http://www.rictus.com/muchado nj on Flex design and development Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:29:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a new test build of Snackr, v0.35, up on Google Code. This version adds much better support for non-Western language feeds (in particular, feeds with encodings other than UTF-8). If you had trouble with Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, or other languages in previous versions of Snackr, please check this ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/06/13/snackr-v035-test-released-better-non-western-language-support/ I'm starting to post interim test builds of Snackr on Google Code for people to try out. Since I don't have a QA staff, I'd like brave souls to try them out before I put them up as official releases. They won't be pushed out through autoupdate, so you'll need ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/06/09/snackr-v034-test-build-released/ The flood of Snackr downloads has finally slowed down to about 150 a day. Over 13,000 people have downloaded it so far; it looks like maybe about 500-600 people are running it daily--not bad for a little side project :) Various people have requested the source code, so I've decided to ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/06/05/snackr-is-now-open-source/ The frenzy of Snackr downloading seems to be slowing down at last, but with more than 5250 downloads (and 500 mostly positive tweets on Twitter, including a plug by @scobleizer), I have to admit that I'm greatly surprised at how much interest there's been. Frankly, I assumed Snackr would only ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/19/snackr-randomness-goes-viral/ This is basically just an official repost of the test build I posted earlier, with better support for non-Western character sets and multiple select in the feed list so you can delete a bunch of feeds at once; see the release notes for more detail. Snackr should automatically offer to ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/17/snackr-v033-released/ 2500 downloads and counting! The Power of the Intar-Webz[tm] never ceases to amaze me. I remember way back in the Old Days, when freeware was only to be had by floppy disk or modem; back then, it was difficult to imagine a few dozen people, let alone thousands, using some ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/17/snackr-on-twitter-new-test-version-for-non-western-languages/ Wow--nearly 600 people have downloaded Snackr in the last two days! Thanks to everyone who's sent mail or posted comments; it's great to know people like it. The most common requests so far seem to be: Allow multiple selection in the feed list, so you can delete a bunch of feeds ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/14/snackr-is-everywhere/ I realized a few months ago that, unlike pretty much everyone else I know, I don't regularly use an RSS reader. Not that I haven't tried—I used FeedDemon early on, and more recently tried out Google Reader—but never managed to form the habit of checking them regularly. Both of them ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/12/snackr-an-rss-ticker-built-using-air-and-flex/ From a web application I recently used that shall remain nameless: http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/05/08/best-ui-evar/ Normally I don't like to spend a lot of time just posting links to other people's blog posts, but since MXNA is down, I wanted to point out Rob Adams's excellent blog post about the paper prototype studies we've been doing on Thermo's UI. His post has a lot of ... http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/04/30/thermo-the-board-game/