Flash Maps

A few ActionScript-based client-side maps: FlashDynamics and ModestMaps.

Best Practices for Performance and Memory for Flash Lite

Adobe Flash Lite online live seminar: Best Practices for Performance and Memory for Flash Lite and Developer Center article.

Some takeaways:

1. Help the garbage collector by explicitly deleting objects (e.g. XML) and setting local objects to null. It's unclear how setting local objects helps because the reference count should go to zero once it's out of scope.
   
2. fscommand2("GetFreePlayerMemory") returns the size of the largest contiguous block of memory that can be allocated by the player, not total free memory.

iTunes/iPhone's Cover Flow in Flash

http://www.n99creations.com/vieweg.php?id=5

Example that use Flash 8 features: AS2, more, and more.

Flash Lite Memory Size

Total available memory allocated by Flash Lite player, using
fscommand2("GetTotalPlayerMemory");

1. FL 2.1 (standalone), Windows Mobile 5: 4096KB
2. FL 2.0 (built-in), Nokia S60 FP3: 2297KB
3. FL 2.1 (standalone), Nokia S60 FP2: 2296K

ROM Images for HTC Tornado

The HTC Tornado has been branded as iMate SP5, Qtek 8310, Dopod 577W, etc. This page shows the various versions of ROM with download links from different manufactures. For example, you can flash a iMate SP5, which is English-only (2.5.331.2), to Chinese/English (and also get AKU 2.0) by flashing it to the latest Taiwan (2.5.37.0)/Singapore (2.5.39.2) Dopod ROMs.

SPV-developers.com has some useful utilities to SIM unlock and application unlock the phone after a ROM upgrade.