Phidget

Phidget! What? Something new i heard today and i wanted to know about it..and a quick search gave me an idea about this interesting stuff.

So now i know what it is and why is it for. :)

A phidget is a physical representation and/or implementation of a GUI widget.

A phidget (physical widget) is attached to a host computer via USB. There are various phidgets available, each having a counterpart class in the phidget API. As each phidget is attached to the host computer, it is made available to control in the API, where its state can be accessed and set.
Phidgets arose out of a research project in 2001 directed by Saul Greenberg at the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary.

Phidgets can be programmed using a variety of software and programming languages, ranging from Java to Microsoft Excel.
The phidget API is what allows systems to access the phidget devices in a high level manner. The API allows the management of devices as they are attached, to subscribe to events and to access the state of the phidgets. The core API is originally written in C and has been extended to work in numerous languages including .NET and Java.

Got this info from Wiki

Flash on the iPhone

Adobe has revealed at AdobeMax2009 that starting from Flash CS5 developers will be able to build applications for the iPhone and that those apps will be available at the Apple Store. So with ActionScript 3 use all the goodies from the iPhone like web access, multitouch, accelerometers, GPS and compass. Woo woo..wow

Adobe Squiggly

Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control.

Adobe is just doing a preview release of this library for developer community. And this supports only the Flash 10 runtime environment.

Know and check about the Squiggly here.

Important Note from Adobe :- The spelling suggestion algorithm for this release is based on English phonological rules. As such, it should only be used with an English dictionary for checking English text. The plan is to address this limitation in a future release of this project.