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HAPPY 26TH BIRTHDAY, ZX SPECTRUM!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Today is BIRTHDAY of ZX SPECTRUM!!!

 

Spectrum

7 Video Game Currencies Stronger Than the U.S. Dollar

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

videoGameCurrencies_legendofzelda.jpg

 

RUPEE (The Legend of Zelda) (1987)
Worth:
$3 (U.S.)
Methodology: 100 rupees = magical shield. Crappy shield on eBay = $300
What It Means: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could learn a couple of things from Hyrule’s math whizzes, who have kept the region’s inflation rate at an astounding 0.00 percent for over 20 years.


videoGameCurrencies_gta3Colt45.jpg

 

GTA DOLLAR (Grand Theft Auto III) (2001)
Worth: $25 (U.S.)
Methodology: 100 GTA dollars = Colt .45 Pistol (M1911 A1). Custom model 1911 A1 pistol made by the Springfield Armory = $2,500
What It Means: If you do find a handgun for a hundred bucks in the real world, you’ll probably have to call Nerf for more ammo.

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Earth day

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Lets see how google celebrate this.

 

Rijndael cipher - 128-bit version (data block and key) Encryption

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Site Computer Science at Boston College present animation about rijndael cipher (n cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES))

isfland.com. AS3 Physics

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Thanks to flash-ripper.com for finding interesting blog flash island. I don`t know where is Author now, all post date was written at  January But what we could find there

Examples physics in flex

Physics UI

 

Crush test

Waiting for new great features!

Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Introduction

This document lays out the coding standards for writing open-source Flex framework components in ActionScript 3. Adhering to these standards makes the source code look consistent, well-organized, and professional.

Some of these standards are completely arbitrary, since there is not always a “best way” to code. Nevertheless, in the interest of consistency, all commits to the Flex SDK project will be expected to follow these conventions.

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How $315 Billion Look Like

Thursday, April 17th, 2008


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21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock in Madagascar for the last few years, you undoubtedly already know about the All-Star open-source applications for Windows. I’m talking about applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, OpenOffice, and VLC.

However, there are hundreds of lesser-known but highly-useful open-source applications available for Windows. A few of my favorites are below.

These applications range from moderately popular to downright obscure, but all of them are open-source and FREE. All of them are worth the install time if you have never tried them. As a side bonus, many of them are cross-platform as well.

Here they are, in random order:

zscreen.jpg1. ZScreen

ZScreen is an open-source screen capture program that quietly resides in your system tray until needed. It can take screenshots of a selected region, the active window, or the entire screen. It can even send screen captures via FTP and copy the URL to your clipboard, all with just a single keystroke. Oh yeah, it can also interface with image editing software, such as Photoshop or Paint.net.

If you frequently take screenshots, ZScreen is light years faster than pressing Print Scrn and pasting into MS Paint.

pdfcreator-logo.png2. PDFCreator

PDFCreator allows you to create PDFs from any program that can print. Once it’s installed, simply “print” to the virtual printer that it creates, and the resulting document can be read on any computer with Adobe Reader (or comparable software).

There are several similar programs, but if you dig open-source software, PDFCreator trumps many of the others.

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Super Mario in 14kB Javascript

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

from: blog.nihilogic.dk

Mario

Regular version: no music or with music

Double size: no music or with music

The script has been compressed to 14kb with the YUI compressor. Here’s the uncompressed script (35kb),

The price of a pint

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

go: pintprice.com

 

You will go to another country, but you don`t know how much beer cost? This service help you to find prices of a pint beer at different countries!

Beer

Kiev
$1.89 USD
Washington DC
$7.49 USD
Copenhagen
$6.4 USD
London
$5.86 USD