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This is an update to the ejectAllVolumes Dashboard Widget.

This version Will give you a list of mounted volumes. You can deselect any volumes that are listed to exclude them from the unmount action.

Links after the break.

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Today I’m releasing a Dashboard widget that will allow you to execute a bash script that will eject all mounted volumes with 1 button click.

To download the widget: Download ejectAllVolumes widget 1.0.1 (Zip file)

For more details check out the ejectAllVolumes project page.

I got some feedback after passing this out to a few friends. Here is what I’ve changed:

• Removed clear
• Output the display message to /dev/null
• Removed echo "complete"

These changes remove any of the outputs to the display. The only time you will receive a message is if you have file that is currently open in an application and the script cannot unmount the volume.

For more details check out the ejectAllVolumes project page.

After some tooling around I’m finally releasing a little bash script called ejectAllVolumes. This script is named after it’s purpose. It will safely eject all mounted volumes from your Mac.

For more details check out the ejectAllVolumes project page.

Moses Gunesch the creator of FuseKit created a very nice open-source tool called TweenBencher. The utility can be used to chart animation performance through the Flash Player’s framerate over the time of the animation. This is a really nice tool and goes a long way to helping developers figure out which animation package to use and for what reasons.

My results showed that the top performers were (in order):

1. Simple AS3 Tween (could not find a link for this one)
2. TweenLite
3. Tweener

Here is the output of my tests for every animation framework that is listed in the demo application.
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My friend Aaron Smith has created a really great open source project for Flash and Flex remoting called RubyAMF. This project supports AMF0 and the very fast AMF3. Go check it out if you get a chance!

I’d like to announce the first public release of PNGPong, a cross-browser solution for displaying transparent PNGs on the web for IE, Firefox, and Safari.

Download Links

• Download PNGPong 1.0.0 (Zip file) - contains pngpong.js, pngpong.swf, swfobject.js (v1.4.4), and an example page showing how to use it. Just unzip the contents to the root of your website, and surf to http://yourdomain.com/pngpong/example/
• Download PNGPong 1.0.0 Source Files (Zip file) - contains pngpong.fla, pngpong.js, pngpong.swf, and swfobject.js (v1.4.4)

For more details check out the PNGPong project page.

It’s been tested by several developers and QA people and is in use for a high traffic site. Please note that the Javascript API and functionality was created out of the needs of a specific project. I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on improvements.

Thanks for checking this out.