasing the work of leading creative minds of the 21st century. The fest presents the best and freshest work from global thinkers that dare to innovate and brake the rules to set new standards, thus making it the essential meeting point for all who want to experience the future in all formats. \n\nFor one stimulating, inspiring and extraordinary week Melbournians will pause to watch free public digital art installations, engage in interactive exhibitions and celebrate the creativity presented by top agencies and digital artists from Australia and worldwide."
[Android] Quote Wall app
Hey everyone,
here it is, another free app on the android market from Shaperstudio.
A Quote Wall app, to keep track of all the funny/interesting/awesome lines your friend come up with!
We've got more features coming for that little app so stay tuned.
Get it here.
[Android] SMS Scheduler app
Hey peeps.
So we've got a new app on the Android market. It's a simple sms scheduler.
We only built because we needed it for an event, but now it's there for free if you want it 
Here it is
Blog theme is down
We have had some issues with the last update of our theme.
We will try to update it or get a new theme.
Meanwhile you will enjoy the beauty of the default wordpress theme... All apologize.
[AS3] Flashlight Effect
Continuing from our previous tutorial on Inverse Mask here's a little trick to create a flashlight effect in flash.
[AS3] Inverse Mask
You might have found yourself in a situation where you need to use an inverse mask in flash ( like a normal mask except this one hides its masked content instead of revealing it ) only to realise it's not as straight forward as you would have thought.
I had to use one for a cropping tool I was building. The inverse mask was showing the zone to be cropped on an uploaded photo which had an overlay on top of it.
[AS3] Create a slingshot with an elastic effect
In this tutorial we'll have a learn how to create a simple slingshot in actionscript 3.
There's two main parts:
1- To create an elastic / rubber band effect that reacts according to the pull applied to it
2- To implement simple physics to apply on the ball affected by the slingshot
Nexus one drivers for windows 7
I've been playing around with AIR for Android lately, but had a bit of a problem while setting everything up.
After updating my froyo build to FP91 windows would no longer recognize the phone ( I was able to read the SD card etc but the phone was not recognized by adb ).
After looking for a little while I managed to find the right drivers, so if it can save someone's time, here they are:
nexusone_drivers_win7
Drivers for the nexus one on Windows 7
FlashDevelop Color Scheme
FlashDevelop is my favorite tool for writing AS2 and AS3 scripts. In case you don't know it, you can get it here.
It's definitely one of the best actionscript editor out there, a billion times better that coding directly inside Flash. Look on the site to see all the cool features it's got. Soon enough you'll wonder how you could manage without it!
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to share with you my custom color scheme. I'm quite happy about it. I've changed the colors for AS2/3 and also HTML, PHP and XML ( event though I spent more time working out the AS2 and 3 color scheme ).
The white background gets really tiring after a long day of coding, so I used a dark gray bg which actually makes it a lot easier on the eye.
Get the files
Flash Develop Color Scheme
Version1.0
Flash develop settings to have a nice editor
You need to put these file here AppData/Local/FlashDevelop/Settings
I also added the font I used: Dina.
You should make a back up copy of the already existing ones just in case you wanna go back to the original version ( which you wont 
).
Obviously, feel free to modify the files i sent you to suit your own taste. Don't hesitate to send comment or even your own color schemes!
Enjoy~
Dynamic Page Resize in Flash
We had to do a website for a dance company called Okareka, and part of the requirements was to have the site in flash, with pages of different sizes, while only using the native scrollbar in the browser to scroll through the page. You can see the site here.
The problem is that you're supposed to give your flash element ( in html ) a defined height ( or a percentage ), so how could you have different pages in the flash file, with different heights, that would update the flash element's height for the browser's perspective?
The solution is to do a dynamic resize. I use a class called BrowserCanvas.