A while back I posted about the possiblity of a Flash Mobile Certification, now it’s becoming a reality. Sign up for the BETA exam (aka pilot).

1. Both Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1 Mobile Developer Certification & also Flash 8 Designer exams are in the works and will be provided by our old friends at donath group … sometime in early 2006 we should expect deployment. You can sign up to be a candidate for the Flash Lite BETA (aka pilot) when it becomes available next year.

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Having bought an original n-gage as a test-bed device for FL 1.1 development … this caught my eye recently. Not really suprising … Read the announcement: Nokia holds fire on mobile gaming … focus shifts to mobile music and TV. Basically, they are suspending their n-gage gaming efforts for a bit.

I think this sums it up:

1. “We learnt that people want to play games on all devices. As such we are integrating the gaming software into Series 60 phones.”

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Rob just posted a “review” of some of the flash devices that are on market right now. Most of them you have probably seen already, but if not, here they are … up close and with a good deal of technical narration.

The Samsung is probably the one you haven’t seen a lot. It is only available overseas in Korea. I think Bill has shown it once or twice in some presentations. The graphics and UI are great on it, but I could see how the sound could get annoying after a while … I wonder if there is a way to customize the flash user experience (custom skins, themes, sounds, etc) … albeit on a high level of customization.

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I came across Wolfram Tones recently. This system uses Mathmatica and your input to generate a custom, very unique ringtone. Also includes a visual representation (cellular automaton sample pattern seen below) of the ring tone! Neato.! Yet another example of why Computer Science rocks.

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For those who haven’t heard of QR codes, they’re a form of barcode that encode various kinds of text information, such as URLs, in a form that can be read by many cameraphone handsets overseas. The most common usage is that you’d snap the code printed on a poster or in a magazine to jump to an advertiser’s website.

We use a variation on shipped packages … it enables packages to be scanned no matter what direction the label is facing.

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This is for all your friends, family, & relatives out there that aren’t quite tech savvy, you know … the one’s who buy the PocketPC’s or cellphones and can’t get the data to synch, load apps, etc, etc, etc. This is for them. A low tech solution to having (static) mobile info.

It’s a nice little Flash app that generates a custom “mini” (flip) book … aka a pocketmod.

The really interesting thing … is that in a few years, we’ll probably have real “electronic paper” devices … from companies like e-ink!

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I believe it was in March of this year that Rob Hall posted about his “virtual elmo”. A homegrown projector device & software that can be put together for *far* less than $2000 … which BTW is what a real elmo will run you these days (email me if you find something cheaper!).

Recently, I did some modding and came up with this design for a virtual elmo. I must apologize for the quality of the images, but my real digital camera is out of service right now.

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Are you an “old skool” Sierra type guy/gal? I was … I think I played every Sierra game that ever came out (before they were bought out).

Help these folks out … it’s been a work in progress since 2002 and now some corporate idiot wants to scrap all that work (just before a release nonetheless) … on a happier note, there still is Peasant’s Quest.

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Here part of the email:

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Just a quick FYI, but the U10 is now officially shipping here in the States.

From a recent Q&A session with Bill, I believe it was said that a U10 CDK is in the works from Macromedia. I am guessing it is further along since FL 1.1 content is already preloaded and was developed by third parties like BSN. I’m sure we’ll hear more before Q1 2006 on this.

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Bravo for the folks who put on the XD-mobile session at MAX this year. Not only was informative, but it was the kind of info you can’t normally pick up from a book, site, etc. Therefore it was invaluable.

For those of you who skipped the XD sessions thinking they were all theory and no substance, dead wrong. Macromedia more XD please.

One little trick that I found useful was naming your layers and pinning AS when working with function clips.

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