A couple years ago, some lad going by the pseudonym of @binderskagnaes, at DeviantArt, released a set of icons on a dark background lovingly named “Blaqua.” Then, he ventured to a great forest and got devoured. Or something. Whatever the reason, he never created more icons, which frankly is a pity. I am still using his icon set in my [...]

I know, it’s a bold assertion. But, please, bear with me: as a longtime Unix-head, I need a tool that allows me to zoom through my emails rather than click-glance-click-glance-click-yawn-right-click-delete, etc. For years I’ve been happy with Mutt because nothing compares with using the arrow keys to navigate through my emails, ALT-O to open a folder, SHIFT-O-R to do a [...]

I started playing with Alchemy a couple days ago, with the intent of finally writing OpensIFRr3 — you know, the one working with sIFR3. Since the previous release was in Java, I was planning on creating this one in Flex. I am not quite there yet, due to the nightmare that porting libxml would be. But I’ve learnt that reading [...]

So…how hard can it be, right? After all, Flex offers to change your text style — using setStyle — to bold, italics, underlined…oh, but no strikethrough. But I really needed that for my tree nodes, so here is how I did it. First, my tree, as defined in a MXML file — well, a simplified version: ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPT1 2 [...]