Yearly Archives: 2009

Mind control

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Liam

Here’s one of my old games being controlled with brainwaves in a homebrew EEG device cobbled together by Italian Hacker Mastro Gippo:

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MouseWheelTrap – how to stop simultaneous Flash / browser scrolling in AS3

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Liam

I recently stumbled over a new AS3 gotcha that seems to be bugging a lot of the Flash community. Apparently a new 'feature' of AS3, whereby using the mousewheel inside an embedded Flash movie still scrolls the surrounding browser window … Continue reading →

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CoolIris type thing in 30 lines

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Liam

PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: package { // Piclens type thing in 30 lines (FP10+) Liam O'Donnell - spikything.com     import flash.display.Sprite;     import flash.events.Event;     public class Main extends Sprite {         private var container … Continue reading →

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Local playback security in FlashDevelop and Flash CS3 / CS4

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Liam

I've seen a few people get into a pickle over this one. When you're developing and testing locally, you need to set the 'Local Playback Security' setting (sometimes referred to as the 'use network services' option) depending on whether you … Continue reading →

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Turkey

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Liam
Whirling dervishes in Turkey

I recently went to Turkey and travelled around the entire Western half of the country. The highlight was hot air ballooning over Cappadoccia, but I just found this long exposure photo of some whirling dervishes I took and thought it … Continue reading →

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