Archive for the ‘tips’

Tip of the day: Quick silent mode06.20.07

Tip of the dayMost of the Nokia devices will go to Silent profile and back to General profile pressing and holding the “#” key.

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Tip of the day : How to use more audio formats with Flash Lite06.19.07

QuicktimeFlash Lite can import WAV and MP3 audio formats out of the package in Windows. However, there are better (depending on the case) audio formats you would like to use; such as AIFF and AU. To be able to import these audio formats, only thing you need to do is to install Quicktime player.

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Tip of the day : How to change default screen size of S60 emulator06.18.07

Very simple tip for the ones who would like to change default screen size for S60 emulator from double resolution to another.

- Locate epoc.ini (C:\Symbian\9.x\S60_3rd\Epoc32\Data\ by default)

- Comment out all other resolutions other than you want

- Locate wsini.ini (C:\Symbian\9.x\S60_3rd\Epoc32\Data\ by default)

- Comment out all other resolutions other than you want

That’s the dirtiest way. Let me know if you know smarter ways or see any mistake.

Bonus : You can modify emulator’s platform security options also from epoc.ini. Change PlatSecEnforcement to OFF.

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Best Practices for Performance and Memory for Flash Lite06.17.07

Upcoming seminar from Adobe: Best Practices for Performance and Memory for Flash Lite on 27th June Wednesday at 9-10 AM US/Pacific.

Prashant Panigrahi, tech support engineer for the Adobe Mobile and Devices business unit, will take you under the hood of different memory management schemes used by FlashLite 2.x and the mobile platform. He will demonstrate how you can best tune your application/content to maximum performance and efficient memory usage.

You will learn:

  • How memory management and garbage collection work in Flash Lite 2.x
  • How you can tune your Flash Lite 2.x application/content to make the most use of the limited memory and CPU cycles on your mobile device.
  • Key points to consider for better performance while developing your Flash Lite 2.x applications/content for mobile devices
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    How to make a transparent Favicon05.01.07

    Nigel posted a simple tutorial on how to make transparent favicons on Augnofi forums. It’s quite handy in case you are lazy to dig the web to figure out how to do it.

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