ShopQwik presented for BAMaDUG
This past Monday I attended the ShopQwik webinar presented by the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. The presentation went very well and the ShopQwik product is amazing. They presented their company and their product. If you are interested in Flash for Mobile Devices and want to join the User Group you can sign up here. You can find a direct link to the recorded webinar by signing up for membership to the User Group.
Also Vishal Vivek is the winner of the free book Flash Applications for Mobile Devices offered by Scott.
Search engine anomaly between different languages
Oddly enough, the google results change between the different languages that you search in. Google seems to give preference to similar language pages.
For instance, if you search “‘flash lite’ clock” on google.com, the result 1 of 72,300 is an article about the Chumby on Scott’s Blog about the Chumby being an alarm clock on steroids (perfect description by the way).
However, when you search for “‘flash lite’ clock” using google.de, Scott’s Blog does not come up until the third result. The result 1 of 71,400 is a German Flash forum page referring to “‘WS World Clock’ ist eine Flash Lite 1.1…”
p.s. The searches were done around 4:30pm EST on Sunday, January 7th.
Translator feedback wanted
I have recently been testing Google’s translation tool and it seems to work pretty well (see flags on right). If you happen to speak any of the languages that this blog translates to, I would love to hear any comments/feedback as to the accuracy. I am interested in dynamically translating text variables and sending them to a mobile app using the translator API. I’ll post results as they come. I suspect that fonts will be the biggest issue due to the added file size.
Flash Lite Search Engine
I have created a customized search engine using Google Co-op that searches only sites that will have relevant content relating to Flash Lite. The Flash Lite search engine can be used by following this link: Flash® Lite™ search engine.
