Mehmet Alpsoy

I was looking for a router for my wired modem. And I found this.

And here is an Apple Airport Extreme.

Apple should really see how their design is turned into a weird thing

By the way, I’ve decided to thrash my wired modem which is also produced by the same manufacturer of the router and I am going to buy an Apple Airport Express.

stefanrichter RT @jakehilton Flash Media Server/Wowza Media Server/Red5 port tester: http://www.jakehilton.com/?q=node/43

F_i The Best Social Media Sites (for Business) of 2009http://tinyurl.com/y9ypdfq

stefanrichter How about a free iPhone Development Course by Apple Engineers at Stanford? http://is.gd/5QPh4 There is TONS of free material on iTunes U.

Today I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard to my iMac and my girlfriends Macbook Pro. It is obvious that MAC OS X is still the best OS on earth.

You can find my opinions about the new features below.

Configurations are

iMac 20″  2.4 Ghz Intel 2 Core-duo - 4 GB RAM

Macbook Pro 15.4″ 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo – 2 GB RAM

First of all Snow Leopard is really fast.

Expose & Stacks : I always use Expose, and frequently use Stacks. New ordering view of Expose is very nice and works faster and reliable than Leopard’s.

Also new looks of these features are really nice. I think I will be using Stacks more frequently.

Time Machine : Time Machine is backing up my iMac, and backing up is faster now.

Shut Down Time : Tested on Macbook Pro, you see the desktop for a second, and the blue screen for another second and just a black screen. It is shut down

Quicktime : The new Qicktime X looks really nice, it is important that it includes all the features of former Quicktime Pro. Especially screen capturing feature works like a charm on a 1680 * 1050 resolution.

The most important new feature of Quicktime X for me is, it is able to play FLV and F4V files by default. So you do not need a Flash Video Player.

I haven’t tested iChat, and some other new features like Exchange Support as I work at home nowadays.

Last of all new battery life checking option on MacbookPro is nice (you have to Option + Click on the battery status to see it).

Both of the Mac’s have 32-bit processors so I can’t mention anything about 64-bit support, besides most of my applications are Adobe applications.

I think you don’t  have to have any concerns about switching to Snow Leopard if you are already using Leopard, it is not scary like switching from Tiger.

But remember to update your applications, especially like VLC (as former VLC versions on Leopard looks for Lucinda font, but Lucinda on Snow Leopard has an extension like *.ttc, and VLC is not able to find the font for subtitles and so it cannot  display subtitles. Just upgrade your VLC or change the default subtitle font from VLC Preferences).

But it was disappointing to hear my favorite text editor Smultron has only a BETA for Snow Leopard, and there will be no more new versions of the application. Smultron for Leopard works on Snow Leopard too, but I have to find a new Text Editor, and it will be difficult as I never liked the UI of BBEdit.

That is all for now about MAC OS X Snow Leopard features.

Finally, the price for the Snow Leopard is really affordable (29€ + TAX) for a new Operating System.

Today a new chapter of my career begins. I quit my job at adinteractive where I was working as Flash Platform Director.

After 2 and a half years, and several quitting attempts, I managed to leave the company at last.

From now on I will be focusing on Flash Platform and iPhone Development more and more, and my blog will be more active than ever.

I will be able to make more researches and probably will be able to publish some tutorials.

There is a long to do lists on my desk and I can’t wait to start with the first item (yes, it is iPhone and Cocoa, I hope to be an advanced iPhone developer in a few months).

Adobe opened a website for us to test our web sites with different Operating System and Browser combinations.

You could just enter the url and the web site is simulated for you as it rendered in appropriate Os and Browser.

There are three view types 1-Up, 2-Up and the best one Onion Skin View which compares two combination simulations overlapped.

The web site has built-in set list, which will probably be expanded in following days.

Try yourself (Requires Adobe ID) : browserlab.adobe.com

Here are some results for you :

@leebrimelow Full interview about Flash and Star Trek -http://theflashblog.com/?p=1023

@stefanrichterBlog post: RTMPE ‘Hacked’? Adobe Issues DMCA Notice Against SourceForge, rtmpdumphttp://twurl.nl/pxxzqw

@macappstormNew on AppStorm: Seamless FTP access with ExpanDrive - http://bit.ly/14LCwy

@stefanrichterNew blog post: FLVPlayback component update released, adds DVR, dynamic streaming and morehttp://twurl.nl/lpzn1s

Today I moved my blog from Blogger to Wordpress. Blogspot version will still be available but, this is the official one from now on.

I will be able to share more and customize my blog to be able to satisfy more needs.