Pocket Flash

Check it here

What a load of old bollocks, my blog got hacked or something, it took a while to notice because I’ve been really busy and not posting. At first I thought it was just a database error, then I realised that I had no user table left in my db???

Weird then a noticed a ton of comments that had been approved, great eh? That’ll learn me for not updating my self hosted blog.

//Edit - Sorry to anyone who has registered as all users have been deleted.

I came across this service this morning, they’re in the news as they’ve just pulled an iPhone apart and installed in on their servers. Device Anywhere offer “Remote Access To Real Handsets In Live Networks” and even offer a 3 hour free trial (if only I had three hours spare. It’s a bit pricey for the average Joe developer, but I think it’s a really good idea especially if you used this alongside Adobe Device Central.

This is quite exciting news from the Herald Tribune, just as the iPhone is set to hit UK shelves on November 9th, just two weeks after the Release of the new OS X ‘Leopard’  (Oct 26th) personally I want one, even though there’s a long list of reasons why I shouldn’t (mainly no 3G and a poor camera resolution.) BUT the ability to either run OR develop third party apps would open up countless possibilities.

Personally I envisage iPhone developer tools to be something along the lines of Dashcode which “is everything you need to create great Dashboard widgets.” approach from Apple, as this about turn on third party apps seems to be forced on them rather than a strategy from the start. I can see them offering a low level Widget develpment path, rather than hardcore application development, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Okay I’ve banged on about this enough, it’s time for a show of hands.

Q1, If a service were available that would take your Flash Lite content (including a menu icon bitmap/vector) and return to you a fully tested Symbian Signed .sis file, would you be:

1. Very interested in this service, please contact me now
2. Interested in this service
3. Not interested
4. Are you mental, I can self-sign

Q2, Would you expect to pay

1. £10 - £50
2. £50- £100
3. £100 - £200
4. More than £200

Q3, If this service were available to you, which S60 edition would you most likely require:

1. 1st edition
2. 2nd edition
3. 3rd edition
4. 2nd and 3rd editions
5. All of the above

Q4, If a service were available that would deliver to you, a keyword and shortcode for example “TEXT ‘pocketflash’ to 60999″ which would then deliver your content Over-The-Air, would you be:

1. Very interested in this service, please contact me now
2. Interested in this service
3. More interested in this service if it could detect whether the end user had a version of Flash Lite
4. Not interested

I really should have posted this when I first watched it, but here you are a video taken from the Adobe Max conference, showing some new features for the new player. Notably there’s now a Z rotation property for sprites.

Check out this webinar of Director 11. One thing that really caught my attention was the “Aggressive Educational pricing” it looks like they are giving it away at $99, it’s almost worth signing up for a night class to get it for that price.

There’s been a lot of new technologies well blogged about on Adobe labs this week, as with every annual MAX week. However I haven’t seen this one on the blogasphere and it seems to have massive potential.

“‘Thermo’ is an upcoming Adobe product that makes it easy for designers to create rich Internet application UIs. Thermo allows designers to build on familiar workflows to visually create working applications that easily flow into production and development.”

This seems a leap and a bound from the Flex Component kit for Flash CS3, which allows Flash CS3 users to develop Flex components directly from Flash IDE.

Adobe Thermo

I found this article in my Flash Lite tags on delicious(?) not sure how it found it’s way in there but it’s a really interesting read.

http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2005/11/mobile_essentia.html 

I’ve just got a lovely new Imac and rather than use the ingenious system transfer software to put my old system onto my new iMac, I made the decision to start afresh. What a wonderfully uncluttered place a new mac can be, I’m even finding relatively easy updating passwords I had locked into my old browser and thought I’d forgotten, not to mention those few bookmarks I kept on my bookmark bar rather in the horrible mess that is my delicious account.

I am in an overall state of transition at the moment, back as the master of my own destiny and working alone as a freelancer with a new computer, new clients, new office and new ideas. I’m even trying to get my file system back into some kind of reasonable shape, taking ideas from blitz agency, although being a single handed company means that there is less ‘need’ for some of the protocols. I’ve tried about 3 or 4 methods over the years. Everyone makes a mess of the last and although you always mean to go back to those old projects and reshape them into your new project structure for sanity’s sake, you never quite find the time. My latest foray took me into Version Cue which on paper solved a lot of my problems, but like most software that’s designed to help you out, it just does a little too much in one corner, and not enough in another. So now there’s another mess series of projects out of sync with everything else.

I think ideally I should (though never will) find the time to write an AIR application that takes the best bits from Version Cue, bundle a SVN layer underneath and use the naming conventions described in the Blitz developer article. Add a little Apple Script here and there for file management, and I think I’d be happy. Hey ho, onto newProject_034_GE.fla.