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Amazon just made researching toys a whole lot more fun this Holiday season. They have introduced an interactive toy grid, the Holiday Toy List, where you can navigate around and watch hundreds of videos. You can also sort the list by age or price and quickly jump around to pick the right gift for anyone on your list.

The geek factor here is also pretty high too because this whole “toy wall” is built using Flash and Flash video.

Here is the link once again and a screenshot:

Amazon: Holiday Toy List

Update: Link fixed. There was a missing character in the docId.

by mkeefe on Aug 31st, 2008

Flash and PHP Bible now available for Kindle

I was informed by a friend that my Flash and PHP Bible is available on Amazon as a kindle e-book. It’s actually pretty cool to see that, I think the ability to search and bookmark on the kindle makes it a perfect option for technical book readers.

Here is the direct link to the kindle version:
http://bit.ly/1AHKj

Here is the paper version:
http://bit.ly/26aL1H

by mkeefe on Dec 31st, 2007

Lightroom, Contests and Great Deals

PhotoshopCafe has just released a new training DVD on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This DVD is packed with 80 clips of important tips, tricks and techniques. The running time for this new DVD is over 7 hours but don’t let the size scare you, there isn’t one point where the information is stale or “filler content”.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Design Challenge 8

Interested in designing a Video Game Cover? How about for a contest with a prize pool of over $12,000 from the leading software and hardware companies in the industry? If the answer is yes, which I assume it is, you will want to enter the PhotoshopCafe Design Challenge and start designing your entries today.

Switching gears entirely for a moment. I (like most Amazon members) receive the “Deal of the Day” from Amazon via email.

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