Flash Magazine

Flash: Disambiguation

After almost 10 years of working with Flash, I sometimes make the mistake of assuming that everyone knows what Flash is. Most people can't succinctly define it - they have their perceptions, but it's vague. Maybe you're someone that can define it. Kudos to you, but ask your spouse, friends, or family. They may even know you as someone that "does Flash stuff." But ask them what Flash is and you get partial answers at best.

Successful Flash exploit in the wild

Today, Adobe was alerted to what could be one of the first successful exploits of the Flash Player. All users are urged to update their Flash Player to the latest version immediately. The exploit is using a known vulnerability and all Flash Players except for the latest version are a target.

Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth CS4

Today, Adobe put out more beta software for you to test on their Labs site. We have not tried the new Dreamweaver yet, but maybe the new Live View feature can make us use FireBug less?

Turbine Video Engine SDK 4

Blue Pacific recently announced a new version of their video encoding SDK that can be used to build custom video encoding workflows. Simple, affordable licensing and H.264 support are highlights of this release.

Nonoba Multiplayer API, free managed hosting and $20.000 to win

Making Flash games? Want to make them multiplayer? Nonoba is a new hosting service that offers an AS2/AS3 API for developing multiplayer games, complete with multiplayer control, lobby and chat, highscores, statistics and tracking, player ranking and achievements, persistent user data and more. Best of all - it's free to use and hosting is included.

Community conference update

Want to learn more about Flash? A community conference is the place to go. There you'll meet new people and techniques, get inspired and meet both potential clients and employers. Right now, the German Flashforum conference is in progress, FlashBelt in Minneapolis is just two weeks off, WebDu is right after that and FlashForward just opened registration.

Official Flash Player 10 docs

Lee Brimelow just pointed out that silently, Adobe have posted the language documentation detailing the new AS3 features.

Detailed list of new Flash Player 10 features

Want to know exactly what is new in Flash Player 10? Through looking at the latest SWC, "zazzo9" has posted a full list of what new things Flash Player 10 is capable of. This list is a goldmine for anyone experimenting with the new player. The list contains new events such as exit_frame and frame_contructed as well as a host of 3D features.

Get your game on with Flash Player 10!

All we can say is the future for online games look bright! The Alternativa 3D engine screams now that it's been ported to Flash Player 10. Even at a 1920 by 1200 pixel resolution, we're getting 20-30 frames per second! A first person shooter running in a browser with this quality is just unheard of!

Getting started with Flash Player 10

Yesterday, Lee Brimelow posted a great video tutorial showing how to get started playing with Flash Player 10, Hank Williams has some clever thoughts on the new Peer to Peer functionality and Peter Elst sums up The recent Adobe Community Summit.