Adobe Photoshop Express is Alive

I used to open Adobe Photoshop for editing bitmap image for my application in Flash Lite. Sometime I was not so lucky to have better computer specifications to open both applications. So I have to close my Flash software just to open Adobe Photosop.

But now the good news is coming. Adobe Photoshop now is going online! So I think it will be easier for my to continue my work. I dont have to worry about my computer spesificatian anymore. Or just looking for another PC, because I can do it on same PC.

To run Adobe Photoshop online, you can click https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html. They provide provides 2GB of free storage space for yous photos. Other great news is you can also edit photos from your Facebook, Google Picasa or Photobucket galleries directly with Photoshop Express.

How I Love this tools! Thank you Adobe!

Nokia Announced The First Flash Lite 3.0 phones

I should say goodbye to my lovely 6120 classic. Nokia just released a newest information about the latest version of 6120. It call Nokia 6120 Navigator.

What a point to check out is the latest version of Flash Lite it use on. It has Flash Lite 3.0!, the newest one. Even on the official Nokia forum it says has Flash Lite 2.1, Nokia announced new handsets at the Mobile World Congress, among them the first Flash Lite 3.0 phones.

So it has the same version just like Nokia N96, N78, and 6220 Classic.

For further Nokia 6120 Navigator, you can check here.

Text And Fonts on Flash

Flash affords two main types of fonts : TrueType and pixel fonts. Both are easily find on Properties panel, and both are embedded in the exported SWF. Also, Flash Lite enable to specify other type of font : device fonts.

True Type : were created to fill the needed of accurately representing a printed font for onscreen viewing. Some examples of popular TrueType fonts included Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman and Courier.

Pixel fonts : essentially a trueType font, but designed for use at a specific point size by constructing the font from a series of sequares on whole pixel coordinates.Also,it has rasterized look.

Device fonts : This option can be checked on of off in the properties panel when editing a text field. This type of font is perfect to large areas of text that might need scrolling.

Google Reader Drive Me to Flash lite Feed

Today i checked my google reader for reading some feeds. Then i just realized that a tiny link are displayed very bold on the right side. It is says : FLASH LITE and Flash devices on Top Recommended section. It a little bit rare, because i haven't subscribe to any flash lite feed this time.

So it is time to see if any information from this new feed that google reader recommend. It take my to http://flashlite.wordpress.com./feed. Well,if you checked this blog,you may found the new article posted on Feb, 12 2008. Before this post, it published on Aug, 23 2007!. So new article are posted on 2008 are just 9 days ago. Im sure it has nice article that why my google reader are recommnd to check this feed.

You can check the newest article about Flash on Iphone. Really interesting one.

Flash Application's Book

Thanks for my friends in Japan who sent me a great Flash Application's Book. About one year ago I told my friend about this great book. Its written by Richard Leggett, Weyert de Boer and Scott Janousek. Three names which very popular in Flash Lite forum.

In this book we can learn :
- The essentials of Flash Lite 1.1 and 2.x
- How to create mobile applications and games
- Best practise for structuring your mobile aplications
- Integrate graphics, sound and video into your mobile content
- How to consume live data over HTTP and socket connections and make use of phone-specific features.



I haven't read all of this book, but what surprising me is on page 137. I found RAMBUTAN which is Indonesian name for special fruit that listed as one of three answers on Quizz Master 9000. What a familiar name for me in Indonesia to guess the right answer.

I Love to Have My Flashlite on Nokia 6120 classic

What I love most of having my new Nokia 6120 classic is the animation effect. It so smooth and seems so right. I like to see my wallpapers file is running smoothly. Thanks to processor ARM 11, 369 MHz CPU that make it happen.

You may store many flash lite application in its memory which can hold more than 35 MB (built in memory), and expandable to 2 GB. I saw 3 samples file of animation wallpaper on this handset. It just look nice.

For you, specially resident in Indonesia, you can check the specification on :

http://www.nokia.co.id/A4614354

Check this feature :

- Symbian OS v9.2, S60 rel. 3.1
- Flash Lite 2.0
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM stereo radio
- Push to talk
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- Office applications (Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word, Zip)
- Voice memo
- T9
- Calculator
- Built-in handsfree

Web : FL 2.1 Developer Edition Installer

For some reason, you would like to have Flash Lite 2.1 developer installer. But you may get lost when you going to :

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/

If so, you can grab them at :

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/flashlite.html

With many links of it. You can also get many resources on how to creating SIS file, or extending Flash Lite 2.1 features with flyer.

Racing Tour Golf - New sources available at http://ptm.fi

Work hard, play hard.

See what a Flash Lite developer, Pasi Manninen, do when he create a nice application Racing Golf Tour. With his friend, he play golf in summer times and they have one major tournament at the end of July yearly. They drive then around Finland one week and they play about 18-36 holes in each day.

Why the need to do that? Because they needed a system what stores our scorecards and maybe gives somekind of analyses of playing. So he decided to do a application for that purpose.


Great news is, you can see his application with full resources to check this application out.

Feel free to go to his website : http://ptm.fi/blog/

New build of Adobe Media Player on Adobe Labs

Adobe yesterday posted a new build of Adobe Media Player on Adobe Labs. User Interface is about the same. Only Adobe Media player now can play videos that are encoded using H.264 codec.


Picture taken from : http://plod.popoever.com/archives/001286.html

What i love most about this is the capability to play Flash video (flv), podcasts and QuickTime movies.

As I mentioned before, this software are suitable for your desktop media player.

You can try new version right here : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mediaplayer/install/

AS3 and How to Convert any photo into a talking character

What can do by AS3 for your lovely photo?

You should check what PQ DVD guys do. They create a nice widget for your weblog, photo album, myspace, facebook, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, and Mobile Phone.

For short, you may check what new on my sidebar's blog to see. What a great design. I combine photo, sound and animation. And you may get the software by free. Just blog it, and send mail to dina@pqdvd.com.

Go on, you only could grab this software before Xmas!.

For you which really want to know more about AS3, you should go here.

WEB : Flash Lite 3

Adobe Systems Inc released newest Flash Lite 3. Nokia and NTT DoCoMo Inc from Japan will use this application to their latest phone. Gary Kovacs, marketing unit mobile Adobe claimed Flash Lite 3 has significan performa.

For Indonesian version of this article, please see http://detikinet.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2007/bulan/10/tgl/02/time/130730/idnews/836834/idkanal/317.

Johnnie Walker Flash Lite Application

Big fans of the famous Johnnie Walker? and dare to have one Flash Lite Application about it? you may take a look of this site :

http://www.johnniewalkerdigitalpa.com/demo.

Developed by Stefan, Rick, Dave & Jon from Breakdesign (The Dawn of the Fly guys) for about 2-3 months.

It won a silver, gold and Yahoo best of show award at the Asia Interactive Awards!

They will let us know as soon as it is legally available for download (it is working)!. This application work in Singapore.

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WEB : New Screensaver from Momode.com

Here is a new free flashlite screensaver for you guys
Please the link for more detail

http://www.refruit. com/2007/ 07/07/green- earth/

To download the screensaver, you can visit

http://www.momode. com

It will be a unit that deal with flashlite app for phone.
Do watch that space

Code : About "Add" and "+" on Flash Lite 1.1

If you wonder why 9:00 reads "9:0" in Flash Lite1.1? this because Flash Lite 1.1 uses the add operator for string concatenation. + is
for numbers only, not strings.

So try :
minutes = ("O" add minutes);

rather than :

/:minutes = FSCommand2(" GetTimeMinutes" );
if(10>minutes)
{
minutes = ("O"+minutes) ;

Web : Opera developing Flash replacement for mobile browser

Opera Software vice president Tatsuki Tomita has confirmed that his company is developing a replacement for the Adobe Flash plug-in for use with future versions of the Opera Mini mobile web browser.

Tomita explained that the reason for this move is that the traditional Flash plug-in uses a large amount of CPU and memory resources, limiting speed and battery life on mobile platforms. The problem is exacerbated when the Flash plug-in is not well-optimized for the platform it is running on; Macintosh users can attest to this firsthand. "You cannot execute and provide a good user experience," Tomita told InfoWorld, referring to running the Flash plug-in on mobile devices.

The new technology will add video capability directly into the Web browser so that users can see and play back video content directly in Opera. As of yet, Opera has not commented on whether or not the new native playback ability for Opera Mobile will be able to play existing Flash content.

Sound bad for Flash developer ?

WEB : i2fly.com

Finally my friend comes out with great idea publishing i2fly.com. You will see many Flash Lite application they talking about. And you may grab some cool application like smiley clock as wallpaper for free. Cool.

Web : Telkomsel Flash Now In Bandung

After Jakarta and Surabaya, Telkomsel subscribers in Bandung now more comfortable in accessing internet via Telkomsel Flash, which is internet browsing with 3,2 Mbps with 3.5G/HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access).

It very easy, all Telkomsel subscriber (kartu Halo, Simpati and As) just send SMS, type 'flash' and send to 3636. When your handset support modem you can try it.

There are 6 models on billing system : Rp. 350/minutes, Rp. 30.000 for 3 hours package (valid on one day), Rp. 100.000 for 24 hours package (valid in one week), Rp. 200.000 for 40 hours package, Rp. 400.000 for 100 hours and Rp. 800.000 for 250 hours.

WEB : Dial Up with Wifone

Setelah lama memilih, akhirnya pilihan dijatuhkan kepada Wifone untuk koneksi wireless di rumah.

Memang sudah lama wifone digadang-gadang sebagai alternatif untuk mendapatkan koneksi internet tanpa batas buat penggunanya. Cukup dengan menyediakan terminal telepon dengan model LSP-345 buatan LG yang sudah didukung dengan kabel data, berselancar pun bisa nyaman di rumah.

Cakupan area juga sangat mumpuni. Selama kita masih berada dalam cover are operator Esia kita bisa mengaksesnya setiap saat. Tarif yang diberlakukan juga tak kalah seru, diklaim dengan angka Rp. 125/menit untuk prabayar dan Rp. 100/menit untuk paskabayar.

Web : Adobe Media Player

Satu lagi piranti pemutar file multimedia ditawarkan secara gratis untuk diunduh. Kali ini adalah giliran Adobe untuk memperkenalkan Adobe Media Player. Sebuah produk terkini yang mestinya juga menawarkan kelebihan dibanding pesaingnya seperti Tunes atau Windows Media Player.

Jelas yang menjadi perhatian utama bila mengingat sang produsennya yang menghasilkan produk Flash adalah kemampuan untuk memutar dan mengunduh Video podcast dengan selipan FLV (untuk memutar Quicktime mov). Dengan pertimbangan kompresi yang lebih baik, file FLV relatif lebih kecil dalam soal ukuran dibandingan dengan format MOV hingga memudahkan urusan mengunduh dengan kelebihan kecepatannya.

Produk ini bisa digunakan di komputer dengan sistem operasi Windows, Mac dan Linux.


Informasi lebih lanjut bisa berkunjung ke : Adobe Labs.
Untuk mengunduhnya bisa di : Adobe Media Player PR.

Web : TELKOMSELFlash

Setiap saat menemukan iklan yang berhubungan dengan penyedia jasa layanan internet wireless serasa menemukan oase di tengah kegarangan panas gurun. Iya, ini semua sejalan dengan rencana memasang koneksi internet di rumah untuk keperluan usaha adik. Tentu untuk memulai usaha banyak gairah yang muncul. Salah satunya berimbas pada keinginan untuk melengkapinya dengan kemudahan mengakses internet di rumah.

Hari ini Telkomsel melalui iklan di koran nasional memperkenalkan TelkomselFlash. Masih sebatas promo karena acara perkenalan juga masih terbatas di kota-kota tertentu. Dalam iklannya Telkomsel memperkenalkan di beberapa mall di Jakarta dengan mengiming-imingi mencoba tak berbayar layanan yang satu ini. Jelas tawaran yang menggiurkan. Semoga Bandung bisa menjadi kota labuhan selanjutnya.

Diklaim mampu berseluncur dengan kecepatan 3.2 Mbps, dimana saja asal berada di wilayah yang terlingkupi layanan Telkomsel. Layanan ini bisa diakses menggunakan kartu prabayar maupun pasca bayar Telkomsel. Sebut saja Halo, Simpati dan As.

Peranti yang diperlukan adalah sebuat alat yang sangat mudah pemasanganya. Asal komputer kita memiliki port USB kita hany perlu mencolokkan sebuah USB modem. Cukup praktis kan?



Urusan tarif jelas perlu dicermati nih. Dengan kecepatan sebesar itu (kalau tidak menyebut sebagai yang terbesar saat ini) kita perlu merogoh kocek hingga Rp. 350/menit. Artinya dalam sejam kita akan kehilangan pulsa senilai Rp. 21.000!. Memang tak sebesar bila browsing menggunakan modem yang ada di ponsel dan menyambungkannya ke PC selama ini. Namun jelas masih terhitung mahal.