Apart from the speed here (it’s very slow). This is a very impressive emulation, showing images, videos, text and search works too. Click through the icons to see the app. Knowing that this would have been very difficult to do using JavaScript as it currently does, my hat goes off to whoever made this (via Mike Harsh). http://www.vista.si/main.htm Plugin for windows Plugin for mac
I’ve just been informed we have another free full chapter from Foundation Flash for Mobile Devices (FoED) online on Adobe DevNet. This one is on Application Development using Flash Lite. If you are new to Flash or coding with ActionScript, I’d suggest first reading chapters 2 and 3 which cover in depth the nitty gritty of Flash Lite 1.1 – 2.1 and a primer on ActionScript 2.0 to boot. Read the article and download the chapter. ...
There used to be a time when everything tech wasn’t so “meta”, and things (mostly) worked in the way they were designed. Whilst browsing the web just now using Internet Explorer 7 (normally I use Firefox 2), I get the following request for an ActiveX control to be installed: This website wants to run the following add-on: ‘Microsoft HTML Viewer’ from ‘Microsoft Corporation’ (Click pic to enlarge) ...
Now that the site is live for our book on Flash Lite (thanks to Scott) I’d also like to take the chance to point you to one of the chapters I wrote which is online for free download, available immediately: Visit the page (PDF on the right) This chapter contains a variety of concepts involved with game programming on limited devices; including math, physics, collision detection, keypad input, graphics and sound. ...
I’m pleased to finally announce the Flash Lite Pocket Guide for Flash on the Beach 2006. I had some problems embedding so many images and a large amount of XML parsing required for something like an event guide in Flash Lite 2, the RAM limitation is something you never totally get used to, but on the flip side I believe that limitations can lead to happiness. There are several tricks and tips required to get this working well, but after some effort here we have it: ...
Take part in a Flash Lite (and J2ME) contest courtesy of the Mobile & Devices Adobe User Group of Rome and Jamba… Flashlite category: • 1st prize: Flash Studio 8 • 2nd prize: IRiver 2G • 3rd: 3 O’Rilley Books J2ME Category: • 1st prize: Nokia N93 • 2nd prize: IRiver 2G • 3rd prize: 3 O’Rilley Books Enter the contest here .
Just to announce I’ve uploaded my FlashFoward Austin 2006 slides and source. You can download the zip here. As soon as time allows it… a mini-tutorial that goes a little more in depth as to how the multi-user example works and how you can set up SUSHI on your machine (the docs that come with it are great though, so get downloading! In the meantime, to enable HTTP support in SUSHI, you need to follow the instructions supplied with the SUSHI manual, for example, all I had to do was uncomment this line in my Apache httpd.conf config file: ...
Hot on the heels of my last post (it’s been a busy month so my lack of posts is showing!) I’d like to announce I’ll be presenting at the first Flash on the Beach, I believe this is the first UK exclusive Flash event in 6 years, and it’s high time so thanks to John Davey for organising it. Flash on the Beach runs from Dec 4,5 & 6th and takes place of course in what seems to be the place to be right now, Brighton! I’ve actually never been to Brighton but it definitely has its fair share of great Flash devs so what better place. My topic is yet to be confirmed but you can be sure the words mobile and Flash are in there! ...
Do you regularly back up your computer files, code etc? I used to do the usual, which involved sporadically dumping what I thought was important to DVD once a month maybe. Thankfully I’ve only encountered a real problem where I lost work that I hadn’t backed up just once, SVN came to the rescue in this case, but I vowed never to lose work again because of poor backup procedures. So a couple of months back I put together an external HD, from a 200gig internal 3.5″ drive and a USB 2.0 fan assisted cradle from eBay. This seemed to be to be not only a low cost approach but also hot-swappable when it comes to backing up the backups onto more than 1 drive. So with the hardware sorted I shopped around for a software backup solution to replace my not-so-great xcopy batch file. ...
Big thanks to Adobe for last night’s party in London, we had a good time and it was great to catch up with everyone. Here’s a bit of fun with one of the photos just before we got there, it’s called spot the Tink. Guy seems to be concentrating on some white dots that happened to be floating in front of him. Mike has some good ones too.