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It's been a long time since i've made a drastic change on a blog of mine. Now is the time for that to change. As of today, this blog is dead. The physical blog, not the content, that is. I'm moving my blog over to wordpress, and giving it a little bit of a facelift. Wordpress is seemingly much more stable and easy to use than MT is or ever was, which is why i switched.

My new blog can be accessed here, at my new web site. The landing page for this blog will automatically redirect to the new blog, however old entries will be preserved to keep permalinks alive.

Enjoy my new blog, everyone!

To everyone saying that Adobe Edge is a flash killer, i have this to say:

No, it is not a flash killer. Let us first remember what Edge does, and is targeted for. Edge is targeted mainly at advertisers on the web. You open edge, create a new document, and the default format is that of a banner ad. Perhaps, it may cause the downfall of Flash as an advertising platform. In my opinion, that would be a great thing. For no reason should a tiny little banner ad on a website use 50% of my CPU when i'm visiting that site. There's no reason for that. It's not because of flash per se, it's because of terrible flash developers trying to run non-optimized content and deliver it to the user. But i digress.

Also, all Edge can do is create animations and basic interactivity. It is not built to make RIA's or mobile applications in the same way that flash is. It is built for creating ads.

It wouldn't be such a bad thing if HTML5 and CSS replaced Flash in the advertising market. Advertisers would be able to reach people on mobile and devices much easier, without the dependency of flash. That makes sense to me. But, to say that Edge and HTML5 will *kill* flash is a complete falsity.

Flash (AIR) is currently, in my opinion, the best mobile app platform that allows users to build one app on one code base and target just about every major mobile platform out there. One cannot do that with HTML5, no sir. You have to use Flash, or Appcelerator or something. But, out of all of the mobile development platforms that i've tried, Flash is by far the easiest. You can create a beautiful mobile app that  functions with speeds sometimes greater than that of a native app, and you get to avoid all of the Java or Objective-C headaches that might come from native development. Plus, with the advent of AIR 3, developers can build native extensions to give their flash apps the exact same functionality of a native app on any platform they choose. 

In short, no, Edge will not kill flash, nor is adobe trying to kill flash with Edge. Flash will live on for a long time, both on the web and on mobile devices. Edge and HTML5 can never fully replace all of the functionality that Flash has built over the years, and it will never equal it's performance or ease of development.

All for now!

Recently, Stephen Jannise over at ERP Software Advice  wrote an interesting blog entry on who the software giant Oracle will absorb next. He expresses his opinions that Oracle will looks towards many different software companies, such as TIBCO, Sungard, and RIM. Of course, Oracle will be looking towards many different new software companies to acquire in the future. However I'd like to propose something different. Being new to the field of corporate merger analysis, I really don't know much about what I am talking about so bear with me. I believe that Oracle will now look towards more electronics manufacturing companies. They own Java now, and several other database and enterprise level softwares. Wouldn't it be great if Oracle owned a company like HP who could manufacture specialized servers for them? I think that would make sense. Whether or not they actually end up buying a manufacturing company is questionable, so don't hold what I said as law. 

In this short screencast, I try to answer the small but important question, "What's in my Dock?" Enjoy!

By now, everyone has seen what Gizmodo claims to be the next generation iPhone. Besides obvious reasons (not booting) there is one other reason that I personally think that this is not in fact the next iPhone. That being that the thing is not a unibody machine. Think about it. Every apple product now is a unibody product. The macbooks, the iMacs, the Mac Pros, even the iPhone 3G and 3GS are mostly unibody. There aren't any breaks in the case like there are in the phone that Gizmodo claims to have. To me, this new "iPhone" seems to be to klunky to be an iPhone as well. It is not shaped well, and doesn't fit into a person's hand that well. Apple and their human interface obsession would never release a product that looks like this. It would have to be more streamlined for me to believe that it was the real deal. As for everyone else, it's up to them to decide for themselves whether it's real or not. 

I am starting a new Youtube videos on How To do things in Creative Suite and or Mac OSX. I'll do any other products as well, however I prefer to stay within the Mac platform. If anyone has any suggestions, then leave a comment letting me know what you want to see. As I said, I'll do anything that you want to see.

The first one in the series should come out next week and be called, "Why iMovie 08 Sucks".

Again, leave some comments and let me know!

All for now!

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Some of you may say that Lost River, NH is not a place. I know that, however our iPhone couldn't get any reception to tell us exactly where we were. So, I estimated. East Middle of Nowhere, New Hampshire, USA. Here are some pictures from the trip. Enjoy!

Well, it took a few days, but my blog is finally back in working order after several weeks of inactivity. During that time, things deteriorated. Now, however, it is all back in full working order. Enjoy the site!

Hello all my loyal viewers!

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