Archive for February, 2006

BFPUG Flash Lite 2.0 Presentation Slides

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Here are the slides from the BFPUG Flash Lite 2.0 meeting Alessandro and I put together and presented last week at NEIA. Download slides: BFPUG_FL2.ppt – Powerpoint BFPUG_FL2_breeze.zip – Breeze, self-contained, no audio Keith also has a good summary of what transpired at the meeting. For those of you unable to attend … we did [...]

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PSP Homebrew Flash Player Confirmed

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Here are some recent photos from Phillip Torrone, of make and flashenabled fame … fiddling with the unofficial PSP player that’s been floating around. According to the authors: “The current version supports most action script through version 7 and runs on 1.5 only. We are currently testing for 2.x PSPs and will announce when it [...]

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Webdu 2006 Celebrity Head (Flash Lite) Game

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Dal-eeee-oh (aka Mr. Moket) pre-released Celebrity Head for the upcoming Webdu 2006 conference. A nice spin on a conference guide. After all, it’s about the people there anyways. See if you can spot Dale, Bill, or James Talbot. Anyways, a fun little ditty, if your session turns out to be a wash (unlikely I know). [...]

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CTIA Wireless – April 5-7, 2006 Las Vegas

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Just an FYI, that the CTIA Wireless conference is going on next month. CTIA Wireless April 5-7, 2006 Las Vegas View the most recent attendee brochure.

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Joshua Davis and Helio articles in Wired Magazine

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

In the latest article of Wired (March 2006), there are 2 things that you might think are cool. 1. An article on Josh Davis entitled: “The barely controlled chaos of Joshua Davis” Mostly about Josh and Brandon’s “generative composition machines”, which they showed last year at FITC 2005. I still remember Josh explaining how he [...]

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Will Apple adopt Windows?

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

There is a really interesting article in the March issue of PC Magazine, entitled: “Will Apple adopt Windows?” … written by John Dvorak. The idea is that of Yakov Epstein, a professor at Rutgers (who? Yeah mean neither) … Now, I’m not claiming to agree or even remotely think it’s a good idea … but [...]

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iriver u10 forum – www.u10do.com (you-ten-doe)

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Craig Babcock officially launched an online forum dedicated specifically to the u10 recently in case you missed the previous blog entry by Alessandro. It’s aptly named ‘U10DO’ (you-ten-doe) . It features forums, links, gallery, etc. Definately worth checking out if you’re an u10 lover, or would like to know more info about the device and [...]

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Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

“While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such [...]

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DESIGNING FOR smallscreens – A MUST HAVE BOOK !

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

If you are doing Flash Mobile development … this book is an absolute must have. lis186 (who has an awesome

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Job Posting – Senior Product Manager, Flex Mobile Development @ Adobe

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Adobe is looking for a Senior Product Manager for Flex Mobile Development … I think you can draw your own conclusions after reading this recent posting off monster. Flash Lite + Flex = TBD

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