Building a BMI Calculator Application in Flash Lite – Step By Step Walkthrough

Body Mass Index Calculator , or BMI Calculator is a common health application to carry about in your pocket. So today we will see how to build our very own BMI Calculator in Flash Lite. But as in our earlier walk-throughs, you get to see the screen cast of the BMI Calculator application in action, before jumping into the tutorial. Read the rest of this post »

June 6, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Actionscript 2.0, Flash Lite, Mobile, Nokia, Sony Ericsson  4 Comments

Open source video revolution – OSMF on Red5

JWFLV Player vs Flow Player vs Strobe:

Strobe Player:

Note that in some cases flash player may ask you to accept ssl certificate. this happens only with red5 running the OSMF player

OSMF is a move by Adobe which clarifies how much flash is towards openness. Whether your needs are to setup a video-tube site or live event broadcasting, OSMF and Red5 provide the perfect package to go fully open source. No more cumbersome domain licenses. No more expensive RTMP solutions. Take up Red5 , download Adobe strobe playback component and go live – completely open source. Read the rest of this post »

June 3, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: General, OSMF, RTMP, Red5  One Comment

“The Storm Is Brewing… Gods Are Angry” – “Apple Beware !”

As the situation reveals, Apple may be in thick soup. Department of Justice’s investigation is going to go deeper than just digital music. There seems to be a list of anti-trust compilations building up against Apple. Adobe’s cross compilation ban is only one of the many points scored by Apple.

There are reports that Apple may have pressured Sony Music Entertainment and EMI to stop participating in a special discount promotion offered by Amazon, one of Apple’s leading competitors in digital music. As Billboard magazine reports Read the rest of this post »

May 30, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: General  4 Comments

Build Complex Interactions In Flash Lite

Many underestimate the capability of Flash Lite, when it comes to handling complex interactions and providing user friendly interfaces compared to desktop versions of the plugin. In this walk-through we will look at a typical widget-based interaction, which lets you perform multiple actions from a single UI. Before we proceed, we will cite our output so that you can have a glance of what level of complexity we shall handle. Read the rest of this post »

May 29, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Actionscript 2.0, Flash Lite, Mobile, Nokia, Sony Ericsson  5 Comments


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