Apple iPhone 4 Ad featuring Facetime

Posted by Simon in Apple, iPhone, Mobile on Jul 1st, 2010 | 0 comments

Apple iPhone 4 Ad featuring Facetime from Simon Barber on Vimeo.

“FaceTime works right out of the box — no need to set up a special account or screen name. And using FaceTime is as easy as it gets. Let’s say you want to start a video call with your best friend. Just find her entry in your Contacts and tap the FaceTime button. Or maybe you’re already on a voice call with her and you want to switch to video. Just tap the FaceTime button on the Phone screen. Either way, an invitation pops up on her iPhone 4 screen asking if she wants to join you. When she accepts, the video call begins. It’s all perfectly seamless. And it works in both portrait and landscape modes.”

To learn more about Facetime click here.

Apple iPad New TV Ad

Posted by Simon in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Mobile on May 14th, 2010 | 0 comments

Apple iPad TV Ad on Vimeo.

We (ThoughtFaqtory) have been lucky enough to get our hands on a few of these slick iPads, even though we reside in Cape Town, South Africa. The obviously needed them for development purposes, to test our software products on the device. It turns out that running our application on the simulator is a far different experience than on an actual device.

Here is something to keep you excited while waiting patiently for them to arrive in your country.

ThoughtFaqtory’s mobile development services

Posted by Simon in Android, Development, Flash Mobile, iPhone, Mobile, RIA, Services on May 10th, 2010 | 0 comments

ThoughtFaqtory originally offered development services on Adobe Flex and AIR platforms. We have created many great experiences for small to large corporations in the USA, Europe and South Africa.

At the end of last year, we decided to embark on offering services in the mobile space. The type of platforms we currently develop for are iPhone, iPad, Android and Adobe Flash Platform for mobile devices. We actually have a few iPad’s floating around the office. Another technology we are looking forward to this year is AIR for Android, Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices and Flex Mobile Framework (codenamed Slider). This is very exciting, because it allows our company to leverage existing ActionScript 3 skills and apply them to mobile devices.

We forsee that from 2010, there is going to be large demand for development of custom software solutions on mobile devices. A number of our team members are currently working on iPhone and iPad solutions for products that already have a web presence. Many companies are creating mobile experiences from existing products that are already available to the public. Then there are the products exclusive to mobile devices such as Foursquare and Gowalla, these types of products require location-based services function correctly.

ThoughtFaqtory is looking forward to this year as the mobile development space heats up.

See you at Net Prophet 2010 event on the 13th May 2010, Mutual Park, Pinelands, Cape Town.

Adobe Flash, One Web, Any Screen

Posted by Simon in AIR, Android, Flash, Flex, Mobile, RIA on Apr 2nd, 2010 | 0 comments

Flash brings the web to life: One web, any screen: See Flash on the new Dell 5 tablet, Dell 12 smartbook (Latitude Xt2), Palm Pre, Nexus One, Motorola Droid, and HP mini 311 netbook.

Flash Player 10.1 running on many devices

Posted by Simon in AIR, Flash, Flex, Mobile on Jan 8th, 2010 | 0 comments

Below are a few video demos showcasing the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 running on many different devices. Included here is a demo of Kevin Lynch showcasing multi-touch support on an HP TouchSmart using AIR 2.0 Beta.

Demos

Adrian Ludwig demos various games from Armor Games and Miniclip.com with Flash Player 10.1 on Palm webOS using the Palm Pre (3:44)

Adrian Ludwig demos video and animation on the BBC, The New York Times, and Angry Alien websites on Android using the Motorola Droid (3:35)

Adrian Ludwig demos Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One, the new Google branded phone (3:41)

Kevin Lynch demos multi-touch and gesture capabilities on the HP TouchSmart using AIR 2 beta and Flash Player 10.1 (2:54)

Adrian Ludwig demos various websites with Flash Player 10.1 on Palm webOS using the Palm Pre (3:02)

Adrian Ludwig demos Google Finance on Microsoft Windows Mobile using the Toshiba TG01 smart phone (3:04)