Mário Andrade Web Design, CSS, HTML, Information Architecture

24Oct/090

Flash CS5 Physics

Long are the days where a designer could simple explore flash and learn it. The current times and ActionScript 3 require some programming skills. Fortunately Flash CS5 includes a simple way to associate gravity behavior to objects making certain animations easier.

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21Oct/090

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Patchmatch

Patchmatch is an algorithm developed by Connelly Barnes, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein, and Dan B Goldman, that allows structural image editing by finding the common neighbor matching it between image patches.
For what I understood, previous versions would search the nearest neighbor to a specific point, the new algorithm has a wider search capability making it more accurate.

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5Oct/090

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

Living on a country that has a certain fame for having “lazy” workers makes much difficult to implement zen habits or good ideas to improve our personal life and happiness.
Stefan Sagmeister talked at TED about the importance and power of taking time off and how it can help you for future projects and re-discovering your passion.

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4Oct/090

Check if email domain exists with PHP

Imagine this situation: Someone contacts your client but misspells the email and your client doesn’t have a clue what’s wrong with the email, all your client knows is that when an email is sent to that address they get an error message back. The result is the loss of a possible client and a client that will think the company it’s not interested.

PHP has a function called checkdnsrr that checks DNS records to a certain given host name or IP address making possible to check is a domain really exists or there is something wrong with it. This is good to check is the email is spam.

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