OzFlex Adobe User Group Meeting

Yesterday I went to the OzFlex Adobe User Group meeting as I am trying to get myself a bit more familiar with Flex. It was a great meeting run by a Monash student, Matt Johnston. Met some new and old faces. And apart from the food and drinks, I also found out that there is JPEGEncoder API from within the Flex mx classes during Matt’s presentation. What a great find.

If you are into Flex, it is a great place to network. Hope to see you there next time.

To find out more about the user group and its meeting, click the link below:

http://ozflex.urbanwise.com

FMS 3 Melbourne Tour - presentation files

In case you miss the Adobe FMS 3 Melbourne tour today at the Crown Entertainment Complex, I have uploaded my slides and most of the demo files at the links below. 

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=a4ca6c37-1b3c-11dd-b3c1-e587595d61d6

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=c9018d3d-1b3d-11dd-b3c1-e587595d61d6

 

 

 

 Enjoy!

 

 

Open Screen Project to drive Flash ubiquity across devices

The announcement today by Adobe and its partners is significant. It includes pretty much all the big name players in consumer electronics and mobile phones. And the terms and licenses of the embeding the flash player in devices have undergone big changes. In particular there is no license fee now for flash player for devices. And the goal indeed is to have a common runtime across platforms and devices so that flash content that is designed for the desktop can also be played across devices If you have been developing java applications for devices and haven’t got into flash yet, now is the time to take a look at flash and see what it is capable of. To read more, click the link below:

http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

My first GPS device - HP 312 Travel Companion

I have always wanted to have a GPS so I have advanced my birthday for a few months and bought myself a GPS from Harries Technology. The GPS I chose was the HP 312 Travel Companion. I like the spec and the fact that it runs on Win CE, meaning it is more than a GPS. It is also a Portable Media Player (PMP) with a gorgeous screen. Seriously how often do I need to use a GPS. Not a lot. Being a multi-purpose device makes a lot of sense to me. I only wish HP would add in mobileTV (DVB-T) onto the device too. Still for now it is a nice travel companion for me

Learning Actionscript 3 - eSeminar tutorial files

I have finished with the 3-part series of Learning Actionscript 3 eSeminars and  below is the link for the files I used during the seminars. Just a quick recap: Part 1 was about AS3 event driven programming. Part 2 was about AS3 coding in OOP style. Part 3 was about AS3 coding in MVC style.

Updated links:  Adobe Share as well as Rapidshare. Choose whichever one that suits you:

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=38825851-1733-11dd-b85a-cd646a1336ae

http://rs209.rapidshare.com/files/111451871/AS3_Demos.zip

Enjoy!

Truly immersive video streamed from Flash Media Server

My colleague Pete Brownstein has just returned from NAB and one of the wonderful example highligted at the Adobe booth was the one from Immersive Media (http://www.immersivemedia.com/). I was blown away with the 360 degree experience. Amazing what people can come up with using FMS.

Enjoy!

Adobe Media Player released

Today Adobe has released the free Adobe Media Player for Mac and Win. Apart from the many features which you can see for yourself at the Adobe site, the ability to playback local flash video (flv) is great. Double-click an flv and the AMP will be launched and the flv starts to play. So movie trailers can now be made available for download as flv instead of mov or avi like in the past. Hooray

Bacon and egg brekkie all for a good cause

The Adobe Pacific Team is proudly supporting the Fred Hollows Foundation and will be selling sausages, bacon and egg at the Wynyard Park in Sydney CBD on the morning of April 11th. For a guilt-free bacon and egg brekkie this Friday, please come and visit us. Bring along a friend too. Hope to see you there

Microsoft to license Adobe Flash Lite 3 for Windows Mobile

Wow! This one took me by surprise. While Flash Lite 2 has been freely available for WM users to download from Adobe, it is a standalone player and not a browser (PIE) plug-in. This license however would enable PIE web browsing of Flash enabled site. Great news for all WM users. Incidentally, the license also included Adobe Reader as well.

To read the full press release, go to:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/031708Adobe_MS.html

“People want vibrant web experiences and access to entertainment and information anywhere, anytime,” said John O’Rourke, general manager, Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft Corp. “Bringing Flash Lite and Reader LE to the Windows Mobile experience will give consumers more of their favorite websites on the go.” I think it is very gracious for MS to make the above statement. I look forward to playing with Flash Lite 3 when it becomes available on my JASJAM.

Colin Moock’s AS3 Tour

Nothing beats free training, especially when the presenter is truly a Flash expert. Colin Moock that is. He is coming to Sydney to do a full day free indepth AS 3 training on May 5th. To register for the event, go to:

http://www.adobeas3tour.com/