Mark Doherty over at Flash Mobile Blog has just posted the news that Adobe have release the seventh update to device profiles for Adobe Device Central CS3.
Headline Numbers for this update:

261 profiles included
57 new devices
updates to 204 existing profiles
In total that makes 525 device profiles for you to create content with

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I you are a Flash developer producing mobile content for Flash Lite then this week end you really hit pay dirt. First Nokia announced a set of Components for Flash Lite 2. Next Adobe also release a set of Components, for use with Flash Lite 1 and also Flash Lite 2, courtesy of Mark Doherty. [...]

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As many people will have seen yesterday Nokia release a fairly major update to the N95 firmware. One of the major bonuses for flash developers is the inclusion of FlashLite 3 as standard onto the device, both as a standalone player and within the browser. For those using detection scripts the player version reported in [...]

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Anyone looking in the WordPress dashboard today will see the news that there is a sneak peak of the WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 availible. From the dashboard comments this new version of WordPress will feature.
A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load [...]

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[[** UPDATE **]]
Currently the Lightroom 1.4 update has been recalled after bugs were discovered all links to the Lightroom 1.4 update are redirected to the older 1.31 update for now. As per the comments from Adobe, you should avoid installing the Lightroom 1.4 update until a newer 1.41 update is availible that fixes these bugs [...]

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I posted a few days ago regarding the release of the new Macintosh OS X version of TrueCrypt. For those that don’t know, TrueCrypt is a free, open source application that enables you to create an encrypted files that, using the TrueCrypt application, can be mounted as a drive on a host machine. The exciting [...]

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True Crypt 5a was released on a few weeks ago on February the 12th, one of the major new features is the release of a Mac OS X version of this free encryption application. A quick test confirms that creating a TrueCrypt 5 encrypted volume as a FAT32 formated volume using the new OS X [...]

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This evening I received an email from the mobile change service Fring announcing the new version is availible. As well as great new file swapping, Yahoo and AIM support and a host of other improvements, there was news of a new Flash based widget for websites that would allow people to contact you from your [...]

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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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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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I had intended to post information about this before going on holiday but it got missed before leaving. Thanks to Jester for reminding me, I finally checked the comments
Long post short its here.

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It has been bought to my attention that the ‘Plain Text’ link of the iG:Syntax Hiliter plug-in I have been using for WordPress does not operate to well. Also some of the Flash ActionScripts I have been posting are rather large and so take a while to display and be formatted correctly.
As a result of [...]

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