The road to becoming a sushi chef is a long and hard one. Over 10 years are spent learning this culinary art form. From proper handling of the fish to mastering the intricate knife work, the dedication required is truly amazing. But if you're not sure that the profession is right for you why not fill in as a sushi chef for a week at Sushi Go Round.
Like any good sushi chef your goal is to keep your patrons happy by preparing their orders correctly and timely. When a customer places an order consult your recipe book, create it and send the dish down the conveyor belt. If you don't follow the recipe correctly your end product will be a turd of a dish, so no improvising here.
In addition, you'll have to also play executive chef keeping tabs on inventory, ordering when supplies are low. And if you're not careful, you may end up with no ingredients to make your dishes. In order to keep your customers happy you can certainly offer them some sake while you pay extra to have your deliveries rushed.
As you progress further into the week your menu expands and your daily goal increases. But remember a sushi chef is rooted in honor and tradition so keep your skills as sharp as your knives and press forward!
The premise is simple, you go through a series of days and launch HedgeHogs with a nice launcher gear, much like you would water balloons. Except these aren't balloons, these are dangerous little beasts called HedgeHogs. it's not quite Sonic, but we think it's way more fun.
The name of the game is to only get distance, but to grab money in the air while your HedgeHog flies.
The controls are quite easy, and you can play in fullscreen mode too. Just don't do it at work, because we can't be held responsible for having "HedgeHog Screwoff" on your permanent record. But that would be pretty schweet though.
You can dig in and tweak your thrusts left or right, and as you go through the days, your skills will get better and the stakes will get higher. Collect money, buy better rockets, some stylish goggles, and even a parachute to get better scores.
The music is addictive too.
So launch your hog and share your scores in the comments.
Download Squad originally told you about the Adobe Flash beta in May, and yesterday Adobe announced further updates to "Astro." So what do you have to look forward to?
From a viewer's standpoint, there are several new features of interest. Tops among them: advanced 3d effects - that's right, Flash now supports shaders. Web gamers rejoice, because this no doubt means a whole new era of addictive browser-based gaming.
Sound APIs have been refined as well, which should provide a boost not only for games, but also for streaming media applications. Also along these lines, Flash 10 support dynamic bitrate adjustments. Translation: it'll adapt to crappy network conditions automatically so that your video doesn't get all choppy.
Adobe's Flash technology has long been the bane of efforts to create a Web site or application that can be indexed by Google, Yahoo! or other search engines. What it lacked in search engine optimization (SEO), Flash made up in offering designers an infinite playground for creating rich-media apps, games and video.
But what good is an application that users can't find?
Ever created a PowerPoint that everyone in your organization wanted a copy of? Sure you could go ahead and clog up your corporate email server with the 200MB + file or you could just convert your PowerPoint to a smaller flash file with iSpring and publish it to an internal or external website (slideboom account required) for others to view.
Converting your PowerPoint presentation to a flash movie couldn't be any easier as the iSpring installation puts the conversion buttons right in your PowerPoint menu bar. In addition to the one click conversion iSpring also allows for some customization such as generating HTML codes, looped and automatic playback, slide advance via mouse click as well as changing the duration of the slide.
iSpring comes in 3 flavors ranging from the free version which we tested on up to the Ultra version which allows the creation of E-learning content to additional playback controls. In our testing we found the free version more than adequate for most PowerPoint presentations.
So before you send that PowerPoint thru your company email, try converting it with iSpring instead.
If your blog is looking a bit lonely why not get it a pet to keep it company? There are many sites that specialize in the creation of these Tamogotchi like characters but one site that caught our attention was doll-doll because instead of animals the creators decided to make them like little people.
Once you've selected a doll, customized and name it, you then copy a line of code containing your doll's information to your blog. From there, your little doll will live on your site. And like Tamogotchis of the past, you are responsible for it's well being by making sure you feed it regularly. If you slack off in caring for your doll, it may die.
Visitors to your site can also play with your doll and kill it as well (usually by giving it bad food). But unless you are the owner of the doll, death by visitors isn't permanent.
This is probably a good thing as you can imagine how many drive by killings might occur.
Sometimes you just want to unwind with a simple flash game. Nothing overly complicated and to involved, just a simple one mouse click game. And Ferry Halim of Orisinal fame has created such a game called Sunny Day Sky.
The goal of the game is to simply glide from car to car using your umbrella . And the only control given is a click of your mouse button to open and close the umbrella. Points are given for the number of cars that can be passed and of course the more you pass in a single jump the higher the points.
The graphics and the colors used gives the game a very soft and inviting feel to it. The music reminds us of the Happy Working Song from Disney's Enchanted (not that we listen to the soundtrack here or anything like that).
So if you're just looking for a simple one click game to zone out with, give Sunny Day Sky a shot.
Timetoast is an attractive new timeline app built on Abode's Flash and Flex. Do you like your timelines interactive and embeddable? Sure beats the last timeline we made (crayons and construction paper may have been involved)! This could be a good tool for bloggers who want to enhance a post with a detailed history of the topic, or for anyone in school who doesn't want to approach the aforementioned crayon method.
Since Timetoast is pretty new, we hope there'll eventually be more options for colors, fonts and the size of embedded timetables. We like the ability to add images to events, but we'd also like to be able to drill down to hours and minutes, instead of days: a timeline of a day might come in handy! For now, it looks like they're off to a promising start.
Posted Jun 25th 2008 10:00AM by Joey Celis Filed under: Fun
Sometimes work can be a bit overwhelming and you just need to take a break. But in some offices you're watched like a hawk and if your boss catches you doing something other than work, it could mean trouble.
Maybe that's why the New Zealand Book Council developed the readatwork website. Designed to simulate a typical XP desktop, you won't find flash games here. You will find short stories, poems, originals from New Zealand authors and some familiar classics.
What makes things interesting is the layout of the stories are entirely in the "Power Point " style, complete with animations that's sure not to arouse suspicion at work. That is, of course, if your position doesn't require the use of Power Point.
We must admit that while the layout was fun, it did make it hard to read the stories easily, as you had to try to hunt for the next sentence.
If you're looking to catch up on your reading at work, you might as well look like you're reviewing last Monday's sales presentation.
Developed by Pet Tomato the object of the game is simple. Get your character from door to door. It's just the way that he gets there is rather um... how should we put this... gas-tastic.
While you can certainly jump, in order to reach the heights required to get to each level you'll have to expend you inner powers. Of course there is a limit to this and you can't very well expect an infinite supply, so use it wisely. As you progress, the levels get harder and enemies try to block your way from reaching your goal.
We've haven't been able to get very far in the game, so we'll need to work on our fourth meal to increase our strength.
Adobe has built a suite of online office applications to compliment Buzzword, the company's online word processor. We've covered Buzzword in the past. It's pretty, fast, and not really all that much more useful than similar products from Google or Zoho. Here's a rundown of the other applications you'll find at Acrobat.com:
ConnectNow: A web conferenceing tool that lets you share your desktop with others, chat, talk over a VoIP connection, or share files and mark up whiteboards.
Share: Selectively share files with other users. Adobe Share lets you send files to a list of contacts, and lets the recipients view PDF image, and video files online.
Create PDF: Seriously, do we need to tell you what this does?
My Files: Store and organize up to 5GB of files online.
You'll notice that Acrobat.com doesn't have a complete office suite. There are no spreadsheet or presentation applications. But that 5GB of free storage space is pretty attractive.
Adobe has also released Acrobat 9, an updated version of its desktop PDF reader. The biggest change in Acrobat 9 is support for embedded Flash, which means you might start finding PDF documents with embedded YouTube videos or other Flash content.
The Flash security flaw that we recently wrote about has been addressed by Adobe and a new version is being offered.
This security flaw was affecting PC and Mac users and allowed hackers to redirect you to nasty .SWF files which could then potentially execute malicious code on your machine.
You can feel secure (as well as warm and fuzzy) by downloading a Flash update with the fix here.
It's a pretty fast response to a pretty serious issue, so Adobe gets the pass this time.
Special thanks to commenter daniel free for the heads up!
It has come to our attention that there's an Adobe Flash player vulnerability in the wild that may affect your PC.
Simply by visiting a naughty website, the unsuspecting web visitor will be attacked with a piece of code that redirects you to an evil .SWF file that can then execute nasty code on their PC.
Adobe has blogged about the issue, but hasn't issued any releases, or patches to take care of the problem as of yet. Security firm Symantec says that 20,000 web pages may be affected by this style of attack.
Since there's no real way around getting hit with this one, you can either disable your flash player altogether, or get the No-Script add-on for your Firefox browser.
The road to becoming a sushi chef is a long and hard one. Over 10 years are spent learning this culinary art form. From proper handling of the fish to mastering the intricate knife work, the dedication required is truly amazing. But if you're not sure that the profession is right for you why not fill in as a sushi chef for a week at Sushi Go Round.
Launching stuff is cool, and doing so in a flash game online is even cooler. 
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