Ok, so this weekend was mental. I took the chance to visit my parents after spending most of Friday contemplating wether or not to get an iPad. I decided against it on that day and took a moment to think, ask a few friends in America who’ve had it for a few weeks what they thought and make my judgment.
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I would like to thank the people at .net magazine and Christian Hall for getting in touch with me. Myself and Magomed Dovjenko were featured in the showcase section of the magazine for Magomed’s Portfolio site which can be seen here. There are some amazing projects in the showcase section so I feel very honoured that we made it.
As I said in my last post, I got quite a few book for christmas so I thought I would take a moment to post a picture of my current collection as it stands at the moment. And I’ve just ordered a couple of AIR books as well. I have no idea why but I’m becoming a book worm, its a pity I wasn’t like this at school, sigh!
If anyone can recommend any other good books please feel free to do so, if it’s developer or design related.
I got a log of books for christmas, and I haven’t had chance to read any of them, until last week when I picked up one that I’ve been wanting to read ever since I saw it on Amazon, it’s a book called Papervision3D Essentials written by Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder
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I’ve been busy working on a few projects lately, which has meant that it’s been very difficult to find time to post anything up here, but I just wanted to take the chance to announce the new site launch for Magomed Dovjenko, this guy is a 16 year old Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in Germany. Apart from going to school he also freelances for some of the world’s biggest brands such as Nike, Adidas, Ecko Unltd, Hennessy Ryz Shoes, and many more he has also just featured on one of Germany’s biggest talk shoes called TV Total which you can see here.
Magomed approached me to work on his new portfolio to which I jumped at the chance, I think his work speaks for itself. I would just like to say thank you to Magomed for the chance to work on such a creative project, this guy is shit hot with his feet firmly on the ground. Definitely one to watch in the near future.
I don’t want to get in to a massive argument about the iPad / iPhone not supporting Flash, the Nexus One video shows that Flash Player 10.1 is a massive improvement on 10.0 and shows that it doesn’t kill the battery like everyone thought it would. It seems the guys at Adobe are really starting push the Flash Player forward, not only on the Desktop but also Mobile devices. See for yourself.
I’ve had countless talks with Flash being available on smartphones, and as much as I love Flash I have never seen it working on a mobile device sufficiently. My reason for this is that the player would need to be optimised so much that it didn’t kill your battery, well Flash Evangelist Mark Doherty has recently created a video showing the performance of the 10.1Flash Player on the Nexus One, clearly showing that after a 17 minute video the browser has only used 6% of the battery. This is impressive and nice to see hard evidence of.
I do agree though there are certain factors in this such as the screen being on all of the time to watch the video, the screen brightness and the audio volume. Check out the video below, thanks to Mark Doherty and Engadget
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.
Just before christmas I was approached to complete a freelance project for an agency called Denvir, they wanted to create a viral for Burns Day which is on the 25th of January. I was provided with the designs and was left to create the project on my own. On monday I completed the project, please feel free to have a look here, and be sure to send it on to your friends.
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post on my blog, I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t had the chance. I know this is bad, I plan to post more now things have died down a little. First off I would like to wish everyone a happy new year, even though it’s the 23rd of January.
I’ve been busy working at Bourne, over the christmas period we moved in to new offices, I hope to post some pictures once everything’s sorted in terms of decorating and tidying up.
I’ve also been busy working on a couple of personal projects and one or two freelance projects, so it’s been all go. So moving forward today will probably have a few new posts on various topics…
Just recently I’ve had a few debates with a couple of colleagues about iPhone’s app’s and Mobile web sites, originally I started off saying how apps can have nicer user interfaces and usually give the user a more one -to-one feeling with whatever they’re using it for. However, over the pas week I’ve come to change my mind in some ways as well… I’ll try to explain why.
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Gareth Parker (Garfty) is a Flash Designer / Developer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Focusing mainly on animation and Actionscript projects.
Email: hello@garethparker.co.uk
Website: www.garethparker.co.uk
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