Do you like fast cars?

Mazda is sponsoring an event where you can test drive fast cars … several event locations. You must pre-register.

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Hi Folks,

No, I’m not going to review the nokia 6680, since Russell Beattie already did a review of sorts a while back … however, I did want to give a short synopsis of my mobilebee customer experience.

Who is mobilebee?

They are a shop that sells phones & other electronics online … I had heard that Macromedia (& some of the flashlite dev team) had bought from them in the past so I thought I’d give them a try on a phone that I wasn’t able to get through my carrier (yet), the Nokia 6680.

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I created a very trivial flash lite app in a less than a hour as an exercise for someone interested in the potential of FL … how fast something can be built in Flash Lite? The response I got from the interested party, very fast.

It’s called HSAS (Homeland Security Advisory System). It pulls the US terror alert feed and then displays the alert level on your mobile.

I’m not going to debate the usefulness/uselessness of an alert system (we should all be watchful & alert in these times) … but it works as a very simple dynamic data FL example.

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chemical brothers + flash = one cool game

GALVANIZE!

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Just for fun … the origins of control-alt-delete …. Bill Gates is not amused …

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Picture this. It might not go in the family album,
but Nextcode Corp.s mCode allows cell phone users with
a camera phone to access data by snapping pictures of
codes on print advertisements and other media.

I know this was already attempted with the cuekat
technology.

From my understanding that failed because 1.) you had to
have a cuekat and 2.) the scannable bar had to be huge for
it to work … with a cellphone it makes a bit more sense
and with phone camera’s becoming progressively better …
it’s likely to be something that actually takes off
(I imagine there’s probably already a Japanese company
doing the same thing).

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There seems to be uprising of Flash Lite games recently, especially for the casual gamer … I’ve found 2 new ones by LIS186 … one is called worm racing and the other is a simple pirate game … and who doesn’t want to be a pirate?? Jerry Seinfield?

Pirates:

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1. I seem to recall that -not- omitting tracements can have a slight performance hit when running within the flash player (having hundreds to thousands of traces) … can anyone confirm or deny this??

If it does impact the player, how big of deal is it? I’m sure we all sometimes forget to omit trace statements before a final deploy and I’m curious to know what the impact is, if any at all.

I usually stick to using a custom trace that can be toggled (or a custom log class if it’s an AS 2 project) … however, sometimes I throw in trace statements for quick debugging purposes …

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I was wondering how many other people would find a “bookmarking feature” on MXNA useful?

Basically, just set a shared object/cookie to keep track of your last read post … after being busy, I often find myself traversing back to find the last entry I have read …

I’d bookmark, but it’s not as efficient as having a feature in MXNA … should be pretty easy to implement.

What say the community?

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