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Before I forget: Present history of the future

List of things I might forget in the techno-future:

1. That not having or updating a blog used to be ok
2. How to transport things without a USB stick
3. How to store things without a hard disk
4. The difference between a SCSI and a parallel zip-drive
5. To be quiet in a non-electronic library
6. How to make paintings without Photoshop or Illustrator
7. How to post a letter
8. That mail only used to come one time a day
9. How to play a game without my PS2
10. How to communicate to people directly
11. That in the train I used to listen to other people’s conversations instead of my iPod
12. How to get a date without a social networking site
13. How to get money from a bank cashier
14. That people used to argue over directions in the car instead of using Tom-Tom
15. That people used to look at the signs on the road instead of their GPS coordinates
16. How to write with a pen
17. How to calculate without a calculator
18. That Ctrl Z does not undo my actions in real life
19. What Typex is
20. How to spell correctly – without Word
21. That I cannot elongate my legs or get rid of pimps with just a simple retouch
22. To smile at the shop assistant instead of my computer after a latest purchase
23. That I had to walk to my TV to turn it on
24. That I used to book my tickets at a travel agency
25. To be careful when putting on a record because a replacement needle cost 50 Guilders.
26. What’s on a Guilder (God zij met ons) instead of what’s on my Chipknip
27. That modern music piracy meant borrowing a cd from the library and put it on a music tape
28. How to fix a music tape with Scottish tape
29. Not to press but to actually dial a number on my land line
30. Where to develop my pictures – and having to wait to see them
31. That I cannot walk around with a device because it is plugged in – it has wires
32. That I used to have an address book stored in my drawer and not on my mobile
33. That I used to ask information about train services at the train station
34. That I used to ask my teacher instead of Google if I wanted to know something
35. That WWW stood for waiting, waiting and more waiting
36. That CD-I was the latest invention
37. That I manually had to allocate memory to my Mac applications
38. How to give a presentation with a slide projector
39. How to make things move without Flash
40. Not to worry about charging my phone -as I did not have one
41. That Windows computers used to crash (o, they still do…)

• That the world is not my desktop

• ......

Before we'll forget, I created this 'memorial' list on technical practices for 'future reference'
...please feel free to comment or add!

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notes 2005 on the web (sorry, no longer up)

Making a scrollable field in Flash

For the more intermediate/advanced Flash users:
To understand this tutorial, make sure you have done your Flash lessons first.

Some of you expressed interest in making a scrollable field as part of your website. There are various ways of doing this. I chose Flash as opposed to for example Javascript as way of doing this, because with this tool you can design your own buttons and you don't have to do a lot of coding. This is a handy thing to know or do, because it allows you to have e.g. your menu buttons always on the same place while you can have a smaller field for a scrollable bigger picture like a large wall painting or for a lot of text.

Flash samples does have a Sample in the Help menu which you can use for a scroll and you can check various helpfiles on the Internet. BUT I found a relatively easier step-to-step tutorial so please go to: here
I tried it and it works very well. There are only few mistakes in it, so please keep this in mind:
*The name of the movieclip (scrollabletext) should be the same! twice. It doesn't matter what you call it (scrollabeltext or else) as long as the instance name is the same every time.

*There is a mistake with the script at on keyUp. You can remove the keyPress, 'cause you probably won't need a keypress to trigger the action, but if you put it there, there should be more than just "". So press a key you want to use to trigger the action "e.g. "r" or "".

I programmed a little bit of extra with it (see code under), so with this added script you can't scroll forever to the right or left, if the picture has already passed its own dimensions.
With my little script, when the ending is near, it puts the location, the x-coordinates to the original position. (is also possible with y-coordinates, depending on what you want) You can find out about the exact x/y coordinates of your own picture by pressing apple i or go to Window and then info in Flash. If you scroll over the corners of your scrollable picture, the coordonates will be shown in the info.

If you're interested, I can send you my Flash (. fla for authoring and editing) and .swf file ( for just looking at it). I'm having problems with my Internet and email, but you can let Adriaan know, and he will be able to help you or inform me as well.

Good luck!

Add this script to your movieclip (Select movieclip,Ctrl, Click, Actions), if you don't want it to scroll forever.:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.scrollabletext._y<0) {
_root.scrollabletext._y = 317;
}
if (_root.scrollabletext._y>317) {
_root.scrollabletext._y = 0;
}
if (_root.scrollabletext._x<212) {
_root.scrollabletext._x = 694;
}
if (_root.scrollabletext._x>694) {
_root.scrollabletext._x = 212;
}
}

Adjust the coordinates (and other likings) to your own scrollable picture of course!

Now if you want to make it into a file for the Internet, go through these steps:
Go to File and choose Publish. Then select Flash (.swf) and HTML, select the preferred options for the rest and then choose publish ok. On your Desktop a .swf file and a .html file appear which you need for publishing on the Internet. You can test the file in you browser by dragging the HTML file to your browser (explorer, Safari,...)

Geboortekaartje

masterpiece
Originally uploaded by kanis.

Website design course: Useful links

Webdesign startpages
Webdesign: start from here
http://www.webdesign.startpagina.be
About Flash
http://flash.pagina.nl
Good site to start for webart links:
http://webart.pagina.nl

Internet sites for inspiration:
http://www.netdiver.net
http://www.number27.org/
http://www.cookie.pl
http://www.internet100.nl/100/internet100.htm
Tips from class 2Feb (please add more):
http://www.solar.nl
http://www.nobodyhere.com
Internet, interaction design and beyond:
Jonah's blog and interactive (net) work
http://www.coin-operated.com
http://www.medialabeurope.org/research
http://www.media.mit.edu

Useful tips for good website design:
http://goodpractices.com
http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/web-design.shtml
http://www.webbyawards.com/
http://www.lynda.com

webcolours:
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

Better not to check: buy a web pre- designed template:
http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/7455.html
http://www.dreamweaver-templates.org

History of the Internet:
A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks
By Vint Cerf
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/cerf.shtml

A Brief History of the Internet
by those who made the history, including Barry M. Leiner , Vinton G. Cerf , David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

A Little History of the World Wide Web
By Robert Cailliau
http://www.w3.org/History.html

A Brief History of the Internet
by Walt Howe
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history

History of the Internet, Internet for Historians
By Richard T. Griffiths
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.htm

A History of the Internet
Multimedia History of the Internet, by Finnish University and Research Network.
http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/en

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