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Pikkoo released the latest version of Pikkoo Screensaver Manager with full touch screen support for Nokia phones such as 5800 XPress Music and N97.

Release notes:

- Full touch screen support (for Nokia 5800, Nokia N97 etc..)

- Bug fixes

- UI improvements

Alessandro found a great solution to protect Flash Lite content with OMA DRM 1.0 forward lock for S60 Symbian SIS installers, and prepared a tutorial. Kudos!

The idea is pretty simple but it took sometime to get it done for several reasons. It involves creating a new file in PIP format which contains other files. I figure out the method several months ago but I had to do several tests and rebuild the Symbian C++ code for launching the Flash Lite content.

It’s cool Nokia 5800 automatically rotates the screen to landscape/portrait according to phone orientation. However, you do not want that to happen always when developing Flash Lite applications. Apparently there is no way to disable this ‘freature’ directly from Flash Lite [1]. UPDATE: After my post, Nokia published a new platform service API to disable auto rotation. Please see here.

Below is a hack to disable auto rotation / orientation change from a Flash Lite project for Nokia 5800 (360×640 screen). It simply rotates the main Movieclip to rotate -90 degrees and back whenever an orientation change is detected. It’s not the perfect solution, however will keep you going until Nokia or Adobe fixes the real problem. (Note: You need a main Movieclip for this to work)

var stageSizeListener:Object = new Object();
stageSizeListener.onResize=function()
{
if(Stage.width > Stage.height) {
_root.main._rotation = -90;
_root.main._x = 0;
_root.main._y = 360;
} else {
_root.main._rotation = 0;
_root.main._x = 0;
_root.main._y = 0;
}
}
Stage.addListener(stageSizeListener);

A positive news for Flash Lite community; and a great achievement of Instinct folks. Well done and good luck guys!

Wellington games company Instinct has signed a deal with a Japanese investor as part of a high-level business delegation to Japan and Hong Kong. The company will launch its Game Creator software in Japan later this year.

An agreement has been signed between Wellington web and mobile phone games company Instinct Entertainment and Tokyo-based investor Terrie Lloyd to develop Instinct’s games creation and e-commerce software for the Japanese market. Lloyd will take a strategic equity stake in the company and assist in localisation, marketing and distribution.

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If you would like to start using S60 Platform Services with your Flash Lite project, or would like to compile and test a sample FLA using Platform Services; you have 2 things to do;

1. Download ActionScript Library for S60 Platform Services file and extract

2. Copy the folder to /Users/<your user name>/Library/Application/Support/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration

Pasi posted a raelly nice article: Contacts Demo – S60 Platform Services API example. There is step by step guide and tutorial to prepare the Flash Lite app utilizing new S60 5ht edition Platform Services, and files for the source code. Kudos!

Here is my first Nokia S60 Platform Services API test with Adobe Flash Lite. This demo is designed to run 360×640 screens (like Nokia 5800 and N97). Application first loads contacts name, phone number, work and home addresses and shows all informations nicely in interactive scrollable menu.

The Apple iPhone Blog has a nice post about creating and downloading kick-ass wallpapers for iPhone without needing to draw anything or present any artistic effort for free.

There are a lot of wallpaper sites around for iPhone, but none actually give you a fun and easy way to create one for yourself. DoiPhone blog just came across Pikkoo: A community for mobile screensavers and wallpapers 2.o; and we are stunned- they let you find and create kick-ass wallpapers without needing to draw anything or present any artistic effort, for free!

[via DoiPhone]

Apparently, Nokia decided to remove screensaver support on Nokia 5800 XPress Music (or S60 5th edition we should say?). As enjoying Flash Lite screensavers seems to be impossible natively, there is a small widget application enabling Flash Lite screensavers on 100 Nokia S60 phone models, including Nokia 5800 XPress music. With this widget application, it’s also possible to get unlimited free screensavers designed by users or yourself.

Below is the step by step guide on how to enable Flash Lite screensavers on S60 3rd and 5th edition devices, such as Nokia 5800 XPress Music or Nokia N73.

1. Download and install Pikkoo Screensaver Manager

2. Browse through screensavers on gallery, or create your own using Pikkoo Themes.

3. Note down the pCode (Pikkoo download code) of the screensaver you like

4. Run Pikkoo Screensaver manager on your phone, goto “Download” menu, enter the pCode code and download

5. Activate the screensaver. Voila!

Now you can enjoy the full power and fun of Flash Lite screensavers on your Nokia 5800 XPress music and many other phone models

PS. If you use twitter; I recommend you to follow Pikkoo.

[via Pikkoo blog]

We have been using GoDaddy as our main domain registrar happily since 2005. Recently we wanted to get an European domain with a different top level domain extension, that GoDaddy won’t offer. We came across to EuroDNS and the service looked credible at first sight. Being used to good support we receive from US companies (we have worked with Bluehost, GoDaddy and ServInt so far), I can say that EuroDNS is a total (support) disaster. Problem we had was about DNS, we never have had with GoDaddy or other registrar before.

Here I give you my top 7 reasons why not to use EuroDNS;

- EuroDNS will never tell you the exact problem. They will say that there is a problem, give you generic error description and ask you to contact your ISP
- EuroDNS will not necessarily read and understand your problem. When I asked that I have a DNS problem for a domain I registered 1 day ago; I was told to pay $25 + 1 year renewal fee in order to reactivate my domain. Because they thought I was talking about an expired domain (don’t ask me why)
- EuroDNS will never let you have a conversation. They will simply close a ticket as soon as they answer, and you will need to tell the problem from scratch. Again and again and again.
- EuroDNS will not bother giving you a new answer; instead they will copy & paste one of the old answers they gave before (they did that to me 3 times!!)
- EuroDNS will not necessarily answer you in English. Do not be surprised if you receive a text in French
- EuroDNS will never answer you on weekends. If you somehow have a problem on weekend, you have to wait some days before you get a hold of anyone.
- EuroDNS will never approach a problem as their own. If there is a problem, it’s either yours or your ISP’s; as they are perfect

I made a mistake to register a domain with EuroDNS. God knows what further problems I will have, since DNS problem is still open. I will surely share it as my story goes further with them. You, never ever get in there I recommend :)