AS3 From The Ground Up

by Leon on March 4, 2008

I’m all recovered from the mammouth trip to London yesterday to take part in Colin Moock’s ActionScript 3.0 FromThe Ground Up Tour. It was a full on 9hour lecture on ActionScript 3.0 which was useful for both first time developers (…)

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iPhone and Air, what if?

by Leon on February 28, 2008

I was reading the rather brilliant AS3.0 book by Colin Moock today, when a thought suddenly popped into my head: what if the iPhone could run the Adobe Air runtime. Just think of this scenario:- I could create a RIA (…)

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Custom WebClip icons

by Leon on February 28, 2008

Just finished putting the final touches to the iPhone/iPod Touch version of the SizzlaBlog. As I previously mentioned I have installed a plug-in by ContentRobot which will automatically reformat my content when the site is viewed on the iPhone. I (…)

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I miss you…

by Leon on February 27, 2008

…my old N73 that is!! Ok, so my iPhone is brilliant; I have touch screen, iTunes and an iPod however there are a few features that I miss from the old N73 that if were on the iPhone would easily (…)

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1.1.4 is here!!

by Leon on February 26, 2008

Well wasn’t that a nice surprise. Connected my iPhone about half an hour ago and low and behold the 1.1.4 update was available. Can’t seem to find any documentation on the Apple site. I’m a member of the Apple Developer (…)

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iPhone SDK, where are you?

by Leon on February 26, 2008

At the risk of jumping on the run-away train that is the iPhone Rumour Express I am left wondering where the iPhone SDK is? We have had various posts around the web (tuaw) that the SDK would be released on (…)

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iTunes update – is the iPhone SDK on the way?

by Leon on February 21, 2008

Just opened up iTunes and recieved a software update to 7.6.1. Could this be in preparation for the new iPhone SDK? According to Apple the update is to: Rent and download your favorite movies with iTunes on your computer or (…)

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WTF? iPhone is the best thing ever?

by Leon on February 16, 2008

This is a post I came across recently by Ben Winsor. I’ll let you read it first before I tell you why he’s talking utter rubbish: The iPhone is one of the very few tech products that lives up to (…)

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Truly Dynamic Flash Content

by Leon on February 15, 2008

This post is inspired by a recent project that I have been working on. Imagine the scenario: You have one Flash file that you would like to sit in two or more locations that have different styles (colours, fonts, etc). (…)

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iTrip and iPhone

by Leon on February 14, 2008

Yet another iPhone quick tip. I’ve gone a bit mad on the blog today. Basically I plugged my iTrip into my iPhone dock connector to see what would happen. A message popped up saying that this device wasn’t compatible. Natrually (…)

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