So over the past two months I’ve been painting these Panels of VQ’s Vectors. That got the boys and I over at ClickPop talking about how it was time to teach you how to create them too. It’s pretty simple, all you’ll need is: (more…)

For any dynamic Flash project, XML will be a powerful tool. One of the most common examples (and one of the simplest) is a picture gallery like the one I have here:

Images came from http://www.stockvault.net/

I will be talking about how to use Flash and XML to make a simple, yet superfly, gallery.
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I was ordering something from an online printer the other day and noticed that they offered custom rubber stamps. This got the old brain moving, and I remembered that I (and by extension you) can make a custom stamp of my own.

Step 1: Get Your Stuff Together

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Hi everyone! Sorry about the delay in getting this up. We have been very busy at ClickPopMedia, a lot of exciting things going on. To make it up to you, I have decided to finish it all up, and give you the rest of the soda making experience in one big post.

For those of you that missed my last post, I love making soda, and I decided to share this experience with all of you. This post will be on making the batch of soda, and to wrap things up I will also describe the kegging process.

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Over the next 3 weeks I will be taking a break from my programming tutorials to do a 3 part series on soda making. Homemade soda is a great alternative to mass-produced soda that is packed full of preservatives and strange chemicals that wreck havoc on your body. I should know, I drink a lot of it. I will be walking you through the process I go through when I create soda. Today we go over the equipment used in homemade soda making, and the preparation process.

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Originally I was going to kick things off with a "Website Dynamics" tutorial, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this awesome ‘thingy’ I just made with my new Arduino board. The whole project only took me about 2 hours… with soldering and coding.

"So what is Arduino?" you ask.  Arduino is an open source electronics platform with various inputs and outputs. There are many similar platforms to this one, but I personally liked the name ‘Arduino’ best.  It is programmed using a C based language, and it’s multiple inputs and outputs allow for a wide variety of applications.

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