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To complement the new search user feature for AirTalkr, I have added a server side component to dispatch email to you whenever someone sends you an offline message. This way, you will never miss a message. To try out AirTalkr user search, login into AirTalkr and search. If you message your friend and they are offline, they will receive an email alert. Its pretty simple stuff like GTalk, but I think that will help a bit.

Upcoming for Airtalkr will be the following, in list of priorities (the top ones will be complete first)
1) HTTP-Binding. Done on client side but server side got problem as my server also runs IIS and it takes up the port 80. The default port for openfire http-binding runs on port 8080 and I am looking at Tomcat’s IIS_Redirct.dll and AJK implementation of Jetty to do the forwarding. But I am not a Java guy and these things are mind-bogging for me.
So far, the guys at JIVE software has been helping me out with this issues. Kudos to the Jive developers! My last resort will be to get another brand new server for AirTalkr.

1) Tagging of users (for example, I can tag myself with ‘geek,flash, flex’)
2) Search of users, base on tag and gender
3) Better AirCard with more information
4) Box.net integration

From 2nd October to 8th October, I will be going for vacation. Most probably I will try to get HTTP-binding and tagging features released with AIR Beta 2, which will boost with features like system tray and taskbar notification.

Keep AirTalking!

AirTalkr has reach a user base of 3600 users in around 8 days since it got reported by Mashable after AIR Derby and I will like to thanks all the blogger and news website that is constantly reporting it. It is certainly something that I did not expect! As mentioned earlier, AirTalkr is coded for AIR Derby, and the Web version is to demonstrate how fast you can port a Desktop App to Web when using Flex and AS3. So whats coming up next?

Today, I spend a while putting up a small update so that:
1) Users can register over port 80 (used to be default port 9090),making it more friendly
2) You will hear an alert whenever you receive a messenge

In the next few months, I will continue to build and stablizing it so that, in particular:
1) Testing and porting it with the newest AIR builds (Beta 2), fixing of scary popup errors, improving performance. Thanks Adobe for inviting me into the pre-release program!
2) AirTalkr User Search, which I feel it is not necessary at first because there is no userbase. Now, it is more possible with a slightly larger userbase. Which is enabled now.

OverView

User Search Toggle

Initially I enabled the search result such that you can message the user directly if he is on MSN, etc, on the network itself. However, I removed it due to privacy and spamming issues. =)

3) Modifying of own’s AirCard - In progress, will be up over the weekend
4) Switching of Themes, which can be done so easily (in terms of code), yet so hard (in terms of graphics, me no designer, it takes me 2 full day to do 1 theme). PS: If someone wants to help me create a theme for AirTalkr, contact me!
5) Box.net integration. Quick code port from Icicle. Box.net provides you with free storage and most importantly, it is flash-friendly. Integration with Box.net allows users a free 5 gig webspace to store their musics,and stuff, and to share files with their friends.
6) Upcoming.org integration. I hope I can integrate this. Open up AirTalkr and see the latest Events in town, and then you can ask your friends (which will be in your IM of course) whether they want to go with you.

As of now, AirTalkr will continue to move in three area.

1) More Integration with Social Networking Sites

2) More Stability, as AIR progress

3) Better Chatting Functionality

The priority now will be stability, with things like System Tray supports, which will most probably comes in when AIR Beta 2 is publicly release, as well as improve in performance.
For Chinese users (which I think consist of quite a number), I am looking at QQ protocol now. But I am pretty rusty to Java and trying to get the gateway working with the existing one is quite a task for me. Anyone reading this blog is a Java expert perhaps can help me out =D

I have been getting quite a number of feedbacks/feature request from many users and I do my best to reply all of them. If I haven reply your email, give me a few days and I am sure will get to you.

As for AIR Derby, since I did not receive anything, I am prepared for the worst. Its a good experience anyway!

I spend 30 mins today porting AirTalkr from AIR to pure Flex. Then redirect all the urlrequest links through a proxy (since most site I access , except twitter and flickr, are not ‘flash-friendly’ ), and there you got it, an Instant Messenger on the Web build with Flex.

Since its on the web, I add 1 small feature in Flickr where you can choose any photo as your background image.

I do that because a lot of friends tell me they are lazy to install AIR runtime or are ‘uncomfortable in installing a Beta product’. So ya, a little tiny messenger that share the same code base with AirTalkr desktop. It also demonstrate how rapid you can turn a desktop app into a web app with AIR and Flex =)

Now heres the link: http://airtalkr.com/im

Enjoy =)

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Previously, Singapore get a lot of 3d animated films that is ‘home-made’. However, if you dig deep enough, you will realize a lot are ‘out-sourced’ to oversea company to produce a ‘home-made’ film (Just like our sports)

Today, I read about this film shelldon from InsanePoly blog, a local 3d talent/trainer

Extract from InsanePoly:

“This will probably not appear in our mainstream media anytime soon, but I am glad to present something created by entirely by a group of dedicated local artists. Unfortunately I wasn’t part of the production team, but I feel very happy to see the results of their hard work and that singapore animation and CG productions doesn’t always have to be second class.

By no means are they on the level of Pixar or Dreamworks, but this is as good a CG series as you will find anywhere. Lest we forget, this is actually the first official 3D series from the studio, so I think we can only expect bigger and better things from here onwards. With proper time and support I don’t see why there is no reason they cannot be just as good. Everyone has to start somewhere someplace.”

View Shelldon trailer here: http://www.shelldon.biz/download.html

I am happy to see good films like our local 881 arising as compared to past films that has no content and only serve to criticize the government.

Previously, I believe those who run AirTalkr on Mac will get an memory allocation error. This is due to me using the following code on application runs:

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this.stage.window.width = NativeWindowCapabilities.windowMaxSize.x
this.stage.window.height = NativeWindowCapabilities.windowMaxSize.y

It works on windows, but its make the application end up in what seems like an infinite loop on a Mac machine. I have solve this bug and hope that those who are using Mac and faced this problem can give it a second chance and take a look at it again.

AirTalkr on Mac OS X. Its alive!

Sorry for the ’shock’ caused and do give it a second shot!

Site: http://airtalkr.com
Direct Download: http://airtalkr.com/web/airtalkr.air

=D

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Have you ever think why your grandma has such a hard time reading off the computer screen? Why is there so much need for accessibility? Well, I have the feeling of it for half a day today and now had sufficiently recover to blog about it.

2 weeks ago, I suffer a sudden lost of vision and thus I visit an eye specialist today for a checkup. During the checkup, the specialist need to ’see’ the inner of my eyes, and thus they use a medication to dilute my pupils. After that, my eyes can no longer see any thing that is within a meter clearly. Basically it like applying a Gaussian blur  to anything I see. Or for Flash developers, myEyes.filters = [new BlurFilter(10,10,3)] , Lol.

Suddenly, I got long-sightedness! The effect lasted for around 6 hours (from 3pm) and now I have recovered from it. As for my lost of vision, it is due to migraine and the doctor say I must relax more.

So, that gives me 1 more reason for the need for a stress ball ;D