I, finally, got my new iPhone 3G to work with a network in India. Bought from Canada, the iPhone was locked with the Canadian network and ofcourse refused to co-operate with me *sigh* BUT I finally got it unlocked with some help …
Here is the link that gives you details on how to unlock an [...]
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Unlock iPhone 3G 3.0
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged 04.26.08, 3g, baseband, iphone, ultrasnow, unlock on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MAC: how to
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged backspace, mac, multiple, shortcuts, switch, windows on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With the purchase of my new Mac book came the access baggage of a steep learning curve. On numerous occasions I had to go online and google a whole bunch of shortcuts and how-tos … Here are a couple common ones that almost every second person uses Hope this helps the newbies like me out [...]
LiveCycle DataServices
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged doc, lcds, resource on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here is a link forwarded to me by a colleague. This link is a great source of information dealing with LiveCycle Data Services or LCDS. It talks about the product itself and the upcoming release details.
When I browsed this site, I thought it was a very useful link that focuses on a wide range of [...]
Semi-bold fonts in Flex
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged bold, flash, Flex, font, myriadpro, player, semi on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Recently, I had a customer who was having problems applying semi-bold fonts in flex. And the reason behind his problem was very interesting and I thought I’d share an example for flex-ers out there trying to do the same.
Goal: Modify MyriadPro font to MyriadPro-semibold for use in a flex application, using CSS and otf [...]
PIVOT: RIA in JAVA
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged eclipse, Flex, ide, java, pivot, ria on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a new toolkit available now that allows the development of Rich Internet Applications in Java. This open-source platform is a good way to get Java developers onto the RIA bandwagon. Here is a great article that lays out all the details about PIVOT.
http://www.insideria.com/2009/01/pivot-platform-overview.html
Here is the website for PIVOT: http://pivot-toolkit.org/
Caching to improve performance
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged application, caching, client, Flex, performance, server on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Improving performance of Rich Internet Application is always a concern for organizations that rely heavily on the user’s experience with the application for successful business and a sometimes the answer is as simple as caching options.
I found this useful link that explains the caching options on the client as well as the server side to [...]
Flex – resize image to fill available space
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged available, Flex, image, maintainAspectRatio, resize, space on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is common practice to use images in banners or as background for flex apps. The problem of having this very image resize as per your browser’s size is not unknown to flex coders. By default, Flex does not resize the image , i.e. sets the dimensions of an imported image to the dimensions in [...]
Garbage Collection in Flash Player
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged flash player, Flex, garbage collection, memory leak on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This seems like the most popular concern for customers and topic of discussion among engineers and developers these days. In the past 2 months, there has hardly been a day when I didn’t have to deal with this topic. There are several Adobe engineers who have multiple posts regarding resource management and garbage collection in [...]
Styling Date Chooser component in Flex
Posted in All thats Tech, tagged background, chooser, color, date, days, Flex, mx_internal on August 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently had a question from a customer who wanted to change the background color of the Date Chooser component he had. The goal was to make the background color for the Days [SMTWTFS] different from the Dates area. After a lot of research and help from Flex experts, I got this peice of code [...]
