Archive for March, 2006
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Next month at FITC (Flash in the Can) 2006, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion currently entitled “It’s a mobile world” - Flash and portable devices Build it and they will come.
Needless to say, we should have a lively discussion on the state of Flash mobile, device convergence, fragmentation, and other topics that are [...]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Just a quick informal review of the Nokia 3250 which I just received recently.
If you’re looking for a more in depth review, then goggle around, or perhaps check out this link.
Yes, this is one of the first of several Nokia phones that has Flash Lite 1.1 pre-installed.
Pre-installed, the magical word that makes Flash Lite [...]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
The folks at Ambient Devices are at it again. They have a new product called the Ambient Umbrella.
The umbrella pulsates the handle according to the local weather it receives via accuweather.com. The rate of the pulses corresponds to the likelihood of rain.
Interested? Read more about the product. It’s slated to be released later this [...]
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Flash Lite Friday Digest is a condensed and organized set of links that help users to get a weekly overview on the Flash Lite mobile world.
Greetings Flash Mobi-lites. This is the latest rendition of the F.L.F.D (Flash Lite Friday Digest)!
If I forgot something you think is important please feel free to post it in [...]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
The latest BFPUG (Boston Flash Platform User Group) occured tonight. The topic, ActionScript 3.0.
About 30 people showed. Probably more … remotely. There was a live cast going on you see.
Keith Peters did a quick history of AS, and then Sam Robbins carried on with some of the new features/capabilities … as well as a couple [...]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
For Flash Lite developers getting into ActionScript 2 (AS 2) and Flash Lite 2 (FL 2) … there is a recent devnet article entitled: Loading, Parsing, and Locally Storing XML in Flash Lite 2 available.
Along with XML processing, there is some good information on MSO’s, and how they differ from their desktop brethren.
Jonathan does a [...]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2006
A while back someone started the whole “musical baton” idea (people blogged about what they had in their music collection, etc).
This circulated around the blog-o-sphere. Not sure where or how it all started … However, I am now proposing something along similar lines … the “mobile device baton”.
If you receive the baton … [...]
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Saturday, March 18th, 2006
The staff of this year’s 2006 FITC conference recogonize that students are sometimes strapped for cash.
This year they are offering “10 Scholarships” to a lucky few who qualify.
Rules and conditions apply, so check out the info posted. The due date for your application is April 15th.
… and even if you don’t qualify as a [...]
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
Episodic Media just put up the viliv p1 store, so you can go and put your order in. Price is $499.
Update: 03/16/2006 1:39 am - seems like they might be making last minute tweaks to the site, so it might not be a bad idea to wait a day to put in your final order [...]
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
U10 1.27 MTP Firmware update now available!
iRiver announced version 1.27 of MTP U10 firmware today.
This is the MTS version only … MTS = most likely if you purchased the U10 in the US. Not sure if you have the UMS or MTS version? Check here.
Contains the following updates:
[Improved Feature]
1. SRS 2.0 - Upgraded SRS [...]
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