Flash Lite 2.0 = holy crap
I downloaded the newest
Flash Lite player last night. The thing costs $10 and is geared toward developers. I have to say that if you have any of the supported devices (and an unlimited data plan) its definitely worth the money. My first application download was an
NYC Traffic Map. The thing blew me away. I downloaded a few other apps...including "
Lady Calendar" (calculates ovulation and such). Ya, weird for me to download that but it won a Flash Lite app contest. Its pretty amazing. Flash is the killer app for mobile phones. I predict that by the end of year Flash is going to be a must have for any new phone purchase.
I want to start developing apps exclusively for this new market.
Contact me if you have a mobile project idea, or have strong AS2 skills and would like to join the team.
WTF mate?! (aka UTF-8)
So I added Google AdSense to my site about a month ago. It was stuck on the Canon ads for quite awhile which kinda sucked because those companies are scam artists... After writing my post about Hostel, the ads just became ridiculous. I have a screen shot of one earlier. I'm sure this post will stop the fun since adding the word AdSense is going to now start showing those ads....
Movie Review - Hostel
So hearing that people were passing out in theaters across the country wasn't enough to deter Christy and me from going and seeing
Hostel last night. Contrary to what Christy says, I was able to sit thru the whole movie. I did have a gross pre-puke feeling in my stomach/throat from the time of the first gore scene until well after we went and rented 40 Year Old Virgin. We dealt with the absolute disgusting imagery and all around disturbing premise of Hostel by laughing the whole time. I was actually very surprised by the lack of any reaction by the other 200+ people in the theater. While watching it I began to wonder if they were "in on it". Maybe the general public really is desensitized to stuff like this...
I'll give the movie 2 disembodied fingers...I don't know if they are up or down...but they are definitely separated from their host body...
All at once
Whoa! A lot of the projects that I have been involved in seem to be starting all at once. NOW. The LAB at Belmar has (finally) given us all of their content. ModFlash contracts will be signed this week. Projects with Skye Creative will probably start within the month. All of these are on top of the
id345 projects starting or in progress.
Radius and
Vicinite will be up in all their glory by the end of the month.
PocketFuzz is so close to being done it hurts.
Castio continues to rock.
Mobiom is moving forward, altho I wish it was moving faster. Our shortcode was approved which is very exciting. I bet I'm forgetting something...
The past few months have been amazing. 2006 is going to be unbelievable. Its going to be a lot of work but I really feel that this year is going to rock.
As if you didn't know..
You already know we are big geeks. But driving to Boulder to "watch" MacWorld may be a bit extreme. Justin and I drove to Ryan's house in Boulder at 9:00 am to sit in front of our computers and press refresh on macrumors.com for 2 hours. Ryan did make us pancakes which were del.icio.us (sorry...that was lame ;).
Off to a good start
Christy gave me a violin. I totally heart her.
I bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebal XT from a guy on
Craigslist.
I worked out today.
I have a meeting with
Justin and
Ryan and Austin tomorrow to discuss our plans for '06.
GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLs
I emailed my goals for 2006 to my friends. I figure they are not all that private so I will repost them here. Here is the email I sent out:
I figure sharing my goals for 06 makes more sense than keeping them to myself.
I would love for all of you to do the same. I think if we know what we are striving for we can help and encourage each other...
in no particular order:
-travel/live outside of Colorado (for an extended period)
-create more art
-learn photography (ya, this is related to the one above...but wanted to give it its own bullet)
-make $150k this year (and help my friends with their financial goals)
-make id345 (.com and .org) a reality and in turn, make all of its sub businesses a reality, mobiom, radius, impact, pocketfuzz, castio, zuvo, vicinite, etc
-continue to workout (more regularly)
-run
-learn the piano/violin
-grow my awesome friendships
-read more
if there's anything I've told you about that I'm forgetting, please tell me.
I started looking for online violin resources. I think it would be an interesting experiment to see how much progress I can make learning an instrument purely using free online resources. Let me remind you that I have never played an instrument and know very little about it...
Canon's $75 rebate on the Digital Rebel XT ends on the 15th so I should definitely get moving on purchasing that camera. From everything I've read, its the one I want to get. Does anyone have any input on this thing?
There was some other stuff I was going to write about, but cant remember...I'll post when I do.
