Kevin Goldsmith posted some cool experiments at his blog using Pixel Bender toolkit. Visit Kevin Goldsmith blog and enjoy these nice applications.

DevelopE real-time collaboration applications by not only providing superior user experience but also reducing cost for operators.

With Adobe Stratus you can build:

* A video chat application
* Multi-player games
* Voice Over IP

Know More at Adobe Labs

XMP is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. This is an open technology based on RDF and RDF/XML. With this new library you can read existing XMP metadata from Flash based file formats via the Adobe Flash Player.

Download the XMP Library for ActionScript or watch an example at Gunar Penikis blog.

Andrew Muller presented a clear article about Flash and how it developed to current days. He will talk about the new Flash Platform, RIA’s and how to develop RIA’s with Flash.

At the end of the article you will have a small quiz where you may get a chance to win a print version of “The Adobe Flash Platform ActionScript Reference for Rich Internet Application Development ”

You can find the full article at SitePoint.com

“Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the integration of the Adobe® Flash® Platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television (DTV) and set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms. The collaboration paves the way for rich Flash based entertainment experiences on televisions that offer viewers new options for accessing Web content on their TVs.”

Press Release (PDF)

Issue 1 2009, available only at United States for the moment. Would be great if we could buy it from Europe directly at magazine’s website.

In this issue:

* Flash CS4 New Features…
* What to expect with Flash 10′s “Astro”…
* SpicyNodes – New Technology for Better Navigation in the Information Sea…
* Introducing the XMLLoader Class…
* Will You Flex?…
* Getting Started with Google Maps in Flash…
* Visualizing GeoSpatial Data using Vector Maps…
* Socialbloom A Look At Flex Data Driven Applications…
* In bed with Flash and HTML: Embedding Flash content with SWFObject 2…
* Increasing Flash and Flex Search Engine Optimization…
* Flex Application Accessing Microsoft Analysis Services to Retrieve OLAP Cube Data…
* Contextual Awareness Parsing the Stack Trace…
* Weather Flash Plus…
* XML-based Photo Gallery & Slideshow…
* How to Develop Flash Games for the Nintendo Wii…

And More…

Lee Brimelow has created a Flash Video Player to use at his brand new website Flasher Magazine. The fla for the player is available to download and you can get it here at Lee Brimelow blog.

” 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)