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Been slacking a bit on blogging, but this has actually been out for a while now. Not enough hours in the day Anyway, MyStylez is now officially supported on Mac OSX, and there have been a few tweaks here and there. This app is too fun to work on, I've met a heap of people who had great input and suggestions for features etc and they've made some awesome layouts for their MySpace profiles!

I finally picked up a Mac Mini so I can support MyStylez now that I can play with the thing and see how it behaves on the Mac OS. I have to say, Leopard is pretty cool, and MyStylez works great on it.

I also slapped a few videos on YouTube to show how quickly and easily you can whip your MySpace profile into shape! Here's a 30 layout a la MyStylez

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MyStylez got a new interface and some bug fixes for window resizing not behaving. I didn't get to every user suggestion because of time and some are going to require lots of thinking, which I'm not always good at. Next thing to work on though, is tons of pre-made templates. This app is too fun to work on! The interacting with folks who are using it is awesome too. 99% of the people making suggestions for improvements, or pointing out bugs, asking Q's have been totally cool to interact with.

Of course, it goes without saying, especially with an application that deals with MySpace, that some folks don't bother to read instructions and then go ahead and suggest new features that........guess what, they already exist ever hear RTFM? That's a very tiny percentage of users so far though, so for the rest of you who don't vomit instantly when you hear MySpace (the word still gets to me at times) enjoy!

Download MyStylez 1.0.7: Click the extremely brightly colored graphic below.

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Well, I actually didn't originally think that MyStylez would become as popular as it has thus far, but sheesh! There's like 3000 people using it right now according to the web stats - woohoo! Yup, like most of you developers, I too never bothered with MySpace , not until I started this project, but MyStylez started out as a little app for a few friends and clients and all I wanted originally was two things:

1. To help them style their MySpace profiles
2. To do anything I had to do to get out of helping them further with their MySpace profile editing

Mission accomplished! Yes I had to spend hours sorting through the horrific code on MySpace for such CSS styles as table table table table table td { blah blah blah} and yes many curses were uttered in my office, but hey it was fun in the long run, and now there are thousands of people picking up on it and making cooler profiles than I thought the app could help with ha!

I figured it's got enough of a following that I should spend some more time on it and clean it up, make it do some cool stuff. Many users emailed me with cool suggestions and most of them were really happy with the app. Of course, you always get the one or two who just complain at the littlest, half bug-ish thing in your FREEapp probably because it makes them feel they can be part of your team. Or maybe just because they have mental issues. The point is, its built in AIR, so that makes it cool right there, and its FREE so you just can't beat that combination.
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Thanks to Siddharth who posted on PXL Blog for the rewind/FF functions (can be seen here). I implemented the functionality in the EnterFrame function for the MP3 player and added rewind/FF states to the model locator.

Siddharth had asked what it would take to add support for the buttons, and very quickly afterwards he got his answer I also reset the hSlider thumb to 0 position when the stop button is hit.

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We've anticipated for a while now, and the wait is over! Adobe released the full version of Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 today. You can download Flex 3 here.

Just saw on the Flex Team Blog all the other goodies that Adobe had planned and unveiled today.

Flex Builder now comes in two flavors

• Adobe Flex 3 Standard version
• Adobe Flex 3 Professional version

Adobe also unveiled opensource.adobe.com, woohoo, for their open source initiatives, and a section on Adobe.com all about RIA's and the tech used to build them.

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Attest 1.1 is available now, and soon to be up on Download.com, well just as soon as Download.com decides to get a move on. For those who don't know, Attest is the practice exam engine created by PXL Designs for the Adobe Flex 2 Developer Certification Exam.

Attest Website

This update addresses Microsoft's Service Pack 1 release for the Windows Vista OS. It ensures compatibility for the OS with SP1 but if you've downloaded and installed a prior version of Attest and ran into any issues on Vista after installing SP1, use the contact form on the PXL Designs.com website to let me know and I'll get you up and running again.
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