Author Archives: keith

Apple Crumbles on 3rd Party Tools

Posted on September 9, 2010 by keith

This just in, though the Twitterverse probably makes this old news already… Apple has just announced that it is “relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps”. In other words, it looks like the Flash CS5 … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, iPhone | 26 Comments

Kindle Font Sizes

Posted on September 9, 2010 by keith

Just for reference.

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Kindle 3: Under the microscope!

Posted on September 3, 2010 by keith

Yeah, this took a while, but I finally got around to sticking my new toy under the ‘scope. To be honest, the differences between the Kindle 2 and the new version are amazingly apparent the first time you turn the … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Kindle, Technology, Uncategorized | 16 Comments

Stephen Fry on Blog Comments, Twitter, etc.

Posted on August 13, 2010 by keith

Really timely quote with some of the stuff I was talking about with others today. You know there is nothing easier than writing an article against something, which is so simple. It writes itself. You just got to be angry … Continue reading →

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Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by keith

This really isn’t meant to be a contentious post. It really only came about because I got a new toy, something I’ve been wanting to get for a while – a USB microsope! Here’s the model I got: Veho VMS004 … Continue reading →

Posted in General, iPhone, Kindle, Uncategorized | 305 Comments

New Kindle, Interview with Jeff Bezos

Posted on July 28, 2010 by keith

So the rumors were true. A new Kindle was announced today. I ordered mine within minutes of it being possible to do so. While more evolutionary than revolutionary, it’s got some nice features: smaller size (with same screen size), one … Continue reading →

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AS3 Sound Synthesis IV – Tone Class

Posted on July 23, 2010 by keith

In order to make the code so far a little more reusable, I moved it over into its own class, called Tone. I also implemented some optimizations and other little tricks. The most important is that instead of calculating the … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 21 Comments

AS3 Sound Synthesis III – Visualization and Envelopes

Posted on July 21, 2010 by keith

In Part I and Part II of this series, we learned how to utilize the Sound object to synthesize sound, and how to create sounds of various frequencies. This post will just be a quick detour onto a couple of … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 13 Comments

AS3 Sound Synthesis II – Waves

Posted on July 21, 2010 by keith

This post will show you how to generate sine waves for specific frequencies using the AS3 Sound object. It assumes you have read, or are familiar with the data in Part I of this series. Basics of Sound Sound itself … Continue reading →

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Sound Synthesis in AS3 Part I – The Basics, Noise

Posted on July 21, 2010 by keith

I’ve been meaning to write something up on this for quite a while. It recently struck me that there still wasn’t a whole lot of good material on this out there already. So I figured I’d throw something together. We’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 7 Comments