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Test Your Site On an iPhone | Flash CS3 Tutorial | Gateway Monitor Review

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | March 18, 2008

Creative Techs this morning posted an interesting number. At this moment, 71% of people who are viewing mobile web pages are doing so using the iPhone. If you take that number, and add the number of people that are going to use their iPod Touch (like me) at airports, and every place they can get a free wi-fi connection, you get a really large percentage of viewers that are going to be looking at websites using the big A (for Apple).

To accurately test sites, why not use the iPhone SDK? The article takes you through the process of downloading the iPhone SDK and getting the app running to test out web stuff. I’m going to play around with this over the next couple of days. As it is, I wonder why the iPhone hasn’t shown up in Adobe Device Central (or the LG Voyager for that matter- that was another phone that made a big splash on the Verizon side). Me personally, I can’t wait to see more Flash content on the iPhone.

To check out the full article, click on this link. Cool tutorials and reviews after the jump, so be sure to follow along.

Flash CS3 Actionscript by Cyndy Cashman
Cyndy brings us a great tutorial on how to control the timeline using Actionscript 3. This is going to be of interest for those of you who are creating documents with a stage setting of Actionscript 3 and wonder “Hey.. where are my button behaviors?!” - Make sure you pay her tutorial a visit by clicking here.

Review of the Gateway XHD3000
So now I have another case of monitor envy. It seems that Steve Baczewski was able to play around with the new Gateway monitor, sporting HDMI and DVI connections. I’ve consistently been using Dell screens, so I don’t remember the last time that I played around with a Gateway monitor. Seems as if his review was a good one - guess I am going to have to give that one a look over and see if it will work for me. To check out the review, click here.

That does us in for today, ladies and gentlemen. Make sure you check out yesterday’s post and enter for this week’s contest. Drawing is on Thursday, and we’ll announce the winner Friday morning.

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i think the reason the iPhone hasn’t appeared in Adobe Device Central is because it doesn’t support Flash or Flash Lite. Sadly no Flash for the iPhone, and unless Adobe creates a new version of Flash Player specifically for the iPhone, there won’t be Flash for a long time. Steve Jobs recently said in an interview that Flash Lite wasn’t powerful enough to do anything and the desktop version ran a bit too slow and sucked up too much memory. Its really a pity. I’d love to see it come out before the June 2.0 update, but i dont know. it seems the ball’s in Adobe’s court now.

Comment by Zacharie LeBar | March 18, 2008 @ 3:54 pm