Steve Jobs On Flash
May 24th, 2010
Steve Jobs has posted a letter on the apple website sharing his thoughts about Flash on mobile devises. He bring up some very interesting points that most people might not be aware of. Here is the letter from Mr. Jobs himself:
“Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests. (more…)
Hebermehl and DrZ Light Up Savannah
February 15th, 2010
If you were on W. Broughton Street last Friday night, it’s likely the illuminated projection near Jefferson caught your eye. A collaboration by Matt Hebermehl and “Dr. Z” James Zdaniewski, the video projection was a silent, ever-rotating illustration that gradually changed form. Scrolling and fluid, the artful projection was cast along the side of a building near Atwell’s Art and Frame, where the reception for Art-O-Rama took place. (more…)
Whack in 2010
January 20th, 2010
It is 2010 and there are exciting things happening at Whack Media Design! First of all we would like to wish all of our clients, readers, friends and family a Happy New Year! It is going to be a great year for all!
THE COMPANY
At the end of 2009 Whack decided to ditch the cold! We officially moved our operations from Chicago, IL to Charlotte, NC and we opened a new location in San Diego, CA. (more…)
Flash CS5 - Turn your Flash games into iPhone Apps
October 5th, 2009
So there’s still no Flash in Safari, but once Adobe hatches Flash Professional CS5 you’ll be able to port your wacky Flash games or animations out to real, live iPhone/iPod touch apps. Yep, ActionScript 3 nerds rejoice: that tasty App Store pie will soon be yours, never minding the whole plug-in debate.
This is truly quite awesome in one regard, as it lowers the barrier to entry for some app developers, and will ease the port of some cool online games that we’ve seen floating around the interwebs. Then again, if you’ve spent a little time at places like Newgrounds.com, you will quickly see the dark side to this announcement from Adobe. All those crummy Flash toys online just got one step closer to coming to life on the App Store (we’re guessing most will sell for the low, low price of $.99). At this rate there will be more apps than iPhones! (more…)
Facebook applications and the advantages they present
September 9th, 2009
In today’s Web 2.0 culture we see all websites, especially the world-famous Facebook flooded with new applications, games, contests, quizzes, and all types of different entertainment. However, these new tools aren’t just there for people to have fun and, like mostly everything in this world, they can have a specific objective for any type of business.
Facebook applications, depending on the type, can help you reach many different targets. This site has users ranging from small children to grandparents, so you can hit pretty much any demographic you want if you create your applications right. This new type of promotion can be very useful thanks to the fact that every time someone uses your application, the name of your company will pop up and they won’t get tired of it. (more…)
