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Archive for February, 2009

Vote for Crappy Cat

Time to cast your vote for Crappy Cat at this year’s SXSW People’s Choice awards! http://sxsw.com/peoples-choice

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ConnectToSharedDrive.app

Here in the office, we use a network drive (called Betsy) to store all of our files. Because I’m too lazy to manually connect to Betsy drive each time I turn on my computer, I use a little AppleScript to do it for me (ip address changed to protect the innocent): tell application "Finder" if [...]

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Next stop, App Store

We’re very excited about our early experiments with iPhone development. Today we are submitting our very first app to the App Store. Timecoder is a super-simple time code calculator, an idea that came to us from our super-talented video editor Kyle Sim. There is much more to come, but we are excited to make it this [...]

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x and y precision in ActionScript 3

I ran into some strange behavior while programming zombies in ActionScript 3 this morning. The code was pretty straight-forward, setting the zombie sprite’s x and y in an enter frame loop to move it to some arbitrary point. As part of the loop, I was checking if the sprite’s rotation was equal to the angle [...]

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