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The magical floating iPlayer

(reprinted from http://labsix.net/beeb/)

Here’s a (Leopard) multi-tasking tip to view any iPlayer stream on your desktop while you are ‘working’ on that important document or presentation:

Illustrator tips and techniques

I'm doing a lot of Illustrator work at the moment: making multiple frames and getting people to move efficiently requires a bit of illustrator magic here and there. I'm learning new little tricks with Illustrator every day so i thought i'd collect the most fun and useful tutorials that i come across right here:

Live trace:
http://bit.ly/5seGjT

Full screen flash that works on IE 6 and 7

On www.julianopie.com I wanted full screen flash to get that fully immersive flash experience. This is fairly simple to achieve with SWFObject, but there are a few IE gotchas.

Depending on how you want to do it there are a few CSS options. What I wanted to do was get the flash object to take over the whole browser and remove any other div, I also wanted to remove the scrollbars. Any scaling and scrolling I would do within the flash.

Testing on all browsers (mac and pc)

All PC browsersAll PC browsers

Fist of all by a Mac - then you can test the Mac browsers fairly easily (and now you own a Mac and be happy), I'm not going to cover testing in multiple versions of Mac browsers here as they are much less of an issue than the IE problems that we all love.

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