I’m going to let the video do the talking for this one. Click here to view the tutorial at www.gotoandlearn.com, or click here to download the Quicktime.

Appy Christmas :)

The next release of the Adobe Creative Suite (CS5) will be capable of creating iPhone apps.

This doesn’t mean that there will be a Flash Player on the iPhone, but it does mean that many Flash designers/developers will be able to create their own apps within Flash and let it do the hard part for them. And you thought there were a lot of iPhone apps already?!

I downloaded my first app created using CS5 (South Park Avatar Creator) and it’s got me extremely excited about the opportunities the new suite will give me.

There’s plenty more info on the flashmagazine.com site, or check out the video on the Adobe Labs site.

Having grown up in Wales, it gave me a warm feeling inside to hear about the first ever Welsh language handset, the new Samsung S5600. (embarrassingly) Not being a Welsh speaker myself, I’ll also be downloading the first Welsh iPhone app, the “Learn Welsh” phrasebook which will be available from the app store in a months time.

Iechyd da (I didn’t need a phrasebook for that one)!

Spotify have submitted their app to the App Store for approval. Spotify has been called an “iTunes Killer”, so will it will be interesting to see how Apple decide to deal with this. A price hasn’t been given for the app yet, however rumours suggest that it will only be available to premium users paying £10 a month. One possible feature could be the ability to download a playlist before leaving the house so that poor or no network coverage will not affect the users listening. Fingers crossed it gets it’s approval!

I’ve been using Spotify for a while now simply because it’s brilliant and it’s free. However, I’ve also been interested to see how they’re going to develop as a music platform in an industry that clearly needs something to give people the kick up the ass they need to start buying music.

Today they’ve answered part of that question by announcing that they are to open its doors to developers (available only for Linux at the moment).

As long as I keep getting all the free music I want for now, I’ll be happy to cough up for premium membership when the iPhone app is launched :)