Free Vector Graphics for your Flash project July 28, 2007
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Here are some free vector graphics for your Flash project, including shiny orbs, shiny buttons, design elements, weapons (!), aircraft and others.
AJAX was already around in 1996 July 26, 2007
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AJAX was already around in 1996
Well, ok. Strictly speaking it wasn’t. However when you think about what AJAX really does, the first ideas were already there back in the 90s. In the form of *gasp*, frames!
After all, frames allowed content to be refreshed without the entire page refreshing. But they died out, partly due to their problems with users entering the websiteoutside of the frameset through search engines. Also, they were incredibly bad looking. Sometimes, web designers would turn off scrolling for the menu frame, and people with low resolutions couldn’t see the entire menu. Also, don’t forget the lack of XML.
Then came along iFrames, which provided functionality similar to frames but in a much more flexible manner, without the need for pesky framesets. Actually, I believe lots of people still prefer this method of the complexities of AJAX. Indeed, I use it sometimes. Although it is considered “hackish”, it does work.
Last but not least, we have Adobe Flash. An incredibly powerful piece of technology, it seems to do everything AJAX does, and more. Not only that, it is in my opinion, easier to implement, as Flash offers a drawing interface tofor the graphical aspect of your application. Perhaps even more importantly, with Flash you don’t have to worry about those nail-biting cross-browser incompatibility problems with graphics and layout. Phew.
I’m just wondering why more people aren’t using Flash over AJAX? I’m no expert on this topic, so if you’ve got the answer feel free to comment. I want your opinions.
¿Cómo rápidamente puedes pensar? July 26, 2007
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www.j7labs.com/mindflex.html
Mindflex Update July 24, 2007
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Alright, I believe I’ve crushed the major offending bugs in Mindflex (including inaccuracies in timing), and made some changes that will improve the gameplay. If you have any feedback I’d love to hear. Just drop a comment here.
Any new features you would like to see? I’d be glad to implement.
Gehirnjogging mit Mindflex July 23, 2007
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Wie schnell kannst du denken? Hier herausfinden. Keine Feder und Papier erlaubt beim Spielen des Spiels. Das betrügt:P
Mindflex ist eine Gehirnjogging-Software, die ich mit Flash entwickelt habe. Sie ist noch in der BETA-Entwicklung, also verbessert sie im kommenden Monate. Ich habe diese Features geplannt:
- Sound und Musik
- Feedback-form funktionieren 
- Neue Module (ahhh, das ist ein Geheimnis)
- Weltweite Ergbinisse
- Personale Ergibnisse
Tut mir leid, fuer meine sehr schlectes Deutsch! Ich bin Australiener =D
How fast is your brain? July 23, 2007
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After coding away for who knows how many hours, I’ve finally come up with the BETA of “Mindflex”, which is a brain-jogging game made in Flash. Because this software is always under development, expect new features frequently. Some planned features include:
-Sound/Music
- New modules (that’s a secret ^.^)
- Worldwide results (see how you fare against others in your age group)
- Personal results (you can save your results into our database and look at them later)
- More levels of difficulty between easy and insanely difficult.
You can find the game here:
http://www.j7labs.com/mindflex.html
So, how fast is your brain? 
REMEMBER: While playing Mindflex, don’t use a pen and pencil! That’s cheating 
And you’re only cheating yourself
Note: Currently no sound, and feedback widget doesn’t work yet. Totally playable.
Mathematics: Trigonometry July 20, 2007
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Computer Science and Mathematics go hand-in-hand.
Here is a recap of some basic maths: High school trigonometry. Don’t be scared by the name “trigonometry”. Really, it’s just a subject of geometry with a fancy name.
Radians:
- A single radian is the angle formed in the minor sector of a circle, where the minor arc length is the same as the radius of the circle.
- In trigonometry, angles are always radians if the angle is not explicity marked with radians or degrees. -
- The size of the angle in radians = length of the circle arc s divided by the circle radius r. (angle in radians = s/r)
- 360 degrees = 2*PI radians
- 180 degrees = PI radians
Practical Trigonometry:
- Remember SOH CAH TOA
- sinx = opposite x / hypotenuse
- cosx = adjacent x / hypotenuse
- tanx = opposite x /adjacent x
SOURCE: Wikibooks
Association Fallacy July 11, 2007
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An association fallacy is a inductive formal fallacy of the type hasty generalization or red herring which asserts that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another, merely by an irrelevant association. The two types are sometimes referred to as guilt by association and honor by association. Association fallacies are a special case of red herring, and can be based on an appeal to emotion.
-WIKIPEDIA
Poisoning the Well July 11, 2007
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Poisoning the well is a logical fallacy where adverse information about someone is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that person is about to say. Poisoning the well is a special case of argumentum ad hominem. The term was first used with this sense [1] by John Henry Newman in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua [2].
-WIKIPEDIA
