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I was one of the few lucky users to receive a Google Voice invite pretty early in the game, so I’ve been using it for a few months now. I found a good use for Google number even before I had an Android phone, using it to receive voicemail, like this one, while I was away this winter. Engadget just reported that Voice has been opened to the public!

I just need to get my parents on board now. There are literally 5 different numbers to call between the 2 of them.

More on the Google Voice Features page.

I wish this didn’t matter as much as it actually does.

I came across an issue yesterday loading ads from ad.doubleclick.net. For some reason, the crossdomain.xml file from ad.doubleclick.net was unavailable and the URLLoader class making the call eventually threw a Security Error, as the crossdomain policy is the first thing it looks for when making calls outside the SWF’s Security Domain. This is easily handled [...]

Pretty straightforward stuff. It’s a simple propedit call, propedit svn:externals ., where ‘.‘ is the directory’s property you would like to edit. I’ve been adding external library linkage to the top-level directory in the repository to keep everything in the same place, but it really doesn’t matter where you add your external links. The link [...]

Feeling disconnected from the rest of the Internet because of Twitter being down, I resorted to updating my Facebook status manually with a quick message about now being able to Tweet about Twitter being down, only to receive this error message: Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/updatestatus.php’: A network error occurred. Check [...]

I’ve been taking a look at a new (to me) debugging utility for AS3 called ThunderBolt. You can use the ThunderBolt library to send debugging info to the console in Firebug. Additionally, the ThunderBolt AS3 console is a standalone AIR app that displays all the same data without Firebug installed. At the very least, it’s [...]

Here they are. All the mxmlc compiler arguments. table { font-size: 9pt; border-top:1px solid gray; border-left:0px solid gray; } table td { border-right:0px solid gray; border-bottom:1px solid gray; } -benchmark output performance benchmark -compiler.accessible alias -accessible generate an accessible SWF -compiler.actionscript-file-encoding <string> alias -actionscript-file-encoding specifies actionscript file encoding. If there is no BOM in the [...]

I’ve been looking for better ways to reduce the size of my main app swfs. Loading assets at runtime has proven to be a flexible solution that saves size in the initial load and throughout the use of the app, as only files essential to the current view can be loaded in. I found myself [...]

Added this to my NetUtil class for easy access to an embedded swf’s parent url. public static function get parentUrl():String { if(ExternalInterface.available) { try { var parent:String = String( ExternalInterface.call(” function(){ return document.location.href.toString();}”)); return parent; } catch(error:Error){} catch (error:SecurityError){} } return ”; } Just be sure you have AllowScriptAccess set to “always” in your embed [...]