” Adobe® Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Intel Corporation today announced plans to collaborate on the development to port and optimize Adobe® Flash® technology for the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100. This effort is expected to provide consumers with richer and more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail connected AV devices.”

Press Release

Lee Brimelow just released the First Issue of Flasher Magazine. In this issue Lee talks to Chuck Freedman from Ribbit and Ryan Stewart about Catalyst. You will also go on a road trip to a couple of different Flash events and you will find some tips on how Lee creates the famous gotoAndLearn video tutorials.

ActionScript Examples has posted a bunch of applications about the Text Input control and component in Flash. You will find some nice tips and examples about it.

- Disabling a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
- Creating an uneditable TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
- Using an embedded font with the TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
- Setting a custom text format on a TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
- Creating a masked password TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
- Restricting the number of characters a user can type into a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
- Restricting which characters a user can type into a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0

2.0 Features:

- Playlist pluggable
- Playlist management
- Trackdirectory
- Fading methods
- Panning
- Better error handling
- More effectient constructors
- More stability
- A awesome lot of bugfixes

Find the demo and download at: playr.nocreativity.com

The voting is open for the FWA people choice award for the year of 2008. This contest is sponsor by Adobe and you can vote from 14th December until 14th January 2009.

Vote Now

Flash & Math is sharing the source code for a 3D Sphere Gallery developed with Flash CS4. All the code is on the first keyframe and it is well commented to make things easier for you. Give it a try.

Text Layout Framework delivers multi-lingual, print-quality typography for the web, including support for:

- Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others.
- Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images
- Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography
- Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
- Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing
- Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.

Download and read more at Adobe Labs

What can you do with 25 line of Actionscript? See what some developers get at the 25 Line Actionscript Contest. Vote for your best application. Source code is available for each SWF.

Peter deHaan has a great blog at http://actionscriptexamples.com and has the URL suggests it has a very nice collection of Actionscript examples, 2.0 and 3.0

Many topics are cover like components, graphics, xml, text, loader, vars and many more.

For sure a cool link to follow.

Flash Snow Effect – Source Files

Just found a cool and free login system for your flash applications! It was developed using AS3 and it uses a PHP script to process the login and connect to your mysql database. The encryption uses the MD5 function in php.

Download the application and see how to set it up here.

Recompiled from the original source by Mike, using Alchemy!

Via FlashMagazine

Adobe Flash Player 10 / Adobe Flex® 3.2 / Adobe AIR™ 1.5 – (PDF)

Part 1: We’re Moving to Flash. Here’s Why
Part 2: Important Differences Between Java and ActionScript 3
Part 3: Beginning the Actual Port
Part 4: Anonymous Classes and the Adapter Pattern
Part 5: Network Communication

And a fair tribute from Adobe to Michael Williams

“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash Player 10 for unprecedented creative control to deliver the most compelling Web applications, interactive content and high quality video to users across multiple browsers and all major operating systems.”

Press Release

Get Flash Player 10

Help files for Adobe Flash CS4 are available and online.

The structure is divided into this main categories:

Flash CS4 Professional
- Using Flash
- ActionScript 3.0 and Components
- ActionScript 2.0 and Components
- Adobe AIR
- Flash Lite
- Extending Flash

Adobe Flash CS4 help files

Via FlashMagazine it is confirmed that Adobe has a team of developers working on a Flash Player version for iPhone.

However one thought may came to everyones head. Is Apple “open” to allow Flash Player for the iPhone?

Tell us what you think using the poll.

Want to have your chance to win a free copy of Flash CS4?

For that you have to attend Adobe Flash 10 Camp during October 10, 11, and 12. The idea is to develop inspiring content and applications using the Flash Professional CS4 authoring tool.

Participants will be able to:

- Learn about new Flash Player features
- Create Flash Player 10 content and applications
- Test and optimize content and applications for Flash Player 10

Q: How about the contest, how can I win?!

A: Adobe staff will have some tickets that will be distributed to some participants according to some points. If during the camp you show some values like contribution, sharing and openness you will receive one of those raffles giving you the chance to win a free copy of Creative Suite 4.

Register for Adobe Flash 10 Camp