Joshua Davis Studios* collaborated with the creation of a mini site for the new Volkswagen Phaeton. It is best suited for broadband connections.
On a side note, the site Joshua created for Barneys New York a while ago is gone for good. It seems like Barneys is working on a new site yet to come. If you never saw it, Joshua has archived it here.
*Joshua Davis Studios = Joshua Davis + Braden Hall + Malcolm Goodman
This is another example of those little things that can be so helpful, even though they seem to be so simple. Daniel Dura shares with us this little tip about code hinting, and this is actually something I will use from now on.
Basically, when you want to see code hint for specific objects you need to use particular suffixes. For example, if you write ‘mymovie_mc’ it will trigger code hints for the MovieClip object. So, if you want to freely name your objects, add this line above your code:
//MovieClip mymovie;
That’s it! Just don’t forget the semicolon at the end.
There is an online petition for proper PNG support on Internet Explorer. I wasn’t too aware of this problem, but IE doesn’t support alpha channel transparency for PNG images, and renders them almost as if they were in the GIF format. So, in support of this cause I have signed the petition a few days ago, and now I encourage you to do so, for being of justice 
[via JesterXL]
So, I’ve been very busy these latest days, taking care of my health for one thing, and working with my clients, catching up with ongoing projects after the long weekend.
Here is a short one to keep the site fresh:
Mario Klingemann is having a big headache trying to get Flash to render correctly Hebrew text. It seems like the issue is not being experienced by everybody.
I was just getting started with the copy Enter the Matrix I got on friday, when from all sudden the PS2 froze. First, I thought it was a defective copy of the game and restarted the console, but it wouldn’t even get past the splash window!
Called the store where I got my PS2, to find out about their return policy. Turns out that after 45 days, there’s nothing they can do and we have to talk directly with the manufacturer, in this case Sony.
So, after restarting the console n times (with a disk, without a disk, without TV…) while on the phone with a ‘technician’, and never getting more than the infamous frozen splash animation, the only thing left to do is send the machine back to them in Washington, and they won’t cover the shipping! After that, they said it would be about 15-20 days to have it back, bacause they are repairing it, not sending a new one. No, I didn’t misuse the console, it never fell down or anything like that… the only reason I can think of is lack of constant use. And it sucks that just now when I am starting a game I really like, it just breaks…
[via JD]
This is new, and yet to be announced. Macromedia On Demand is an online library of Seminars put together to serve as a companion in the evaluation of Macromedia products. You will require enough bandwidth to support multimedia and video presentations if you want to poke around.
Just a reminder: This month’s meeting of the NYMMUG will be held on Thursday (05/22). The topic is Web Design Usability, and the guest speaker will be Tammy Sachs, founder of the Sachs Insights User Experience Center and the author of Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites (New Riders, 2002). She will be sharing with the attendees her experiences as a usability consultant, as well as insightful tips to create better user experiences for our customers.
For more information about this presentation and directions for the meeting location, direct your mouse to the NYMMUG web site.
So, I’ve been updating my list of links today. Added a few more blogs and aggregators… I don’t have the heart to take down some other links, so the list continues to grow.