Category Archives: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Why there are no million dollar ideas

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Mims H Wright

It is well known among my friends that I “do something to computers that somehow makes apps exist.” As such, I am often approached with the inevitable proposition that goes something like this: “I’ve got a million dollar idea for … Continue reading →

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Quicksilver & ifttt

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Mims H Wright

I wanted to share a couple of cool apps with you that make my life easier. Quicksilver It’s possible that I’ve just been living under a rock (or in Italy) but I was recently surprised when I stumbled across a … Continue reading →

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Enabling the Flash Debug Player on Chrome

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Mims H Wright

After having this happen to me for the third time, I felt that it was time for me to repost this information. The problem: You’re positive that you just upgraded to the Debug version of the Flash Player, when you … Continue reading →

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Snippet Saturday: quick random choice

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Mims H Wright

Today’s Snippet Saturday (actually, Sunday) is a quick shortcut for choosing one of several strings, objects, etc. randomly. Now, I wouldn’t really recommend using this code in a project. There are ways to do the same thing that are much … Continue reading →

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Matryoshka Functions

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Mims H Wright

The other day, I was working with the Flex function BindingUtil.bindProperty(). I always have a hard time remembering which pair of arguments comes first, the ‘site’ or the ‘host’ and to be honest, the names don’t really make much sense … Continue reading →

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