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Kotimainen Karttaselain on uudenlainen maastonavigaattori mobiilisovellus.

Sen lisäksi, että sovellus näyttää tarkasti maastonmuodot, siinä on mainioita ominaisuuksia kuten osoitehaku, GPS:n seuraus, retkeily- ja matkailukohteiden näyttö.. Karttoja voi näyttää tarkasti jopa 1:2000 mittakaavalla.

Oheinen kuva näyttää miten tarkka Karttaselain (oikealla) on verrattuna Google Maps:iin :

Sovellus on Beta-asteella, toteutettu Flash Lite:llä ja sen saa ILMAISEKSI puhelimeen osoitteesta www.karttaselain.mobi.

Ohjelman kehittämistä voi tukea lahjoituksella, suosittelemme!

2008 has been very positive and great year for us, especially through the end. New products, projects, goods and bads. We hope it’s been as positive for you as it did to us, and wish 2009 brings even better for all of us, together with health and happiness!

Dan from Instinct today announced the launch of the first version of their Game Creator product. Games you create using their software works on Flash Lite Enabled Handsets, Playstation Portable and browser.

Now anybody can make games. The game creator enables even the most novice developer the ability to make games! The Game Creator is designed for Individuals, Agencies and the brands they represent.

You can watch Game Creator videos from YouTube on Dan’s channel. It demonstrates well how the system works. There are also sample games created using the software (though couldn’t make it work), worth checking out. You can buy Game Creator, which has a quite reasonable pricing.

Some feature highlights;

* Game Types can be standard Side Scrolling or Side Scrolling with
moving back grounds (for flying games like 1945)
* Characters can Walk, Run, Jump, Climb, Duck (crouch), Shoot
Projectile Weapons, and swing Swords / and make Hand Held attacks
* Enemies can walk towards you. Follow you around. And shoot you.
* There is a Friends System. You can add characters to the game that
talk to you and provide in game information to players.
* Score System
* Shopping System (buy & sell stuff in game)
* Switches & Doors
* Moving Tiles
* The character can look up and down
* Shared Objects
* Level Markers and Registration Points
* Item Spawn and Inventory System

Adobe today launched Adobe Creative Suite 4.

Today we launched the new Adobe Creative Suite 4, which represents a massive step forward for the mobile developer.  As part of the Suite, and included with the point products the new Adobe Device Central CS4 includes many new features.

Here is the most interesting part for Flash Lite developers:

• Online device library
• Fully automatic publish/update of device profiles
• Local Library for storing and sharing the profiles that interest you
• Project enabled – ready for working in teams
• Task SDK for automation and for Mobile Packaging
• Send your content by Bluetooth to your device or by FTP
• Record and create test scripts to run across many devices automatically.
• Produce test reports with screen shots automatically
• Video demo recording
• Improved FLV support
• Network traffic sniffing
• Not to forget the nifty Vibrate test

[via Mark]

Pasi just released a new article of his “Testing KuneriLite” series: Take, play and send video file from Flash Lite to server.

In my earlier article I tested KuneriLite Camera plugin to take picture (klMode=picture). This time I tested it’s video support (klMode=video) to record video and store it to mobile phone. I modified a little my sources and it works very nicely in Nokia N95. This testing application sends videos to my server http://ptm.fi/temp/videos folder, so check you uploaded videos from there.

This one definitely worth the note. We have been investigating many times how to add SMS support to our web services (which you will see soon), but things looked quite complicated and expensive, each time we ended up changing our mind. But thanks to guys at Arctic Startup, now we know a nice, easy and free way to add SMS support to any web service using an S60 device and very simple logic: FromSMS from an Estonian startup FromDistance.

When your web application needs to send and/or receive SMS messages cost-efficiently, FromSMS is the solution for you. FromSMS offers a simple HTTPS POST interface for sending of SMS messages – all you need is an S60 mobile device with free FromSMS Client installed.

Faisal prepared a nice tutorial explaining how to enable people to download SIS installers on your web site when you do not have access to chance MIME types manually. He provides examples on PHP and ASP.Net, and covers S60 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, which should cover all cases out there.

In this article I will try to explain you how you can enable OTA (Over The Air) installation of SIS files from your own websites without any settings on server. Enabling OTA installs require you to set the correct MIME-Type on the server, so the mobile browser can recognize what kind of data server is returning and install the SIS correctly. You can manually set the the MIME-Type as described below on your webserver, however this article targets when you don’t have access to server settings for custom MIME-Types

Looks like we missed that nice tutorial when we were on holidays. Felipe tells you step by step how to create a Bluetooth chat application with Flash Lite and KuneriLite of Forum Nokia Wiki.

In this tutorial we will follow a step-by-step guide to create a chat by Bluetooth using Kuneri Lite. Kuneri Lite allows access to the S60 features (Bluetooth, GPS, Camera, …) that we haven’t access directly from Flash Lite.

Things going great and our old office was not big enough to handle our expansion. So that we moved to a new office, which is bigger, better and closer to downtown. I will post pictures of our new premises soon; but for starters, please update your address book.

Kuneri Ltd.

Pakkahuoneenkatu 12 A, 90100, Oulu / Finland

(This is how our new street looks like)

All the buzz of MobileMe disaster of Apple, somehow reminded me Nokia willing to be an Internet company (or should I say trying?) As a respected Hardware and Software company (they still do great), do you think Nokia can make a good Internet company? Or would it be a too big piece to chew?

It’s not hard to see that Apple’s failure has much to do with a wrong strategy (i.e launching the service toghether with iPhone 3G). However, also shows that, brand, money, blindly attached fans are not enough to succeed on Internet, and even Americans can fail in that arena. I am sure that they will take their lesson and somehow will succeed to compensate. But how about Nokia? Finland is too far from US, not only in miles, but also in mentality, speed, approach etc. As a company, who hasn’t had any luck (or chance) in U.S market, will they be able to steal the heart of US consumers? If it’s true that Internet business goes through U.S, what kind of chance do they have?

I will not bring up statements. I haven’t thought deep on that, therefore at the moment this is just a question. I would like to learn how you think about Nokia brand together with Internet and take my thoughts deeper.