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Adobe Case Study Published

October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Web Ink for Mobile Media Curriculum
Adobe published a case study on my work with students at Parsons Communication Design & Technology in the area of mobile media design.

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Tags: Press

Work-in-Progress: WordPress Touch Theme

September 5th, 2007 · No Comments

WordPress Touch Theme Work-In-Progress

Mobile Touch Screen WordPress Theme In The Works

In response to the proliferating importance of portable touch-screen interfaces, we have started the design and development of a WordPress theme for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The theme will make your WordPress site look and behave like a native application, taking advantage of the special requirements of a touch-screen, flick-and-slide scroll interface minimizing zoom-pinching, all using Joe Hewitt’s iUI JavaScript and CSS library.

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Tags: Design Project

Will iPhone Ever Run Flash?

August 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Specula-palooza
Risking iPhone coverage overexposure, today we ponder one of the most interesting questions about the future of Flash, iPhone and web standards. Despite assurances by Uncle Walt that Apple and Adobe are hard at work on a Flash Player for iPhone, plenty of naysayers, skeptics, and player-haters have voiced strong speculations that Flash will never [...]

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Tags: Technical

Packing Lite: A Mobile Media Interface Design Primer

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Article Published on Adobe Developer Center Introducing Design Principles for Flash Lite
Read Packing Lite: A mobile media interface design primer on Adobe’s Developer Center to get my perspective how to adapt to directional-pad based devices in Flash Lite. I detail the process of transferring SWF files to Nokia Series 60 devices and analyze a 4-way [...]

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Tags: Technical

Native iPhone Applications Go Mainstream

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Nullriver Software releases full GUI iPhone Installer
iPhone enthusiasts and novices rejoice as the first native application installation software is released allowing you to install and maintain 3rd party iPhone applications in a user-friendly, graphical interface. Multi-step command-line hacking is no longer required to get programs installed into your iPhone. A natural Mac installer automates [...]

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Tags: Software Review