AIRTIGHT INTERACTIVE

[EDIT: This post applies to Flash 8 only. Flash 9 has a different way of handling stage quality]
This is something that is not very well documented, so I thought I’d point it out here.
By default Flash will publish your movie at quality=”high”. Setting the quality setting to “best” is a good idea if you are [...]

Why bother seeing the world for real? Google Sightseeing is a great collection of bizarre locations as seen from space, including Devil’s Tower, some strange salt ponds and a guy who wrote ‘DAVE’ really, really big.

This is a fantastically useful integration of Google maps and Craigslist housing listings. There are no API’s available for either service, so there must be a lot of screen scraping going on in the background. The whole thing is really well done – it’s great how you can view housing photos within the map view. [...]