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	<title>Michael Fretz - Interaction Designer</title>
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		<title>Using Terminal For Tracing In Actionscript Projects</title>
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I think all of you know how to use trace in a flash project therefore I will target only on how to set up an easy tracing environment. I use terminal to display my traces on my Mac. I think this is an convenient way if you work on a dual screen environment. What do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/21/using-terminal-for-tracing-in-actionscript-projects/</link>
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		<title>My talk at L.A. Flex User Group Meeting in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you probably read my article about Font Embedding in Actionscript 3 projects. In the January L.A. Flex User Group meeting, Tom Bray recorded my talk about MojoFont. MojoFont is an Eclipse Plugin for easy Font Embedding in Flex, FDT or Eclipse. It was a good experience to speak to the L.A. Flex group. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/12/my-talk-at-la-flex-user-group-meeting-in-january/</link>
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		<title>Internship Project 2 : Almer Blank Labs</title>
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My second project from the time of my internship which i want to show you is the Almer Blank Labs. This project is currently online and can be seen at labs.almerblank.com. I designed and developed the Wordpress Theme. The design goal for me was to create a design which is clean but also gives the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/08/internship-project-2-almer-blank-labs/</link>
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		<title>Studio Revo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My roommate Junya Sakino is a talented filmmaker here in Los Angeles. In the last couple of days we quickly build his website. The site is Wordpress driven and uses a couple different plugins. The website design was created by Junya and I build it into Wordpress. I used the capricon theme but changed quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/07/studio-revo/</link>
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		<title>Internship Project:  St.Moritz TV</title>
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After being here in Los Angeles for about 7 months I think its time to show you some things I did during my internship. The first project I want to show you is St Moritz TV. (Yes, a Swiss Guy flies to California to build a site for a Swiss Ski-resort) :)
What is this project?
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/04/internship-project-st-moritz-tv/</link>
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		<title>Font Embedding in Actionscript Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on Actionscript projects you will have to use fonts quite often. There are many ways how you can embed a font into your project. In this post I will illustrate different ways of how to do that and I would like to demonstrate a very easy way with MojoFont.

Example 1: Font Embedding During [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/01/12/font-embedding-in-actionscript-projects/</link>
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		<title>Book review: Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is one of my favorite Actionscript books. The author writes in an understandable and clear way. The examples are on topic and clear in the understanding. The book covers a wide variety of different aspects in the use of image effects and image processing in Actionscript 3. The target audience are definitely not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/12/09/book-review-foundation-actionscript-3-0-image-effects/</link>
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		<title>Change image size in CSS if div tag is smaller than the image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run into the problem that I had a div tag with a certain width. From a external site I loaded some content in this div tag. The problem was that I did not have the control over the pictures loaded from this external server. Some pictures where bigger then the size of the div [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/11/05/change-image-size-in-css-if-div-tag-is-smaller-than-the-image/</link>
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		<title>Adobe MAX 2009, Los Angeles, California</title>
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What is Adobe MAX? Adobe Max describes them self as following:
We are in a software revolution fueled by social computing, client and cloud, and the spread of rich media across screens and devices. For four unforgettable days this October, MAX 2009 will bring together thousands of designers, developers, and decision-makers to shape the future. (Source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/10/16/adobe-max-2009-los-angeles-california/</link>
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		<title>Ribbit Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Add Communication to your Applications with Ribbit

On Sunday, October 4th, I had the change to visit a workshop about the Ribbit mobile service at the Rich Media Institute in Venice. I could see some examples how to build a Text message application in Flex or Flash and saw different ways to build a phone application. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/10/14/ribbit-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Photos of Downtown Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the time of Adobe MAX i moved to Downtown Los Angeles.  A quick search in the Internet and I found a place in walking distance to the Convention-Center. For only $40/night I got a room with shared bath and shared toilet in the Hotel Cecil. Without thinking I booked it and worried a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/10/14/photos-of-downtown-los-angeles/</link>
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		<title>LAFlashapaloozastock IV review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The saturday before Adobe MAX we hadLAFlashapaloozastock from FITC in our company.
I went to this event with Marcel Vogt from Switzerland who came to L.A. for Adobe MAX. We heard a couple of very interesting talks from Joshua Davis and Joshua Hirsch. After all the presentations our offices changed to a party location. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/10/14/laflashapaloozastock-iv-2/</link>
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		<title>Hype Framework Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just before Adobe Max I had the opportunity to visit the Joshua Davis workshop about the  HYPE Framework. The HYPE-framework is a easy framework for creating digital art. It makes it easy to build computer based art in Actionscript 3. Josh is a very outgoing and super friendly person. All of us had really good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/10/13/hype-framework-workshop/</link>
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		<title>LAFlashapaloozastock IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a few days Adobe MAX will start. Before and during Adobe MAX there will be many  other events. I will help at LAFlashapaloozastock because this event is held in our office. Here some more Infos about this Event.

LAFlashapaloozastock IV is a FREE event for interactive designers, developers, artists, companies and the people that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/24/laflashapaloozastock-iv/</link>
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		<title>Design and HTML at Almer/Blank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my internship I do a lot of web based stuff. For example designing a newsletter for a workshop at the rich media institute in L.A and Toronto.
The Newsletter for the workshop &#8220;Workshop Accelerating Creativity in ActionScript 3 with Joshua Davis&#8221; was finally sent as a HTML email newsletter.

 If you are in L.A I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/24/design-and-html-work-for-the-intern/</link>
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		<title>L.A. Flash, Talk like a pirate day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday was the L.A.Flash user group meeting. I had the opportunity to join the meeting which is held in our office. The first talk was from Joshua Davis about his HYPE framework.Joshua Davis is an internationally-renowned artist, and Flash industry leader. Joshua Davis held a short discussion of the HYPE AS3 framework to help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/24/l-a-flash-talk-like-a-pirate-day/</link>
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		<title>Second week, Flex user group meeting, mobile phone&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WOW, already my second week and still no bank account. Starting a new life in the States is not easy at all. It&#8217;s hard to get in contact with the locals, paper work is difficult and needs a lot of patience. But the beach is cool and work is fortunately challenging.
Lesson 3: Starting a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/14/second-week-flex-user-group-meeting-mobile-phone/</link>
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		<title>One week, time for a first review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One week ago, I arrived in Los Angeles. Since then, my life changed! America was different then I expected. Los Angeles is not big. Los Angeles is unbelievable huge. I struggled with many problems I thought I will never have, other things seems to be very easy. But all in all. It is a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/07/one-week-time-for-a-first-review/</link>
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		<title>The real start of the internship and living healthy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I started work. After my short trip to the office on Monday I started my first day at Almer / Blank yesterday. I will work on a redesign for a community platform. My first approach will be the analyse of existing functions and stuff which is missing. I will have to search for similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/03/the-real-start-of-the-internship-and-living-healthy/</link>
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		<title>First day at Almer / Blank</title>
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Whats the worst thing which can happen if you start a new job. I guess I just had such an experience. I arrived on time at Almer / Blank and had a warm welcome with my new colleagues. But unfortunately I didn&#8217;t feel so well. About one hour later, I felt really, really ill and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/09/01/first-day-at-almer-blank/</link>
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