Here an example of how to do it using the shell.

First create a new folder eg named “videos”.

mkdir videos

Switch into the folder

cd videos

and create an .htaccess file

vi .htaccess

The editor “vi” should have started. Press “i” to enter the insert mode, then enter the following line (on an empty new line if you don’t edit an empty file):

Options +Indexes

Press “Esc”, then type “wq” and hit return to save the file and leave the editor.

Done.

Of course you can also use FTP or SCP utilities to get the .htaccess file onto the server instead.

Check it out:

http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/certified_devices/

http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/05/security-alert-droiddreamlight-new-malware-from-the-developers-of-droiddream/

It’s really time that Google starts to work on the quality of their approval process. While everybody is happy that Google is not censoring as much as Apple, there’s no reason why Google doesn’t even automatically scan software for illegal copies or trojan related code but still takes 30% of every app.

http://blog.duosecurity.com/2011/05/when-angry-birds-attack-android-edition/

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/13/lodsys-threatens-to-sue-app-store-developers-over-purchase-links/

Update: Apple states that they licensed the patents in question: http://www.9to5mac.com/68561/apple-makes-statement-on-lodsys-patent-claims-says-developers-are-covered-under-its-license/

Update 2: Lodsys doesn’t agree on Apples statement as they posted on their company blog: http://www.lodsys.com/blog.html

var filename:String="somefile.xml?r="+(Math.random()*99999999999);

While this works online it won’t work when you test locally inside the Flash IDE. Why? Simple. The file system is not a webserver thus interpretes the parameters as part of the filename. Since we don’t want this to happen when testing in the IDE and it’s prone to cause errors on the long run if you out comment that line during tests you need to find a way to only add the random parameter when not testing locally. Here’s the way to do it:

var filename:String="somefile.xml";
if(root.loaderInfo.loaderURL.substr(0,5)!="file:"){
	xmlFile+="?"+(Math.random()*99999999999);
}

In Actionscript 2 you had _root._url and in Actionscript 3 you got “root.loaderInfo.loaderURL” where root of course needs to be available in the local context, eg if you run the script on the time line or in an instance of the MovieClip class. “root.loaderInfo.loaderURL” contains the URL where the SWF file has been loaded from. In case of local testing this is something like “file:///d:/testfolder/test.swf” and in case of the file being online it’s something like “http://notboring.org/test.swf”. Thus you only need to check for the first characters of the URL and you know if you execute the file locally or from a HTTP server.

http://moconews.net/article/419-iflowreader-latest-app-to-shut-up-shop-blames-apples-iap-agency-models/

Seems Mr. Jobs didn’t knew what he was talking about.

The same demos on Android:

How? He added Push Ads from AirPush which sends an Ad once a day to the phone owner – using push messages that don’t seem to come from any specific app on first view.

Of course this is highly annoying for the users, they get alerts on their mobile devices that look like they might be important but then find out it’s an advertisment. Since this frustrated users, the app got reported to Google who then took it out of the Market.

Read the authors blog posting on his side of the story:

http://www.martinadamek.com/2011/04/28/apndroid-is-suspended-on-the-android-market/

To delete those cache files go to:

[users folder]\[your profile]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common

There you’ll find a folder “Media Cache Files”, delete everything inside. Make sure AME is closed when you do so. In some cases you also need to disable the virus scanner first.