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Gershwin

ColinG — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:31:16 +0000

Gershwin, what a name, Gershwin is the name of the next update available right now from WordPress. Version 3.2 offers plenty of new features including a really neat looking full-screen mode window for when writing blog posts, a brilliant cropping tool for images for your article posts, a generally quicker admin area and the dropping [...]

Microsoft’s IE6 Countdown

ColinG — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:21:22 +0000

To the surprise of quite a few of us here in the MadeByPi office, Microsoft released a new website the other day, with the strapline "10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we're in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it's time to say goodbye." [...]

FontSwffer 1.1

Mikea — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:30:42 +0000

You may remember, in August last year, I released FontSwffer - a tool to simplify the creation of font SWFs for Flash. Several minor updates and bug-fixes have been released over the last few months, and now, I think, it's time for a 'dot' release. So, here comes FontSwffer 1.1 Along with some little improvements, [...]

Strobe Media Playback: Wrapped

Mikea — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:00:25 +0000

Strobe Media Playback (SMP) has quickly become my Flash media player of choice. Built by Adobe - using the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) - it's simple to use, yet powerful; and thanks to being open source, the project is available for [...]

ChildLine Charity Auction

ColinG — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:38:42 +0000

The team here at MadeByPi® were recently tasked with creating an auction site for our client first direct, the website would be used to auction off some really rather cool items to raise money for childrens charity ChildLine. The auction this week came to a close and we are pleased to announce that the website [...]

The web versus apps – is it really that simple?

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:29:13 +0000

Matthew Aitken 'Mobile and future devices designer' for MadeByPi recently gave us an insight into the future of the mobile web and applications. Matts article goes as follows: "If you believe the rumours, then apps are the future and the web is old news. Great headline, but is there any substance to this sensationalism? In [...]

FOTB… day 1

Mikea — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:30:52 +0000

Two of us have hit Brighton for this year's Flash on the Beach conference! We'll be doing a few short roundups of the talks we've seen over the three days. There's loads of great speakers, so I hope we've picked the right ones to see! Official site Things kicked off with the Adobe Keynote which [...]

FontSwffer

Mikea — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:44:20 +0000

Creating font-asset SWFs for Flash used to be a bit of a pain. But now, there's FontSwffer. FontSwffer is an Air 2 native application for Windows and OSX that lets you configure, build, and preview your font SWFs all in one place. All you need to do is set-up the fonts you want to embed [...]