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Free Regular Expression Suite & Tool

Hi All, Sorry i’ve been MIA on Wuup for a while now, been so busy with MarketMeSuite. Though during my development of MMS i have had the chance to write some time-saving utilities. The first of which is a regular expression suite. Heres a quick rundown of the features: Syntax highlighting Match highlighting Regular expression [...]

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Singularity – Resolution Tweak (W7)

Hey all, Had a recent problem with this game Singularity, Specifically getting the resolution to change to 1680 x 1050. So i found a hack on the Raven forums that supposadly changed the resolution in the windows 7 registry, But what i found was that when i launched the game the values would just go [...]

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PS3 Hdd Replacement Issues: “no applicable update data was found” – Solution

Hey all, just been downgrading my PS3 (from a 500 to a 160 i’ll never use 500gb with my PS3) and came accross a few niggles with my specific version. For some reason the PS3 wouldn’t recognize any of my flash drives (even if the update is in the right folder structure ‘PS3/UPDATE/PS3UPDAT.PUP’). So my [...]

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AS3 Quick Tip: Get a Class reference from a String

Convert a String to a Class reference with AS3

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AS3 Basics: List all files in a folder including subdirectories (AIR)

Hey all just a quickie. I’ve been building a game save backup program recently and i’ve come across several instances where i need to get a list of all the files within a directory.

so i wrote a class which does this :)

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Working with 3rd Party APIs (Twitter/Facebook)

Recently i’ve been working a lot with 3rd party APIs (specifically Twitter/Facebook). Working with a 3rd Party API, there are many dangers/advantages. In this article i will attempt to highlight what i’ve learnt working with 3rd party APIs.

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Blender 3D Basics: UV Mapping Cube (v2.49)

So you have a really cool model in Blender, now you want to add some textures to add some coolness factor. To achieve this we use a well known technique called ‘UV Mapping’ to map a 2d texture to a 3d mesh.

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Photoshop CS4 Basics: Layer Management

When you start to work in a company doing any type of design you realize that organization is a key aspect of your working routine (if its a good company anyway). One of the things which especially annoyed me when starting wuup is Alan’s terrible photoshop layer structure.

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AS3 Basics: Breaking out of loops (stopping loops)

AS3 Basics: Breaking out of loops (stopping loops)

Hi There, So many of us use loops for a vast array of things, sometimes though you’ll want to stop a loop from executing further.
So the answer to the problem? the ‘break’ statement!

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Flex 4: Getting a reference to the host application or host mxml from ItemRenderers

Flex 4: Getting a reference to the host application or host mxml from ItemRenderers

Sometimes you have a custom ItemRenderer. That has, perhaps, a button that needs to access one of the methods of you’re main application. how would you accomplish this? read on…

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