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Adobe Flash Coming to iPhone – Bringing 2 Million Developers With it

by Jay Garrett on January 11, 2010

Apple keeps holding Flash away from its flagship phone even though it seems that Adobe keeps asking nicely to join the party.

It sounds like this may change soon and with Flash comes Adobe’s 2 Million or so Flash Developers and they’re all heading towards the iPhone – whether Apple wants them or not!

The next version of Adobe’s Flash developer tools, Creative Suite 5 (currently in private beta), will include a “Packager for iPhone” app which will automatically convert any Flash app into an iPhone app. So while Flash apps won’t run on the iPhone, any Flash app can easily be converted into an iPhone app. (Microsoft is taking a similar approach with Silverlight). This is a bigger deal than many people appreciate.

As you know, most video on the Web (YouTube, etc) is displayed through a Flash player and even though Apple says that there’s problems with Flash it certainly seems to run ok on Android.

As well as the video playing Flash can be used to create Web apps. Apple kept Flash away not so to control the video experience on the iPhone, but because it needed to establish its own Apple-controlled iPhone SDK.

If you think that there’s plenty of apps to chose from now just wait ’til 2 million more developers join the current 125,000 iPhone app developers!

My word!

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TeboCam – Free Motion Sensing Web Cam Software

by Jay Garrett on December 30, 2009

TeboCam is a free webcam program that alerts you should some ne’re do well be trespassing.

Ideal to set up in your home or even at your workstation – how many times have you had to replace your pens and stapler last year?

I suppose that this software could also be used for other occasions where surreptitious filming is needed…..

According to the TeboCam page:

  • Receive emails with images of any movement detected.
  • Publish movement images to website.
  • Graph of movement over time (with calendar facility).
  • Start movement detection at a specified time.
  • Set the sensitivity of movement detection.

TeboCam is still in Beta and ‘may contain nuts’ but it is free!

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Nintendo Zii Trademarked – New Console, Handheld or What?

December 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo has just trademarked the title “Zii” in Japan which is to be used for computer games and electronic devices, according to the paperwork released today.
The company actually filed for the trademark on October 30, but this was only just released on the trademark database.
This means that Nintendo has protected the word [...]

Sony Ericsson Satio Software Updated and Allowed Back in Stores

December 10, 2009 Click to read more →
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Rejoyce oh owners of Sony’s Satio and Aino!
Sony Ericsson have sorted out their little software problem with an update for the Satio and Aino blowers and now the handsets have been allowed to return to the shops.
There’s still no official explanation as to what exactly the update brings other than “improved handset speeds and battery [...]

Samsung Bada Goes Public (a bit) – So Far So Good

December 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Samsung Bada went a little bit more public today when I got a press-release in my mailbox that started:
Samsung bada (meaning Ocean in Korean) is a driving force in accomplishing Samsung’s vision of a ‘smartphone for everyone’.
Samsung Bada is pretty important as it’s actually built on the company’s Touchwiz interface and is being aimed at [...]

Sony Ericsson Satio – Dropped By Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U due to Software Problems

November 24, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you have the 12mp camera equipped SE handset and things seem to be a tad odd or, hopefully, yours is working just tickety-boo you should read on.
The Satio has now been removed from the shelves of both CPW and Phones4U.
Word is that the problems stem from a “software fault” so perhaps it’s not playing [...]

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Wakes Up Your Apple Handset From Coma

October 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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I know that my 3Gesus phone and those of my two bandmates have all been hit by the coma so we’re pretty happy that this minor update to the iPhone OS should fix some that and the other annoying issues that some users have been having.
Also it will stop Rom from being so smug with [...]

7digital Takes The Fight to iTunes on American and Canadian Soil

October 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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7digital will be a known name to those who legally download tunes here in the UK.
That will soon be changing – but in a good way.
The Great British MP3 download site has just thrown open its doors to the US of A taking on the might of iTunes.
Not only is 7digital taking on the huge [...]

Longbox Brings Comic Books to iTunes Generation

July 24, 2009 Click to read more →
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LongBox is hoping to bring the kind of digital distribution common with music and video to the comic world!
The software has been in production for over three years by QuickSilver Software and it will be a free, cross-platform iTunes-style jukebox for comic books – it even appears to feature the similar menu to Cover Flow.
This [...]

Windows 7 Preorders Are Good to Go!

July 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yessiree!!
Windows 7 pre-orders are available from midnight today (Wednesday 15th) with Microsoft dangling an extra carrot in the form of a massive discount on the new software.
Windows 7 doesn’t actually arrive until 22nd October, but PC users can stake their claim on a copy for:

£49.99 for Home Premium
£99.99 for Professional

That’s a fair chunk of discountage right [...]

Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Very Soon

July 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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Facebook for the iPhone is pretty good but there are moments when you want to RSVP to an event or see the Notes pages.
Well, Facebook for iPhone 3.0 “is coming very soon” and should sort some that out as well as a bunch of other things.
It wont, however, offer the push notifications the iPhone OS [...]

pulpTunes Freeware – Access and Share Your Complete iTunes Library From Anywhere

June 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’ve just been prodded in the direction of pulpTunes – thanks Sean!
Having an iPod or iPhone is great but, if like me, you have over a years worth of constant music on your hard drive at home there’s no way you can have your iTunes collection with you everywhere – unless you have a potent [...]

Apple iTunes 8.2 Paves The Way For iPhone 3.0

June 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple has just released an upgrade to their iTunes software and as well as the usual bug fixes and the odd security update the main purpose of iTunes 8.2 is to add support for iPhones or iPod touches 3.0 Software.
Yup, that means that all the pieces are in place for Apple to release the iPhone [...]

Vodafone to Open Application Store for Many Phones

May 13, 2009 Click to read more →
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Vodafone has announced plans to get into the mobile applications action.
The differnce between this and the iPhone App Store is that Vodafone plans to let several types of phone use its store.
Concentrating initially on Symbian OS (e.g. Nokia) applications, the new app store will later open up to other operating systems and handsets such as Android – [...]

Microsoft Pink Phone Specs Revealed – I’m Still Confused

May 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet says she’s got the specs for the Windows Mobile 7 Chassis 1 – the heart of that rumored “Pink” smartphone and those specs are quite, quite fab!
According to the list the Chassis 1 phones will all have a 3.5 inch (or larger) multitouch display and will be powered by an [...]

What’s New About Android 1.5? Cupcake Camcorder!

May 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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So, what’s new in the Android 1.5 Cupcake update?
Howsabout video filming, a redesigned messaging service, and a shiny new Gmail to name few?
It takes about a minute to update and most G1 phones will sort that out automatically.
The filming feature is called ‘camcorder’ – it has a little film logo in the bottom right corner, [...]

Google Android Cupcake Has Landed!

May 1, 2009 Click to read more →
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T-Mobile has started to push live Android 1.5, also known as Cupcake, to the plentiful G1 Android users over here in the UK and in the states.
The 44mb download is expected to be rolled out during the month of May.
Amongst the enhancements are the ability to have the onscreen keyboard in portrait mode, an increase [...]

TellMe – Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 with added Say it and Get it

April 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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Microsoft has announced that future Windows mobiles will get speech control functionality, thanks to their subsidery “Tellme“.
Said to “simplify” phone control, Tellme is apparently the first such service that will let people press one button and “say what they want and get it”.
TellMe isn’t just an app tho, it’s a one-button hub for voice commands [...]

Game Booster – Maximises Your Machine’s Gaming Skills

April 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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Game Booster has the potential to make your gaming even better.
It’s a fairly simple idea, like most good ones, and is a free utility that switches off all of those unnecessary Windows background processes and programs.
This results in maximum performance for game playing.
You are able to set up a custom selection of programs that you [...]

Microsoft Project Pink – Phone or Software?

April 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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It looks like, as well as a new Zune, Microsoft maybe chucking out a mobile phone.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that there’s a super-secret project, codenamed ‘Pink’ , being worked on between the big M and Verizon.
The WSJ reckons the phone will be a touchscreen multimedia phone that will feature Microsoft’s version of the Apple App Store, [...]

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