May 28
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Some Ovi Stats

My publishing title Chompgames, has been doing quite well at the Ovi store. There are totally four applications under Chompgames umbrella.

Deep Days - For S40 handsets
Wallet Watch - For S60 and S40 handsets
Bollywoodie - For S60 and S40 handsets
King Khan - For S60 and S40 handsets

Bollywoodie is only 1 week old and has got enormous [...]

Author: Manikantan
May 20
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New FN article on longPress touch interaction

This is an article that I have always had in my mind. It is a tutorial on how to use and detect LongPress on touch based phones. In this article, I talk about the design issues, UI considerations and challenges associated with the longPress gesture.
A simple Flash Lite 2.0 code example has also been attached.

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Author: Manikantan
Sep 27
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Two more Croozeus blog authors awarded Forum Nokia Champion

In recognition and as a reward to the Flash Lite work I have been pursuing over the last two years, Forum Nokia has awarded me the Title of Forum Nokia Champion.

I wish to thank Forum Nokia, Adobe in recognizing flashactions.com and the tens of people like Krishna from flashactions; Pankaj ( and co-authors) at Croozeus [...]

Author: Manikantan
Sep 09
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Packaging Flash content for million hansets

I have been planning to write on this article for such a long time. This post discusses the straightforward way to create HQ flash content on Mobile phones and reach out to the million handsets buzzing over the planet.
Well, say for example you are creating a game or an application for Nokia or Windows phones, [...]

Author: Manikantan
Aug 16
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Games on Symbian - Scope and dimensions

I have been doing a random literature survey on the games played on Symbian, their background and other sutleties invloved. We, as users of the Nokia handsets have played several games like Snake or cricket or bounce or FIFA from EA Sports. We know that these have been tremendously successful and have reached millions of [...]

Author: Manikantan
Apr 15
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Let’s look at Scribble - First PyS60 Touch Application

Python for S60 1.9.3 was the first release to support touch events. In order to give us an idea of how touch detection can be used, the PyS60 team included an application in the 1.9.3 package: Scribble. The script - scribble.py - can be found in the PyS60 source archive but for convenience we are [...]

Author: Bogdan Galiceanu
Mar 09
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Member of IndiMAD

Hello,
IndiMaD now has a new face and has now emerged with a new Moderator. You can also join IndiMad, to be a part of the largest learning and sharing community in Flash Lite at India.

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Author: Manikantan
Mar 09
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Reading ID3 tags of MP3 files in Flash Lite

Hello, I recently wrote an article that mentions on how to read the ID3 tags( the metadata that informs about songname, artist name, album etc ) which are associated with MP3 files. I have also authored a code example for this.  Link to the content I wrote in Forum Nokia WIKI , is here.
This will [...]

Author: Manikantan
Mar 03
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Power of Device Central CS4

As I had mentioned in my previous post, Device Central is one tool that can drastically leverage the testing phase of your SWF on the handset. This tool comes along with the Creative Suite 4. I recently posted an article on Forum Nokia’s Wiki pages on how effectively Device Central can be utilized, which can [...]

Author: Manikantan
Feb 27
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Congratulations to our new Forum Nokia Champions!

Forum Nokia has announced the new Forum Nokia Champions! I’m glad to be here to say that we have 2 more now: Me (Rafael Tavares) and Jussi Ylänen (jethro). The hard work of writing articles, helping the members on the Discussion Board and making applications was finally rewarded! Jussi did a very nice job by [...]

Author: Rafael Tavares