Some of you have must have seen the documents published by Adobe on devnet that talk about several details of the Flash Lite digital home platform. One of the powerful features of the Flash Lite for digital home is the ability to be able to extend Actionscript. You can create your own Actionscript commands, define them and implement corresponding logic in Flash Lite code. For example, you can have a command to change volume of TV, or channel or fetch updated data for an ad- etc. etc. This is a very powerful feature and is available for Flash Lite on digital home devices. ......continue reading

FITC Mobile is taking place in Toronto September 13-14. I have couple of tickets available if anyone is interested in attending.  Please email me at anand at joshimail dot net if you want one. ......continue reading

If you haven’t been to osflash.org in recent days, then you should. I just went there after a long time, and noticed that the number of projects has substantially increased. Noticable is the increase in command line tools, and compilers as well as Actionscript based utilities. Granted, some of these look like simple C programs put together by college graduates, they definitely offer some value in however niche the development may be. ......continue reading

I came accross an interesting application ‘authorPOINT Lite’ that lets you convert powerpoint to Flash. Its called as ‘authorPoint’ and best of all its free! I like this method of transfer because, the intended recipient need not have powerpoint installed. ......continue reading

I recently came accross GUIMark that allows one to measure relative performance of various technologies. From the site: “GUIMark is a benchmark test suite designed to compare the rendering systems of several popular UI runtimes. In general it should be able to give designers and developers a good indication of which technologies can draw complex interfaces at a smooth rate of motion.” ......continue reading