Wow what a morning to wake up to! Adobe has news all over the place. iPhone is getting the Flash Player! Yeah I said it! Well not me but... They did... Wall Street Journal, Engadget, MacRumors and Bit101. 
How great is this going to be! Its really very interesting to speculate what they will actually do.
So lets think... Ok we all know that the old VM1 is pretty slow compared to the VM2 engine. And the VM1 engine might not cut it on a handheld device since it already has problems on some of our older desktops. Or even on old G4's for that matter. So how is adobe going to get Flash to operate smooth on the iPhone with the VM1 engine? Cause honestly I don't want old flash content to crash my iphone constantly. But I don't want to missout on about 95% of all the Flash content on the web running on the VM1 player. So will they port a version that runs parts of the VM1 engine for video playback and just use the VM2 engine to keep things lite? Or what's the deal going to be? Iis it going to be something we can run AIR apps in only? Hummzzz. Only time will tell. Oh and the last question is will they make iPhone users pay for the player? I really hope not! I might even boycott that decision by Adobe even though I REALLY wants me some Flash on my iPhone!
Ok then onto some other news from the ol Adobe boys this morning...
Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server? Do what? Well its a way to protect your FLV's in all Flash platform apps. Which is great for MANY content providers all over the web and now the desktop. It even gives some tracking abilities even if the user has downloaded the video! Wow those statistic guys will go berserk for that! Anyway follow the link for more info. This is going to be very neat though and it will help Flash video out a ton when competing with the Quicktime's and Windows Media Player's. Next does anyone know the price point?
So about 3 weeks ago I got the idea to put together an iPhone site for my companies portfolio. It really made a lot of sense considering the layout of our current website. But what a great way to share your work with others! The iPhone has opened up a great medium to share your work with others and its right in your pocket! With the help of my friend Rob Edgell at myedgenet.com and my Executive Creative Director Aaron Opsal we put together a slick little site that fits in your pocket. Just visit brandhatchery.com from your iPhone and viola! Its a slick little simple photo gallery. All you need to do is touch each image and it will rotate through the individual slide shows. Enjoy!
I was thinking about this also and wondered... is this the business card of the future? It all most feels that way! And wow its even another way to save paper! Which makes the world a better place all together. I'm all for that! PDF for life!
Direct URL: http://www.brandhatchery.com/iphone
Ok, so I was just chatting with a friend and we were talking about the iPhone SDK. And how apple is most likely going to be selling ALL the apps you all create via iTunes. So both you and them make some money.
Is this why we are not seeing the flash player on the iPhone? Is apple being greedy so we can't make free apps and games for everyone to use, using flash? I don't know but it sures seems that way. I know adobe doesn't want to drag their feet on this so it must be n Apple thing. What do you think?
Hey guys so I was bookmarking some sites on my iPhone with the new 1.1.3 update and was noticing that meebo, engadget and gizmodo had custom iPhone icons. So obviously I was like damn that's cool I want one for my site! And come to find out its easy cheesy. Just create a 57x57 png and name it 'apple-touch-icon.png'. Upload it to your desired site folder and walla! There it is. Go bookmark your site and enjoy! And bookmark my site too! Thats that info. Thought I would share. You can see my icon at http://blog.projectx4.com/apple-touch-icon.png. Enjoy!
Info via blog.jotlet.net. He even has a template to create your own quickly. But you will have to crop it if you want it to fit properly.
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