Day 2 with the Nexus One

Posted by on Feb 10, 2010 in mobile | 10 comments

I promised to keep you up to date with how I get on with Google’s Nexus One. Today is actually already day three without using Apple’s phone and I’m still enjoying it. The only thing that I am really starting to miss is a decent mail client. This could potentially become a real problem.

The Nexus One has a decent mail client but it doesn’t support the certificates that our Exchange server uses. That means I have to rely on third party solutions and the only option available in the free Android Market is the Touchdown client. It works fine but the UI is just… well… let’s be kind and say that it doesn’t look that good. The mail client that I want to use (Moxier Mail) is not available as a free download and because there still is no official way to get paid apps in the Android Market in Belgium, I can’t buy it. I really dislike the UI on Touchdown… So much so that I find it horrible to use.

I really really hope I can solve this soon because I really need a decent Exchange client…

Other than that I am really happy with the Nexus One’s performance and its features. And having Flash in the Nexus One’s browser already changed the way I used the mobile web. Yesterday I heard about another act of violence/vandalism in Brussels and so I wanted to look up more info on the web. The article on the local news site I visited also had a video… Flash Video. I just hit the play button and watched the entire clip in the Nexus One. If I was still using Apple’s phone, I would have needed to take out my laptop to see the clip…

After watching that clip, I was curious to see how other Flash Video enabled sites would work. I opened up CNN.com, picked one of the news clips, hit play… and it immediately started playing. I also tried the BBC’s iPlayer and some other local news sites. They just worked… without the need for the publisher to republish their content in a different format. I just opened the browser, opened the exact same sites that I visit/use on my laptop and clicked “Play”. Now that’s a magical web experience!

Get the most out of your Flash Catalyst MAX preview

Posted by on Dec 9, 2008 in Flash Catalyst, How-to, Thermo | 5 comments

While in total over 6500 people attended MAX in San Francisco and Milan, only 260 had the chance to follow the hands on with Flash Catalyst session. In this session we talked about how to create a new application from scratch and the workflows between Flash Catalyst, Photoshop and Illustrator.

To help you get the most out of your Flash Catalyst MAX preview release, you can now download all the lab files and exercises using the link below. If you run in to a problem, don’t hesitate to let us know. You may have found a bug that we need to investigate.

Download this zip file from Acrobat Share.