(using Nokia Theme Studio 3.0)

Nokia have published new version Theme Studio 3.0. The tool allows creation of customs themes which can change look of Series 60 UI components and Media Player. With this tool Series 60 themes can be designed, edited, and be previewed.

Recently, I wrote about new line of stylish Nokia phones - “L’Amour collection” (Nokia 7360, Nokia 7370 and Nokia 7380). One designer naming Atlantis®, has created a magnificent decoration to this series of phones - set of themes. “L’Amour themes set” represents a good example of use of Theme Studio 3.0, the author has changed all icons and all UI components look. You can download “L’Amour themes set” from Handango site for free.

This month marks the 10 year anniversary of Flash Technology. In far 1996 , predecessor of Flesh - FutureSplash was born. Back then it was just a little animation tool, and has a pretty interesting story behind it, including being turned down by Adobe.

…As it grew close to shipping time, we changed the name of our software to FutureSplash Animator to focus more on its animation capabilities. We also were growing tired of running a company that didn’t have much money to spend, and began trying to sell our technology. After an unsuccessful pitch to Adobe and turning down a bid from Fractal Design, we shipped FutureSplash Animator in the summer (May) of 1996.

At the end of 1996, they sold FutureWave Software to Macromedia, and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0.

So, Happy birthday Flash!

Opera Software has released Opera Mini 2.0, a new version of the tiny Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone. The first version is barely four months old but already has over 2.5 million users.

Opera Mini 2.0 enhances mobile surfing experience by permitting the download of MP3s, images and other Web content directly to the phone.

Opera Mini uses a remote server to pre-process Web pages before sending them to user’s phone. Web content is optimized for device, ensuring fast browsing and a great user experience.

Motorola Inc. launched  developers web-portal, named MotoDev, where  three existing Motorola’s programmes was assembled in one place. MotoDev is  new center of  Motocoder (a mobile program), iDen (project for Sprint-Nextel) and Horizon (a connected homecable and set-top box program) .  This coordinated access point will help encourage innovation in application development and delivery by connecting developers with the resources they usualy need , such as software development tools, SDKs, etc.

Service providers and channel partners eventually will be part of the value chain represented in MOTODEV.

“Developers will have a range of resources for their marketing needs – they need to take their applications to market once they are created,” said Christy Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola mobile devices.

“Our goal is to provide a good user experience in software integrated with the hardware,” she continued. “When we look at that software innovation we need to differentiate our products, it comes from within the company but also from third parties that make games and applications and music and more. So we’re giving those developers a way to see everything end-to-end, so they can think about new kinds of solutions across the communications continuum, as opposed to point products.”