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Server move for newtriks.com

I have recently moved this site to my new server and there may be some non-functioning application examples, lost comments (during last nights dns change) and maybe some other small issues, sorry about any inconvenience caused. I will be getting things up and running as soon as I can, although the majority should be sorted [...]
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Changing DataProvider in a Flex ComboBox Problem Fix

I have stumbled across an old fix I found for a problem I had with an mx:ComboBox ages ago and thought it worth while blogging about. Basically I found that if I bound an ArrayCollection to the dataprovider of a ComboBox and then changed the contents of the ArrayCollection, the ComboBox would not update? I [...]
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Time Saving Mouse Driver

I use an ergonomic mouse (Evoluent VerticalMouse) which doesn’t function to it’s full potential on Mac OSX. I then discovered a USB driver called SteerMouse which recognises my mouse fine but comes with some extra functionality which proved to be both useful and time saviing (an alternative driver company is USBOverdrive). In a nutshell there [...]
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Zarqon Active License Control System For Flex/AIR Applications

Cliff Hall from Future Scale and PureMVC has released a public Beta for his companies new product called Zarqon. This is a much needed AIR app for licensing your Flex/AIR applications and the beauty of it is that its reliant only on Amazon S3 no other third party dependencies! Zarqon is a cloud-based system that [...]
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iPhone Accessible Blog

I have just got wise to WPTouch and installed into my blog, so now all you iPhone/Touch users can view content forthwith in a slick and easy to navigate interface! Very nice plugin indeed (thanks for the nudge Richard).
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Newtriks Blog Status Update

As you may have noticed I have now ported across my blog from the nutrixinteractive.com domain to newtriks.com. This is due to the recent formation of Newtriks LTD and my drawing to a close anything nutrixinteractive related, ensuring all work I have done is housed under one umbrella now. There maybe a few teething problems [...]
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Network Printing At Last

Due to my eldest daughter (a) having proper homework which involves more than 10 minutes work (b) having a laptop, I have now decided to set up my Canon IP3000 printer on the network. I use a DrayTek Vigor 2800G router which has a USB printer port and presumed the set up on Mac OS [...]
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bTween WebCast

View the webcast from the bTween event discussing and presenting interactive ideas and methods for business development, there is also a live chat built by muchosmedia: http://www.just-b.com/btween/pages/webcast
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A notice to sites ripping off newtriks tutorials

I have noticed recently a web site that has completely ripped off one of my tutorials for an flv player using PureMVC and actually passed it off as their own!!!!! This is one major p*s$ take using my hard work for you lazy muppet sites who haven’t got the knowledge or courtesy to ask permission [...]
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Sunrise Browser

After reading a post in thatblokemike’s blog on the SunriseBrowser for Mac OS X I navigated to the site, saw, downloaded and whoa, am pretty bowled over by it. Slick looking, packed with cool web dev features and the alpha transparency for the window is seriously cool (even though with mac its easy to flick [...]
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