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iRex Technologies has come up with yet another cool application of e-paper… iLiad, a portable tablet device which also lets you write on its e-paper display.

Software features are cool, technical specifications look promising but its price, which is US$699, is a little too high for a gadget like this. I’ll definitely buy  it when it will come under US$300 🙂

Features suggest that this device is the most ultimate one in the electronic reading/writing devices available on the market.

Seems like this e-paper stuff is going to replace conventional paper and “analog recoding devices” (pen and pencils) with their digital counterparts pretty soon.

Cheers

// ch3ckmat3

As I prophesied in my blog post almost two years ago…this french video by editis is almost materializing the revolutionary concept of e-book and access to online content.

There has been a tremendous development in this area since my last post. Transparent OLED Displays, Flexible LCDs and 4-Bit color depth in powerless e-paper is all heading towards what is envisioned in this video.

Reader from Sony and nuutbook from Korea also show us some glimpse from the future.

Here are some shots from the video.

Its a fascinating video to watch, but the online player’s size proportion is not according to the video size, so I suggest downloading the video (77.6 MB) with some web grabbing  tool like UnPlug…for better quality.

Here’s the link to the video.

 cheers,

// ch3ckmat3

Hi All,

I’m pleased to announce our brand new product: SWF2Go – A Professional SWF Packaging and Launching Toolkit aiming Flash Lite developers to ease and automate their development for Symbian S60 Platform.

Visit for official press release:
http://www.orison.biz/pressroom/pr_swf2go.aspx

Products details:
http://www.orison.biz/products/swf2go/

Flash Lite community has grown tremendously in the past few years and lots of existing Flash-only companies are focusing on this mobile platform to take advantage of their Flash skill set. Development on the Symbian side has also been consistent for the new range of devices form Nokia and others – and it’s not easy to catch up with all the new features offered by the platform, especially when you are into developing something which tends to exploit them.

I congratulate Faisal for his untiring effort to implement the whole range of S60 Platform yet – and this is how it went: whenever he discovered a new feature or trick, he asked me: “it’s gonna take a day or two to implement… and if we include this in the release…” and it includes every bit and piece…from S60 SDK detection to command line processing for build automation…and you know the rest :).

I cannot forget the other team members, Najam and Khawar for their contribution, and certainly all the beta testers for their consistent support to shape the product for the release. Thank you all.

Happy programming!

// ch3ckmat3

Assalam Alaikum,

“Jashan-e-Azadi Mubarak” to all Pakistanis around the globe.

With best wishes,

// ch3ckmat3

its been a long time since my last post…but i’m alive…was busy on some projects with really tight schedules.

i’ll be posting my new experiments with tools and technologies…and some of my poetry…of course 🙂

see ya,

// ch3ckmat3 //

"Automation is a curse." — ch3ckmat3

Beta 2 is a more stable version with some functionality tweaking.

Check Full Details and here’s the Direct download link

// ch3ckmat3

Tough day at Orison, as we launched our first commercially available product online – FriendlyGhost, The Ultimate Debugger for Macromedia Flash Platform and AJAX Innovations. See our Official Press Release and visit product website for more information.

We at Orison, have mostly been involved in developing customized software solutions and IT service provision for our local and foreign clients, so our software team is pretty excited about launching this product.

FriendlyGhost is a portable and unified debugger for Flash, FlashLite as well as for JavaScript based AJAX Innovations. For Flash and AJAX applications, it has a client-server model, where you include a component in your applications, and send on-demand debug messages to FriendlyGhost server to analyze events and data of your applications in real-time.

For FlashLite, it’s a go debugger, where you can include and integrate the whole debugger in your FlashLite application as a library with its interface and debug-engine, and take it on the road while you run and test your applications. Find out more on FriendlyGhost Lite and don’t forget to checkout screenshots at Flickr.

Like other technology enthusiasts, I have been playing around with AJAX and its various toolkits since it became popular. This technology has been on the internet with different applications, and with different names, and finally recognized as standard framework and got tokenized by the term “AJAX” by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path (See his article on AJAX). AJAX surely is an interesting and tricky way to do rich internet applications, and this is reason we call AJAX based applications “AJAX Innovations”.

One thing which has been of real pain in developing AJAX applications is that there is no standard toolset available to debug AJAX applications in real-time, as it is asynchronous by nature, debugging AJAX applications is not really easy. When we were nearly done with our first product FriendlyGhost, which initially aimed at Flash and FlashLite debugging, we decided to add AJAX support to it.

Thanks to Macromedia Flash Player 8’s External Interface API which we successfully exploited to achieve real-time debug messages to FriendlyGhost console right out of our AJAX test application. We finally came up with an easy to integrate AJAX Toolkit for AJAX developers which they can use with their applications by adding just two lines of code! Checkout more on FriendlyGhost AJAX Toolkit on our website FriendlyGhost for AJAX Development.

Happy surfing.

// ch3ckmat3