Vector vs Bitmap side-by-side – SVG & PNG in Flash
Looking back at my previous post and the comments, I don’t think the vector versus bitmap comparison was very clear, so I tried to show it differently with the applet above. In the meantime I also got some hands-on time with matrix transformations in Flash. It’s not really needed, but if you’re interested, you can do some reading up on matrix transformations on Wikipedia and many other sites.
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photo credit: Kichigai Mentat
Evernote – remember everything
The latest buzz in techland is Evernote. It’s basically a note keeping application. What’s so special about that? you wonder. I too was wondering, why this would be any better than basically anything else on the market (I was using a combination of Google Docs and local folders which works pretty well for me). So I took the plunge and have been trying out Evernote for a few weeks now.
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