With the last Facebook update, annoying quiz application notifications entered in our lives. It’s pretty annoying, not only I do not give any sh*t about a quiz someone takes, but also makes it very hard to see anything else. After some nerve breakdown and digging, I found the solution with the help of an insider tip ;)
1. You have to be a Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari user in order to makes this thing work.
3. Click here to Install the Facebook Purity GreaseMonkey script (Kudos to Stephen for this amazing script. Do not forget to donate him if you find it useful)
4. There is no 4th step :)
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First round of the contest was maybe not exactly our thing; but the next round has a special category for S60. I strongly believe we have a good chance there :)
A new round of Calling All Innovators was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The new categories for the contest are: Internet Innovation, Flash, Emerging Markets
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Pikkoo (mobile screensavers and wallpapers 2.0) is selected to Le Mobile 2.0 2009 taking place in March in Paris. Honored to be among such interesting and cool startups like Floobs and Mippin. We are trying our best to make it there, but the notice came little late, and we are caught unprepared. Hope we can make it there.
Just got the notification that I have been honored to be a Forum Nokia Champion one more year :)
We are pleased to announce that due to your active participation in the mobile development field and in the Forum Nokia Champion program in the past year, you have been re-selected to the program. Congratulations!
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Thomas Joos listed down key people in Flash Lite landscape who are on Twitter. Most of these folks are tweeting regularly and many interesting news and discussions going on. If you are a Flash Lite developer, I recommend you to follow all these guys and keep in sync!
When working on Sudoku Master Example for Nokia, I designed a simple touch keypad for number entry to Sudoku cells. In the design, touch keypad highlighted the number ‘over’ the touch point with a zoom effect. Many thought I got ‘inspired’ from iPhone, and questioned the design. However, the reason was simple (so I thought):
The reason for the decision to zoom above the finger is simply because it is the only way to make the number visible for both right- and left-handed people.
Today, I was watching Android G2 video review; and saw that a guy was typing on a virtual keypad and complains (00:45) there is no key highlight at all (which is weird). When I watched little carefully, I could see the highlights popping up on the ‘left’ side of keys. This was a perfect real life example that the key highlights should be on top of a key, not on left, right or bottom. And that’s not because Apple iPhone does it so; but that’s the only right way to avoid such a big FAIL when a left handed guy shoots one of the first reviews of your product :)
PS. Phone definitely looks cool
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Lots of great news from Adobe from Mobile World Congress 2009. The Flash Lite Developer Channelge is launched with US$ 100.000 in cash prizes, and $30.000 in cash as the grand winner.
Competition challenges 3 groups of developers:
Those currently working with Flash Lite
Flash developers interested in developing applications for mobile devices
Mobile application developers interested in using Flash Lite.
If you belong to one of these groups and you are a company or an individual, a professional or a researcher, you can enter the competition in one of the five categories, get access to great tools from Adobe and stand a chance of winning one of the great cash prizes and promotional packages from our sponsors.
First deadline is 31st March.
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That’s a really good news: Adobe today announced availability of a new market development fund of $10 Million under Open Screen Project. This is a great opportunity for Flash Lite developers to get paid and take their ideas and products to the market.
The Open Screen Project Fund is a US$10 million market development fund that will provide grants to developers in order to accelerate the creation of applications, content, and services that leverage the Adobe® Flash® Platform and run across mobile, desktop, and consumer electronics devices.
The Open Screen Project Fund is seeking applications in the following focus areas: entertainment, business, social networking, productivity, gaming, travel, multimedia, health, finance, weather, sports, news, education, and more. The key will be creating applications that work across multiple devices and leverage Adobe Flash Lite® software, the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes, and the Nokia platform.
Adobe announced via the market researcher Strategy Analytics, Flash Lite has shipped on 1 billion devices (cumulative), 40% of all new handsets in 2008.
If you are a Flash Lite developer, use this number to give a positive impression to your investors or audience. However, if you are a Flash Lite developer, be realistic to yourself and understand that this might not be the news you have been waiting for years. Let’s read between the lines:
1. One billion devices, not phones or mobile devices, therefore it probably doesn’t mean similar to “J2ME is supported on 2 billion devices” and includes many other embedded systems etc: Take these devices out.
2. One billion is global number; which probably includes Japan. Very closed market, no business unless you in Japan or working with Japanese very close: Take these devices out.
3. Second statement “40% of all new handsets shipped on 2008″ is a little more concrete number, however again I believe Japan factor is included in there as well.
So what is the ‘real’ number of Flash Lite enabled devices? By ‘real’ I mean number of devices that a Flash Lite can sell software for? If you are a Flash Lite developer, look at ‘real’ data as this one posted by Mark couple months back and hope he posts that in regular basis. If you are a Flash Lite developer, accept that Flash Lite is fragmented, and define a niche for your product, keeping expansion in mind.
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