Category: Mobile

MacWorld but also developer.apple.com

I love Apple so much!

This period is so interesting for MACWORLD and this year I’m so excite to view new iTV, new macbook AIR, new firmware upgrade for iPod Touch (finally I could see emails in my iPod Touch) and new services like rent video! That’s cool.

But also, I suggest to take a look at developer.apple.com, in particular in iPhone section, you must register for FREE and you’ll have a lots of materials about development on iPhone and so on.

There you can also submit your iPhone application and put in apple site. New opportunities ae growing up.
In 2008, I think that we’ll have a lots of changes from AIR to new Macbook AIR (everything we call AIR in 2008, it’s funny!).
I love Apple, I love AIR… and I love 2008!

Flash Lite 3: load external data

This morning I talk with Fabio, a friend of mine, and he asks me if I’ve ever loaded an FLV file in Flash Lite 3 from web.

I don’t start to use FL3 since this morning because there aren’t enable devices and also I think that we could use it only in the end of 2008 to have some devices in the market with it.
In Flash Lite 3, when you want to load web data (images, video or anything else), you MUST set, in Publish Settings, network access only.
When I worked with Flash Lite 2 we don’t need to set network access to load external data.
So for example in Flash Lite 2 we load an external 3gp video (there isn’t FLV support in FL2) we write:
//video_vd is an istance of video object that is in library 
video_vd.play("http://www.mart3.co.uk/video.3gp");
in Flash Lite 3 we use NetConnection class:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection;
nc.connect(null);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns.play("http://www.mart3.co.uk/flvfl3/phone.flv")
video_vd.attachVideo(ns);

A big THANK YOU to Alessandro!Update: Talking with Scott I found a recent post of Nick Gerig about security model of Flash Lite 3 that explains well the problem.

Nimbuzz, mobile software

Surfing on web, I found Nimbuzz a mobile software to manage your IM accounts and add into new mobile community.
It’s a J2ME software and they have made porting for a lots of devices, it’s so easy to use and it has a very good user interface.

I think that is a very cool project and it’s totally FREE, I’ll follow it to understand better the way that it brings.
There are also a lots of vacant positions in this company, take a look at About page to see them.

So if you want to add me, search lucamezzalira in nimbuzz world, see around guys!

Flash Lite 3 & Zinc 3.0, new softwares released this weekend

This weekend Adobe announced that is ready new flash lite version developer edition, dowloadable for free from labs.adobe.com.
Remember that you can develop flash lite 3 contents only if you upgrade Flash CS3 and Device Central.
More information about features and files to download you can see at Bill Perry’s blog.
If you test this developer release in your device, remember to write in Flash Lite 3 Forum which device you are using!

You can also see Flash Lite 3 application in action from Biskero’s blog, very cool video!

Finally multidmedia announce Pandora project that is new Zinc version with new big features and optimization.
New features are (from Pandora’s devlab):

. Mac OSX Output will now be in Native Universal Binary and optimized for Mac 10.5 “Leopard”
. Windows Projectors will have been specifically optimized for Vista
. Windows & Mac OSX Projectors almost 500% faster than Zinc 2.5 Projectors
. The entire {mdm}Script API will now be 100% Modularized
. Dynamic Form Creation
. An extensive Custom Command SDK will be available for both Windows and Mac OSX Developers
. {mdm}Script 3.0 – Completely re-written from scratch and now Unicode (UTF8/UTF16) Compliant
. {mdm}Script 3.0 – Greater Similarity between Windows & Mac OSX Classes
. Completely New GUI on Windows & Mac OSX – Screenshots available in December 2007!
. Several other “Industry Firsts” to be revealed in December 2007!

Probably Zinc 3.0 will go out in January 2008 but a public BETA will be release in December.
So take a look at Multidmedia site!

Japan college courses on mobile

I love so much japanese people, they use technologies like no others!

Today on engadgetmobile.com I find an interesting post where in Japan they start with a new way to lear with mobile phones.
That’s is so interesting because next generations use technologies very well, they are born with mobile phones!
So I think that’s right change communication ways and learn ways.

When I went to FotB, I saw an interesting seminar made by Richard Legget that talks about how our life will change in next years, and I think that technologies revolution start NOW.
If you see what you could create with Adobe softwares, what opportunities give us new future softwares… that’s amazing!
We must start to educate better people on this revolution to help old generation to catch the best opportunities that a mobile phone, a computer a device give us to have a better life.

My 2 cents.

learn.adobe.com new Adobe resource?!

Surfing on web, I make a search with google and I find learn.adobe.com, a wiki site where you can find some examples about Flex and Device Central.

The site is in BETA, so I think that propably they’ll release next weeks… I don’t know, it’s first time that I see it.
In home they write:

This site lets you:

Share tips and techniques with other members of the community
Edit and update information from Adobe, including Adobe Help documentation
Rate and comment on content from Adobe and others.

that’s so interesting!

Mobile Camp in London

Via Matt I read that on 29th and 30th September in London, it will be a mobile Bar Camp for designers and developers and they’ll speak about flash lite, symbian, windows mobile, iphone and so on.

More information about event ou can find in mobile camp page.

Nokia opens doors for Windows live!

Nokia stipulate a contract with Microsoft to deliver Windows live service in some S60 phones (N73, N76, N80, N93i, N95) and in future deliver it in S40 also.

So you could use Windows Live services like Messenger or Live Search or Live Spaces or Hotmail, a great group of Microsoft services on your handset.

For now there are only a few country that can use it, but list are update very frequently.
You can find more information to download manual and software and on this service, directly on Nokia Europe site.

Finally Nokia take a look on Mac

After a lot of year without launch tansfer software from Nokia device to Macintosh, finally Sweden company release Nokia Media Transfer, that is in Beta, but you can download it.

This software allow you to sync your Nokia device (you have a list of them that you can use with software).

Also Nokia create a section with tutorial, tips & tricks to syncronize your Mac with Nokia device.
For more information visit Nokia site

Silverlight on Mobile

Andrea Trento notify me an interesting video on Silverlight.
In fact, in this video, you can watch new Microsoft software in action on Windows Mobile device.

I think that we must take a look in this technology because it will be new interesting features in the next months.