Pocket Flash

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.

Apple’s new os will ship on the 26th October for just 85 bones (sterling) or 129 bucks in the US, with the eagerly awaited ‘Time Machine’ which will allow you to go back in time to rescue previous versions of files and folders on your mac (which could easily become the lazy man’s version control)

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.

Read the press release here, then take a look at the all new version comparison chart.

Here’s just a coupe of new features:

• External API for browser scripting
• Forward lock
• Enhanced local file security
• Metadata support
• Flash Media Server connectivity (RTMP streaming)

Here’s a quick list of what’s not in version 3.0, to give you an idea:

• 8-bit alpha channel video
• Flash Media Server connectivity (Remote Shared Object)
• SVG-T 1.1

So on the face of it, it’s looking good for Adobe and there lovable Flash Lite Player. Shame about the lack of remote shared object, I had some good ideas about that one.

Ironically I was reading AdMob’s blog when I cam across this post about Googles Mobile AdSense.

I’m really interested in the idea of generating revenue for via mobile and how this could affect Flash Lite developers. I’ve not looked into it enough (yet) so I don’t even know if it’s possible.

Pitch currently offers free downloadable content for all those who agree to receive marketing messages, which I must say actually works, partly because it’s very upfront about the whole trading eye-balls for content and partly because Pitch understand the importance of “Permission marketing” and how it’s the only way marketeers can cut through the noise they have themselves created.

Well this would be good if it wasn’t for the fact it’s only on O2. Personally I think this is suicide for a company that wants to sell 10 million phones. Not to mention that I’m on vodafone so I’m a bit pissed off I can’t just upgrade with my number, now I’m faced with the idea of A) get a new contract alongside my current vodafone, B) wait until April and transfer my number to O2 or C) wait and see if unlocked devices become available to third party distributors, like carephonewarehouse etc. Anyway, I’ll always be the mac-boy-fan-boy

Check out the new iPod touch. It didn’t take Apple long to take the (in my opinion) beautiful multi-touch technology and cram it into an iPod. There are two flavours, 8 and 16Gb, to be honest I would have expected a lot more, but I guess size is everything to some people.

iPod touch 16GB - Black iPod touch 16GB - Black