Flash Magazine

Create the Earth and heavens in less than an hour with Away3D

3D is one of the many cool things made possible with Flash Player 9 and the super fast Virtual Machine. This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic looking interactive earth, complete with a sun and a starlit sky. Scared? Don't be - it's easy with Away3D!

Welcome back M/AXNA!

MXNA is back online, but the last traces of Macromedia disappeared in the process

Open Screen Project - Adobe opens even more

Today, Adobe skips all licensing fees for devices and opens up the SWF and FLV specs for anyone to create devices supporting Flash. According to Dave McAllister of Adobe, the goal is to create a consistent experience across all devices and they're not afraid this will cause player fragmentation.

Sony Ericsson to extend Flash Lite capabilities

SonyEricsson has lagged behind other phone vendors in terms of Flash support, but today they announced 'Project Capuchin' - a plan to Flash-enable most of their phones. By creating a bridge between Flash and the Java based phone API, Flash developers should be able to access all the phone features including bluetooth, motion sensors, payment and more using a new SWF2JAR packaging tool.

Flex Builder 3 Review

This is a review that is kind of odd to write. I've been using Flex Builder 3 for such a long time that I'm now having a hard time remembering how Flex Builder 2 was. It's strange how public betas and the new open policy at Adobe changed this. The Flex 3 release offers nothing new in terms of Flash Player features but the new IDE, an expanded SDK and authoring for the AIR runtime is definitely worth the upgrade.

MXNA improvements (updated)

The Adobe community aggregator MXNA as well as a number of Adobe blogs on the same server has been down for some hours now. That's nothing new to it's users, but this time it seems like a planned move.

3D image wall component

Have you seen the PicLens browser plugin? It takes browsing images to a brand new level and now you can do this easily in Flash as well. It's been a while since we've checked out component vendor Flashloaded. Their 3D wall component for Flash is a seriously cool way to browse and display images.

FITC award winners

Want some inspiration? Check out this years FITC Award winners announced yesterday.

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques

Robert Reinhardt is a definitive Flash veteran. His Flash Bible book series is one of the standard books on Flash that cover every aspect of it. Video is one of Robs favorite subjects and it shines though in this highly specialized book.

FOTB08 - 22 weeks, 6 days, 23 hrs and just a few tickets left

Yesterday eve John Davey started the tickets sales for this years Flash on The Beach, an event that in just two years have become next to legendary. If you want to get your early bird ticket, you may want to act fast for this year is bound to be sold out sooner than last year - the first hundred tickets are gone already!