iPad Alternative That has Flash

Looks Apple won’t give in for not supporting Adobe Flash on its devices anytime soon. Considering all those designers who love Adobe creative products for Mac kept Mac afloat during its down time, Apple looks not that cool anymore. Anyway, there are always alternatives. Speaking of iPad, here comes Joojoo tablet.

Just look at the speck, it has everything iPad will have. Beside, it has camera for video conferencing, 12.1 inch widescreen, 1366×768 pixel resolution and Flash 10.1 and Java. It will on sell soon for $499.

We all know Apple’s refusing to Flash is merely to protect its walled App Store. But history tells us, a wall can either become a relic for tourist (The Great Wall of China) or many pieces for collection (The Berlin Wall).

Happy Tiger New Year!

My friends and readers, wish you all the best in the tiger year!

This will be an exciting and adventure year and I can’t wait every tomorrow becomes today.

Which Book Desided via Flash

If you are avid book reader, finding the right reading materials could be a challenge every time you’ve finished one. This whichbook site is an interesting attempt to solve that problem.

What it does is simple, via a Flash application you use the silder on each of the categories, from happy, funny, gentle, sex to optimistic, to specify what you are up to for the next reading. After done that, hit the “go” button, then the books selected will be listed. If you find one is good then you can “borrow” it. A popup will show up with a Flash map for you to decide where you want to borrow from. The map makes it obvious that the service is for just the people in UK.

I’ve seen startups find musics for you by selecting “mood”. This similar approach for books is very interesting. Wish Amazon has something like this. Might be a good app for Kindle that can be developed using the newly available Kindle SDK.

From Illustrator to HTML 5 CANVAS

Put those Flash vs HTML 5 vs Adobe vs Apple vs Google mix aside, there are creative works been done to solve the problems. Check out his video: What the engineer was doing in the video was to create rich content that to be published in HTML 5 Canvas via using Adobe tools, Illustrator, Dreamwaiver and Flash. This is not the best way to make all those tools work together but is a good thinking of trying so.

No-Flash iPad vs Netbook

May be Apple is too lazy to make iPad capable.

This is why I can’t buy a iPad

Google Takes Over Internet via SPDY?

It seems Google is on the path to take over everything online or everything in bits and bytes, well, except in China..um…and what Apple aims at. The funny thing is that almost everyone who surfs online is literally working for Google and contributing to its “google” sized bank account, in the way of pay for it, and then Google is considered a free service. Anyway, Google thinks HTTP had its run and should be retired. Hence the Google SPDY, which is hosted at the Google Chromium project site.SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”), is an “an application-layer protocol for transporting content over [...] Continue Reading…

The most comprehensive explaination of Flex 4 Skin

One of the biggest change you will encounter when develop or migrate to Flex 4 is the spark skin creation. It’s a big leap to separate UI design from programming. There are many resources available to start tutoring the skin development. I found the best one so far among them is this slides created by Saurabh Narula. It’ll make a lot easier to go over this stack first before diving into the thick document. It’s worth the time.

Calhoun County on Flex Viewer

Here is another Flex Viewer sighting. The Calhoun County of Alabama has setup this Flex Viewer to allow citizen search parcel information and properties sales information. They also created a Google Street View widget that allows click at a street on the map to view Google Street View in a popup.

Noticeably there are other small but handy modification to the viewer container. Such as the mouse’s lat/lon location is displayed on the control bar. The theme has changed to green too.

Good job!