http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com The art of clicking Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:17:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick update to make Snippage work with AIR 1.0. I'm currently planning a rebuild from scratch with tons of new features so stay tuned. http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/snippage-for-air-10/ This might be old news to some out there, but I started working as UX Lead for Joost last month. I'm really excited about the new things coming down the pipes for us. Lots of cool projects to develop. Once some of the stuff I'm working on becomes public, I'll ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/the-joost-of-it/ So, yesterday I resigned from my position as UX Lead for Comcast Interactive Media. I've been struggling with this for a while, but I just felt that it's about time I moved on. I've made some good friends and met many extremely talented people during my time there, and hopefully ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/resigned-from-comcast/ Yep, new version up. Unfortunately no new features. Just a quick update for the new AIR Beta 2. Because it's a new runtime, you will need to upgrade manually instead of relying on Snippage's auto-update feature. anyways, check it out at snippage.gabocorp.com. And thanks to Adobe for mentioning Snippage at ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/snippage-r10-is-up/ Just uploaded Release 8 of Snippage with a bunch of interaction tweaks and bug fixes. Also includes auto-updating (thanks to some very nice code from côdeazur) so upgrading to future releases will be less painful. I really appreciate all the support and positive feedback I've been getting over this app. ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/snippage-10-r8/ I've been playing around with the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for the last week or so, and came up with a little app. It started out as just a test to teach myself the ins and outs of as3 development in Flex Builder and AIR, but I've shown it to ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/snippage-air-app/ It was originally described to me as a kind of AIM meets Twitter meets FaceBook thing, and ever since, I've been wanting to give it a try. This morning I finally received a Pownce invite and, though it's not at all what I expected, it is definitely a cool app/service ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/reach-out-and-pownce-someone/ Ok, so technically it's Saturday morning here, but it's gotta be Friday night somewhere out there, right? Anyways, the preview is up here and I've set up a page to handle comments and information here, so go in and mess around with it. It's got some bugs and plenty of ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/preview-is-up/ I'm trying to get the Flash preview site up before we leave for Toronto on Saturday but things just keep piling-up. It won't be feature complete but it's kinda fun to play with, so I'll put it up regardless of its state. I want to get as much feedback as ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/gabo-of-the-klondike/ The alpha for Fan 4 square mode is up at cimlabs. I had little to do with this one but I think it's a step in the right direction. We start work on the Fan 4 'circular mode' tomorrow, and I'd love to hear suggestions from you guys. Any features ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/fan-4-is-square/ Things have seriously slowed down with the Flash GUI I've been working on. I'll try to have a preview up later this week. Arpit has been on my back trying to get me to show it, but other projects are sucking up my time. Argh! Also got hit by a ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/flashified-pixelbreath-preview-is-coming-soon-maybe/ Just a quick reminder to please update your links to the new URL: pixelbreath.gabocorp.com. Note 2: This is also an excuse to post another "note" since I'm playing around with the css on the site :). http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/new-url-for-the-blog/ The move to the new server went smoothly. woot! http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/succcesssed/ Progress on the Flash front end for this site is coming along nicely. I might upload a preview pretty soon, though most of my time is being taken up by my job and a freelance project I'm working on with Fredo. Anyways, I'm doing it in AS3 so it's taking ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/flash-and-burn/ So we just started conceptualizing a new Fan video player and I was thinking it would be a nice time to make a post about good ol' 3.0. For those of you how haven't heard of it, the Fan is the video player/delivery system for most of Comcast's online network. It ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/the-fan-30/ Yep. I'm starting a blog. Why? ... Well, it's mostly to blow off steam. I'll be making a Flash front-end for WordPress so there will be a lot of posts about that. I might even experiment a bit with WPF. Who knows? So, a blog about building a blog? Well, ... http://pixelbreath.gabocorp.com/pixelbreath/