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Ahmet
La première rencontre de l’AUGG (Adobe User Group Geneve) se déroule aujourd’hui à 18h.
Si vous êtes dans la région de Genève et que votre emploi du temps vous le permet, venez nous rejoindre pour le verre de présentation! La séance sera relativement courte et à pour seul but de nous presenter et de rencontrer les personnes interessées à faire partie du groupe.
Vous pourrez nous trouver à l’établi (3 rue écolde-de-médecine)
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| Ahmet |
There is a lot of buzz about FoxyTag (free, collaborative system to signal radars (speed camera) on mobile phones. This freeware is develop at The Advanced Systems Group from Geneva University. It’s still in beta version but it works.
A German magazine (der Spiegel) even talk about Solidarity 2.0 to describe it.
This freeware work with a lot of mobile (it’s Java), but need a GPS-Bluetooth hardware.
The idea consists in posting virtual tags close to radars in order to warn other drivers. These users will then get an alarm when they are closer than 15 seconds to a critical point, and a red point locating the radar appears on their screen. You can signal a radar by pressing the key “1″ of your mobile phone and signal that a radar disappeared (you get an alarm but you do not see any speed camera) by pressing “0″. You are also invited to signal radars that are already tagged; by confirming their presence, you create trust link with other users and get more reliable information. The system excludes automatically users that do not vote “like the others”. Roughly speaking, the more you participate, the more the information you get is reliable. FoxyTag is a “collaborative” system. Tags posted by FoxyTag are directional. So, tags posted for users driving in the opposite direction won’t be signalized to you. Fix or mobile speed cameras are treated the same way.
It should work worldwide but some place must be tagless as the tag are human positioned.
If your are lucky enough to have a GPS & a compatible mobile go download it, your wallet will thank you ;)
Ahmet
I’ve made a short video tutorial about how to handle a movieClip and how to manage depth with AS3.
It’s the third video tutorial I’ve made about AS3, and it is still in Frenchy-English ;)
That time the video quality is a bit better, but still to far away from perfect.
Visit the as3 tutorial page or watch the last video.
Ahmet
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Here is a little application I’ve developed, still in beta but Free ;)
The application name is meTimer, the main goal is to count the time you spend doing some work.
It need Flash Lite Player 2 installed on your mobile.
For example, as a freelance you may work on different project and forget how many time you have spend working. MeTimer can be turn off during working time. You only have to tag the start time and the stop time. You can even turn off your mobile but you won’t loose any seconds.
It’s only a beta by now but is working. There is a payment lock but by now it isn’t activate. Although you must make all the payment process to activate your version.
Step by step installation :
1- Download meTimer.swf ( you need Flash Lite 2.0 on your mobile)
2- Copy it into your Flash folder
3- Run meTimer.
Step by step activation :
-Registration
4- The first time your run meTimer you’ll be asked to create a new work (enter a name)
5- Press “save”
6- You’ll then be on the home.
7- Press[7] on your mobile keyboard
8- Click “buy now”
9- Enter all information, if your (Imei number doesn’t show it’s not that bad)
10- Click “send”
-Activation
11- Press “home”
12- Create a new work (press 4)
13- Click “validate”
14- Enter the same passwords as in step 9
Voilà, meTimer is fully activate. Please if you use it report bug.
Ahmet
I’ve been lately doing a few research on Flash Lite topic.
In my point of view, one of the best arguments of Flash Lite was XML capabilities and Shared Object
Shared Object definition from flash help: Flash Lite shared objects lets you save data persistently to the user’s device. For example, you might use a shared object to save information between application sessions, such as user preferences or game scores. You use the SharedObject class to read and write Flash Lite shared objects.
I must admit that all work in theory very well. But only in theory (on desktop Flash Player), or I didn’t found yet the good way to make it work on my mobile.
So here is my problem, if anyone have a clue to solve it … please teach me.
I build a swf that use a shared object (creating & reading & rewriting).
Testing the swf saved in the right path works perfectly, but if I test the sis (created by swf2sis, from that same swf) it won’t work at all.
Well in fact it works well as long as I don’t stop running my application…which mean that it doesn’t save my Shared Object or that he save it but cannot access it again later.
I’ve send a mail to swf2sis but I had no answer so far.
I also asked on Flashmobilegroup and receive some information but didn’t found a good solution.
In fact it can be easily solved by using third technology (like Python or C) that would write a file, but I’m looking for a pure Flash Lite solution.
Did anyone encounter the same problem? Does it come from swf2sis, Adobe or my mobile exploitation system (S60 2nd edition)?
Here are the 2 files [sharedobject(zip) - sharedobject(sis)] I used in my test, if you have time to test , it would be great.
Ahmet
