Maybe I didn’t keep well informed but for me Google was from far the most visited search engines website. But according to Alexa (a traffic ranking company), Yahoo.com is far more visited than Google. Well, it might not be as true as they wanted us to believe. Not that Alexa is working to promote the… Read More »
Smart idea from Dana Peters, you can get the north in any localization with your mobile phone (J2ME compatible) without using GPS or LBS. Just by using the position of the Sun or the Moon. By rotating the phone so that the sun and/or moon icons match their location in the sky, the top of… Read More »
Lynda.com has release a tutorial about Adobe Apollo. All the basic to make a simple application are explained by Mike Chambers: Join Mike Chambers, Adobe’s Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations, as he gives an exclusive, hands-on glimpse of the alpha version Apollo: a powerful new development tool from Adobe. Web developers fluent in Flash,… Read More »
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network… Read More »
One week ago I wrote about the new book from O’Reilly: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers. Now this book is free to to download directly from the labs. The main Chapter are : Introduction to Apollo Getting Started with Apollo Development Using HTML Within Flex-Based Apollo Applications Using the File System API Apollo Mini-Cookbook So… Read More »
Here’s a quick post to show the number of post containing “Adobe Apollo”. I post it here because I had already see some chart of Technorati, but never found were it was… (okay maybe it’s obvious but forgive my blindness). This tool is very useful for marketer but it’s not the only tool that we… Read More »
[Via Nokia Blogs] The WII remote control is giving some fresh idea to some developers, just look at these youTube [1,2]. That’s a great way to use the Nokia 5500 in-built accelerometers… […]My proposition in the whole talk was that using Nintendo and the DS and Wii as an inspiration for attracting a non-traditional gamer… Read More »
It seems that I won’t have any time to do more video tutorials for a long time (at least 6 month). So here are all the video I’ve made about my discovery of AS3. I really hope it will be useful to all the beginners in the new actionscript (which can be used in Flash… Read More »
Wondering why I didn’t see it earlier, but there is a free chapter (about the file system API) from the book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers. Yes it’s only for the Alpha of Apollo (alpha to be out Mars 16th) The book is sell as a Developer’s Reference for Apollo’s Alpha Release for Flex developers,… Read More »
A graph comparing book sales on computer languages between January 2006 and January 2007 revealed that ActionAcript book represented less than 5% of the market [via O’Reilly Radar]. Let’s compare this stats with a blog analyses, just to see how much blogging and buzz can be taken seriously for a new way of making statistics.… Read More »
The first time I discovered the unfriendly gray border around a SWF it was when I launched the IE7 beta. I thought that it was only a IE7 bug but I were thought that it was in fact because of the Eolas lawsuit. So what does it change for web developer/publisher? Simply that our SWF… Read More »
First read over Marco Casario Blog Great news from 3GSM, Bluestreak Technology announced the future release of their MachBlue™ Mobile. From there website: Technical Highlights Greatly exceeds the graphic capabilities of JAVA, BREW, and other native languages Supports large subset of Flash® 7 and ActionScript 2 Developer-friendly platform allows use of industry-standard Flash® authoring tools… Read More »
The Internet Report of 2006 is out (since December) by ITU (International Telecommunication Union). It’s small and free, there’s a lot of interesting graph there 🙂 Have it from the digital.life. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Initially I’ve heard about it during the Liftconference. WHISHER allows you to share your WiFi and roam the world freely, chat, talk and share files at high speed. Download it now for free! The map seems completely empty by now but it might be just a question of time. I love the idea of free… Read More »
Some links to new post on the blog of the project I work on at University. I hope to give them some more web visibility by posting them here also: Literacy, Communication and design Mobile Social Networking Taking off Sign Language Via Cell Phone Also if you still haven’t try foxytag, please do it. … Read More »