Flash a-ah, Saviour of the Universe
I love this commercial for the BlackBerry PlayBook. It serves as a great piece for not only the Flash Player, but Adobe AIR too – all the apps featured are written using it. If anyone at BlackBerry is reading this post then send me out a PlayBook and I’ll write good things about it on […]
Converting Flash Content to HTML5
You might remember the excitement at one of the sneak peek sessions at Adobe MAX, where a tool was shown that took Flash content and converted it to HTML5. Well Adobe has just made that tool available on Adobe Labs for anyone wishing to target non-Flash-enabled devices. Codenamed “Wallaby”, this initial beta version is aimed […]
Taking Advantage of the SWF Format
The SWF file format is incredibly compact, and if you know what you’re doing you can create quite gorgeous things in only a few kilobytes. Unfortunately to take advantage of the format you sometimes need to have an understanding of how it works, or at least have someone show you some best practices for creating […]
Merry Christmas
For those who don’t know me, I like Star Wars even more than I like Flash. With Christmas only a few days away I thought I’d share this photo with you guys and tell you a little cautionary Christmas tale. That’s me and my brother dressed up in those crappy Star Wars costumes. And even […]
Happy Birthday Blog!
Hard to believe but my blog is one year old today. Have a slice of this virtual cake on me. Om nom nom nom.
Does Apple Need Flash?
A day doesn’t go by without someone speculating that Apple will eventually be forced to include the Flash player on iPhone and iPad in an attempt to fend off the ever increasing Android user base. Personally I don’t see this happening for two reasons. Firstly, the majority of people aren’t buying Android devices for the […]
Facebook Challenge
We had quite an interested day at WeeWorld last week with our boss MacDog announcing that we’d all be doing something a little different. The plan was to split the developers into two rival teams and give each a day to think-up and build a really cool Facebook app. Well if the truth be told […]
Publishing AIR for Android Apps
A big congratulations to all those on the public AIR for Android pre-release that have gone on to release their apps onto the Android Market. It’s great to see content getting out there and I seriously hope all you guys and girls get the recognition you deserve for your efforts. For those who are close […]
Adobe’s WIRED Magazine makes it to iPad
Remember that incredibly impressive interactive WIRED Magazine demo Adobe showed off a few months back? The one that was built using AIR and was intended ultimately for iPad until Apple banned all Flash-related content from their mobile devices? Well against all the odds Adobe announced the release of the WIRED Reader for iPad the other […]
Glasgow Flash Meetup
Well Friday night was something special. The greatest minds in the Glasgow Flash community met up to discuss all things Flash related and to have a good ol’ iPhone bashing session. But wait a minute, it turns out that even Flash devs are divided by all this Flash v iPhone malarkey. Incredulously some even seem […]