Archive for the ‘Tips & Tricks’

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    Stephen Fry on Blog Comments, Twitter, etc.
    Really timely quote with some of the stuff I was talking about with others today. You know there is nothing easier than writing an article against something, which is so simple. It writes itself. You just got to be angry about something and just got to puff and wheeze with indignation and fury and resentment and bile and malice and the thing writes itself and if you write...
    by Sushil at August 13th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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    Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal.
    This really isn’t meant to be a contentious post. It really only came about because I got a new toy, something I’ve been wanting to get for a while – a USB microsope! Here’s the model I got: Veho VMS004 DELUXE USB Powered Microscope The family had great fun playing with it tonight – looking at everyone’s skin and hair and dirty fingernails...
    by Sushil at August 12th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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    New Kindle, Interview with Jeff Bezos
    So the rumors were true. A new Kindle was announced today. I ordered mine within minutes of it being possible to do so. While more evolutionary than revolutionary, it’s got some nice features: smaller size (with same screen size), one month battery, double storage size, improved contrast, etc. You can read all about it on its own site. More importantly though,...
    by Sushil at July 29th, 2010 at 02:07 am
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    AS3 Sound Synthesis IV – Tone Class
    In order to make the code so far a little more reusable, I moved it over into its own class, called Tone. I also implemented some optimizations and other little tricks. The most important is that instead of calculating the next batch of samples along with the envelope on every SAMPLE_DATA event, I precalculate all the samples within the envelope right up front, storing...
    by Sushil at July 23rd, 2010 at 05:07 am
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    AS3 Sound Synthesis II – Waves
    This post will show you how to generate sine waves for specific frequencies using the AS3 Sound object. It assumes you have read, or are familiar with the data in Part I of this series. Basics of Sound Sound itself is essentially a change in the pressure of the air. Extremely simple layman’s terms here. Air is composed of various molecules. They are not uniformly smoothly...
    by Sushil at July 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 am
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    AS3 Sound Synthesis III – Visualization and Envelopes
    In Part I and Part II of this series, we learned how to utilize the Sound object to synthesize sound, and how to create sounds of various frequencies. This post will just be a quick detour onto a couple of tricks you can implement. The first one is visualizing the wave you are playing. In the SAMPLE_DATA event handler, you are already generating 2048 samples to create...
    by Gideon S at July 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 am
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    Sound Synthesis in AS3 Part I – The Basics, Noise
    I’ve been meaning to write something up on this for quite a while. It recently struck me that there still wasn’t a whole lot of good material on this out there already. So I figured I’d throw something together. We’ll start by looking at the basic mechanics of the Sound object, how to code it up, and create some random noise. Later, we’ll start generating some...
    by Sushil at July 21st, 2010 at 07:07 pm
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    Magical!
    I made a funneh: I’m not trying to be an Apple hater, but this letter just cracked me up. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02appleletter.html
    by Sushil at July 2nd, 2010 at 01:07 pm
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    FiTC San Francisco
    A couple more travel items on my agenda this year. First, I’ll be going on my annual (nearly annual anyway) family trip to Japan in the beginning of July. I’ll be there for a couple of weeks. We stay with my wife’s family in Kuwanashi, near Nagoya, on the edge of a mountain range, rice fields and farms on every side. You probably won’t see much...
    by Sushil at June 26th, 2010 at 03:06 pm
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    FlashBelt Monday Run!
    The FlashBelt Run is on! Monday morning, June 14, nice and early. I’m thinking of around 7 a.m. That will give us time to get in a few miles, then shower up and get to the keynote by 9:15. Thus far, looks like we have the following showing interest: Me Jeni H. Vic C. Veronique B. Brandon M. Terry P. But no need to RSVP. I think we’ll just leave from the front...
    by at June 9th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
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