After stumbling upon Cameron Moll’s Blog and site, which is pretty much focused on mobile web design and development, I downloaded his eBook, “Mobile Web Design”. Now that I have finished reading the book I thought I would provide a review. Book reviewing is not something that I have done before, but I hope the [...]

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FOTB 07. What can I say. Incredible. First off let me say a very big thank you to John Davey. John did a great job, I can only guess the amount of organization involved in Flash on the beach, the speaker list and session line up were brilliant, and the shwag was top draw, both [...]

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This morning I received an email from Apple letting me know I could now log into the iPhone Dev Center The iPhone Dev Center will provide quote. iPhone Reference Library Access documentation, guides, and release notes on developing web applications and content for iPhone. Web Development Guidelines Get the latest development techniques on mobile browser-based [...]

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Following on from the simple BatteryBroadcaster class posted last week I have put together a second helper class for FlashLite, again built in ActionScript 2, so it should work for any FlashLite 2 or FlashLite 3 project. The NetworkBroadcaster class centralises all network and signal related events, and broadcasts any changes to listeners on 2 [...]

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I have been sorting through some of my old code, commenting up some bits and generally refreshing the grey matter on some of the things I have been working on. I thought I would put some of the helper classes I use out into the wild. First up is a simple class that I used [...]

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The N810 features, Wifi, Bluetooth, GPRS and a full slide out keyboard. The screen has a good looking resolution at 800×480, but the thing that grabbed my eye was this nugget. The Nokia N810 is powered by maemo Linux based OS2008, updatable also on the Nokia N800, the previous internet tablet generation hardware. The Nokia [...]

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Following the post by Marco Casario a couple of weeks ago, I was filled with similar excitement. In no way can I claim any of the glory that Marco certainly deserves. But In some small way I am equally as proud to have been Technical Reviewer (thorn in Marco’s side :p ) for his book [...]

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If you are interested in testing your new FlashLite 3 content on device, as all good developers should be, the there is an interim build of FlashLite 3 availible that has been certified only for Nokia N95. You must submit your IMEI number by Noon Eastern Time on the 16th of October. Details of the [...]

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I have just seen that sitepoint are offering the download of a free Ruby on Rails development book. You do have to provide an email address, but other than that its all free, gratis and as one post also notes the offer has been so popular, it took the site down! Download your free Ruby [...]

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Via: PixelSurgeon.com is this link to a 3d proof of concept called Perl3d. No more info that that I’m afraid. But it certainly does look purdy

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Via Cameron Moore & Comscore: Over on Authentic Boredom, Cameron Moore draws attention to the huge numbers of mobile web users in Japan. Almost as many web users accessed the web in one form or another using their mobile phone as accessed the internet from a home or work computer in june apparently. … an [...]

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Along with the news of updates for CS3 and Device Central to support FlashLite 3 Authoring from within the CS 3 suite of products. The FlashLite product website has a side by side comparison of various Flash player specifications that are currently being used in Mobiles and other devices. see the Flash Version Comparison Chart [...]

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Following the press release announcing FlashLite 3 I proceeded to do some more digging. Wondering how I can start producing this new fangled FlashLite 3 Content, I followed some links through from the new Nokia Mobile Developers Site mentioned in the previous post and found new downloads for updates to Flash CS3 and Device Central [...]

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Adobe have posted a press release today, it seems that they announced the release of FlashLite 3 at Max in Chicago. Included in the release is the well know news from a previous press release that the new Mobile FlashLite player will support the Flash Streaming Video Format .FLV. Also mentioned in the release is [...]

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Earlier this week WordPress 2.3 was released, and I was quick to upgrade. However it seems two of the plug ins I use on my blog had problems with the new version of WordPress. Both Plug ins were produced by tantannoodles.com / silaspartners.com Flickr Photo Album for WordPress This needed a line commented out and [...]

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In previous posts I have espoused the virtues of portable applications, and provided a list of applications I keep installed on my USB Drive. One application I have used for a number of years is IDM Computer Solutions Ultra Edit. This feature rich text/hex editor has now been updated to be compatible with the U3 [...]

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Last week Google launched the new Gadget Ad, these seem to be some pretty 2.0 ad deliveries. Allowing a kind of cross between RIA/Widget that users can have installed on their iGoogle page. Google are offering an caching proxy, presumably this will allow more geographically relevant delivery of the ads that are produced. Speeding up [...]

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The Weblog Tools site has a link to an AIR application aimed at blog authors, its called AirPress. AirPress seems to offer similar functionality to other blogging tools I have seen such as the ScribeFire add-on (used to be called Performancing) for FireFox. The major interesting addition in AirPress is the inclusion of webcam support [...]

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I stumbled across this on the Adobe.com press area. The suite looks like it contains all the products you could need from Adobe if you are required to produce Technical Documentation, Training Material, Help files for products and even E-learning courses. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Technical Communication Suite software, a first-of-a-kind, integrated [...]

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Bill Perry has posted a very interesting presentation, the subject is Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content. You can down load the presentation from Bills Site. Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content I also noticed Bill has a document linked at the very top of his site, under the banner “Addressable devices for [...]

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I have just seen on my WordPress dashboard that the new release WordPress 2.3 was released today. Code named “Dexter”. This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon Download WordPress 2.3, “Dexter” Also today I found this useful article on using Subversion for managing your WordPress installation. Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion

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Continuing my work with Web Development for Mobile Phones and other Devices I updated my very simple early FlashLite 2 tests that I showed on in screen shots on my N95. In those posts I discussed the problem of detecting screen rotation detection on the Nokia N95. I could not get the FlashLite player to [...]

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Recently a large portion of my time has revolved around development for Mobile and Devices. This has predominantly been focused on FlashLite version 1.1 and also some FlashLite 2 or FlashLite 2.1 . This new area of development, and also the purchase of a Nokia N95 has bought a new appreciation of the requirements for [...]

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Sometime last night (07/06/2007) the DreamHost Servers suffered a security breach. Apparently the exact problem relates to a fairly large number (about 3500) of FTP accounts on the DreamHost servers. I discovered one of my accounts was involved. As a result some pages within my site are now unreachable and others may have nefarious links [...]

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Following my initial post last night detailing some of the player information of the FlashLite 2 support in the N95 web browser, and also one of the issues. I thought I would take a quick look at the files from last night with fresh eyes over lunch. I have included a couple of screen shots [...]

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