Goodbye Symbian. Hello Android

This wasn’t an easy decision. After all I’m supposed to be a Nokia fan boy. However, after much deliberation my trusty wee Nokia 5800 has been put aside and I’m now using the Google Nexus One as my primary mobile. Anyone who knows me will be well aware that I’m quite enthusiastic when it comes […]

HP Windows 7 Slate

Does it look familiar? Of course it does, it’s the HP Windows 7 slate. It was certainly one of the most promising looking tablets on the horizon and I for one was a little upset when it looked like HP had pulled the plug on the project. Thankfully HP has just announced that it will […]

Flash Mobile Competitions

Flash competitions are like buses. You wait ages for one then three come along at the same time. But hey I’m not complaining and neither should you because three separate competitions simply means three more chances of winning something! Adobe are really starting to push the Flash platform on mobile and along with its partners […]

Photobucket Mobile Site

here’s an interesting video showcasing the Flash Platform being used to deliver a mobile version of the Photobucket site. Before Flash Player 10.1 for mobile’s arrival the conversion effort to support video on mobile would have taken the Photobucket team several months. However by sticking with the Flash Platform the Photobucket team were mobile ready […]

My “Write Once, Run Anywhere” Experiment

The Challenge There’s much talk of creating content once with Adobe Flash and running it just about anywhere. Now anyone who’s had experience writing Flash content for mobile will know that it’s not that simple (all devices aren’t equal after all) but hey, I’m always up for a challenge and thought I’d try and port […]

The Future of Flash is 3D

I asked in my last post if Adobe’s focus on mobile would limit the features we’d see in future versions of Flash. Well looks like I have an answer via Thibault Imbert’s blog where he teases us all with talk of Flash’s next generation 3D API. For those wanting to know more, Flash Player engineer […]

Will mobile limit future Flash features?

Okay this is a slightly controversial post but it’s something that’s been nagging at me for a good few months now so I thought I’d put it out there and see what people think. Will Adobe’s mobile vision for Flash restrict future features? “Why would it?” you might ask. Well the whole point of Flash […]