10
Mar/100

Samsung Apps Contest 2010

It seems Samsung has plans to start its own TV Appstore with applications using Flash Lite for Digital Home. Samsung announced new “Internet@TV” service, where user can download the various kind of applications onto Samsung DTV through internet with its own UI and service client.

Currently, Samsung provides the SDK to only register CPs. The current number of CPs is 200 and there are about 80 applications in application store. Those numbers will increase as time goes. It recently announced the SAMSUNG APPS CONTEST 2010, calling developers to use their SDK and create new applications for TV.

Any developer who wants to create applications can

Developers can make applications using  Web technologies (HTML and JavaScript) and ADOBE FLASH Technology.

Hope this starts a new era of TV Apps using Flash Lite for Digital Home.

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2
Mar/100

TiVo DVR using Flash Lite for Digital Home

Adobe Flash Lite for Digital Home is in news now-a-days. Recently Intel's Sodaville announced that they are going to use Flash. Now its TiVo, which announced its new Set-top box which uses Adobe Flash Platform.

TiVo_Premiere

This device has several new menus with a very rich UI:

  • TiVo Central
  • TiVo Search
  • Tivo Browser (Tivo Content Browsing, not a html browser)
  • My Shows etc

Apart from this, the Remote is pretty exciting with QWERTY Keyboard and very much like the way needed to navigate different Applications.

Way to go Flash Lite for Digital Home...

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22
Jan/102

Unix Timestamp in Flash

Recently i needed to convert normal Time to Unix Timestamp in Flash. I couldn't get how to go about it intially. But when i gone through the definition of Unix Timestamp, its was clear for me.

"The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of seconds. This count starts at the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970. Therefore, the unix time stamp is merely the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch."

In order to count the number of seconds till a time, we have method Date.getTime() in Flash. This will effectively return the number of seconds from the Unix Epoch till the Date.

This is how i tried to find out the number of seconds till today's System Time:

var myDate = new Date();
trace(myDate);
var unixTime = Math.round(myDate.getTime()/1000);
trace("Unix Time: "+unixTime);

Output:

Fri Jan 22 13:01:55 GMT+0530 2010
Unix Time: 1264145516
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1
Dec/090

ActionScript 3.0 Referece for Adobe Flash Platform

ActionScript 3.0 Refernece for Adobe Flash Platform is a place where you will get reference for actionscript language elements, libraries, component tools, runtimes, servers and services for Flash Platform.

 adobeflashplatform

Beta version is online now. This has not only Help for Flash and Flex, but also for AIR, LifeCycle Data Services, ColdFusion. It makes us really easy to go to each product or earlier versions of each product's help using Filters controls.

Based on the filter you have selected, the content in the help varies accordingly.

This will be one place for all the reference for the Adobe Flash Platform.

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10
Nov/092

Using Motion Editor in Flash CS4

Motion Editor is one of the new Features of Adobe Flash CS4. This helps us in creating animations of nice quality, accuracy yet with a minimal of effort compared to the conventional way of animation we used to see until Flash Cs3.

Till now, if we had to create any animation, we have to create keyFrames, apply Tween, apply Ease if needed. If we had to remove the tween Undo Tween or Remove Tween. It was all a bit tedious one. But with new Motion Editor, all these tasks are made simple and quite fast with good accuracy.

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3
Nov/091

Creating Dynamic Accordian Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript3.0 and XML

Recently i came across a very nice tutorial for creating a 'Dynamic Accordian Menu using Flash CS4 with ActionScript3.0  and XML' by Mario Santos.

Its totally dynamic as in all the menu Items can be configured in an XML and you can load text or  image or a SWF in the opened state.

Final Output:

accordian

 

You can get source files for this turorials as well...

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23
Oct/090

Flash or Silverlight? Which suits your needs the best?

Adobe Flash as you all know is in use for years now for designing any web applicaitons or content. With Silverlight1.0 released, there is  a debate started in web developers on whether to choose Flash or Silverlight.

Even after release Silverlight is facing a difficulty in capturing the market because of the coverage of Flash present already. Still we cannot deny that there are some features in Silverlight like search engine optimization, which designers and developers wanted to see in Flash for so long.

Actually speaking, which technology to use mostly depends on your requirements, on what capabilities you need to develop your application etc.

Smashing Magazine has posted an article discussing the technical differences between Flash and Silverlight.

The articles concludes as:

Features Flash Silverlight
Animation   better
File Size better  
Scripting   better
Video/Audio   better
Sound Processing better  
Accessibility better  
Platform Compatibility better  
Text Representation/SEO   better
Supported Image Formats better  
Socket Programming better  
Webcam Support better  
Deployment better  
Windows Application better  
Media Streaming   better

Check out this article and use appropriate technology which suits your needs and requirements.

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