PSPHacks.net and 71M, in cooperation with RK Digital.net, Heavy.com and Newgrounds.com is proud to present the PSP Flash Player! The current version supports most action script through version 7 and runs on 1.5 only. We are currently testing for 2.x PSPs and will announce when it is working on 2.x firmwares. If someone gets it working, be sure to let us know. Source will be released in a couple of days once we get it all cleaned up. It is still a little bit buggy on flash files which use MP3 sound. PCM sound is fully supported.
MP3 decoding just eats up too much memory right now when decoding the mp3 stream to a raw sound stream so we ask for your paitence. Also, loading times are being worked on. Basically everything needs to be converted and cached in memory (of which there is not alot available) and this takes a little while.
Today Adobe has organized a workshops day called : Creativity Day. A lot of workshops are scheduled :
Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio : find out the tips and tricks to produce video contents Adobe InDesign, complete design environment for print Dreamweaver 8 and Contribute 3 for the web authoring Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe Photoshop CS2 to the max Flash 8: video contents for the web
Adobe LiveCycle is an incredible and powerful product. Adobe has launched the LiveCycle Performance Center, a resource that provides uidelines for improving and troubleshooting performance-related issues of your Adobe LiveCycle enterprise applications. These are some of the tutorials you'll find :
These guidelines apply to LiveCycle Designer 7.1 and Adobe LiveCycle Forms 7.1. They will help you create and maintain LiveCycle Designer 7.1 forms for optimal performance and troubleshoot performance-related issues.
Nokia has its official training curriculums. The training courses are organized into three different types of development, known as tracks. These tracks are Symbian/C++, Java™ ME, and Rapid Development. I noticed that the Nokia Rapid Application Development track includes a Flash Lite course !
Nokia Rapid Application Development
Cost effective development is on the mind of all developer managers and RAD concepts allow projects to get off the ground faster and with immediate customer feedback. The courses in this track introduce new ways to prototype or build your proof of concept applications for Series 60.
If you try to find out the training class schedule you'll only see courses in Japan and Korea :(
More and more companies are using mobile devices (PDA and phones) to have information on demand, when and where they want it. Mobile learning is evolving into an interactive experience for employees. And Flash Lite has the capabilities to support learning activities.
With my company, Comtaste, we started to show and present several italian companies how to make use of mobile devices for learning purposes. Obviously we found that Flash Lite is able to add a high level of interactivity for developing learning objects
I found this Flash Lite learning content from Robert Hall (via Tom King). Does anyone have some experience on this field ?
Recently I used a lot Adobe Captivate to create some tutorials for a course. A friend of mine pointed me out this free software : Wink.
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
I read the features and there are a lot of cool things you can do : capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles.
This software could be a great compepitor for Captivate.
I often use to send (yes I know I'm not the only) PDF via email. An important issue is the file size. In Acrobat 7 to get the dimension of your document go to File > Document Properties and select the Description tag. I apply several tecniques in order to reduce the size of my PDFs:
File > Reduce File Size : open a dialog box where you can choose the Acrobat Version compatibility (wherever possible I use Acrobat 5 that use the JBIG2 compression, better thanthe CCITT or Zip compressions )
Save a file using the Save As menu item. The simple Save does not rewrite the entire file (unused object will still be used)
decreasae the number of fonts used (pay attention to Type 3 fonts) and the bitmap images
use vector based-graphics (GIF format)
use the RGB color insted of the CMYK
use Tools > PDF Consultant > Audit Space Usage function to see how different items impact on your documet
last but not least use the PDF Optimizer launching Advanced > PDF Optimizer. It's a useful tool that allows you to optimize images size, fonts and set up
Now all you have to do is to send the optimized pdf via email : go to File > Email and a email dialog window opens ! Don't miss the Adobe Reduce PDF file size article.
James Talbot is ready to start presenting today Adobe Mobile User Group meeting on Flash Lite 2. The event starts at 7PM but if you live in Italy it's at 1AM on 24th Feb :( James will explain why use Actionscript classes with Flash Lite 2 in order to :
Tom pointed out a great blog that gives information, tips and tricks on usability on mobile phones: Mobiface. There are some articles focused especially on SonyEricsson phones approach so that very useful for Flash Lite developers:
It would be so cool !!!! I think PS3 will be able to support even the Flash Player 8 but having Flash Lite could be enough :) Here it is what Razoric said in a recent post titled "Sony’s Revolution Killer?" :
“Sony are prepping our new mobile ‘Flash Lite’ platform for PSP and PS3. They intend to combat XBox Live Arcade with downloadable flash games to your PS3 and PSP. They understand the potential of Flash Lite since the development costs are low and we have a DRM solution in place so online content delivery is taken care of.
PSPHacks.net and 71M, in cooperation with RK Digital.net, Heavy.com and Newgrounds.com is proud to present the PSP Flash Player!
Nokia Rapid Application Development
Rumors are growing : 
