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To everything, turn turn

While investigating page turning options for potential projects, I came across these impressive examples. One uses Flash and the other is done with HTML5. Flash, based on work by Didier Brun:   http://www.bytearray.org/?p=77   http://www.didierbrun.com/foxaweb/demos/as3/pageflip/PageFlip.swf

Flash on TV, 3D, Accelerometer via the Litl set top box

Flash on TV, 3D, Accelerometer via the Litl set top box

During a recent Seattle Flex user group I had the honor of presenting at, Adobe’s Marty Mickelson (TheFlexGuy) took some awesome photos of me demonstrating some of the amazing technology Litl is unveiling in the coming weeks! In this photo, I am showing the new Touch and Accelerometer remote (that’s my hand holding the real [...]

Video Demo: Control a papervision3D sphere with a litl remote

After doing our first 2 live video workshops recently, some folks were asking about PaperVision3D and general 3D performance on litl. We grabbed a simple sphere rolling demo and wrapped it in a litl channel. The result is a simple, but insanely fun example of controlling a 3D object in Flash within a litl channel. [...]

Flash channel ecosystem taking shape this summer with litl SDK

Lots of exciting things coming together with the litl OS and SDK. The team has been growing as well as the developer community. A new batch of litl webbooks shipped and many went to developers eager to build Flash channels for the OS. We have a very busy summer planned and we are on schedule [...]

litl SDK Available, Developers get webbook for $199

At FlashAndTheCity, we officially launched our Developer Center at http://developer.litl.com. You can now sign up for the SDK, which is in private beta. To date, we’ve approved 75% of developer signups based on Flash experience, and more importantly, ideas for channels developers want to build. The latter is important to ensure we dedicate support early [...]

Send questions for FATC session panel: Devices with Flash

TODAY, Saturday, May 15 at Flash And The City: At 3:00 EST I’ll be moderating a panel with Elad Elrom, Lee Brimelow, Scott Janousek and Thomas Joos. The topic is Devices with Flash and we will be discussing the future of Flash across devices. It is an interactive panel and I invite you to submit [...]

Litl to Launch Flash-Based Web-Connected TV Product

I am more than thrilled to relay the announcement, made public today, that we are working on another device for the litl OS. Per the press release, I can say that we will have a Flash-Based “Web-Connected TV” device on the market, running litl OS as well as ALL channels built with our new SDK. [...]

HTC Incredible In Hand

HTC Incredible Android in hand

I am very excited to finally be an Android user. This is my first non-Windows Mobile phone since 2005. That’s right, between the Samsung i730, MotoQ and Samsung Omnia, I’ve been relying on Windows as my mobile OS for 6 years. The lack of available apps has left me frustrated and the performance, touch and [...]

FITC Toronto 2010 Scouting Report

This year I am unfortunately missing my first FITC in 3 years. This a great conference and for the 1000+ that are going, and the few that remain on the fence, I offer this scouting report. If I were going, here are the sessions (based solely on topic & description) I’d be most interested to [...]

Flash Player 10.1 coming to litl with new SDK

Today, we are launching developer.litl.com and making some major and exciting Flash announcements: 1. litl will have 10.1 Flash Player We will soon be shipping and instantly updating existing litls with Flash Player 10.1. This will add the latest hardware-accelerated Flash Player from Adobe to our device, supporting an enhanced viewing of HD video and [...]