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Save a website on your computer

Mario Laflamme — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:30:39 +0000

Click the following link to go on the website of Teleport Pro and download the software which allows you to save a website on your computer and browse it offline. Some other features are also available.

Please note that you can download the software without paying but you will be able to retrieve only up to 500 files per project and it will expire after 40 uses.

Now That’s Exciting

Marc-Antoine Ross — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:25:03 +0000

to see in your RSS reader:

Read the rambla article and test drive our product!

Looking for Web 2.0 Logo Inspiration

Marc-Antoine Ross — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:47 +0000

Here’s a good resource: Go2web20. Now what makes a logo Web 2.0 style in your opinion?

Great Flash Golf Game

Marc-Antoine Ross — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:49:06 +0000

Every time I play indoor virtual golf I wonder when they’ll come up with a new game with better graphics than those currently running on Windows 98 boxes. But when I see an online game, in Flash, with better graphics than what I pay 25$ an hour for, there is a serious problem. Hey, game producers, there is a market here… hello? Anyway, check this game: PGA Charity Challenge.

Flex Spell Checker Components

Marc-Antoine Ross — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:20:13 +0000

In September, back at the Air Bus Tour in Toronto, I met Grant Skinner who presented his Spelling Plus Library. I recently found this new Spell Checker Component. While Bruce Deen doesn’t mention any performance data, there is a great feature I couldn’t find in SPL: a local dictionary. This component is a donation ware, don’t forget to help Bruce.

Here’s What I’m Talking About: Richness

Marc-Antoine Ross — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:37:02 +0000

It’s very hard to explain the subtilty of richness and usability sometimes, but life is good to me today as I stumbled upon a great example: Lovely Charts. Check how the application understands your actions to create new elements in the chart. Simple, effective, well done. Chapeau!

My Survival Grocery List - France

Marc-Antoine Ross — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:03:20 +0000

As a few of you already know, I lived in France for a few years, when I was around 10. Since then, I’ve been going back to France several times for holidays or for business. I’m here, in Paris, once again and just realized that every single time I get here, there is one thing that I can’t miss: the grocery. Here’s my Survival Grocery List:

Foie Gras
Rillettes d’oie
Saucissons
Cornichons
Baguette
Sauternes
Cheese
Perrier
Apple Cider
Mousse au chocolat

Just got back from the grocery and I’m typing in between the bites, hence the end of this post.

Ok… I ear you, I’ll do a few more push ups tomorrow

Montreal Adobe User Group

Marc-Antoine Ross — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:30:16 +0000

Tonight, I went for the first time the monthly meeting of the Montreal Adobe User Group and must admit it was very interesting. Lee Anthony Sutton, LordAlex and Martin Arvisais managed to present different topics in a fresh and dynamic way; thumbs up.

Fix the Home and End Keys for Mac OS X and Eclipse (Flex Builder)

Marc-Antoine Ross — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:32:19 +0000

You’ll edit a system file, be careful.

If the file or folder doesn’t already exist, you need to create it. Here’s the easy way to do it in Terminal (easier, because Finder doesn’t let you see hidden files easily).

Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type the following commands:

cd ~/Library

If the KeyBindings folder doesn’t exist in that folder, create it:

mkdir KeyBindings

Make or edit the DefaultKeyBinding.dict file:

vi KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Paste the following lines:

{

    /* home */

    "\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";

    "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* end */

    "\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";

    "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* page up/down */

    "\UF72C"  = "pageUp:";

    "\UF72D"  = "pageDown:";

}

Save the file. Now when you re-launch your applications, they should use the new Bindings.

Eclipse doesn’t follow anyone’s default key layout, it is standard based on the version you download… so basically to get this to work do this:

Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Keys

You will be able to remove the Binding for Text Start, Text End and respectively replace them for Line Start, Line End. I will let you understand that part by yourself, as you will find interesting shortcuts at the same time. Do the same with for the Shift-Home and Shift-End keys.

You should now have the home and end keys going to the beginning and end of the line.

Firefox still seems to have an issue…

RIA Data Loading Benchmark

Marc-Antoine Ross — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:12:14 +0000

Here’s a good benchmark that compares several methods to load data into your RIA. It’s very interesting to see how Flex performs compared to Laszlo.