In my talks on user experience, I mention the importance of focus (in the context of user experience being the central focus-point of the development process). It's time to apply the same principle to my life in general. My interests, the technologies I work with, my various projects, and activities have somewhat accumulated to the point that it had gotten impossible for one person to keep on top of them. So I need to consolidate things, close some things down, and focus on the things that matter to me in the here and now.

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If you are using the same icon file in your app.xml file in AIR and embedding it to set it dynamically at runtime (for example if you have several icons that you switch between) then you'll most likely get the following error:

Error creating AIR file: YourApp-app.xml(94): error 303: Icon assets/icon.png is missing from the package.

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If you're storing information in the encrypted data store in your AIR app, you'll probably want to nuke that data on occasion while testing. You'll find the app-specific files for your application (on OS X) under:

~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/AIR/ELS/yourApplication

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I just dusted off my old Acer TravelMate to play with Songsmith (it doesn't work well under VMWare) and I remembered why I was so happy to switch to my Mac. My Acer developed, among other things, an annoying screen flickering issue before we parted ways.

I realized this time around that the flickering only occurs when the laptop is plugged in. Disabling ePower Manager didn't do anything.

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You're in Germany... no I'm not!

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