Monthly Archives: April 2009

Thematic Photosplicing by Peter Funch

By Patrick | Published: April 26, 2009
Peter Funch has some great shots from NYC where he takes many, many pictures from the same spot and then splices them together based on themes he finds among the individual passersby. Looks like a tedious process but the results are worth it.
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Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip.

By Patrick | Published: April 20, 2009
While finishing up a project a couple months ago, I ran into a problem trying to preload a SWF. Everything worked fine in my development environment. I was throttling my bandwidth using Charles to test things, and the preloader was working as expected. But when I posted it to staging my Flash preloader was broken. [...]
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Easily Test & View Alternative Content while Using SWFObject

By Patrick | Published: April 6, 2009
SWFObject is great. I’ve been using it to embed Flash content in my pages since the IE / Eolas “click to activate” thing when it was still called FlashObject. But SWFObject is missing a feature. It’s not easy enough to test your non-Flash alternative content. You can bump up the required version number to one that [...]
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