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Phillip has posted the source for a Pocket PC Phone Dialer (zip download) featured in the Flash Enabled book. Here is a great example of what you can do with Macromedia Flash MX and the Flash Player 5 for Pocket PC. It’s a phone dialer that stores numbers using cookies.. Pocket PC, Mobile Devices, Innovation Here is a request Phillip, could you get permalinks on your blog soon, pretty please? :-) Its really hard to link to a spesific story at Flashenabled as it is now.

David Doull’s Urbanev: Thinking in Flash is an interesting site, found it because he has started linking to me (thanks David). David is a brilliant Flash developer, responsible for such great projects as the award winning – as well as great example of a very useful use of Flash in an application – smallblueprinter I like Davids writing style, I think he would do good with a weblog – it wouldn’t have to be just two words and a link or two you know David :-) For now he is

Mike has a new list of new content about Flash MX now available on the Macromedia.com site. There is a lot of good content there, including a couple of articles regarding usability, Featured Community site (as reported earlier today), a user survey, and last but not least John Dowdell’s “JD Forum”. John lets us under the blanket to see what Macromedia is doing to help finding the information you want easier at the Designer & Developer Center. I have to tip my hat *g* to John for linking back to

Breaking news from Flashenabled.com & Phillip Torrone, reporting directly from the Pocket PC Summit: Folks, here is some exclusive news from the Pocket PC Summit. Macromedia announced that HP will be putting / distributing the Macromedia Flash Player 5 for Pocket PC soon, so that bascially means the millions of people with iPAQ are / will be FlashEnabled! I’ll have more details soon, but here it is. The Macromedia folks here said this was okay for me to post. [PS: Not sure if Phillip was in a hurry here, or

I think Branden’s intro is a good enough reference to his Components Rant: Time to let off some steam here… I keep seeing folks say that the built in Flash MX components are too complex, bloated, and that it’s better to just roll your own. I am even seeing some relatively smart folks spouting this kind of ignorant junk! And that’s exactly what it is, junk…. Read the rest of the rant at Branden’s blog

Macromedia – Designer & Developer Center : Featured Community Site This is the first article in a new series that will periodically highlight Macromedia Flash MX community sites. These sites offer some of the top resources on using Macromedia Flash MX anywhere, and they provide information in the form of tutorials, articles, and forums. Most importantly though, they help define and foster the Macromedia communities – which are the single best and most important resource for information on the Macromedia MX tools. First time around they are spotlighting Ultrashock.com, with

Samuel keeps on dishing out cool projects. This time around its an RSS Parser for Flash MX AUTHOR: Samuel Wan DESCRIPTION: A factory object which parses an XML feed and returns the information as a data object by passing the object as an argument to a callback function in the specified callback target. Only works with RSS 0.91 or earlier. For complete documentation, refer to the Actionscript in the first keyframe of the RSSDataFactory movieclip. This is going to be very useful, especially if someone adds RSS 0.92 and RSS

Macromedia announced Flash MX support for the Toshiba Genio today. John Dowdell writes about it on his blog and referes to the list at Macromedia of Supported Devices & Platforms All this follows the announcement of the Pocket PC 2002 Flash MX player. But there is one thing that I can’t understand, the download or a link to the download of the Pocket PC 2002 Flash player can’t be found anywhere on Macromedia’s site. You would expect it to be found on the Macromedia Flash Player 5 for Pocket PC

This is a cool contest for the ActionScript geeks: Write the most interesting Flash program with only 25 lines of code. ActionScript Contest May 2002! I love the results that I have seen so far of the competition. Putting restictions on what you can do usualy sparks a lot of creativity. Like the 5K competition, or the demo competitions on the Amiga. [Via Flazoom]

Phillip Torrone (Flashenabled.com), the mad Flash gadget inventor, came up with a new product this weekend. I’ll let him tell you about it himself: i ran out of time this weekend to finish up a new project. basically, i’ve embedded a gps as well as stand-alone application systems in a hiking stick (uses macromedia flash and windowsmedia). the total cost of the unit is really cheap and at some point i might see about mass producing these. when i get back i’ll post screenshots from the application. imagine hiking and