Author Archives: Cole

July 24, 2012
8:48 pm
by: Cole

Illustrator CS6 and HTML5: Creating Dynamic Vector Web Content (SVG)

I thought I would post a download link for my user group presentation on dynamic SVGs. In the download, I’ve included source code, Illustrator files, and presentation slides. I’ll have to post an extensive description of what is going on … Continue reading →

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June 18, 2012
4:42 pm
by: Cole

Product Review: CSS Hat – Generating CSS3 from Photoshop layers

CSS Hat is a Photoshop plugin that does something wonderful. It takes effects from a layer, and converts them to CSS3. If you are a Photoshop person, who never does web, why would you care? Because you probably have to … Continue reading →

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May 10, 2012
5:21 pm
by: Cole

Product Review: PaintCode by PixelCut

I purchased a copy of PaintCode from the Mac Store in March, and have used it in a real production environment. Namely, make resolution-independent images quickly, vector-based, so they look crisp on both Retina and non-retina displays. PaintCode appeared to … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, iOS

May 10, 2012
4:31 pm
by: Cole

CocoaHeads Presentation: PaintCode Resources

Here are the assets for tonight’s presentation. Keynote slides:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1772972/PaintCode.key PaintCode sample:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1772972/Button_PaintCode.zip btnTest sample: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1772972/btnTest.zip  

Posted in Apple, iOS

March 23, 2012
2:13 am
by: Cole

Particle Systems in Adobe After Effects

Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s presentation. I’m posting a PDF of my Keynote slides. The screenshots are of CS 5.5, and show how to create a floor of particles, and a twisting energy vortex. Enjoy!

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March 8, 2012
8:14 pm
by: Cole

AV Foundation in iOS 5 – Video Capture, Save, Display

In preparation for a project at work, and a presentation for the local CocoaHeads, I decided to dive in on the new AV Foundation implementation in iOS 5. Most of what I concentrated on was understanding the Rosywriter demo from … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, iOS

January 30, 2012
2:27 am
by: Cole

Adobe Construction in Utah

Every day, I drive past the new Adobe building by Lehi and the “Point of the Mountain.” With such a mild winter, the timing could not be better. Some of the worst weather I’ve ever seen in Utah is right … Continue reading →

Posted in Adobe

January 25, 2012
9:25 pm
by: Cole

Copying PNG image files copied from NSBundle to Documents seems wrong

My task was to have some image resources in my iOS application bundle, and copy them into my Documents folder for use later, namely HTML5 code generation. I had a big problem, in that the image sizes were all wrong. … Continue reading →

Posted in iOS

January 25, 2012
8:44 pm
by: Cole

Finder wants to make changes – Trash permissions reset

I have Lion, and for some strange reason, my Trash was now annoying me to enter my admin password to do it. Crazy. So I tried some things I searched on, no luck. Finally found a post that worked, and … Continue reading →

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October 27, 2011
4:17 pm
by: Cole

WordPress Spamming -or- How To Not Waste Your Life

I have to start by apologizing for turning off comments for a while. In the last two days, I’ve been slammed with over 800 spamming comments to my articles. Yes, it’s annoying, and at first I was attempting to build … Continue reading →

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