Using CacheAsBitmap effectively for FlashLite for Digital Home
As you might be hearing now a days about FlashLite on Digital Home, its like running Flash content on Set-top boxes. My previous post has a demo of Intel, which was given at its IDF.
In this post, we are going to talk about using cacheAsBitmap feature effectively while creating content for Set-top boxes.
FlashLite for Digital Home basically has a capability of Hardware Rendering, wherein the hardware has can render the Bitmaps avoiding the software(FlashLite) to take this burden. This results in increase in performance while rendering on set-top box.
Intel-based Set-top box running Flash, HD Video
Intel has demoed its Set-top box with CE 3100 Media Processor, which combines an 800MHz Pentium M core with a proprietary video processing core all on one chip at IDF. That sep-top box runs Flash UI as it has FlashLite for Digital Home running on top of Linux.
This is the product i am working on 
Good to see demos of the product for which i am working on...
Check out more details here
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile for IPhone
Autodesk has released SketchBook Mobile for IPhone and IPod Touch with a very low price of around $2.99 only.
SketchBook Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch offers a combination of digital pencils, pens, markers and airbrushes, as well as an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface, which enables users, those with nimble fingers at least, to create everything from quick sketches to print-quality production artwork.
65 Excellent Flash Designs
Adobe Flash has evolved from just Game Programming, dealing with Video playback to a most complete web technology, which can create any enriching visual experience that is not possible with HTML and CSS. Though Flash is not favourite medium for accessibilty and Usability, it has its own advantages in creating a highly interactive Web Content other than advetising and Games.
Smashing Magazine has a post which tell us about how to use nice graphics, content, designs and graphics motion in creating complete Web Portals. It has some best practices which designing any portfolio for your website. This has around 65 Flash Design examples.
Check them out....
Creating Pop-Up Windows in Flex/AIR
Pop-ups are a vital part of any application. In this post, we are going to look into how a popup window can be designed in FLEX/AIR.
PopUpManager class is the one used to create new top-level windows and can be used to place above all the visible windows (making it a popUp). You can remove popUps as well using this class.
We can make these windows modal as well.
We can create a popUp using createPopUp method.
public static createPopUp(parent:DisplayObject, class:Class, modal:Boolean = false):IFlexDisplayObject
Here parent is the window over which the popup is going to appear, class is the reference to the custom MXML component which is going to act as pop-up, modal represents the Boolean value to decide on whether the popup is going to be modal or not.
FileSystem Componets in Adobe AIR
Flex File system components are the ones which combine the functionality of list controls like List, Tree, DataGrid etc with File System details. Using these File System components, we can design something like File Brower for your computer with in a matter of minutes.
Here are the Flex File System components:
- FileSystemComboBox: Shows hierarchical directories of selected directory
- FileSystemTree: displays contents of a directory as Tree
- FileSystemList: Shows the contents of a directory as List
- FileSystemDataGrid: Displays file information in a grid format
- FileSystemHistoryButton: Lets us move through the navigational history of another control
Free Flash Components
Flash Components are some third-party components that can be added onto your Flash as add-ons or extensions and make use of them. You can install these components using Adobe Extension Manager.
Now-a-days we can get many many rich Flash Components for free.
FlashScope has release some nice and useful Flash Components, which are absolutely free. Take a look at them, you wont regret. They are really useful.
Creating your First APPLE IPhone App
Iphone as you all know is a revolution in mobile devices owing to its high performance, Multi-Touch features.
Apple's AppStore, is a huge succes among IPhone Users, is growing in number of apps submitted to it day by day.
You too can start builing an IPhone APP and can submit to APPLE's AppStore.
Here is an awesome article to say a go for Beginners to start with an IPhone Application development from Smashing Magazine.
I found it really useful in getting an insight of how to go about builing an IPhone application.