Corvus Design Studio Blog

Archive for December, 2008

Tips & Tricks: Flash Site Freezes in Fullscreen Mode

Today I discovered an issue with Nvidia graphics cards and flash websites. For some reason, they can crash a fullscreen flash site when “hardware accelleration” is enabled. If you encounter this issue, you can right click on the flash website, [...]

Tips & Tricks: Photoshop Stuck on Hand Tool

I’ve heard of this happening, but until recently it had never happened to me. When you use photoshop with large files or with lots of other apps open, your cursor may become stuck on the hand tool, making it impossible [...]

Tips & Tricks: Flash LoadMovie trick

I discovered a little trick to bypass the problem of buttons on flash layers being active through the layers. If you’ve used the loadmovie function in flash to open external flash movies in layers (or not in layers), you’ve no doubt [...]

Latest Project: Baxter Clare Website

Although it’s not completely finished, we’re excited to launch the new www.BaxterClare.com, a website for author Baxter Clare (aka Baxter Trautman). There will be a standard XHTML version for slower connections, but for now the flash site live. This site [...]

Pano Zero Client PC

This is a great new use of server virtualization, allowing the client to have a tiny desktop computer and negligible power consumption (5 watts). It has no CPU, no local software, no memory. Basically it has just a network connection [...]

Glow Graffiti

Spray paint that uses UV light instead of chemicals… sounds pretty cool. I’d like to see it i person. Here’s what Suck UK says: “It’s the dead of night; everyone is tucked up in bed and the owls are-a-hooting. So [...]