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Adobe Device Central CS4 – Update 5
Posted by Mark Doherty in Device Central Updates, Devices, Flash Lite, Flash Player, Industry News on September 16, 2009
Today we released the 5th update of Device profiles for Adobe Device Central CS4 bring the total number of supported devices to 738!
This update contains the Nokia N97, Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, Nokia N86 and Samsung I8910HD profiles based on Alessandro’s request. We’ve also added our first cut of the HTC Hero profile for testing your Flash content in the browser.
Our team in Hamburg have been really busy creating the missing (mainly Nokia) device skins, so profiles are generally on track to looking and feeling like the real devices. If you have any requests for features, fixes and profiles then join in the chatter @devicecentral.
I hope that we can encourage all of our OEM partners to provide access to skin graphics, particularly for hot devices like the Hero.
To get your updated profiles simply press the refresh button, or restart Device Central CS4.
Device Central CS3 – Update 9 Now Available
Posted by Mark Doherty in Device Central Updates on June 19, 2009
Device Profile Update #9 is now available on Adobe Device Central Online, and this is the final update of profiles for the CS3 version. It includes the following profiles including some Sony Ericsson Capuchin enabled devices.
Updates to profiles will of course continue via the online library in Device Central CS4, and so if you haven’t upgraded now is a good time. In Device Central CS4 there are numerous new features to make your working life easier:
- High-quality video for communicating ideas
- Improved video support and integration
- Organization of work for mobile projects
- Performance simulation and testing automation
- Easy upload of content to multiple locations
- Integration with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop® CS4, Illustrator® CS4, Dreamweaver® CS4, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4, Adobe Captivate 4 and After Effects CS4
You can look at the full feature set and watch the videos here
Pikkoo Launches – Flash Lite with Social Networking
Posted by Mark Doherty in Conference, Device Central Updates, Distributable Player Solution, Flash Cast, Flash Lite, Industry News, Mobile Content on May 12, 2009
Today Pikkoo was announced in Beta form enabling a new form of social personalization for Flash content. Pikkoo is a Finnish company based in Oulu (very cold) who focus on rich content production, by users and for users.
The Flash Player itself is used to produce rich wallpapers and screensavers within your desktop browser using a host of dynamic tools and images. Of course you can roll your own and create highly personal content to share with your friends.
In the example below I’ve used a beautiful background image, a clock widget and a another clip of a snowboarder from this theme. Themes allow you to produce your content using assets that are perfectly suited, so no more searching randomly. Pikkoo has been designed to enable users to create the best possible looking content, with minimum design knowledge. I can resize each of them movieclips, change their colour, animate them and group them when I want to use effects.
Personalization content using Flash Lite is rich and dynamic, so the clock and network signal widgets are live on my device. Notice also that the stage here is 320×240 pixels because that’s the resolution of my device, making it easier that ever to produce relevant content.
Once I’m done I can create a simple thumbnail for the website, download the SWF as a screensaver or wallpaper to my computer.
Pikkoo also has aS60 3rd Edtion and 5th Edition Screensaver Manager to help me download, share and setup my screensavers.
Here are some screenshots, check out the stunning user interface created with Flash Lite.
One of the great features of this product is that Brands and Agencies can use the service to produce Themes, so that end users can create their own experiences using assets from their favourite brands. You can imagine Disney and Nike being great candidates for user generated content created with Pikkoo.
So what are you waiting for? Get over there and start creating!!
Device Central Profile Update 3
Posted by Mark Doherty in Device Central Updates, Flash Lite, Mobile Content on May 7, 2009
Adobe Device Centra CS4 is updating all the time, and we’ve just launched update number 3 bringing the number of devices to 681.W
The Nokia 5800 skin is now available, so you can test that in all it’s glory. We’ve added some Nokia Vertu devices, the Nokia 5130 XPressMusic and the Sony Ericsson W705 which is another Capuchin enabled device!
Also worth noting is a new profile category called “Distributable Player”, which reports a number of supported devices. To be completely honest it looks like this slipped through the net and should not have been published.
So I recommend that you continue to use the existing generic Flash Lite 3.1 profiles.
To get it simply hit the refresh button on CS4, for CS3 users hop over to Device Central online for Update 8.
Flash Lite 3.1 and Device Central Online updates..Warcraft too..
Posted by Mark Doherty in , Device Central Updates, Devices, Flash Lite on January 6, 2009
Well I hope 2009 is treating you well, as you can see my Xmas season went well… my mother’s Warcraft guild has grown to 92 people and there was a monkey suit. It has a blonde wig at one point too.. 
So to business, while I’m still on holiday I thought I’d drop you a note to inform you that you can download the Flash Lite 3.1 update for Adobe Device Central here.
As well as this the new Online Device Library Update 1 is complete, we have added 59 new profiles including the Sony Ericsson C905 and devices like the N96, N85 and N79 from Nokia. All you have to do is connect to the Online device library to get access to these profiles using Adobe Device Central CS4.
Mark
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