FlexMan http://flexman.info Everything is Flex Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:46:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 What Information Would be Leaked From Your iPhone http://flexman.info/2011/10/30/what-information-would-be-leaked-from-your-iphone/ http://flexman.info/2011/10/30/what-information-would-be-leaked-from-your-iphone/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:46:12 +0000 admin http://flexman.info/?p=378 Most of the iPhone players don’t know, when they joined the free open wifi hotspot at the local coffee shop. The data being transmitted from their iPhone to the internet is unencrypted! When surfing an unencrypted public wifi hotspot your iPhone reveals a ton of information.


- E-mail passwords for unprotected accounts
- The contents of e-mail sent or received from unprotected accounts
- The contents of e-mail pushed to the iPhone by Yahoo! Mail
- Unencrypted Web page contents—typically anything not involving e-commerce or banking
- The list of stocks followed in the Stocks widget
- Map information requested with the Maps widget

Depending on your surfing habits, you could be sending and receiving(your iPhone traffic) personal information in a non-secure way over public wifi. Though most email services use SSL to protect login information. (AOL, Gmail, Yahoo and .Mac). Rent yoursenf a VPN account would be another good way.

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    http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2010/07/adobe-flash-builder-for-forcecom-now-available.html

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    If there are 2 versions of the Flash player plugin in your OS(probably one for IE, the other for Firefox, Opera or Google Chrome etc), both need to be uninstalled before Flash has been removed from the system.  Below is a tutorial about how to uninstall Flash Player completely, hope it will be helpful for you. :)


    Here is the URL:

    http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/19/how-to-uninstall-flash-player-completely/

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    ]]>     http://flexman.info/2010/07/20/how-to-uninstall-flash-player-completely-in-windows-and-mac/feed/ 0     Flex 4 Books “Effortless Flex 4 Development” Available http://flexman.info/2010/07/14/flex-4-books-effortless-flex-4-development-available/ http://flexman.info/2010/07/14/flex-4-books-effortless-flex-4-development-available/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:49:52 +0000 admin http://flexman.info/?p=373 Larry Ullman, a well known author of many technology books released a new book called “Effortless Flex 4 Development”.
    Here is Table of Contents:



    Introduction
    Part 1: The Fundamentals
    Chapter 1: Building Flex Applications
    Chapter 2: Basic User Interface Elements
    Chapter 3: The ActionScript You Need to Know
    Chapter 4: Event Management
    Part 2: Data and Communications
    Chapter 5: Displaying Data
    Chapter 6: Formatting, Rendering, and Validating Data
    Chapter 7: Common Data Formats
    Chapter 8: Using Simple Services
    Chapter 9: Using Complex Services
    Part 3: Application Development
    Chapter 10: Modularizing Applications
    Chapter 11: Improving the User Experience
    Chapter 12: Windows and Popups
    Chapter 13: Improving the Appearance
    Chapter 14: Effects and More Events
    Chapter 15: Testing and Deploying

    More details here:
    http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321705947

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    The Top 40 Free iPhone Apps

    We gathered our 40 favorite free apps from Apple’s App Store to help make your iPhone and iPod touch shine.

    The Top 30 Free Google Android Apps

    Google’s open-source phone platform has plenty of quality free apps for your phone.

    Google’s Android OS is now a major player in the smartphone world. The Motorola Droid was the hot phone when we first released our “Top 100 Free Apps For Your Phone” list in 2009. Now we’re seeing “super phones” like the HTC Incredible, HTC EVO 4G, Motorola Droid X, and Samsung Galaxy S that are bringing world-class hardware capabilities to the platform.

    The Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps

    Make your BlackBerry smartphone even sweeter with these excellent free apps.

    RIM’s BlackBerrys are still the number one line of smartphones in the U.S. by installed base. Unfortunately, they’re really missing out on the app revolution.

    The Top 10 Free Palm webOS Apps

    Palm’s App Catalog finally has a well-stocked store. Here are the best free apps for your Palm Pre or Pixi.

    The Top 5 Free Symbian Apps

    There are some awesome free apps available for Nokia smartphones. Check them out here.

    Symbian is still the most popular smartphone OS worldwide. But, here in the U.S., it’s almost a non-entity in terms of sales. That may soon change, as AT&T and T-Mobile have begun picking up devices like the Nokia E73 and Nokia 5230 and subsidizing them so that they’re competitive with other handsets.

    The Top 5 Free Windows Phone Apps

    Don’t let Android and iPhone owners have all the fun; here are some awesome free apps for Windows Mobile devices.

    Windows Mobile 6 is dying, and Windows Phone 7 has not yet risen. But there are still millions of people in the U.S. with Windows Mobile smartphones, such as the Samsung BlackJack 2 and Omnia models. While they wait for Windows Phone 7 to rock their worlds, there are plenty of free apps to tide them over.

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      Download:
      Built from rev. 1151
      Download FlashDevelop 3.2.1 RTM

      Here is
      Main Features

      * AS3 Project management with seamless and optimized Adobe Flex SDK integration
      * AS2 Project management with seamless Swfmill and Mtasc integration (using a portable standalone command line tool)
      * Advanced ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 completion & code exploration with automatic classpath detection (even without project)
      * Smart contextual Actionscript code generators
      * SWF and SWC classes and symbols exploration
      * Test movie in Adobe Flash IDE and with clickable error results (Flash CS3)
      * MTASC compilation/code checking with clickable error results

      Other Features

      * Types Explorer
      * Automatically cleans ASO files of modified AS2 classes
      * Files explorer (can create Flash 8 Trust Files for you)
      * Automatic JavaDoc creation from methods
      * Smart Actionscript help websearch on F1
      * Jump to class/member declaration on F4
      * XML, HTML/PHP, JS, CSS code highlighting,
      * Multibyte character encoding
      * Program menu customization with XML files
      * as2api GUI for documentation generation
      * Snippets
      * Lines bookmarks
      * Code folding
      * Zoom

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      Linux Flash Developers can simply install Adobe FlexBuilder for Linux(alpha). *Flex Builder 3 for Linux alpha 5 was released on 11/24/2009
      Here is details:



      1，install eclipse in ubuntu 10.04 or other version
      sudo apt-get install eclipse

      2，install flex builder for linx alpha 5
      download from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flexbuilder_linux.html

      If you are running the install on a terminal, you can modify the default setup path to /usr/lib/ or /home/$usrname/app.
      Enjoy!

      Other tutorials on how to install Flex Builder on Linux:

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      1. package com.flexblog.components
      2. {
      3.     import flash.events.MouseEvent;
      4.     import flash.ui.Mouse;
      5.   
      6.     import mx.core.FlexGlobals;
      7.     import mx.events.FlexEvent;
      8.     import mx.events.MoveEvent;
      9.   
      10.     import spark.components.Button;
      11.     import spark.effects.Move;
      12.     import spark.effects.easing.Elastic;
      13.   
      14.     public class MagneticButton extends Button
      15.     {
      16.         // xAncor and yAncor determine the point to which
      17.         // the button returns when mouse cursor is too far away
      18.         [Bindable] public var xAncor:Number = 0;
      19.         [Bindable] public var yAncor:Number = 0;
      20.       
      21.         // Distance on x axis which determine maximum
      22.         // distance from xAncor in one direction
      23.         [Bindable] public var xDist:Number = 100;
      24.       
      25.         // Distance on y axis which determine maximum
      26.         // distance from yAncor in one direction
      27.         [Bindable] public var yDist:Number = 50;
      28.       
      29.         // Property that makes transitions between different positions
      30.         private var _move:Move = new Move(this);
      31.       
      32.  
      33.         public function MagneticButton()
      34.         {
      35.             super();
      36.           
      37.             /**
      38.              * Tries to add event listener for mouse move event to stage.
      39.              * If stage is null than adds event listener for application
      40.              * complete and than adds event listener for mouse move
      41.              */
      42.             try
      43.             {
      44.                 _move.easer = new Elastic();
      45.                 _move.duration = 1500;
      46.               
      47.                 xAncor = this.x;
      48.                 yAncor = this.y;
      49.                 FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouse_move);
      50.             }
      51.             catch(e:Error)
      52.             {
      53.                 FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.addEventListener(FlexEvent.APPLICATION_COMPLETE, app_complete);
      54.             }
      55.         }
      56.       
      57.         /**
      58.          * Function that is called when Main application is complete.
      59.          * It sets easer property and duration property for _move, set ancor
      60.          * of the button to the buttens current x and y position and as
      61.          * mentioned above adds an event listener for mouse move
      62.          */
      63.         private function app_complete(e:FlexEvent):void
      64.         {
      65.             _move.easer = new Elastic();
      66.             _move.duration = 1500;
      67.           
      68.             xAncor = this.x;
      69.             yAncor = this.y;
      70.           
      71.             stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouse_move);
      72.         }
      73.       
      74.         /**
      75.          * Sets the ancor of the button and also move it to that position.
      76.          */
      77.         public function setAncor(_x:Number,_y:Number):void
      78.         {
      79.             xAncor = _x;
      80.             yAncor = _y;
      81.             _move.xTo = _x;
      82.             _move.yTo = _y;
      83.             _move.play();
      84.         }
      85.       
      86.         /**
      87.          *  Function that actually calculates and moves the button to the right position.
      88.          */
      89.         private function mouse_move(e:MouseEvent):void
      90.         {
      91.             // Some basic math logic to calculate if mouse cursor
      92.             // is close enough to move the button to that location
      93.             if ( Math.abs((xAncor + this.width/2) - stage.mouseX) < 2*xDist &&
      94.                  Math.abs((yAncor + this.height/2) - stage.mouseY) < 2*yDist )
      95.             {
      96.                 _move.xTo = stage.mouseX - this.width/2;
      97.                 _move.yTo = stage.mouseY - this.height/2;
      98.             }
      99.             else
      100.             {
      101.                 _move.xTo = xAncor;
      102.                 _move.yTo = yAncor;
      103.             }
      104.             _move.play();
      105.         }
      106.     }
      107. }

      This component can be used just like we would any other component.

      1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
      2. <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
      3.                xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
      4.                xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
      5.                xmlns:components="com.flexblog.components.*"
      6.                backgroundColor="#B9B9B9" width="500" height="300"
      7.                viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html">
      8.  
      9.     <components:MagneticButton label="I am magnetic button"
      10.                                x="100" y="50" xDist="50" yDist="30"/>
      11.     <components:MagneticButton label="I am also magnetic button"
      12.                                x="300" y="50" xDist="50" yDist="30" />
      13.     <s:Button label="I am normal button" x="150" y="150"/>
      14.   
      15. </s:Application>

      More details can be found here.

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      1. protected function getAnglesDiff(alfa : Number, gamma : Number) : Number {
      2.     var dif : Number = (alfa - gamma) % 360;
      3.  
      4.     if (dif != dif % 180) {
      5.         dif = (dif < 0) ? dif + 360 : dif - 360;
      6.     }
      7.     return dif;
      8. }

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        16 Useful Mathematical Formulas In ActionScript 3
        Enjoy!

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