I gave a lecture last night (Oct. 28) on the current state of Flash – what’s happening with CS4 (inverse kinematics, motion editor), CS5 (iPhone porting), Flex/Flash Builder, FlashLite, etc. I’ve made a pdf of my powerpoint slides available. (If link not working due to WordPress weirdness, just try: ftp.evili.com/WhatIsFlash.pdf)
Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
The State of Flash – SofTech Lecture
October 29, 2009
Android prototype coming soon?
February 11, 2008
According to this Info Week article, Texas Instruments will be showing off an Android phone prototype at the Mobile World Congress starting in Barcelona this week. I’ve got high hopes for Android (in fact, I’m entering the Android Developer contest). I spent half an hour this weekend trying to help a friend figure out how [...]
iPhone 1.1.3 upgrade a-ok on hacked phone – use your dock!
January 21, 2008
A “friend” who had jailbroken their original iPhone software (1.1.1), and was then afraid to upgrade to 1.1.2 after all the stories of iBricks surfaced, successfully upgraded to 1.1.3 this weekend. I was They were intrigued especially by the cel phone tower triangulation feature now built into maps, which actually does work pretty well. At [...]
The noPhone has arrived!
September 6, 2007
As I hoped/predicted, the “noPhone” (aka the iTouch) has arrived – a “phoneless” iPhone with Safari and Wifi, no AT&T, no monthly service charges. The only problem is it still uses Flash memory (I wanted a 160gig version). But still pretty cool…
Flash plug-in on the way for iPhone?
July 6, 2007
According to Walt Mossberg: “At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos. The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early software update, which I am guessing will [...]
I want a noPhone
July 5, 2007
OK, so, like many of you, I managed to get my hands on an iPhone this weekend. No, I didn’t buy one, but my friend did. He loves it so far. Me, I’m still not convinced. The touch-screen keypad is not as bad as I feared – but it’s still not as good as a [...]
Mobile Advertising – What’s the Rush?
June 27, 2007
There’s a lot of talk about it, but I don’t see the need to rush into Mobile advertising, especially since it seems consumers don’t like it. Don’t get me wrong, especially with the intro of the iPhone and more handheld internet devices surely on the way, it’s going to be a big space…someday. For the [...]
Walt Mossberg Loves the iPhone
June 26, 2007
In a nutshell: “despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer” after spending some time getting used to it, the lack of a tactile keyboard is “a non-issue” “major drawback: the cellphone network it uses. It only works with AT&T (formerly Cingular)” “uses a pokey network [...]