As all the world is not necessarily  a flash specialist^^, let’s start by a little resume of the situation.

Apple released the iPhone in 2007, and the first reaction of Adobe was of course to say “hey let’s run Flash on it”. Then months and months of discussions later, no arrangement could be found. Flash was and is still simply not compatible with the business model of the iPhone (some people may object on that, but it’s obviously not a technical reason anymore). After that, Adobe planned to build an exporter for Flash, in order to compile proper native iPhone apps. The statu quo lasted until a few days ago when Apple changed the iPhone’s SDK terms and conditions to forbid the use of cross-compilers. Which means: no Flash apps, even if they are automatically converted to Objective-C. Flash is not the only one concerned, Unity3D and Mono generated applications could be banned from the App Store too.

… So today was quite intense about Flash and the iphone (/ipad) all over the interweb, due to the release of the new Creative Suite 5 by Adobe. The peak was reached when an Adobe evangelist, Lee Brimelow, wrote “Go screw yourself Apple”. This is of course  not the official press release from Adobe, but still, that’s kind of hardcore for the software industry.

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After a few issues on the server the blog is finally back. I switched from dotClear to wordpress, so there’s a brand new design here – which is still on work. You can read / watch the 459 posts from the good ol’ blog. Lots of images / animations / videos are still missing, and all the comments. Plus it hasn’t been updated for ages, got lots of things to do those days, but I should be back soon! Stay tuned!

The top three automakers were at the US Congress today to get a $25 billion bailout.

“It’s almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high-hat and tuxedo. . . . I mean, couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class or jet-pooled or something to get here?”

That’s the question the democrat representative Gary Ackerman asked to the “big three” (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) chairmen. All says no. Then, the republican Bradley Sherman asked: “I’m going to ask you to raise your hand if you’re planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial.”

And then he added : “Let the record show no hands went up.”

Les 3 premiers fabricants automobiles étaient au Congrès américain pour demander un plan de sauvetage de 25 milliards de dollars.

“C’est comme venir à la soupe populaire en costard et haut-de-forme… Je veux dire, vous n’auriez pas pu prendre un billet en première classe ou partager votre jet ou quelque chose comme ca?”

Voila la question posée par le representant démocrate Gary Ackerman aux présidents des “big three” (Ford, General Motors et Chrysler). Tous on répondu non. Le républicain Bradley Sherman a alors demandé: “Je vais vous demander de lever votre main si vous prévoyez de vendre votre jet et rentrer en avion de ligne.”

Puis il ajouta: “Je voudrais que soit mentionné dans le procès verbal qu’aucune main n’a été levée.”

Via ABC News

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Via Rue89

As you may know, the next gen iPhone will be available soon in the UK, on the 11h july. So you may ask yourself lots of questions about that.
I let to all top tech blogs the technical part, this article is only about the money you will have to spend.
First of all, o2 got 2 offers :

- pay monthly : starting at £30/month + the phone (£99 for 8Gb and £159 for 16Gb)
- pay as you go (unofficial, but I think it will be very close to that) : £300 for 8Gb and £360 for 16Gb. Wifi is unlimited the first 6 months, and £10 per month after that.

All monthly contracts are for a 18 months minimum term. So let’s do the maths :

Pay monthly : 18 * £30 + £159 (16 Gb) = £699 for 18 months of unlimited web + 75 minutes + 125 texts
Pay as you go : 12 * £10 + £360 (16Gb) = £480 for 18 months of unlimited web

So if you planned to use you iPhone mostly for web browsing, email and just a few calls, I think you’d better take it as pay as you go. If you really need an hour of phone time, texts, and cant wait for that emerging voIP on iPhone, take the contract.

Oh and if you need to use your phone to call or receive calls outside of the UK, don’t trust any phone company in Europe : it’s always really expensive. O2 says : “you can get really good prices on roaming”. That’s clearly bullshit. I mean if you compare to local call or abroad calls with Skype, it’s a complete scam. Alternatives like Fring are already here and like Skype on your computer it cost around nothing.

Pump up da volume !

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La FNAC ne manque pas d’humour en ces temps troubles.

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