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Book review: Flash CS3 for Dummies

I never had very high thoughts about the 'Whatever for Dummies'-series, but this book has changed my mind. It's actually the best Flash beginners book I've read to date and it's also the first "real" CS3 book as well. Want to know why? Read on.

Book Review: Flash CS3 - The Missing Manual

This is the first book in the Missing Manual series we're reviewing and it is also one of few Flash books written by professional tech writers. Is this a good idea? We were actually sceptical after reading just the third sentence.

Book review: Brilliant Flash CS3 Professional

The first thing that strikes you about this book is that it's FULL colour. Every page. That's 572 pages! And at a fraction of the price of many other books on the market. But is it any good?

Book review: Teach Yourself Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours

This is the latest incarnation of the 'Teach Yourself Flash in 24 Hours' series of books. The author again is Philip Kerman who has helmed the series since it's first outing, teaching Flash 5 back in 2000.

Book review: Essential Actionscript 3.0 (EAS3)

Few Flash books are as anticipated as the ones from Colin Moock, and this one have been in the works for more than 2 years. It's worth the wait and Colin once again proves that his book should be on every developers desk.

Eltima Flash Optimizer

Frankfurt based software developer Eltima have a number of Flash tools for both Mac and PC. Today we're going to take a look at their Flash Optimizer for Mac OS. The two key performance indicators for a an optimsation tool should be its speed of output and the filesize differential, so let's take a look.

Review: Total Training for Flash 8 and Flex 2

Total Training produce video training DVDs for all of the major software vendors. They have courses available for most of the Adobe and Macromedia products. They have just released Total Training for Adobe Flex 2.

ToonBoom StoryBoard review

If you feel that you are reinventing the wheel every time you want to create and share a storyboard, this could be the perfect tool for you.

Flex Builder 2 - Flashmagazine Review

We take a close look at Adobe's new application building software and highlight what's good and bad. Will this be the tool that convinces developers from other camps to finally take the Flash format seriously?

FlashDevelop 2.0

You may have heard of Open Source alternatives to Adobe Flash and thought 'maybe I should try this'. Believe me - you should. FlashDevelop is the best Open Source editor I've seen. It really has it all - it's developed by the Flash community, it's fast, it's free and it will even make you a better coder.