“Thanks to the power of CSS” you just need to install these extensions:
- Adwaita (GNOME 3)
- Adwaita (GNOME 3) scrollbars (this is optional. Makes the scrollbars look more Gnome-ish)
With compliments to mr.doob for revealing me the secret!
Robot Media’s welcome party video
(follow to the YouTube page for 1080p video!)
Robot Media just moved to a new shiny office in Barcelona’s Eixample and we had a welcome party to celebrate with friends. While discussing the party “features”, we had this crazy idea where we would assemble a video out of many other videos with robotic stuff.
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Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 4: GNOME 3 (+ extensions)
Instantanea 1.4.2
I uploaded the update yesterday, but the Market was still showing the old description and pictures, so I didn’t bother posting about it until they flushed their very jealous cache.
Which means that Instantanea has an update! The first in many months! (I actually had been working on a myriad of things since then, so I’ve got an excuse).
It’s not an exceptional big update but provides for the top couple of things people were repeatedly asking for:
- the ability to change the folder where pictures are stored
- and the ability to configure whether the device vibrates (or not) when a picture is taken
The first one was really a MUST if people wanted to use Instantanea to take pictures and have them automatically uploaded to Google Plus, since for whatever the reason Google Plus doesn’t seem to be listening to changes in the Media files in the phone, and apparently only checks the /DCIM/Camera folder. So if you want, you can reset the folder to that location with a simple touch, and get your Instantanea pictures uploaded to Google Plus easily.
The second feature was also something people wanted semidesperately, as when phones get older, they also get slightly cranky and they vibrate in a junky, erratic way–just as if they were to fall apart, in other words. I saw that effect on a somewhat old Nexus One and immediately understood this was pretty relevant.
Finally Instantanea now has a way nicer shutter button, designed by none other than the mighty Mr.doob! Yay!
Which feature(s) would you like to have in the application?
So… what do we do now with the old Flash content?
News about the imminent Flash demise are popping out everywhere you look at. The recent cancellation of Flash mobile is just a warning of what is to come. And the question that immediately came to my mind was: what with all the legacy content?
There’s a huge amount of stuff which has been programmed for Flash, for which we probably don’t have the .FLA sources anymore. What do we do with that in several years, when there isn’t an easy way to get an official Flash player which properly interacts with compiled .swf files?
For years projects like Gnash have been tried to build a free player that allowed people to run SWF files without having to go the Adobe route. But reverse engineering .swf is certainly a huge task, and sadly Gnash doesn’t support the latest SWF format versions.
At the same time, what do we do with .FLA files when we no longer can execute the Flash IDE? How do we export the assets, the code, the tweenings, and everything else?
Should we just wave goodbye to everything? Install virtual machines with old versions of operating systems? Isn’t all this a bit sad?
In any case this is an excellent example of why proprietary formats are bad, and is also a compelling reason to avoid them in the future.
I’m glad I just have a few .FLA based projects that I’d like to recover at some point, and they are relatively old anyway, so maybe with some sort of FLA to JS tool they can be easily reconstructed/exported, as they don’t use much fancy stuff.
Or so I think hope.