Some really sweet news. The Flash platform is extending across more handsets and operators. Macromedia has announced the Flash Lite 1.1 player, which is much more adanced than the previous Flash Lite 1.0 player released and used in DoCoMo phones in 2003. The new version of Flash Player supports SVG Tiny, networks, audio and APIs for Flash. Adopters include: Bellwave, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, Texas Instruments, and T-Mobile.
Read more about it here: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2004/flash_lite.html
More information:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/devices/products/flashlite/
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/flashlite.html
There are new product RSS feeds available. This is awesome - previously I had only found a couple, but now there are Flash feeds available. For example, if you want to aggregate all the new TechNotes - you now can! Super. Anyway, here's the link for more info:
http://www.markme.com/notifications/
That's right - win a set of free books from www.flash-mx.com. All you have to do is send an email and you're entered into the contest. No making SWFs and trying to outdo others. No jumping through hoops. No answering skill-testing questions. No submitting tutorials or reviews. None of that. All you have to do is send us an email so we can choose a winner.
What do you win? A couple of "At your Fingertips" books from Sybex and flash-mx.com. One on Photoshop CS and one on Flash MX 2004! What could be better.
Send the word on, tell your friends! Everyone gets an entry. Read the details and entry information here:
http://www.flash-mx.com/contest.cfm.
Read this gem on the Register. Seems that when you run the latest Beastie Boys cd on your computer, it silently runs an executable that prevents you from ripping that CD and possibly other CDs on the computer.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/beastie_boy_cd_virus/?index
A very sweet new toy, from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
This thing plugs into the wall, and lets you have your tunes anywhere in the house - a small wireless access point. But it even has a headphone jack, so you could just plug in a pair of speakers anywhere and have a stereo in your room. Still a little pricey for that, but definitely a great direction! Set up a playlist, send it off to whatever room. Plus I saw this applescript in one of the mac magazines where you can shut off iTunes after a specified amount of time.
Go macs!
Big news - Flash Remoting components for Flash MX 2004 / ActionScript 2.0 have finally been released.
This update includes the following, and I quote:
* The Flash Remoting ActionScript API has been updated to comply with ActionScript 2.0.
* The new RemotingConnector component allows you to work directly with the new data binding features in Flash MX 2004 Professional
* Significant improvements to the Documentation, including new ASDoc format and sample applications.
You can read more and download the components here:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting/downloads/components/
If you're using Remoting and Flash MX 2004, these are a must. The new RemotingConnector component is a must. Go check it out!
There are some new Macs on the horizon. Apple is talking about a few new dual-processor G5s, the fastest of which is actually 2.5GHz. Pretty sweet stuff. And they're shooting for 3GHz soon too. No timeframes announced on any G5 laptops or iMacs, though. As expected, hard to fit all that computer in such a small space.
Read the full story here.
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/06/09/apple/index.php
So the news came that service pack two on Win. would undo the whole pop-up thing in IE. Big news for the Flash people! So here's a MSDN page that shows how your sites will be limited.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xpsp2websites.asp
They even say there is no workaround without clicking on a link, which works only one time. Seems to sound a little scary, if it only ends up being one single pop-up per entire SWF file.
Buy Contribute and get two full copies for the price of one (if you're in the US or Canada, it seems).
Check out the details here.
After months of not updating my blog due to de-aggregated-ness and an impending server move, the blog is back. De-skinned, generic, and ready to be redesigned. But back.
Apologies for the disarray, but it will come around.