Author: Catzie

  • Free PDF Download: Adobe Flash ActionScript 3.0 Programming

    This manual provides a foundation for developing applications in Adobe® ActionScript® 3.0. To best understand the ideas and techniques described, you should already be familiar with general programming concepts such as data types, variables, loops, and functions. You should also understand basic object-oriented programming concepts such as classes and inheritance. Prior knowledge of ActionScript 1.0 or ActionScript 2.0 is helpful but not necessary.

    -chapter 1

    Here is a free download of a programming manual for Flash AS3 from Adobe.

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  • PDF Download: ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University by Gary Rosenzweig

    ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University E-Book
    ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University E-Book

    Trying to learn game programming in Adobe Flash? Want to learn game programming using AS3? Try this e-book that I’m going to share with you. It covers Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, so it’s perfect if you use Flash CS3.

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  • Enchanted Kingdom – 2011 Opening Time, Closing Time, and Entrance Ticket Prices

    Enchanted Kingdom 2012 schedules and other info:

    Enchanted Kingdom 2012 schedule, price list and other info are now available in the following page:

    Updated schedule of Enchanted Kingdom

    Following is the copy of the new schedule, from June to December 2011. Schedule was acquired from the Enchanted Kingdom office on July 16, 2011.

    June 6, 2011 – August 26, 2011 (Saturday and Sunday 11 AM to 9 PM)

    August 27, 2011 – December 16, 2011 (Thursday and Friday 12 PM to 7 PM | Sat. and SDun. 11 AM to 9 PM)

    December 17, 2011 – January 1, 2011 (Daily 10 AM to 12 MN)

    My friends have been planning to have a trip to Enchanted Kingdom at Laguna during the holidays. From their office at Makati City (not at Laguna), we acquired a copy of Enchanted Kingdom’s entrance ticket prices and park schedule for 2011, which I will be sharing through this blog entry.

    Information acquired last December 2010.


    Enchanted Kingdom Entrance Fee, Ticket Price, Opening, Closing, Philippines
    Photo from EK page on Wikipedia

    Note: I’m not affiliated with Enchanted Kingdom in any way. If there is information you need but cannot find in this blog entry, please get in touch with them.
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  • Catzie in the office

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    Catzie drawing at the office, ready to eat watermelon

    I made this drawing two days ago. I didn’t have the chance to make a blog entry for it immediately. What you see in the drawing is a cute version (lol) of me in the office: using the graphic tablet, drawing THIS on Adobe Photoshop, and feeling happy because I was about to eat watermelon. xD I skipped drawing the background because it would take longer for me to finish. The drawing looks as if drawn with a pencil and I like it. 🙂 It’s not a perfect drawing. It has flaws. But I just enjoyed making it.
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  • Bought Hearos earplugs for better sleep at night

    It’s so noisy at home especially at night. Someone with a husky voice keeps on talking out loud, someone watches TV in high volume until dawn, dogs bark when something’s up, puppies wake up in the middle of the night whining… and they’re all depriving me of sleep. We have six chihuahua dogs with high-pitched voices, by the way, and three of them are whiny little pups.

    I couldn’t make them stop making noises at night so I thought earplugs would help me get better sleep. I searched for earplugs in department stores and drug stores but found out that they don’t sell any. My guy says earplugs are probably rare in the Philippines. So, I tried searching the web, hoping I could find info on where I could buy earplugs in the Philippines. At first I was led to forum threads where people said earplugs can be bought from hardware stores or music stores, but the ones being sold there are for construction areas or other loud noises, and not for sleeping. Then I found this website: earplugsite.com. It’s got info on where to buy earplugs for sleeping in the Philippines.

    Earplugs at Rustan’s Essences:


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  • Wrapping text in table cells and DIV tags

    I’ve been doing research on how to wrap texts. First solution I found was giving the CSS property word-wrap the value break-word:

    word-wrap: break-word

    But this didn’t work in Firefox.
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  • Adobe Illustrator: Get a smooth blur effect

    I remember how the pixelated blur effects in Adobe Illustrator made me feel so frustrated back in my IT Elective 4 class. It’s only now that I found out the solution for that problem, after doing a Google search. Here is how we can avoid pixelated blur effects in Adobe Illustrator. Please note that I am using Adobe Illustrator CS4.

    1. Click on Effect.
    2. Choose Document Raster Effects Settings.
    3. Choose High (300 ppi) as your Resolution.

    Doing the three steps above enhanced the blur effect on the graphic I am working on. I hope it helps you too.