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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 on Android
Posted by Mark Doherty in Flash Lite, Industry News on May 7, 2009
The news from bsquare keeps coming on the Android front, last month they announced that they will deliver a port of Flash for Android devices. To set the record straight that announcement related to Adobe Mobile Client, a Flash Player designed for user interfaces.
Yesterday their announcement was for bringing Flash Lite 3.1.7 to a new Dell Mini Inspiron range of devices. It’s not clear from their announcement exactly what they’ll be using it for but I’d guess Web Browsing, which is very exciting.
For those who don’t know, the features between Flash Lite 3.0 and Flash Lite 3.1 are all to enable better web browsing on devices. We added features like FlashVars support, html text and img tag support among others covering right up to Flash 9 with AS2 only. When we shipped that release we could render 92% of all web content, giving us extra time to enable AS3 support on devices.
bsquare a number of partners in the mobile and consumer electronics space, we really need their help in porting the Flash Platform and driving demand for solutions in unexpected places!
Anyone own the Yacht, Airbus inflight entertainment system or Jaguar car with Flash Lite?
GamesPlaza.mobi Launches casual gaming platform
Posted by Mark Doherty in Flash Lite, Industry News, Mobile Content on May 7, 2009
BoosterMedia has released GamesPlaza.mobi, a casual gaming platform targeting mobile gamers and game developers internationally. GamesPlaza.mobi offers a growing selection of free-to-play mobile games based on Flash technology. The mobile portal, with over 10 localized versions in several languages, features puzzles, brain trainers, classic arcade and action games for Flash Lite enabled handsets.
The service is free to end users and supported by in-game, banner and splash screen advertising. The team there are looking for great Flash Lite games, why not give it a shot?
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