This is a little mashup experiment I’ve been working on recently which utilises the lastFM, amazon, and youtube API’s to create an interesting visual interface to display my recently played tracks scrobbled from my iPod.

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I was at Leeds festival last saturday  and just thought I’d share some of the best tracks I heard during the day. Conspicuous by their absence are Pasion Pit, I was quite looking forward to their set however poor sound and the leader singers ridiculously high pitched vocals put me right off. Honorable mentions for The xx and Metronomy who were both fantastic.

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This is not shinny happy music for shinny happy people, it’s sparse, heartbroken, melancholy and yet somehow still manages to be uplifting, these are simple, lovingly crafted songs that fall almost whispered into your ear.

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The brief on this one was to build an iTunes-esque coverflow to showcase Miomni’s IPTV channels, each cover needed the ability to display images, videos, and some information about the channel.

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I stumbled across ro whilst checking out the audio/visual interfaces on monomes site.

seemebeemin is a combination of all things good part hip hop, part nintendo, part electronica. It sounds a bit like what an Avalanches record might sound like if Xela or Metamatics got there hands on it, it even has a couple of what I think are Bill Cosby sound bites thrown in for good measure.

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When flash is embeded within a HTML page it doesn’t by default have focus, this means it won’t capture things such as keyboard interaction. However there is a very simple fix using swfObject to embed your flash movie and a simple bit of Javascript.

Add this javascript function to your header..

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Why is it when just when you think a project is almost there some kind of nasty bug rears its ugly head, thats what happenned to me today when I uploaded my swf to the test server for the first time and tested it in the browser.

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Last week I ran into some trouble when trying to load images dynamically in flash, 99% of the time my images loaded in as they should but at what seemed like random intervals and image would suddenly fail to appear, this was only happening in Firefox or Safari, IE has never as far as I can tell failed to load an image when I’ve been using it to test this project. At first I thought it might be a problem with the platform the site was running on however after some testing I was able to rule this out so I turned back to my trusty friend Charles the Web Debugging Proxy for some help.

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Always remeber to register your fonts in externally loaded SWFs is the lesson learned today, afterI loaded my project SWF into my preloader SWF and found none of my embeded fonts were appearing!!

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Recently I came across the problem of trying to manipulate the bitmap data of an image loaded from a server which doesn’t host a crossdomain.xml ot where it doesn’t allow all domains. I tried a couple of different things to try and get round this problem most notably Martin Legris’ fix (Getting around the crossdomain.xml file when loading images in as3) but annoyingly nothing I tried would work.

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