I rarely ever recommend people and if I do, I would have to have worked with that person for a good period of time before I ever made a recommendation. Today is one of those rare days and the first time I’ve ever done so in on my blog! If you are looking for a voice over professional for an eLearning course, eBook, commercial or a documentary… you should use Bob Souer.

I was first introduced to Bob when I worked at Global Learning Systems (GLS) / KeyStone Learning Systems (KLS) when I was doing media production. We had hired Bob to do voice over work for an eLearning project for us. I was absolutely impressed not only by the quality of the work Bob did, but his turn-around time was amazing! We sent him the storyboard with our naming convention and when he returned the files to us they were edited, EQ-ed, normalized & exported to each individual file per the storyboard. At that point, I didn’t have to do any audio editing at all, they were ready to be put into the project.

Since leaving GLS/KLS about three years ago and coming to Harris Corporation’s PSPC group (then Tyco Electronics Wireless Systems), we needed reliable voice over talent as we started the eLearning development. I couldn’t think of anyone else that I wanted to work with than Bob Souer. We’ve contracted Bob for well over 20 eLearning course over the last 3 years and every single time he delivers that same quality voice overs.

This would would be a much better place if there were more professionals like Bob Souer. If you are in need of voice over work, Bob comes with my highest recommendations for his consistent quality voice over work, amazing turn-around time, and most of all his professional integrity.  If you have the privilege to work with Bob, I can guarantee you will enjoy the experience.

Bob Souer’s Voice Demos:

  
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I’ve only had two critiques of Android so far: 1) OS Fragmentation & 2) some tweaks to the UI/UX would be nice.

As Google has a solid history of doing, they are stepping up their game with the next release of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Google is said to be “laser-focused” on improving the UI so carriers don’t need custom skins such as: Motoblur, Ninjablur, SenseUI, etc…

Two possible, positive benefits if this pans out: 1) the end of these custom UI’s from carriers that slow down the devices and cause so much pain while waiting patiently for them to upgrade, and 2) a better user experience is really welcomed!

The best part, it is rumored that Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) will be coming Q4 of this year, and then after that it will move over to a year;y iteration/release process.

Interesting overall fact about Android I didn’t know,

“If this news is true, it means that Google Android has had five variants that has a code name taken from the cake, such as Android 5.1 as ‘Cupcake’, Android 1.6 ‘Donut’, Android 1.2 ‘Enclair’, Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ (Fozen Yogurt) and Android 3.2 ‘Gingerbread ‘. If the note all the names that have the prefix letter alphabet C, D, E, F and G. An intelligent approach than Google, while the use of a snack/cakes makes this platform so impressed more “sweet” and sound friendly for the user.” – via Oki Rosgani

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I think this is FREAKING AWESOME! Can’t wait to get my hands on one of these!!!

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The following is a letter I’ve sent to Mr. Jobs concerning Flash & AIR on the iPhone & iPad:

Image from: TechShowNetwork

Dear Steve,

I agree with you… apps and content need to run well on mobiles, and they need to be developed with quality and performance in mind. With that said, I think you are possibly misplacing your blame. Tools aren’t the problem, developers are! I don’t have a problem with Apple curating the App Store, but by forcing developers to use only one set of tools, I must respectfully disagree. This should be the developer’s choice.

I think you are missing a huge opportunity here to increase your company’s revenue. This little demo proves Flash content can run really well on mobiles devices that are comparable to your iPhone & iPad if done properly.

I believe the real issue that you aren’t taking into consideration is that whether an app is built with Flash, Java or even Objective-C; they can still crash. I’ve seen it with my own eyes with apps on my iPhone and iPad. The quality of the app is up to the developers to ensure that their app is optimized and bug-free. It is not right to blame the tools when the developer built a bloated, buggy app that crashes. That blame should fall solely on that developer for not having a mastery of his tools. Plus, there are still a large number of iPhone apps built with Adobe’s AIR iPhone Packager currently in the iTunes Store, of which that majority of them function just as well as Objective-C coded iPhone apps.

BTW… I still have one app, TheProducer, that has been locked eternally “In Review” since March 15, would you at least either approve or deny it. We would like to move forward building apps for the iPhone and iPad with Flash CS5, so that we can educate people of all ages, around the world on how they can create quality media with tools such as the iPhone 4.

I ask that you at least reconsider Apple’s stand on this. You could increase your enterprise and gaming developer community significantly by accepting ActionScript developers.

Warmest Regards,
Lee Graham

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Smokescreen – iPad demo #1 from Chris @ RevShockAds on Vimeo.

While there are NO facts, NOR rumors… yet… of this happening I think Adobe really should buy these guys out! Or at the very least, fund them and help them out. If you haven’t heard, Smokescreen is a JavaScript render engine for Flash content. Basically, it will allow Flash content to run on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch) without the 3rd party Flash Player plugin. 

While the feature set is fairly primitive for now and the performance is OK, this is the largest middle finger Adobe could flip to Apple. If Adobe was to put some resources to aid these gents with Smokescreen (like they’ve done with the Zend Framework), it really could go further to promoting their Open Screen Project!

Just my $0.02

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Well I don’t think Apple’s announcements today were anything groundbreaking, but there were two features I found absolutely impressive:

1. iMovie for the iPhone – Shoot 720p, edit, add images & titles, then export. This will be very handy for news reporters and tech bloggers.
2. iChat for the iPhone – This is freaking amazing, but currently only available on Wi-Fi due to carrier limitations. Way to go AT&T Wireless!

Images via: http://www.macworld.com/article/151730/2010/06/liveupdate.html

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Which group do you fall into?

Watch this video and find out:

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I noticed a link to Apple’s HTML5 Showcase and I thought it would be interesting to see what they are demoing, so I took a look… Nice page and initially looks like a good variety of demos…

I quick learned that I couldn’t access demos within Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or even Firefox. I had to use Safari… WTF!?!?!?!?

Déjà vu! For a second there I had flashbacks to a few years back, using a Firefox browser and trying to access a site that requires ActiveX and would only run in Internet Explorer. Scary! Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand HTML5 is still in development and browser companies are still building HTML5 features as they are established and change, BUT ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME… I have to use frickin’ Safari?

Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews.com said, “…if HTML5 is truly about creating an open web standard for all, shouldn’t an HTML5 demo page highlight standard features that work across all HTML5 compliant browsers?“

Correct if I am wrong, but I thought HTML5 was about any content, any device, any where! 

I did try it on Safari just to see the demos. Overall, sure it was pretty cool. Overall there is still a bit of lag with the processing of the JavaScript from time to time. Everything was nice until I got to the HTML5 VR Demo. It said this demo not only required Safari, but it also required me to be on an Apple maching!!! 

Again, correct if I am wrong, but I thought HTML5 was about any content, any device, any where! 

Apple’s HTML5 Showcase on the Google Nexus One… I went ahead and tried it on my Nexus One, just for fun.

• HTML5 Video Demo – Got this message, “This demo contains H.264 video. Windows users can download QuickTime to enable support fro this industry-standard format.” – This is a frickin’ riot here! Apple bashes Adobe for needing a proprietary plugin to view content and Apple requires the same thing here. Its a freaking double standard here!
• HTML5 Typography Demo – This demo actually worked, BUT definitely not optimized for mobile consumption on the Nexus One. Tried it on my iPhone and it worked well.
• HTML5 Gallery Demo – This actually worked very nice, with the exception that I was not able to select the drop down to change Gallery demo styles.
• HTML5 Transitions Demo – Worked very nicely.
• HTML5 Audio Demo – Worked well.
• HTML5 360 Degree Demo – Kind of worked. Really, really choppy.
• HTML5 VR Demo – Same response as attempting to view in Safari on my PC… I need a Mac product to view.

Apple’s HTML5 Showcase = FAIL

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AT&T again proves to be less than innovative.

I swapped to AT&T when I wanted to jump into the iPhone craze and at the time they were a much better option than Verizon Wireless in my area. AT&T just announced they are getting rid of the unlimited data option for mobiles. This is a step backwards in my humble opinion. Give people freedom (or unlimited data) and then say, “Ha… just kidding. No unlimited data for you.”

I’m not terribly upset by the data limit considering I’m going to be paying $5 less per month for 2 GB of data. Especially since I usually use between 500-1000MB per month.

What really irks me, is that they are charging an additional $20 per month for tether option! This is absurd! Its the same bandwidth no matter how you split it and they want to make me spend an additional $20 per month for it. I would really like to be able to take my iPad or netbook anywhere and be able to connect via the Nexus One or iPhone. This is really a sign of a company who is less than innovative!

Just my $0.02

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I really wasn’t keeping track of the D8 conference until I saw @Jason (Jason Calacanis) wrote,

“Steve Jobs just gave mad shout out to yelp and apps. Says apps are future, and that requires mobile ads–not banners. #d8.“

MY PREDICTION… The App Model won’t exist in 3 years!!! Yes, I’m saying that the brilliant creator of the iPhone is wrong. Count it… one… two… three years. This isn’t a stab at Apple’s iTunes (as I previous have… see: Apple’s CEO Entered an Insanity Plea as the Reason for Banning Flash on the iPhone), its not a shot at Google’s Android Market… I simply think that mobile web applications are the future, not these platform dependent apps, the nasty ego contests, especially the one with fascist curating habits from certain company that is named after a red fruit.

Please don’t be confused. I’m not jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon. HTML5 is not the Holy Grail, as so many buzzword-loving tech reporters are saying it will be! As a matter of fact, its not even complete yet and won’t be for another couple of years. It is still my belief that HTML5 will have its place for a few unique uses, but it can’t and won’t replace full RIA frameworks such as Flash, Flex, Silverlight, VB, PHP, etc…

I think the future lies within mobile web applications that run extremely fast, that contains high interactive, media-rich content that looks sexy on whatever screen size, and it will built on highly optimized JavaScript, CSS, HTML & your server-side language of choice (mine just happens to be PHP).

If you are considering an Native App (iPhone or Android) project, go for it! Now its a very hot trend, just don’t be shocked if you see a shift coming in the near future.

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Fresh off the digital press (or PDF)… download your copy of Flash & Flex Developer Magazine for FREE!!! Also, check out my Special Report section introducing Adobe’s AIR for Android!

Don’t forget, the AIR for Android beta is now OPEN to developers.

Download here

Download here

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Just stumbled across this on Mashable: Flash Enthusiast Sends a Hidden Message To Steve Jobs

Mat Bisher came up with this clever way to send his message and as a Flash Platform Developer myself, I find this absolutely hysterical!

Keep up the good work Mat!

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Day 1, the big news was the Chrome Web App Store.

Day 2, it was all about the little green dude… Android! The Android OS seems to have finally matured past the point of playing catch up with Apple’s iPhone and now seems to be setting its own agenda.

Android 2.2 (FroYo) Developer’s Note:

1. Speed – faster VM & JIT compiler 2x-5x faster apps
2. Enterprise – 20 new features including Exchange support
3. Data Backup API
4. Cloud-to-Device Messaging API
5. Tethering and wireless hotspot
6. A better Browser:
   • V8 video. 
   • The Android browsers dusted the iPad browser hands down in decoding JavaScript. 
   • Eventually web apps will be able to access the device hardware such as the camera & accelerometer. 
   • Flash Player 10.1 support within the Browser. 
7. Android Market – Search can search within apps and removable storage. 
8. Apps on SD. 
9. Application can be set to auto-update. 
10. A stack trace reporting feature for developers to better help with debugging. 
11. Android Market account tied to devices. 
12. Devices will be able to download application OTA (Over-The-Air) directly from your computer. 
13. Music is now purchasable on the Android Market!
14. Non-DRMed music purchased on iTunes will be able to play on your Android device.
15. AdSense for Mobile Ads – Google’s counter Apple’s iAds I’m sure. Expandable ad formats within apps which can use maps and the click-to-call feature.

CNET’s Stephen Shankland: “Basically, Google is working to reproduce iTunes abilities with just a browser, no iTunes.“ 

Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

Imagine your computer, mobile phone and TV viewing experiences all being blurred together. This is exactly what Google is doing! Its a fact a large quantity of people spend hours of time watching YouTube on their computers and mobiles, now imagine watching that on your 1080p HD TV. Lets take it one step further, how about watching that YouTube clip and then sharing it with your buddy from your TV. Its no longer a dream, its coming later this year (Fall 2010) to a BestBuy near you. 

What you need to know about Google TV:

• Running the Android OS + Chrome Browser
• Will be integrated with with Sony TVs that are coming out.
• Will be available as a standalone box (thanks to Logitech) and will work with your current TV. Will require a keyboard & pointing device. 
• Better searchability of the program you like. 
• More interactivity with your favorite programs. 
• Allows your to record future episodes of your favorite shows and ties directly to Amazon Video so you can purchase previous episodes. 
• Access to Android Apps! You will be able to login to your Android Market account, buy an app on your phone or computer & have it automatically downloaded to your Google TV.
• You can watch YouTube directly on your Google TV.
• Will be able to interact with Facebook, Pandora, Flickr, etc…
• NOTE: your Android phone can be used as a remote control.
• You will be able to login to your Android Market account, buy an app & have it automatically to your Google TV.
  
• Watch & listen to your podcasts directly on you Google TV. Podcast via Google Listen (http://listen.googlelabs.com/). 
  
• Notably: the NBA.com has create a Google TV site that allows for more interactivity while you consume sport. This is the future!
  

Google TV Developer’s Note:

• Developers will be able to build both Android apps as well as Web apps and access them on Google TV.
• Google TV currently runs on Android 2.1 & has the Google Chrome browser & Flash Player 10.1.
• The SDK will be released early 2011.
• Best part… its all OPEN SOURCE! This will happen late 2011.

Adobe AIR for Android Developer’s Note: its nice having a little green guy and Google as friends! 

1. You can develop Android apps using AIR for Android which is now in beta (developer access only). SIGN UP HERE!
2. As a Flash Developer, you can develop Flash Apps and content (720p & 1080p videos) for Google TV. READ MORE HERE…
3. AIR for Android will work on Google TV eventually. Top priority is optimizing AIR for Android on mobiles.
4. General tips for designing websites to work on Google TV

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Cube Grenade: Lemonade

I’m  sure if this is not what Hugh intended, but it sure it applicable to traditional newspaper and media companies as well.

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Today, Adobe has launched an advertising campaign, “We HEART Choice” to counter Steve Jobs’ missive, “Thoughts on Flash”.

Lets first take a look at “The Truth about Flash“…

Adobe really did a nice, concise job with this counter in the way they addressed all of the issues: touch, video, performance, security, & openness.

Read the entire article “The Truth about Flash“…

The Co-Founders of Adobe wrote a nice letter about the internet and openness…

They really have a fabulous point…

“If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive — but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the Internet a revolutionary force.”

Read the entire letter “Our thoughts on open markets“…

Future of Flash…

Flash is not only available on the computer, but shortly it will available on Android mobiles & tablets and TVs as well. I’m a part of both beta testing for AIR for Android and Flash Player 10.1 for Android and its really exciting to see a mobile device handle Flash & Adobe AIR apps so well!

Check out a few exciting videos about FP 10.1 & AIR for Android:

• Adobe demonstrates Flash and Air on Android tablet
• Great AIR for Android Example – Easy and Speedy
• A breath of fresh AIR: AIR on Android
• Flash Works On Touch-Based Devices (Video)
• Android Apps developers are starting to create with Flash CS5 & Adobe AIR for Android

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There is no unified way to update the Android OS & users are getting frustrated with these carrier-customized Android Operation Systems. Version 2.1 was released officially January 12, 2010 and Sprint still doesn’t have their act together. I know Verizon had similar issues when they were trying to update the Droid.

http://phandroid.com/2010/05/07/sprint-hoped-youd-get-your-2-1-update-by-now-but-youll-have-to-wait-longer/

With Android OS v2.2 (Froyo) more than likely being released this summer, there may be a number of Android users may have just received the v2.1 updates or not at all. If this does in fact happen, this will generate a good deal of negative buzz about this new, kickass alternative to the iPhone.

I think this is probably going to be the largest issue with people adopting to Android when they compare it to iPhone. Granted I’m sure Google will do these updates in a timely fashion for my Google Nexus One, but Sprint & Verizon are falling way behind.

This is where Apple does have the upper hand and its a serious selling point. 

Don’t get me wrong. I’m really digging Android. I took my SIM out of my iPhone and I’m using the Nexus One daily. Its kickass! I stated everything above as just a heads up into possible future issues.

QUESTION: Should Google intervene? If so, what are their options?

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I was just surprised to see when I was downloading the latest edition of Flash & Flex Developer Magazine, that the Special Report I wrote became the title of this month’s edition: The Flash on iPhone War

Click here to download the April 2010 edition for FREE

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Today, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, publically entered a plea of insanity on Apple.com as to why Apple is banning Flash from the iPhone.

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I found this quite hysterical!

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The emotions have been running high among 3rd party iPhone/iPad developers since Apple has introduced this new clause (3.3.1) into their iPhone OS 4.0 beta Agreement. Basically, it reads that you can only use Objective-C, C & C++ to build iPhone Apps. If this sticks that would block many of the 3rd party developers tools (Unity3D, Appcelerator Titanium, Flash CS5 iPhone Packager and many, many others) from building iPhone Apps.

I can say that this has been pretty disheartening to read and see the fallout in the developer communities. I’ve been on the Flash CS5 beta team since the beginning of the year, have even developed 2 iPhone Apps (one live in the iTunes App Store and the other is “In Review”). I even ported one to work on my iPad at full resolution.

Adobe’s CTO, Kevin Lynch, has stated in this blog post, that they intend to keep the Flash CS5 iPhone Packager in the CS5 bundle launching tomorrow.

Greg Slepak is said to have email Steve Jobs and here is the correspondence on Greg’s Blog.

Steve is said to have written, “We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.” in reference to how well Firefox works across multiple platforms.

MY QUESTION… How are apps created with Flash CS5 or Unity3D hindering the progress? These companies that are developing these 3rd party tools have teams of engineers constantly updating their tools based on whatever Apple updates in their SDK. As I have developed an iPhone App and iPad App using Flash CS5 I can say that there are no performance issues. Heck, go check out the South Park App or any of these other apps created with Flash. No issues at all. Quality isn’t the issue. Look at how many Fart Apps are in the iTunes App Store.

It appears Apple is becoming the IBM of the 1980’s. As they gain more market share, more power, they are becoming less open, less transparent and are turning their developer-friendly platform into an elitist club. If you don’t know the special handshake, you don’t get it.

THIS SUCKS! Instead of reaching out and building their developer community, they are alienating a good chunk of us. That doesn’t make any sense to me. Why wouldn’t a company want more developers, especially when Apple gets 30% of every sale.

This is still a beta agreement, but it doesn’t appear that Mr. Jobs cares to even reconsider changing his mind, no matter the fallout!

THERE IS STILL HOPE… If this goes through, there will be a huge community of developers wanting to put their apps on mobile phones and tablets and I think this is where Google and Android come into the picture. Google has always been so good about being transparent and cultivating a strong, open developer community. Android’s app store is growing at an incredible pace and they are selling a huge number of devices… including a huge wave of tablets slated to hit the market this year.

If Google wants to be my hero… I’m here waiting to be save from the closed-mindedness of Apple.

March 2010

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I just find it ironic that the Kindle iPad App is everything we REALLY wanted & thought an eBook Reader should be:

1. Brilliant color display
2. Gesture navigation, not these freaking buttons everywhere
3. Access to gorgeous video and audio
4. Unlimited interactive possibilities

Just my $0.02

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To all of you iPhone App and iPad App developers this is an opportunity to get your apps in front of Bloggers and tech journalist!!!

Gift them a copy of our app.

I couldn't wait, plus now that I'm developing iPhone Apps, the next clear jump is to make my iPhone App into iPad Apps.

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I couldn't wait, plus now that I'm developing iPhone Apps, the next clear jump is to make my iPhone App into iPad Apps.

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Yesterday, my bride to be asked me to go with her to a Bridal Expo. We’ve pretty much got everything covered for the big day (venue, wedding planner, minister, etc…).

An overly-zealous wedding planner stopped us and some how we got on the topic of venues that have multiple weddings on the same day and how that could sucks. She said, “I can totally relate with you there. When I was marrying my second husband in a little chapel on the strip in Vegas we had the same problem.”

Sure makes me thankful that we have the wedding planner that we have. She is awesome!

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By Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Yesterday I received my copy of Rework written by the gents at 37signals. So far the book is fabulous!

If you recall they wrote other books like: Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application (Paperback, eBook & FREE online version) & Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points

Rework is a series of essays, experiences and things learned by Jason and David over the last 10 years that they built 37signals into a very profitable business.

I really like how they opened the book in the second paragraph, “This book isn’t based academic theories. It’s based on our experience. We’ve been in business for ten years. Along the way, we’ve seen two recessions, one burst bubble, business-model shifts, and doom-and-gloom predictions come and go-and we’ve remained profitable through it all.”

Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points

If you aren’t familiar with 37signals and their products here is a quick list:

• Basecamp (Project Management App)



• Highrise (CRM App)





Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application

• Backpack (Small Biz Organizer App)



• Ruby on Rails (Last, but certainly not least… amazing and FREE web framework)

The Student’s Manifesto

Dear Professor, as a student, I place my trust in you. I’m trusting you to teach me relevant concepts, tools and ideas that will help me to achieve my future goals and crazy ambitions. I realize I don’t know everything, hence why I’m here at university.

I do have a voice and I will no longer be silent. I deserve to receive a relevant education in every area I study. I’m not just another student in your classroom. I’m a paying customer. I’m a sponge that desires to soak up knowledge and be mentored. I’m not some little pea-brained student looking for a dictator to tell me that I know nothing and I can’t bring my laptop into your class. I’m looking for a mentor. Someone to guide me as I start to develop and refine the skills that will help me make a living in a few short years. To be brutally honest, you are not doing your job, if you are teaching me a textbook that I could read on my own time. At that point you are a facilitator, not a teacher.

You are not doing me any service either, if you haven’t worked professionally in the area you are teaching me. Let’s face it… how can you effectively teach me something that you don’t have experience in? If you don’t have the professional experience, you don’t have much credibility in my book. If you do have the experience, I love to hear your war stories! In fact, that is one of the most fascinating ways for me to learn about the real world. But let’s not forget technology and techniques have changed since the 1970’s, 1980’s, or 1990’s. Please be sure you are teaching me relevant information that will help me get that job once I leave here.

I’m trusting that you know what you are teaching, that you have lived it, you have breathed it, you’ve made a living from doing it, and that you are constantly learning about the new advancements in that area as well. Professor, whether you realize it or not, I’m trusting you with my future. Please teach me what I need to know to get my start once I leave here. I don’t want to be average, I want to stand out and be challenged. Please be my mentor, not my dictator.

This is just my $0.02! While at university I had absolutely amazing professors and some really terrible ones.

The professors that really made an impact on me had these things in common:

• Real life experience
• A mentorship attitude towards their students.
• Taught us relevant information

How would your student manifesto read?

If you get this error and spend hours searching for an answer, its not really out there on Google, StackOverflow, etc…

My word of advice:

1. Save a copy of your project, close your original and work with the copy.
2. Start deleting Movie Clips & Buttons one at a time and then compile until you no longer receive the error.

That was the only freaking way I found an fix for this issue.

Hope this helps!

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Basically, Senator Orrin Hatch (Utah-R) has decided to ask the Obama Administration to review how the BCS Championship is played and to turn it into a playoff system. Sen. Hatch is asking for a anti-trust Review. My two questions to Mr. Hatch are: 1) Why do you think you can use abuse your position of power to change something that you have not power over. 2) Doen’t you have better things to do for the people you serve? Something like help fixing this economy?

If you think this is as ridiculous as I do, you can email the good Senator here.

Read the full story here

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Articles & Tutorials in this edition:

• Free Issue to download 01/2010
• Flash and Mobile devices, apps, and iPhone and iPod Touch
• Web Form Builder
• Wowza Media Server 2: Unified Streaming Beyond Flash
• Wanna play here? Get Corona!
• A Journey into Adobe Flex Charting Components [Part 3]
• Gate2Shop Overview
• Creating Flash Websites using Flash Catalyst
• A Flash in the Cloud
• Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0?
• Workflows with Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder
• Online ADS: Same as it Never was
• Simple AS3 Bar Equalizer Tutorial
• Creating Augmented Reality w/ Adobe Flash CS4
• Learn to create arcade games in Flash
• Flash, the iPhone, and Amazon EC2
• Developing SWF Applications for the PlayStation Portable
• Flexunit 4 with Test Driven Development
• Using Custom Base Classes in Flash
• Getting Tweets into Flash from Twitter
• Text Layout Framework

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• Wanna play here? Get Corona!
• A Journey into Adobe Flex Charting Components [Part 3]
• Gate2Shop Overview
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• Online ADS: Same as it Never was
• Simple AS3 Bar Equalizer Tutorial
• Creating Augmented Reality w/ Adobe Flash CS4
• Learn to create arcade games in Flash
• Flash, the iPhone, and Amazon EC2
• Developing SWF Applications for the PlayStation Portable
• Flexunit 4 with Test Driven Development
• Using Custom Base Classes in Flash
• Getting Tweets into Flash from Twitter
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• Keeping It Real In Live Chat
• 10 Web Tech Innovations That Have Improved Our Lives

• Vendor/Client Relationships
• Daily Digest for December 10th

• The iPhone moves from the quad to the classroom
• Netbook Operating System Jolicloud Set to Take on Google Chrome OS

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TECHNOLOGY

1. Cloud Computing & Virtualization will double in usage by businesses.
2. Mobile & web analytics will play a larger role in business intelligence.
3. Consumer’s consumption of digital media (music, movies, games, etc…) will be at an all-time high. More networks will broadcast TV shows & sports online, in real-time. Netflix will have full online distribution.
4. Traditional media publishing (printed newspapers/magazines) outlets will continue taking several hard losses & 25% will close up shop or go online distribution only.
5. Online education for schools & universities will see a new highs in terms of students, profits & the technology wars will really heat up in this arena.
6. Adobe will establish itself as THE ubiquitous media platform.
7. General consumers realize augmented reality == FAIL. Don’t get me wrong I think AR has a number of applications for the military and other occupations, but I think for the general consumers its fluff.

MOBILE

1. An eBook Reader that does more than just read PDFs for the price of a Cadillac.
2. Multi-touch, personal mobile devices (i.e. iPhone & Droid) will continue to grow & dominate the market.
3. Google will release its GPhone (Android of course).
4. Apple will see a nice growth in sales of iPhone & computers this year & Apple will open its doors to other service providers (about damn time).
5. There will be less concern with desktop operating systems (Mac OS X & Windows 7) and more focus on operating systems that can do that same tasks from the convenience of your hand.

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Just a friendly reminder, if you didn’t take the time to vote the you have no right to complain about those who are in running the government.

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• Cisco to buy mobile specialist Starent for $2.9 billion
• Google Wave Invitations Available
• LG Announces Solar e-Reader

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Amherst, Virginia – October 10, 2010

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Here is the original and then the modified pic using Photoshop Mobile app.

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This is one of the first iPhone apps created with Adobe Flash CS5.

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If you are looking to get into ubiquitous rich internet application (RIA) development platform I would seriously advise checking out ActionScript 3.0 & if you know JavaScript or PHP its not a that huge of a jump to get starting in AS3.

Click here to South Park Avatar (one of the first flash apps supported on the iPhone.

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Mikey and I Doing some target practice

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• Daily Digest for October 1st
• Eddie Claiborne’s Retirement Party
• Virginia Tech Hokie with 3D Glasses
• Baltimore Summer 2009
• Cape Hatteras Summer 2009
• Lee & Mel in Baltimore (Summer 2009)
• Installing Snow Leopard on my iMac
• Jeff Dunham

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Roanoke Civic Center

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July 2009

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My cube buddy

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