“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a strategic relationship with CCTV International Networks Co., Ltd.(CCTV.com) to deliver the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ coverage through the Web. The coverage will be delivered to millions of sports fans in mainland China and Macau through the “Olympic Network TV Station”, CCTV.com’s next-generation online experience based on Adobe® Flash® and Flex® technology. CCTV.com owns the online video rights to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for mainland China and Macau. With thousands of hours of competition video available on CCTVOlympics.com , the Olympic Network TV Station will allow sports fans to view the Olympic sports, athletes and country teams of their choice.”

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Articles this issue

- Featured video: Adobe MAX 2008
- Learn to build your first desktop application with Adobe Flex 3
- Under the hood with Adobe Flash Player 10 beta
- The edge of Flash
- NASDAQ uses Flex and Adobe AIR to deliver market replay app
- Create custom components for your Flex application
- The art of the open-source license
- Adobe AIR tutorial for Flash developers

pacman

I believe most of you already have heard of Mame. The Arcade emulator which allow you to play all those cool games in your PC.

Well, there’s a Korean Flash/Flex developer http://yvern.com/blog who created a emulator with Flash allowing you to play those games in the browser. The current version does not allow to have sound but the developer is expecting to change that after FP10 (maybe).

In the meanwhile take a look at this fantastic application at http://yvern.com/fMAME/fMAME.html

Via FlashMagazine

3d grid gallery

Flashmo.com offers everyone another great looking gallery. Using 3D has navigation system this gallery allows you to create a nice eye looking effect to impress your friends and clients.

A always this movie is available for free and you are allowed to download all the source files, FLA included.

Enjoy!

haxe

New release include:

* haXe/PHP support
* new haxe.remoting implementation
* crossplatform I/O and Bytes support
* optional parameters default value
* … and much more

Download Haxe 2.0 from http://haxe.org. Read about all the changes that were made on http://haxe.org/doc/advanced/haxe2

charts

Charts were updated to AS3.0 and compiled with Adobe Flex. From now on you are able to make any change.

Download and read more about Open Flash Chart 2 Alpha 8

- Charge #1: The Removal of on()/onClipEvent() from Flash CS3 Makes Creating Simple Interactivity Hard
- Charge #2: Getting Rid of Loaded .swf Files Is Hard
- Charge #3: Casting DisplayObject.parent Makes Controlling Parent Movie Clips Hard
- Charge #4: The Removal of getURL() Makes Linking Hard
- Charge #5: The Removal of loadMovie() Makes Loading .swf Files and Images Hard
- Charge #6: ActionScript 3.0’s Additional Errors Make Coding Cumbersome
- Charge #7: Referring to Library Symbols Dynamically Is Unintuitive
- Charge #8: Adding Custom Functionality to Manually Created Text Fields, to All Movie Clips, or to All Buttons Is Cumbersome
- Charge #9: The Removal of duplicateMovieClip() Makes Cloning a MovieClip Instance (Really) Hard

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