Author Archives: DeanLogic

About DeanLogic

Dean has been playing around with programming ever since his family got an IBM PC back in the early 80's. Things have changed since BASICA and Dean has dabbled in HTML, JavaScript, Action Script, Flex, Flash, PHP, C#, C++, J2ME and SQL. On this site Dean likes to share his adventures in coding. And since programming isn't enough of a time killer, Dean has also picked up the hobby of short film creation.

FireFox Weather Alert System

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This is a test of the weather alert system.  This is only a test.  If this had been a real emergency, you should have run to nearest bath room, got on your knees, bent over and kissed your butt goodbye. Okay, The FireFox weather extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox) called Forecastfox doesn’t do that, but it is pretty cool.  They added a couple of new features in the latest release (0.7.8).  On feature is a radar view of the region.  Since I live in the South East portion of the U.S., that’s the view I see based on my zip code.  The popup/mouse Continue reading FireFox Weather Alert System→

Dean T.V.!!

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Well, if you entered Dean Logic through the main site, then you saw my new addition of Dean T.V. Last night I installed Flash MX 2004 Pro (that’s a mouth full). With the latest version of Flash, you get a few neat features, one of them is publishing streaming video. How is it done you ask? Well, you import your saved movie to a blank flash document. You then export the file as a FLV file. Then, you can use a template for streaming video to display the video. It’s that easy. Well, not being one to let things be, Continue reading Dean T.V.!!→

Sidebar and Firefox

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Firefox has changed the default functionality of the browser sidebar. Before in Mozilla, you could have tabs for different types of side bar content. Now, you can only have one sidebar type at a time. However, you can set a bookmarked page to open in your sidebar when clicked. This is how I am using the WordPress sidebar. It creates a small form version of the write form so you can surf the web and publish it. I particularly like this feature. When WordPress upgraded to 1.5, they did some changes to the template layouts and apparently they added header Continue reading Sidebar and Firefox→