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Archive for January, 2006

project-a-phone.com - $199 Elmo for displaying mobile content

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

I found this cheap elmo made a company local here in MA. Thought it was interesting, as myself and Rob Hall had created similar things for free, last year, and this company is fairly new.
$199 is still steep for what it does. You can buy software that essentially does the same thing for around the [...]

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Flash Lite 2.0 has been nominated for a Jolt Award

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Last year I believe Flash Lite 1.1 was nominated and won (if I remember correctly) … for productivity, but lost overall to J2ME wireless toolkit 2.2.
This year FL 2.0 is nominated … here is the list of finalists for mobile:
Mobile Development Tools
— Carbide.c++ Express (Nokia)
— Crossfire [...]

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Scrolling text in a confined space wth Flash Lite 2.0

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Dealing with available screen “real estate” is an issue which all mobile (Flash Lite) developers are challenged with.
We have to come up with ideas to attain a better and more usable mobile MUE (mobile user experience). Recently I spent a few minutes creating this simple FL 2.0 class that I thought I would [...]

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viliv p1 - another Flash Lite enabled PMP device

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Hayden Porter recently posted about this new site for the viliv p1 on the Flash Lite list.
Some of us had posted previously about it. Now it looks like they have a site complete with images and specs … no price or expected ship date yet, but you can check out the features.
Yep, it’s [...]

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Luciano Ayres is giving a Flash Lite presentation in Brazil for FUGPE

Friday, January 13th, 2006

excelente! doce!?

Luciano Ayres is giving a Flash Lite presentation in Brazil this Saturday for FUGPE …. I don’t think it is being breezed or anything … but, good to see a Flash Lite event presence in the Southern Hemisphere.
In addition, I think he will be also talking about his first experiences with u10 game [...]

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Korea instrumental in making new Flash engine

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Time to learn to read/speak Korean?
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/01/13/200601130024.asp

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mimobots - not your typical USB Key

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Check out mimobots.

One of them reminds me of puki.

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Rolling your own custom mobile templates for Flash Lite Development

Monday, January 9th, 2006

IMPORTANT UPDATE

09/18/2006

The official iriver u10 template is now included in Mobile Profile Update #4 that is distributed by Adobe.

It is recommended you no longer use the temporary u10 template I had created below as it was never certified by neither Adobe or the vendor … besides, you get [...]

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I/O Brush - “The World as the Palette”

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

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I/O Brush - a simple idea. One of those nifty MIT Media labs projects. Eventually it might be a marketable toy.
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them …
There are some sample clips on the page.

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“Snake Robots” - Dr. Gavin Miller Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

I found this in my link hopping … Snake Robots. When I noticed who invented it, I thought it was worth a post. Who says robots have to have wheels, legs?
As a side note, this reminds me of the Doctor Who episode with the Cybernauts and the remote controlled snake creature.
Dr. Gavin Miller [...]

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