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Pixel to EM converter

Its been 6 months since I am working on this project and just when I thought I am done with it, I realize that I have been using Pixels in my stylesheets all the while and this doesn’t support the browser based “text size” settings (Internet Explorer). So, when the user changes the ‘text size’ settings, [...]

Auto update for Adobe Air executable (exe)

If you are used to using the ApplicationUpdaterUI class for providing the auto update feature for your AIR application, and have recently started to work on the new Native Process API in Adobe Air 2 beta for compiling into a Native app, you would realize that the auto update functionality just doesn’t work. This is because [...]

jQuery Desktop

Found an interesting POC of jQuery Desktop using HTML5, CSS and jQuery at SonSpring.com. Though the implementation is basic, its certainly going to trigger more ideas and could be a good way of designing management tools. jQuery is a great library for javascript and when mixed with HTML 5 and CSS can [...]

SmartDos - Adobe Air based DOS Console

Adobe Air based DOS console that uses the standard IO to read and write data. It support all DOS commands and also allows shortcuts to different console based applications as well as saving the console data to a file. [...]