Published on May 6, 2008
in Moo.
I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch.
This time around, I thought it would be fun to take one large image and break it up into a hundred small cards to create a Moo card mosaic.
I started with a lovely photo of myself as The Phantom of the Opera that Jane Dallaway took last year at my fancy dress Friday 13th housewarming party and sliced it into a hundred pieces with Photoshop. (I also applied a little Smart Blur to it to so that you would not be subjected to too much detail of my overly-magnified facial pores!)
If you want to create your own Moo card mosaics, grab this Photoshop file (.zip; 0.5MB) that's set to the correct dimensions and comes pre-sliced for your convenience. (Just do a Save for Web after adding your own picture to it and you'll get a hundred images that you can zip up and upload to Moo.)
So if you see me around, feel free to ask for a piece of me -- you might just get one! 
Relly has a much nicer close-up of the cards than my pic (using my camera, no less, which is now her camera)
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If you're implementing
PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API.
There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to transform the HTML code into a lovely little Flex component. Here it is in hopes that it will save someone else the trouble in the future.
To use the PayPalCountryComboBox component, download and unzip it into the source folder of your Flex project. Then, just include it in your MXML as shown below.
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns:paypal="com.aralbalkan.paypal.*"
>
<paypal:PayPalCountryComboBox />
</mx:Application>
Download the PayPalCountryComboBox (.zip, 8kb).
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