I just read an informative post on Justin's blog about how older versions of the Flash Player will not work as expected on Microsoft Vista due to changes in the security model. The areas that are reported as being affected are express install, shared objects, local connection and file reference.

Basically, in order for Flash content to play properly on Vista, users must run the latest Flash Player version (9,0,28 or higher).

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I just received spam mail from flex-data-services.com that reads:

Hello,

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NikO just implemented a new look for the OSFlash Wiki that should hopefully make it much easier to use. It's a very clean look that's an evolution of the previous style. In place of the fixed-width layout we had before, NikO's new design is fluid. He's also lightened up the header and I personally love how minimalist it is now.

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I was talking with Tom at BarCampLondon2 and he suggested that it would be useful to be able to get a list of direct messages for a given user. I was having issues with the Regex for doing this on the night (my older version of RegexBuddy -- best damn Regex tool in the universe -- and PHP weren't getting along) but I've since updated RegexBuddy to its latest version and added a new method call to TwitAPI called getDirectMessages.

It returns an array of objects (or an XML doc, depending on your method of access) with the following properties for each direct message: (more...)

I wonder what this is going to be? :)