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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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Picture and Video Camera For The iPod Touch

Hey everyone, and thanks for joining me for this misleadingly titled article…or is it? NO! Well technically, I’m going to tell you how you can take a picture with a camera, and have it post straight to your camera roll on the iPod Touch – and of course iPhone. But, the best/worst thing about this [...]

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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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Java basics : if else while do for

Java basics : if else while do for

if, probably one of the most typed things in programming. It is basically a question.

For example, is bob a mango?

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iBooks PDF Bug (PDF’s Not Showing)

Hi All, Yes its been a little while since I’ve been able to post, since the MarketMeTweet 2.0 Launch but now things have settled down and got back to normal. I recently got myself an iPod Touch, thanks to a rebate that Thomas Molloy (other Wuup writer) was able to get on one – and [...]

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Add An iPhone Homescreen Bookmark Icon To Your Site

Howdy all, it’s been a sickeningly hot week. The office has been really busy with MarketMeTweet stuff so the weekend is a welcome break. In this post, I’m going to show you how easy it is to add a professional finish to a site by adding a homescreen icon for a users iPhone, iTouch or [...]

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Free British Postbox Vector

Hey all, I had some spare graphics laying out this week so, rather than leaving them to be buried in the hard disk for all time, I thought I’d share some of my handiwork. Here’s a swelling eye-catching email sign up box you could use for a multitude of causes – a lovely red British [...]

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PHP basics – Date and time handling with time zones

So here it is, how to what I did with java, but with php. Fun stuff! date_default_timezone_set($timeZone); $epoch = mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year); date_default_timezone_set($serverTimeZone); echo date(“Y-m-d H:i:s”,$epoch); mktime generates the epoch time for the date entered, you change the time zone back to the server and there you go, converted date time

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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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PSD For Price Comparision / Most Recommended

Hi There, Thought of something a little different for today, so I’ve decided to share with you something I was working on for MarketMeTweet.com – our Twitter software that we made for business / marketing. So we introduced a new pricing structure for the product, to make it more accessible to everyone and not just [...]

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