http://www.oscartrelles.com/ en-us Oscar Trelles 2008-05-09T20:23:10-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 A public alpha release of AIR for Linux is available at Adobe Labs today. Also available at Labs, an update to the alpha version Flex Builder for Linux. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/air_and_flex_builder_for_linux_available air_and_flex_builder_for_linux_availableOscar Trelles 2008-03-31T10:08:00-05:00 Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to students and faculty of eligible education institutions. To get a serial number you can use to activate your copy of Flex Builder, you are only required to provide a valid proof of eligibility. Valid proofs of eligibility are:A Student ID showing current enrollment.A Faculty ID showing current employment.A letter on an educational institution letterhead stating that you are either a current student or a current faculty member of the institution.To learn more and register go to: http://www.flexregistration.com/ [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/flex_builder_3_pro_free_for_students_and_faculty flex_builder_3_pro_free_for_students_and_facultyOscar Trelles 2008-02-28T11:54:00-05:00 Adobe releases Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0 to the public today. If you are in New York, join the celebration at a joint User Group event this week. For details, visit the FlashcodersNY site (More information coming soon). Adobe AIR enables web developers to bring their expertise to the desktop, and take advantage of seamless integration across platforms. This release comes packed with new features and updated versions of the Flash and Dreamweaver extensions. At the moment, AIR is available for Windows and Mac operating systems, and a Linux version is on the works and will be realeased later in the year. Flex is still open source, and Flex Builder 3 comes in two versions, and both can be tried for 60 days. Flex Builder Standard has everything you need to build Flex and AIR applications, while the Professional version adds advanced components, charting components and performance monitoring tools.   [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/flex_30_and_air_10_are_finally_here flex_30_and_air_10_are_finally_hereOscar Trelles 2008-02-24T22:55:00-05:00 The $100 laptop is a reality; well, kind of. At $199, the XO laptop is still the cheapest ever produced, but don't let its looks deceive you: this is no toy, it is truly a technological breakthrough and until December 31st, you can donate one for a child in a developing country and get one for a kid in your family. (Offer only available in the US and Canada)Three years in the making, the first production batch of the XO laptops is starting to reach early adopters who started placing orders a couple of months ago. Among those are education-related institutions like Elizabeth's employer, and that's how I came about one of these green critters.It all started with Nicholas Negroponte's "$100 laptop" idea, who then founded "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC), an organization dedicated to bring low-cost portable computers to children around the world and that now counts among their partners the likes of AMD, Google, Red Hat and Newscorp to name a few.The XO laptop has been designed for smaller hands, with bright colors that will appeal to young children but also with weather and wear resistance unlike any other in the market. It comes complete with camera, speakers and microphone, and even though it has only 256Mb of RAM applications (or Activities) have a decent performance, since it runs a light Fedora distro. One thing I noticed is that popup windows are severily controlled within the preinstalled web browser, making it hard to navigate through certain websites. Also, if you need to display Flash content, movies will not show up at all until the content is clicked on if you are using the gnash, which comes preinstalled as well. So, you might need to install Opera and the regular Flash Player to support applications that might be affected by this restrictions.More info on the XO's hardware and software are available at the OLPC wiki.For donations, find more here. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/give_one_get_one_the_xo_laptop give_one_get_one_the_xo_laptopOscar Trelles 2007-12-27T15:47:00-05:00 Art [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/flashforward_2007_boston_film_festival_winners flashforward_2007_boston_film_festival_winnersOscar Trelles 2007-09-20T09:13:00-05:00 Domani Studios, a growing 25 person interactive shop in DUMBO Brooklyn, seeks a self motivated and highly organized Sr Flash Developer to join our team. This is a full time, on-site position. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/reaching_out_to_flash_developers_in_nyc reaching_out_to_flash_developers_in_nycOscar Trelles 2007-08-14T07:17:00-05:00 I had not realized that the On AIR Bus Location Tracking had been made "Mashup of the Day" by Programmable Web, on July 25th. Thanks guys! [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/mashup_of_the_day mashup_of_the_dayOscar Trelles 2007-08-02T08:10:00-05:00 I'm tired of reading articles by seriously misinformed authors trying to pull off "traffic boost stunts" exploiting the eternal conflict between hard-core defenders of the plain-vanilla web and the community of flash developers, so I'm not linking to them. It is idiotic to be blaming Flash for all that is wrong on the web these says: Flash is just a tool, it is us who can misuse it. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/flash_does_not_suck_people_suck flash_does_not_suck_people_suckOscar Trelles 2007-08-02T10:18:00-05:00 Anybody out there not powncing yet? If so, I have a few invites I can send your way. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/pownce_invites pownce_invitesOscar Trelles 2007-08-02T16:04:00-05:00 Being today my first 'official' day as a Mac user, I was prepared to experience some annoyances. The first one was realizing that the "Home" and "End" keys seemed to be completely useless. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/surviving_macosx_navigating_through_text surviving_macosx_navigating_through_textOscar Trelles 2007-07-17T15:56:00-05:00 Una nota corta para dejarles saber que [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/conferencia_en_linea_de_garage_flash conferencia_en_linea_de_garage_flashOscar Trelles 2007-07-16T15:25:00-05:00 I just updated the bus tracking with a few enhancements and additions. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/on_air_bus_tracking_update on_air_bus_tracking_updateOscar Trelles 2007-07-14T15:44:00-05:00 I was doing some research on the Google Maps API for an upcoming project. Even though I am not going to do the mapoing part myself, I wanted to have an understanding of the basics of the Google Maps functionality, as I have never had the opportunity to play with it. So, here's my first attempt to do a mashup, using the location feed from the onAIR Bus API. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/my_first_mashup_onair_bus_tracking my_first_mashup_onair_bus_trackingOscar Trelles 2007-07-11T13:47:00-05:00 John Grden has a released a long awaited set of components that allow users to use Papervision 3D right within the Flash IDE. As it stands, the Papervision 3D API is very straight forward and probably all ActionScript power users need, but it lacks (at least the last time I checked) detailed documentation, which may represent an obstacle for other segments of the expanding user base, and that is why this release is so important. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/papervision_3d_components_for_flash_cs3 papervision_3d_components_for_flash_cs3Oscar Trelles 2007-07-06T09:13:00-05:00 Another major annoyance is the sudden obsolescence of hardware components. I "lost" a network card and my old and my old faithful Radeon 7500 to the Vista upgrade. Granted, my Linksys NIC was old for a network interface, so I was prepared to put it to rest. However, I am going to miss having 2 dual-monitor video cards in my computer, and being able to connect 4 monitors to it. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/surviving_windows_vista_2_hardware_obsolescence surviving_windows_vista_2_hardware_obsolescenceOscar Trelles 2007-07-02T09:20:00-05:00 I spent some time the past weekend upgrading and tuning up my home workstation. Added some RAM, a new Ethernet card and upgraded to Vista Business, after an overdue hard drive back-up and clean up. Probably that helped a lot, but I have to admit that Vista doesn't suck as much as I thought. However, the first and greatest annoyance I found was this thing they call 'user account control.' [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/surviving_windows_vista_1_user_account_control surviving_windows_vista_1_user_account_controlOscar Trelles 2007-06-26T19:44:00-05:00 Need motivation to make the switch from PC to Mac? What about a Mac Pro 8Core with 4Gb RAM and 1.5Tb of storage? Of course, if you win the first prize it doesn't really matter, as $100k in traveling expenses would make for a nice vacation, no matter what kind of hardware you prefer. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/air_developer_derby_for_mac_people air_developer_derby_for_mac_peopleOscar Trelles 2007-06-11T09:44:00-05:00 That's right, tonight Adobe is releasing not one, but three public betas! Right now you can head to the Labs to start downloading the public beta version of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Adobe's cross-platform runtime until today known as "Apollo". Also in Labs, the first public release of Flex 3 (codenamed "Moxie"), and an update to the Flash Player 9. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/three_betas_in_one_night three_betas_in_one_nightOscar Trelles 2007-06-10T22:55:00-05:00 Asi como leen, Adobe esta poniendo a nuestra disposicion no uno, sino tres nuevos betas publicos: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flex 3 y Flash Player. Como muchos de ustedes saben, AIR hasta ahora conocido como "Apollo" estuvo en alpha publico por algunos meses y hoy pasa a beta con una serie de novedades. Por otro lado, Flex 3 tambien pasa a un primer beta publico despues de haber estado en alpha privado, al igual que la nueva version del Flash Player. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/tres_betas_en_una_noche tres_betas_en_una_nocheOscar Trelles 2007-06-10T22:56:00-05:00 Tinic Uro gives details on the Flash Player update. [more...] http://www.oscartrelles.com/archives/flash_player_9060120 flash_player_9060120Oscar Trelles 2007-06-10T23:12:00-05:00