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I use Google Reader along with the Firefox notifier plugin extensively. It’s one of the best RSS aggregators I’ve ever used, not because it is the slickest in terms of the UI, but because it does its job pretty well and fits in nicely with how I browse the web (unobtrusive, integrates well with Firefox and so on). I clicked on the Firefox notifier for it today and when the page opened I was presented with the soon to be familiar request to use Google Gears for offline storage. ...

Just watched the video of the BBC Silverlight app we created being presented at the day 2 keynote for MIX 07. There’s been a lot of traffic in the last couple of days with regards to Flash/Silverlight etc, and I’m not going to get into any of that here. The feature-sets and SDKs/players for the two products are out there for you to decide yourself as a professional whether it suits your needs. I just enjoy working at a place that throws so many new challenges my way, keeps things exciting! ...

I know there are a lot of Amiga fans out there with you Flashers (that includes you Ralph), so imagine the suprise when I read today that Amiga are releasing a budget and a high-end computer using the PowerPC architecture and running AmigaOS4. I’d like to say I’m going to get one, but let’s just have a little play first and see how it feels. 🙂 Read the press release.

I’m a huge fan of TED talks. If you read New Scientist or Scientific American and you’ve never seen a TED talk you may be missing out as the topics covered are generally very similar. And if you don’t, you’re still missing out! You may have seen the now famous multi-touch display, first demo’d (I do believe) at TED. TED talks are on a variety of topics ranging from “Is there a God?” and “What makes us happy?”, and their new website reflects on these themes with a nice new Flash theme-based visualisation of the (now over) 100 talks, along with some other great new features. ...

Just got sent this by Rick Williams… Security researchers have found what they say is an entirely new kind of web-based attack, and it only targets the Ajax applications so beloved of the ‘Web 2.0’ movement. Vulnerable frameworks include: Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX (aka. Atlas), XAJAX and Google Web Toolkit, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Dojo, Moo.fx, jQuery, Yahoo! UI, Rico, and MochiKit. Read the full story here.

Adobe rocks 🙂 Everyone has a plan, of course, but I will get the box by any means! WhatIsInTheBox.co.uk Nice 3D box on the website too.

To all of those that just joined us in the Adobe Seminar, I must apologize for losing connection 3 times, I can’t remember the last time I lost connection in my house, and I haven’t lost it since, but for those 20 minutes it was cursed. Also note to self, Dual Screen on Windows means issues. What we are going to do however is record the whole thing for you to play back at your leisure, the slides and source are up in the forums of http://www.flashmobilebook.com (at the bottom), for you to get familiar with the code, and I’ll post on here as well as the Adobe Seminar web page as soon as we have the full recording, hopefully this time with Weyert in there for completeness. ...

I’m just uploading the source code for part 2 of the “3 Briefs” Adobe Seminar which is taking place today 3PM EST (8PM GMT) Feb 28th, 2007. Download them from here. Slides are also included. The FLA requires the AS2 classes that ship with SUSHI Multi-user server (free version available). Link to original post.

Please join us in an online seminar at the end of this month (Feb 28th). Scott Janousek, Weyert de Boer and myself will be covering topics from our book Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices (Friends of ED). The seminar will be broken into 3, with questions at the end and a raffle with some great prizes. Topics will include: Part 1: Cool Flash Lite™ Wallpaper and Screen saver content – Scott Janousek Join me as we do a quick overview on how to design, develop, and deploy cool wallpaper and screen savers for the latest devices supporting these Flash Lite multimedia content types. Note: We’ll cover Nokia Series 40 and Series 60 devices in particular. ...

Bookpool are doing a nice deal where you can get 23% off Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices. You can find out more info here (click the book cover on the right of this blog to visit the book’s website).