Yesterday Lawrence Lessig gave a talk at the FlashForward conference titled The Cost of Copyright. In it, he stressed the importance and necessity of a culture of sharing. Of course, the Flash community has grown up on this culture (i.e. FlashKit, layer 51). However, all of the sharing usually goes on on a developer to developer level, as you cannot easily get the source from Flash content. So, during the FlashForward keynote this morning, I put together a simple library that allows you to add a view source Menu item to your Flash content.

Well, the FireFox engadget search plugin I made has proven to be useful (and popular), so I decided to put together a search plugin for what is probably my favorite site, boingboing. So, here it is: Install boingboing Search Plugin This will place a simple boingboing icon in your FireFox search bar, and make it easy to search boingboing and find that cool article that you saw posted a couple of days ago.

I have put together a simple extension for FireFox which makes it easy to keep up with the latest Macromedia news, information and weblog posts. It places a small icon on the FireFox task bar that, when clicked displays all of the latest information. The extension will periodically check for new data, and blink when it finds new information. Here are a couple of screenshots: Default Layout Preferences Layout ordered by Source

Since I was in the mood of creating FireFox search plugins for sites I search on often, I decided to make a search plugin for engadget. So, here it is: Install Engadget Search Plugin Just click the link above, and it will appear in the search bar within FireFox. Again, sorry for the crumby icon (I obviously have no design sense). If anyone can make a better one, let me know and I will update it.

I have put together a simple application for OS X that takes a character delimited list, and removes duplicates. Here is a screenshot: You can download the app from here Note : Only tested on OS X 10.3.5 The app is free, but if you end up using it, send me a postcard. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I have started to use a couple of apps on OS X that don’t have built in support for spell checking (FireFox, TextMate). So, I decided to put together a simple spell check application, named SpellMe. Here is a screenshot: You can download the application here Note : Only tested on OS X 10.3.5 The app is free, but if you end up using it, send me a postcard. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Yesterday I released a preview version of the MAC OS X version of TattleTale. Today I am releasing a (slightly rougher) beta version of TattleTale for Windows. What is TattleTale? TattleTale is a simple application that makes it easy to keep up with the latest news and information from Macromedia. Here is a screenshot of the Windows version: Note, the icons for the Windows version of TattleTale are place holders and not final.

Christian Cantrell and I have been working on a mini project for making it easier to keep up with the latest news and information from Macromedia. The name of the application is called TattleTale, and we are releasing the OS X version for beta / preview today. What is TattleTale? TattleTale is a simple application that makes it easy to keep up with the latest news and information from Macromedia. Here is a screenshot of the OS X version:

Well, after I put together my simple Quake Bar app, I figured I would tweak the code a little more, and make an app to watch one of my favorite sites, engadget.com. So, here is engadgeter (I know, lame name). This is a simple status bar application for OS X that notifies you when new articles have been posted to engadget.com. Here is a screenshot. You can download the application from here (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK).

I have been learning Objective-C and Cocoa development lately, mostly so I can create a Mac version of my Flash Resource Manager application. Anyways, since I live in San Francisco now, I figured that I need to know when earthquakes occur, so I created QuakeBar. QuakeBar is a simple application for OS X that sits on the status bar, and lists the most recent earthquakes in the world, with a magnitude greater than 2.