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To thank him for all his help with he flashlite community over the last year, we have created the one thing every mobile developer is without, the nodding dog-herty scrensaver for your mobile device and mac desktop.

Sit back and relax as you watch the rhythmic movement as his head sways from side to side, and he shares his love for adobe with you. You’ll never need to attend one of his presentations ever again!

go over to the uk adobe mobile and devices usergroup page to get it downloaded

The winners of the Content awards 2008 where announced today, and i can happily announce that ustwo™ won the Themes and Graphics Award this year. As i have only just joined the team, i can’t take any credit, but would love to congratulate the team on this great achievement. Special kudos to Laffers, nick and edwardo, who put in a great deal of effort to really make the ustwo wallpaper and screen saver content shine.

You can watch the virtual award short film by clicking here

Flashion is the name given to ustwo™ created Flash Lite wallpapers. Flash Lite is a medium that allows us to create Premium wallpapers with intelligent triggers. For example – time of day change, battery indicator, music mode, charging animations, accelerometer controlled graphics.

Most mobile backgrounds are static images that do little more than look pretty. This year’s winner of the Themes & Graphics category of the Sony Ericsson Content Awards offers backgrounds that have both beauty and brains.

I have been messing around with some flashlite clocks today, and created this Binary Clock to use as a wallpaper/screensaver for any flashlite 2.0 compatible handset.

So, for a bit f fun, i have upload the limited edition version to my blog, and i will be available for free for the first 101 downloaders . After this time, it will be available to purchase from Voeveo.

You can download the SWF to transfer to your handset from this link, and it will be contained in the zip file.

Also, take some time to check out some of the other Me Mobile content at Voeveo and Me Mobile

So, get your geek on, and learn how to tell time in Binary!

Sorry, the first 101 free downloads have gone. It should be on VoeVeo in the next few days, i will post the link asap. Thanks for the great response

Matt

I have just started to launch the wallpaper back catalogue that Me Mobile produced last year, and was until now only available through the Moket MCN. I have uploaded the first five pieces this week, and will continue to upload more as soon as i get a chance.

The first 5 pieces to go up are : Blossoms(re-active) , Office Guy (Randomised) , Hula Bear (looped animation), Naughty Monkey (Randomised) and Pet chihiua (randomised)

These pieces of content range from static animations (all flash lite of course ) through to randomised and re-active wallpapers such as blossoms.
For the first 2 weeks or so, the me mobile content will also be available half price, as a ‘grand opening’ special offer.

It’s quite strange looking over some of these wallpapers again after such a long time, and looking forward to getting some feedback.
You can access my seller page on VoeVeo here, and check out the content for yourself. You can also access the Me Mobile website here, which contains some more examples of content to come.

Matt

Hi all,

This is my first post in a while, have had a v. busy couple of months, and have been neglecting the blog a little. Hopefully, i should get a few post back online within the next couple of days.

The MoCarbon range of Wallpapers has now been launched nokia software market and is available to download as of today. The first 2 to be released at Guru and Squirrel. Check them out here, or search for moCarbon on the nokia software market site.

Matt

Dale has just informed me that ClubMoket has just gone live.

Club Moket (clubmoket.mobi on your phone browser) is, to our knowledge, the first off-deck mobile portal dedicated to selling Flash Lite content. We have launched first with our “Mokimations” catalogue, featuring animated wallpapers and screensavers. Q1-2 2008 will see games, applications and mobile video added to the service. We’re really pushing out content that shows off the great visual nature of Flash, as well as handset interactivity (for clocks, random animations, MoCarbon products, etc)

This presents an entirely new and accessible channel for global customers, and one that we look forward to filling with great content from the wider FL community through the Moket Content Network.

This is great news as it gives the fl community a great opportunity to start making money from personalization content.

to read the full press release , click here

to read dales blog post , click here

and to view the .mobi site, point your mobile browsers to clubmoket.mobi, and gain access to some great flash lite content for your mobile. (or stick your number in the widget on the sidebar of this site to have a wap link sent straight to your handet via SMS)

Matt

I have uploaded my flashlite wallpaper/screensavers to be sold via the clickapps website today.

link to my clickapps wallpapers

This is a great portal site, really easy to use, and updates very fast.

Pricing again was an issue, so i decided to have a 3 tier price structure for the content so far :

$1.50 looped animation wallpapers/screensavers
$2.00 Random Actionscript animated wallpapers/screensavers
$3.00 Re-Active (living) wallpapers.

Pricing has always been a difficult point with fl content, as some (imho) is well overpriced for what it is.
I personally believe this offers good value for money, while still making it worth while doing.

Matt

I have started to sell some of my flashlite wallpapers and screensavers on Nokia market place. This should make the content available via internet,wap and preminet.
This is a good resource for flashlite developers to take some of there content to market, with nokia taking a slice of the selling price for providing the portal. Very easy to sign up to, and your content should be available after a few days. Follow the below links to find out how to do it.

link to market place : here

link to market place developers resources: here

I currently have 2 pieces of content online, a screensave for the N95 and wallpaper for s40 fl2.0 nokia devices
you can find them by searching for “falling code”

Matt

Was reading through Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices this weekend, and found the flash lite 1.1 matrix screensaver example. Thought i would try making it in fl2.0, and using actionscript to randomly animate the characters in each code bar, falling code bar position on the screen, alpha and scale.

Really happy with the way it works and even managed to add a white char to 1 in 20 falling code bars created.
you can have about 5-10 bars falling at any time without (too much) slow down, and the memory consumption is not to bad. Have tested it on 5300 works fine, and have made a nokia n95 version too.
The real advantage of using fl2.0 though, was been able to utilize the Tween class for the movement.

hopefully going to try and get this one on handago along with the blossoms wallpaper. Also exploring the nokia market place, but have not heard back yet…..

matt