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With Pi Day fast approaching, we thought it would be useful for our readers to take a look at some of the tutorials that we have written surrounding the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Mindwave Mobile.  They can be found on …

As mentioned in a previous blog post, we are part of a group called the Creative Technologists of Toronto (cttoronto.com).  Our goal is to learn and create, every two months we aim to build a new project utilizing different …

A year ago, we wrote and told you about our move to Kelowna, well, things have changed again. After enjoying the mountains and the beaches in western Canada for a year, we have moved everything back to Toronto. It was …

We are writing this today to continue sharing our learnings about the idiosyncrasies in the Facebook API. We have talked before about some of the ‘missing’ documentation that we have come across, but this one almost drove us bonkers.

We …

What is it?

Citrus engine is a Flash game engine. It incorporates physics and level editing for building side-scrolling 2D games in Flash. The latest version of Citrus Engine is built to work on top of the Starling Framework (…

We were recently asked to make an iPad app, we were told that there would be a website along-side it that required almost all the same functionality. Obviously we wanted the quickest solution to get both done and have them …

Over the past while it has seemed like a lot of the designers that we work with are making use of Smart Objects in Photoshop more and more. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse. It …

Working with dozens of designers over the past 2 years, we have learned a lot about things that often get overlooked in designs. We are not saying this is any one’s fault in particular. A lot of things that would …

Over the past year we have created multiple mobile applications using Adobe AIR with Flash Builder. We have talked about both the good and bad side of things. Among the biggest negatives associate with development have been performance and access …

For the past couple of days we have been taking a crash course in developing mobile applications in Flex to improve performance for our current mobile app (The Etiquette App) and for future apps. We have come across a ton …

Technology for the web keeps getting more and more exciting and there always seems to be some new development with using 3d. The Fabric Engine is no exception. It is the first (we think) multi-threaded engine for we experiences that …

We are always looking for quicker ways to build user interfaces with Flash. Creating forms and controls with components can be a tedious task, to say the least. We are just now getting into Flex because of the efficiency of …