Until recently these items where only available on selected shops as the Israel National Museum shop, The Tel-Aviv Museum shop and a few high-end e-commerce site like uncommongoods.com, as of april 2011 Shirley Lev is launching her new website which will function as an online catalog for her latest work and a boutique Judaica shop.

Judaica & Mezuzah Design

“I photograph the images that will appear on the designed object, process the imagery and use photochemical etching to imprint the images on the metal.”
This technique enables the designer to achieve very high levels of accuracy on miniature, intricate designs. These can then be rendered on very thin metal surfaces creating a texture similar to lace. The result is both contemporary and exclusive in appearance.
Beneath the metal design, Lev integrates colored surfaces that emphasize the texture and lend a vivid quality to the ornaments. The end result has a delicate colorfulness, elegance and warmth.

demo:

we tried everything, reinstalled the Outlook account, changed the password, disable/enabled POP and IMAP, but no… the solution is doing some google voodoo on this page: https://www.google.com/a/[your domain].com/UnlockCaptcha. (change [your domain] to… the domain you’re using for google apps)

you can read the entire help section at:  http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14257

good luck, and don’t forget to uninstall Outlook after this.

The owl is out there…

Qbox is a challenging word game made by Qwizzly, it was release more than a year ago to selected casual gaming sites and received very good reviews and millions of game plays.

Together with Seza Waller from Startdl.com and Shay Finkelstein of Dataphase we’ve created a special edition of the game for iPad. we’ve added new quotes new graphics, more sounds and fixed the time limit on levels, we’ve also added a more relaxed practice mode for learning the game without the time limit.

You can download the game at the Qbox game page on itunes or go to the Qbox game mini-site.

if you have a blog and want to write a review about the  game, you can ask me for a promotion code at itay@codemcode.com

So remember,  IE+FLASH+FB:SHARE = display:’popup’

The full share code:

var share = {
 
	method: 'stream.publish',
	display:'popup',
	message: 'Upload a photo for your chance to win a trip for two to Wynn Las Vegas!',
	attachment: {
		name: 'Zagat Survey',
		caption: 'Zagat Survey Photo Contest',
		description: (
			'Take a picture of a anything that says Zagat, easily upload it by visiting zagatphotos.com and you could win The Ultimate Getaway for two at Wynn Las Vegas!'
		),
		href: 'http://www.zagatphotos.com',
		media:[{type: 'image', src: 'http://www.zagatphotos.com/images/logo.jpg', href: "http://www.zagatphotos.com"}]
	},
	action_links: [
		{ text: 'Join contest', href: 'http://www.zagatphotos.com/' }
	],
	user_message_prompt: 'win a trip for two to Wynn Las Vegas!'
};
 
	FB.ui(share, function(response) {console.log(response)});

I wanted a fast gallery for some blog I’m putting up, I was like a little bunny from outer space, thinking only good thoughts and believing the world is a perfect place, until I checked my work in Internet Explorer (papapapaaaa.. - “scary sound“). The problem was when clicking a thumbnail in the gallery – a thickbox with the full image is suppose to come up, this works in browsers but not in IE.

I looked to the left, to the right and then in google, all I could find was some fix for chrome that mr. Alex Rabe has already implemented into his app. how annnnoying!

I’ve found out it has something to do with the way internet explorer is dealing with the “onload” event for images.
“somthing to do” in combination with IE is enough for me to look for a workaround and not a permanent fix,  so if you’re having this  problem (which is probably why you’re here)  goto:

plugins>nextgen-gallery>shutter>shutter-reloaded.js

change these lines (130-133):

D.innerHTML = '
 
<div id="shWrap"><img id="shTopImg" title="' + t.msgClose + '" onclick="shutterReloaded.hideShutter();" alt="" />' + NavBar +'</div>
 
 
';
 
//Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 bug for onload attribute
document.getElementById('shTopImg').src = shutterLinks[ln].link;

to this:

D.innerHTML = '
 
<div id="shWrap"><img id="shTopImg" title="' + t.msgClose + '" onclick="shutterReloaded.hideShutter();" src="'+shutterLinks[ln].link+'" alt="" />' + NavBar +'</div>
 
 
';
 
document.getElementById('shTopImg').onload = function(){
    shutterReloaded.showImg();
}
setTimeout(function(){document.getElementById('shTopImg').src = shutterLinks[ln].link},250);

if this doesn’t work – then you should probably do the usual  run-> format C:/

I found the user interface can be adjusted so it fits humans a little better and the quality on iPhone wasn’t that great but I hear this is all being improved and their team works on this issues.

here’s a sample player and video using their platform. enjoy.

Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Cincopa video hosting solution for your website.

the next code snippet is nothing I wrote myself, it just took me hours to find so I thought I might as well post it here with a link to their page so it pops up higher in Google. I modified the code a little so it works inside my FB connector Class. you can find the original version here.

here is my code:

const FB_API_KEY         = 'kaklhgkajhgkjhgkjdfhgkjdhgkljsdhklsjdhgsk';
const FB_SECRET         = ';kjfdg09uq34t0jqeofpjie0pv34q';
const FB_APPID             = '12121212121212';
const FB_CANVAS_URL     = 'http://apps.facebook.com/app/';
const FB_APP_HOME_URL    = 'http://www.website.com/';
 
function SendNewRequest($to, $typeword, $content, $actionText, $bInvitation = true)
{
$facebook = self::$FB;
 
$bInviteAll = (!$to || $to == "" ? true : false);
$excludeFriends = null;
if (!$bInviteAll){
// Get all friends
$excludeFriends = $facebook->api_client->friends_get();
}else{
// Get all friends with the app
$excludeFriends = $facebook->api_client->friends_getAppUsers();
}
 
$excludeFriendsStr = null;
foreach ($excludeFriends as $userid)
{
$pos = strpos($to, (string)$userid);
if ($pos !== false)
continue;
if ($excludeFriendsStr)
$excludeFriendsStr .= ',';
$excludeFriendsStr .= $userid;
}
 
$params = array();
$params['api_key'] = self::FB_API_KEY;
$params['content'] = $content; // Don't use htmlentities() or urlencode() here
$params['type'] = $typeword;
$params['action'] = self::FB_CANVAS_URL;
$params['actiontext'] = $actionText;
$params['invite'] = ($bInvitation ? 'true' : 'false');
$params['rows'] = '5';
$params['max'] = '20';
$params['exclude_ids'] = $excludeFriendsStr;
$params['sig'] = $facebook->generate_sig($params, self::FB_SECRET);
 
$qstring = null;
foreach ($params as $key => $value)
{
if ($qstring)
$qstring .= '&';
$qstring .= "$key=".urlencode($value);
}
 
$inviteUrl  = 'http://www.facebook.com/multi_friend_selector.php?';
$facebook->redirect($inviteUrl . $qstring);
return true;
}

This code make a redirect to the selector page. I really wanted my “invite friends” button to open a popup for the friend selector but from what I read it is impossible.
if you found out how to do this or know its possible I would love to hear about it.

download the filter here

you can view a demo of this here:
[ click anywhere to change video feed].

*word of the day

so I’ve finally did it! installed WordPress and ready for some serious bloggin’,
I’ve been around developing flash and PHP since 2001 and I’ve seen a lot of changes in the web,  platforms, technologies and trends. in this blog I will try to document and archive my experiments and experience for future reference for myself and anybody who’s interested.

comments and friendly interaction are always welcome. ok, I didn’t really mean it – my little Indian spammer!