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In my daily work, FDT is probably the tool I use the most, besides Apple Mail and Seesmic Desktop and I thought it would be nice for beginners who are not familiar with FDT, to highlight some of my favourite features in a blog post. To make it even more challenging for me, I thought that I should make small video clips. Well, here they are. It was not quite as simple as I thought it would be, especially if you’re not a native english speaker, but it was fun anyways. So, have fun and please be gentle with a first time screencaster   Comments, in the form below, on Twitter or on Facebook a highly appreciated.

You’ll get by the way the best experience if you switch to fullscreen mode.

1. Live Error Highlighting

2. Code Completion / Content Assist

3. Quick-Fix

4. Templates

5. Refactoring

To get more information on FDT, visit my buddies at Powerflasher.

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I just read Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox on Password Masking. At the first half of the article I couldn’t believe what I was reading as Nielsen just suggests to unmask all Password-Textfields. But in the second half he suggests to add a checkbox, so that the user can decide wether to unmask the password or not. In my opinion a very good and simple thing to do, which Apple is doing for years by the way, but I also think that most people will get a little confused, especially not so tech-savyy people when they see that the password is unmasked by default.

Anyway, from now on I will add such a little checkbox to all my loginforms (right next to the “Remember me” checkbox).

Just kiddin’! I found this stupid boring video while cleaning up the harddrive of my videocamera and felt like I had to share it   It shows me and Frank building the FDT Booth at 2008 Flash Forward conference in San Francisco. Music, as always, by my buddy Patric la Funk.

A while ago, the folks over at 9elements launched a new photosharing website called img.ly. You might wanna say “why the hell do we need another one?”. Well, because 9elements wanted to refine the key features of those sites and wanted to make them a little bit better. In my opinion, they’ve made a pretty good job at this, and as I spoke to the guys earlier this week, they still have damn good stuff in the pipeline.

What makes img.ly for me so special is the ability to tag people by their Twitter-Names in a photo, similar to what we all know from facebook (BTW: aren’t we friends yet? http://facebook.com/marcelfahle ). A pretty neat feature I think, especially when it comes to Tweetups or otherreal life Twitter events or conferences.

Besides that you can also tag your tweets, attached with your photos. Img.ly will convert these tags or keywords to Hashtags and sends them along with your tweet, which is a very popular technique in the Twitterworld to categorize or filter tweets.

At this time img.ly is supported by four Twitterclients (Tweetie, Destroytwitter, Yatca, Twitterville, SimplyTweet), and I think there will be a lot more in the future. Oh, and of course you can upload your image directly on the site or send it by email.

The Img.ly website is already optimized for a number of devices including the iPhone, Android devices and mobile opera. They even just introduced some alternate 3D views for navigating the site.

Very cool stuff. You can check it out at img.ly.

Well, FOWA is over and I’ve got to say, unfortunately, as it was an incredible conference. Usually my I’m hanging more at various flash conferences around the globe but I thought that this web app thing is kinda interesting for me because I do alot of web apps myself using Adobe Flex.
The fact that the conference was taking place in Miami was a little side benefit for me as I’ve got some “friends” in the city

Anyway, I was really impressed by the workshops and sessions I attended. For me every single session was both inspirational and educational, I really underestimated all the capabilities of modern browsers, or what is generally going on in the browser scene.

I have to admit that I never heard a lot of these names in FOWA’s lineup. Sure I knew about web celeb dudes like Vaynerchuck, Fried, Spolsky, but I’ve never heard of Francisco Tolmasky, Aza Raskin or Alex Hunter for example. Well, from now on I’ll keep an eye on all of these because these geeks killed it on stage (as @garyvee would say).

These are my personal highlights:

• Atlas – The new way of building web applications (by 280North, based on cappuccino framework)
• Aza Raskin showing Ubiquity
• Alex Hunter – very inspirational speech on Marketing (not just because I’m a Virgin/Branson-maniac)
• Jason Fried – Getting real 2.0
• and of course Gary Vaynerchuck on Passion:
  

  Passion is undefeated. You will be one-happy-snork-writing-mother-fucker

The next FOWA takes place in Dublin but I think that I can’t make it. But I’ll definitely attend on of the upcoming Carsonified events.

Oh, the only downside would be the timing I guess, because I have to come back in four weeks or so for Winter Music Conference 2009. So @ryancarson, maybe you consider combining FOWA with all the party madness going on by the end of march.

As a little appetitzer for the upcoming Flash on Tap conference in May, Adobe Community Expert Pablo Parrado, also known as ActionScript Hero is doing an Adobe Connect online session on February 12th together with Keith Peters, author of this fabulous book . Besides a 30-minutes interview, Keith will show some demos of his work and will be available for an extensive Q&A.
The event takes place on February 12th, is totally free and you can register using the EventBrite Flash Widget below, where you also can find more information:

To be always up2date follow Pablo, Keith and the Flash on Tap guys on Twitter.

Today I had the problem, that I needed to use some pfb fonts from my old Windows machine on my Mac. Therefor I was looking at google for a solution to convert these fonts to a format my Mac can read. But for my purpose, using these fonts in an Adobe Application, I found a better solution. Just put the fonts you want to use into Adobe’s own font folder below your Library folder:

/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts