Month: February 2009

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Design for Mobile 2009 conference

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Design For Mobile is the first and only North American mobile user experience conference. This is a two-day conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing. A day of workshops precede the conference sessions.

Event Time: April 20-22, 2009
Registration: is now open with the early bird rate available until March 7th.

I feel and think design is something which can change the way people look things and connects everyone. 🙂

vivek

Adobe Flash Player 10 critical Update for Flash CS4 Professional!

Adobe released an important update for Adobe Flash Player 10 Update for Flash CS4 Professional!

“This download contains fixes for critical vulnerabilities identified in Security Bulletin APSB09-01 Flash Player update available to address security vulnerabilities. The update replaces the Debug and Release versions of Flash Player 10 browser plugins and standalone players that are included in the initial release of Flash CS4 Professional (player version 10.0.2.54). All users are encouraged to apply this update. These new players are version 10.0.22.87.”

vivek

Video: Introduction to Adobe’s mobile packager

A step by step video tutorial of Adobe’s mobile packager for distributing your Flash lite content by Serge Jespers.
“you can now package your application using the Mobile Packager and distribute your application as an SIS-file for Symbian S60 or CAB-file for Window Mobile phones. Your users can now download and install your Flash based application on their mobile device just like any other application they install. What’s even cooler is that we also package a Flash Version Checker together with your application. As soon as the user launches the application, the Flash Version Checker is going to check if the Flash Player is installed and if it is the correct version. If not, it’s going to download and install the Flash Lite runtime seamlessly.”

Unfortunately this packager works only on Windows and i hope adobe may release Mac version soon!!!

Very cool.

vivek

Microsoft’s announced new version of Windows Mobile with Adobe Flash lite 3.1

Microsoft’s announced at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona that newer version of Windows Mobile is with adobe Flash Lite 3.1

“What people really want is PC-style browsing on the phone. … There’s all these stats whereby if you tell users, go to the most popular sites and do something, they have this success and failure rate of whether they can do it on different mobile smart phones. With Internet Explorer, our rendering, how the UI looks, it is much more accurate to the PC because it’s the PC browser.”

“Then, by including Flash Lite in there, it also helps if you have a Flash site. Some of them use Flash actually as core navigation and functionality. So it’s not all eye candy. If you go to a site like that, at least you can go find the information and interact with it. The bigger news isn’t about Flash Lite, the bigger news is about getting PC-quality browsing on your phone.”

vivek

Adobe Releases Distributable Flash Lite 3.1 Player

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Adobe released the most excited stuff for Adobe Flash Lite developer “redistributable version of the Flash Lite 3.1 player along with the packager tool”. You really don’t need to worry about whether someone has the player, and being helpless to get them it if they haven’t. 🙂

The distributable player solution enables developers to create rich applications for the latest version of Adobe® Flash Lite™ and directly distribute their content to millions of open OS smartphones, providing a better on-device user experience.

Currently this solution is available only in few selected cities like India, Italy, Spain, UK, and the U.S. can easily download applications. (additional countries will be added over time.) After downloading an application, consumers see its user-friendly icon in the device menu.

I am excited to do few testing on my Nokia 5320 Xpress music, we all should be proud that adobe made this available for India 😀 .

Read more here

vivek

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Nokia launches IdeasProject.com “Do you have any idea” :)

ideas project

Nokia has launched IdeasProject, an online information space designed to help people find and understand the connections between thought leaders and their big ideas.

“IdeasProject is an exciting new way to highlight big ideas from leading thinkers, and to show how so many new thoughts are connected to one another,” said Loic Le Meur, Founder, Seesmic and LeWeb conference. Le Meur’s “big idea” on IdeasProject is that “Sharing changes everything.”

“IdeasProject visitors can see new ideas as they surface and be able to track the connection between ideas and the thought leaders that contributed them,” said Valerie Buckingham, Director of Technology Marketing, Nokia.

Interesting! 🙂

vivek