Android mobile phone to support Flash !
Adobe and HTC, a global designer of mobile phones has announced that the new HTC Hero is the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe® Flash® Platform technology.
The HTC Hero phone will come with Flash Lite 3.1, allowing ActionScript 2.0 coding. It will support Sorenson and On2 VP6 codecs for higher quality video and playback of existing Web content.
This is looking very exciting and since the new iPhone sadly can’t handle flash content I might go Android .
HTC HERO is is due to be released on July 15, 2009 simFree from Amazon.co.uk
Adobe Flash Catalyst
Could Adobe Flash Catalyst be the future of Flash designers and digital artists whitout coding ability ?
It sounds very promessing….
Who is the target customer for Flash Catalyst?
” Flash Catalyst is targeted at designers that use the Creative Suite and want to create applications and interactive content without coding.This includes interactive designers or people that aspire to do interactive design but didn’t want to learn how to code”
- Check this excellent video tutorial for an overview of some of the feature of this new addition to the adobe creative toolset , and several step by step Flash Catalyst projects from The Flash Catalyst Team Blog
Removing content from google search
You can instruct Google not to include content from your site or remove content that is currently indexed in their search engine.
For instance to prevent robots from crawling your site, place a robots.txt file in your server root:
Open a text editor such as wordpad and copy and paste the following text:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Save the file as robots.txt and place it in your server root as such:
(http://yourserver.com/robots.txt)
- To block a directory and everything in it, follow the directory name with a forward slash.
Disallow: /junk-directory/
- To block a page, list the page.
Disallow: /private_file.html
- To remove a specific image from Google image search, add the following:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /images/dogs.jpg
- To remove all images on your site from Google image search:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /
- To block files of a specific file type (for example, .gif), use the following:
User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /*.gif$
So you can therefore specify which part of your site you need preventing from indexing, To find out more about content indexation go to google Webmaster Guidelines.
Download .Flv from youtube – Flashartist.org
I have just discovered this really cool Mac application that help download .FLV files from video sites such as Youtube & Dailymotion. and it’s free!
The massive video resources of youtube can be of great help for rotoscoping or animation projects .
Adobe Working on Flash player for iPhone
It appears that ADOBE started developing a media player for Flash on the Iphone, although there is still a lot of controversy as if it’s going to happen or not..
http://digg.com/apple/Adobe_begins_work_on_Flash_player_for_iPhone
Adobe Flash Player 10 – available for download now!
Adobe Flash Player 10 – available for download now!
New features, better performance and integration with Adobe Creative Suite 4.
Creating mobile content with Flash Lite
Get into Flash Lite mobile applications !
check the ADOBE FLASH LITE mobile gallery to see great examples of flash mobile content .
- games
- screensavers
- Applications
Wacom Cintiq
The Wacom Cintiq is a must have for Flash artists. It allows you to draw naturally on the display itself as you would do with a pen on paper. You can use this tool intuitively and simulate various conventional working techniques with the Pen and its replaceable nibs as well as the Cintiq Airbrush.
This product is aimed at professional digital content creators for various tasks including storyboarding, animation, illustration, finishing, retouching and compositing.It is widely used in the comics world for inking strips.
The Most “affordable” of Cintiq tablets range comes as a 12″Display and price around £830 (UK)
Its big sister the Wacom Cintiq 21UX comes up to a nice £2,149.00.
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