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Car bombs kill 15 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed 15 people in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad on Saturday in the latest in a series of attacks by militants on crowded shopping areas in the Iraqi capital.
More...Bush brushes aside criticism of health plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush brushed aside criticism of his new health care plan as "reflexive" partisanship and urged the Democratic-led Congress to work with him on the issue.
More...Iran installing 3,000 nuclear centrifuges, MP says
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is installing 3,000 nuclear centrifuges, a senior Iranian member of parliament was quoted as saying on Saturday, defying U.N. calls for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.
More...Ministers agree to resume WTO talks
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Major powers agreed on Saturday to resume global free trade talks, suspended six months ago because of deep divisions, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said a deal was now "more likely than not."
More...Technology News
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Windows Vista and the MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo.
More...Chip companies entering their metal period
Intel, IBM and AMD plan to unveil chips built using new materials, marking a historic shift away from traditional transistor ingredients.<br />Intel shows off Penryn chips
More...Intel shows off Penryn chips
Upcoming chips will be Intel's first to use a new manufacturing technology and will have new multimedia instructions.
More...Images: New recipe for Intel transistors
Intel has decided to use new materials to build transistors on chips that will arrive in the second half of this year.
More...Davos: Elite Meet or Delete?
The next best thing to an invitation to the World Economic Forum in Davos is an invitation to one of its posh cocktail parties. Alorie Gilbert reports from Davos, Switzerland.
More...Bright Launch for Apollo Moon Doc
Never-before-seen NASA footage boosts In the Shadow of the Moon to Sundance success. Jason Silverman reports from Park City, Utah.
More...Glass Opera Faces Tough Act
Adapting Philip Glass' Barbarians opera for its U.S. debut requires overcoming significant technological limitations. By Theresa Everline.
More...Sex Toy Shopping Should Be Fun
While the net brings sex-friendly stores to consumers, nothing beats personal attention to your intimate shopping needs. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
More...Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years: Gates
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.
More...Users go professional with online video
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martial arts expert Joe Eigo never imagined he'd win millions of fans and earn $25,000 when he posted a clip of himself performing a series of gravity defying acrobatics to a video sharing site.
More...The Phone wears Prada
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Still ooh-ing and ahh-ing over Apple's iPhone that Steve Jobs pimped out at MacWorld earlier this month? LG Electronics has teamed up with fashion brand Prada to unveil a similar touch-screen multimedia phone as well.
More...N.Y. scanners spark union cries of "geoslavery"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Every morning Dennis Colson, a surveyor at New York City's Department of Design and Construction, begins his work day by placing his hand on a scanner to log his time and attendance at the office.
More...Favorite Blogs
Book Publishing Dilemma, Input Requested
For about a decade now, my ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit has been the de facto standard used by virtually all new ColdFusion developers, and by many who want to brush up their skills as ColdFusion is updated and enhanced. This book (and...
More...Get Paid To Provide Dreamweaver Feedback
Adobe User Research is researching work flows and functions of Dreamweaver by holding two Focus Groups in our San Francisco office on Monday, January 29th (next week). We know your time is valuable, so in addition to free parking, food and Adobe-bran...
More...Flex Utilities Posted To Labs
Two Flex-related technologies/utilities were just posted to Labs:
Flex Ant Tasks provides a convenient way to build your Flex projects using an industry-standard build management tool.
Flex Compiler Shell provides a shell environment that you u...
More...TiVo Investor Relations Pages Powered By ColdFusion
Troy Pullis noted that TiVo Investor Relations page is powered by ColdFusion. Actually, it looks like TiVo (like many other companies) uses shareholder.com to publish investor information, and shareholder.com is powered by ColdFusion MX7. Still, good...
More...Scorpio Beta Sign-Up
In case you haven't heard, you can sign-up for the Scorpio pre-release beta https://prerelease.adobe.com/callout/apply.html?callid={E9F64ADB-DADA-485E-BFFE-60E0D783EBEF}. If you're constantly jumping on and off new projects, work for a company that's...
More...Kevin Schmidt is Blogging
Fellow Adobe Community Expert Kevin Schmidt just launched a blog. Kevin is into both ColdFusion and Flex. You can read his blog at <a href="http://www.flexinabox.com/">http://www.flexinabox.com/</a>
More...Online Diagramming
I've used a lot of different desktop software packages for diagramming software - some I like, some I don't, but most of them are relatively the same. Unfortunately, I've never found a web-based diagramming tool I like... until now.
A coworker recen...
More...CF Patch Just Released
A patch to fix a URL vulnerability in CFMX 7 - 7.02 that allows directory listings was recently released by Adobe. The vulnerability is only when running CF on Windows - the patch is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb0...
More...The Google Web Kit - Fun for Flash Developers
To me ‘coding’ in AJAX seemed about as fun as writing an application in Flash 5. It took a lot of time, bugs were hard to find and you had to write a bunch of prototype functions to make things even smell like OOP. Sigh…
Enter the Google Web Toolkit. I don’t know [...]
More...Undocumented Flex 2 Application Theme Color
I have no idea why, but the documentation referring to the themeColor in the application node is wrong.
It states:
The following values for the themeColor property are valid:
* haloOrange
* haloBlue
* haloSilver
* haloGreen
The default value is haloBlue.
However, you can just simply [...]
More...Flex 2 Image Manipulation
Well, according to rumour I continue my lifelong streak of losing every contest that I’ve ever entered. It seems my Flickr app didn’t win the Flex derby. I’m not surprised–I was clearly outclassed in my category. Besides, video games are time suckers and there is nothing ever on my 26″ flat panel. [...]
More...Loading an Image in ActionStep
Here's a quick note on how to create an application with a simple image in ActionStep.
PLAIN TEXT
Actionscript:
 
import org.actionstep.*;
class com.timscollick.test.ImageTest {
        static function test(){
                var app:NSApplication = NSApplication.sharedApplication();
                var win:NSWindow = (new NSWindow()).initWithContentRect(new NSRect(0, 0, 400, 300));
      [...]
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