Mo-Snaps at CES Monday 2008-01-07
Aloa!!
We are life at CES in Las Vegas presenting mobile snaps at the Berry review site!
Indeed we made it. Some hard days and nights for the team after we got the chance with very short notice.
Hopefully the server copes with the load.
[Edit]Well, the Berry Review uploaded just a few images from their BlackBerry phone, and now they lifted the Mo-snaps widget out.
You can still see the Berry widget on the maufait blog.
[Edit 08-03-01] Not even that is true anymore – I guess I have to keep you updated. Enjoyed it as long as it lasted. Soon the MoSnaps service will leave it’s closed beta for the first launch.
The Mobile Snapshots Saturday 2008-01-05
Ever wanted to keep your friends continuously updated on the great life of yours? Now you can! Oh well, I know you could already snap a picture of your reality using your mobile phone, and immediately send it as an MMS to your friends. And yes, some of you might even send video from your 3G phone.
So what’s the deal? You’d expect I tell you, right?
Indeed, the news is a service at maufait.com to which you can upload your mobile phone images, and have them presented on the web in a nice Flash widget. Now all your friends can follow you on line, as you rush through your life mo-snapping whatever you find significant. You don’t have to MMS them one at a time. Your images are saved at the maufait site and you can include a nifty widget on your own site, to present the mobile snaps. The service is called Mo-Snaps, and I am happy to code the Flash widget.
What’s the catch here? As it stands right now, you have to be invited to participate. The whole thing is in beta state. The upload only works for BlackBerry phones, but development is under way for any Java enable phone. There is already a MIDP application for Java phones, but a test on my SE 810i failed, so there are still work to be done on that application.
Sooner or later this service will work for all of us.
Starting this Sunday the Berry Review will hopefully report from the CES in Las Vegas, using this service.
Have a look!
Sandy Running Wild Thursday 2007-11-29
Wow! After the release of Sandy 3.0 and the short after the update to 3.0.1, the library is gaining speed. New and wonderful things pops up. Here is a little demo of a wild little vehicle crashing in to wooden boxes. Just a demo of course. Image and all from nicoptere.
New and Fixed Sandy 3D Tuesday 2007-11-27
Lovers, fans and users of the Sandy 3D library, be happy!
Thomas and the team have released Sandy 3.0.1, a maintenance update, with bug fixes but also some new features. Go get the new version!
And why not take a look at my immersive City Hall demo, which uses the SkyBox primitive, and some amazing photos.
Wired Sandy 3D Sunday 2007-11-11
In the late hours of development before the Sandy 3.0 official release, there emerged a fascinating project named redsandy.
This is a net based collaborative 3D world, or chat and shootout environment, or .. well I really don’t know what it is.
The reason is that it is quite new to me and everyone, except possibly the developer Andy Shaules.
The name of the project comes from the combination of the open source media server Red5 and the likewise open source Sandy 3D engine.
On names, by the way – one peculiarity is that Andy popped in to the Sandy forum under the signature AndyS. How about that?
AndyS on Sandy. Create the next permutation as home work!
For further explanation of the redsandy project and its ramifications, I’ll give the word to AndyS at GoogleCode 
I’ll make sure to learn a bit or two about this creature, but first on to some more basic Sandy tutorials.
Sandy 3.0 Released
Woppie!
Today Thomas released Sandy 3.0, the state of the art AS3 3D ActionScript library.
After an intensive development period, the new library is here, leaner and meaner, than the AS2 versions 1.x.
If you think of creating 3D worlds for the latest Flash Player, taking advantage of the faster flash engine, that comes with Player 9, you should go ahead and download Sandy 3.0.
It comes with a JavaDoc like API documentation and a growing set of introductory and advanced tutorials.
To get a feeling for the possibilities, take a look at the demos. It is early days, so more demo apps will emerge from the steadily growing user/developer community.
My congratulations to Thomas and coworkers for an amazing development, and to the 3D designers/programmers for the availability of a really fine library!
Also to expect later on, is a “back porting” of the new engine to the Sandy 2.0 AS2 version, which will be a good alternative for developers, who for some reason have to stay with AS2.
Petit Labs on Sandy 3.0 Friday 2007-10-19
As we are traveling towards the next release candidate of Sandy, the humbly numbered RC1, I have been busy bringing my tutorial “Using Sandy 3.0 Flash Library” forward.
Already the Sandy 3.0 is a big leap in usability and performance, and it is still under development. The naming policy may be questioned. What I mean is that what we have is stable in a way and very usable, so we could have had a release instead of a candidate.
I guess the reason for this humbleness is that Thomas want to present something extra, and he continues to develop heavily, with the risk being, that the API will still break at some point.
So we will settle for a RC1 release fairly soon.
In the meantime, come visit the Sandy wiki and forum and of course my tutorial, directed at beginners as well as pros 
Sandy 3D and AS3 Saturday 2007-09-22
Finally, after a long development period, the first release of Sandy for AS3 and the flash 9 Player is here.
It’s faster and slimmer, as it should. It is released as RC0, which is a bit shy. I would say it is at an RC1 state.
The engine is new, even if the transformation matrices are the same as always. The engine is faster, maybe mostly due to the faster Flash engine. Transformations are simpler and and the camera is now part of the node graph, a great improvement. It makes it possible to give the camera complex movements.
What was called skins in the 1.x versions is now called appearances and materials, and has undergone some good rework.
I want to congratulate Thomas and all users of the Sandy library. Hopefully we will see a flood of interesting applications in the near future.
Here is the release statement. Go there, download and take it for a ride – if you are so inclined
The Virtual Sweden Saturday 2007-06-16
Hello my eventual readers. Thanks for reading me! I must say I have been a bit absent lately.
And it doesn’t add anything to my credibility, that I’m not sober at all at this time, when I feel obliged to bring to you my first real experience of the unreal world of Second Life. I know it is truly amazing, but this went far behind my imagination. Really amazing things do
I heard on teve, that Sweden made some serious efforts to join the modern world of 3D cyberspace, by building a Sweden Second House, sort of a Swedish embassy in Second Life. The TV news said that the Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt was there to open it.
I thought: Wow! You are free to think that’s stupid, but that’s what I thought. Honestly
Not only was the minister there to cut something, but there was a selected few to join in on the ceremony, just like art any other important opening. Amazing and maybe even good. I heard of this fact a little late, and had no opportunity to join in or disturb the ceremony. I do applaud the initiative though. It shows that our government takes the cyber matters seriously, which I regard as mandatory if we want to survive as a state of of honor and prosperity.
Being late, I decided to visit the “embassy” later the same day, and I was astonished by the the events going on, as well as by the architecture and the environment. I’ll show you images in just a while.
Let me give you a first impression!
The architecture is blondish northern and very light and open. It brings into mind the “Northern light” exhibition that toured the world a little more than a decade ago. Apart form the lack of furniture and ( really ) use of the beautiful rooms, I felt really at home. This will be something.
I also took some time strolling around outside the “Second House of Sweden”, and what I saw added to my admiration. It is a really good job they have done. The creators of this “Swedish Pavilion” if you will. The nature is the really blond and lovable nature of southern Sweden at its very best. I feel at home, and visitors from other countries will certainly get to know the woods and sees of Sweden. You have done a great job guys!
[ Images here soon ]
The Silence Monday 2007-04-30
Update 2009-11-09:
It seems, at least today, that the One Day Blog Silence site is down.
I want to direct you to some valuable reading by Lorelle.
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