As many have come to know, Kuler is a great color theme-sharing tool released by Adobe. It started out as a web-based application that enabled users to create, save, and download community-created color themes. This community wave led to the creation of many Kuler tools like: Mac OS X Dashboard widget, Kuler Desktop, and now comes the Kuler Panel.
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Posted on 20 November 2008
Tags: Adobe AIR, AS3, Growl
Mike Chambers reports that the beloved open source Growl notification framework will be able to be leveraged by Adobe AIR applications.
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If you've ever wanted to track your Flash content over the web, then you'd know what a challenge this task entails. In the past, Flash tracking was not provided out of the box, and every implementation had to be customized.
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ASExpander is a JSFL extension created by Keith Peters for Flash CS3/4 that allows you to integrate a ActionScript snippet functionality into your existing work flow. ASExpander allows you to store your existing or new ActionScript code snippets into an external file and then map it to a command of your liking.
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The latest popular ActionScript 3.0 tween engine, gTween, has been updated and released. gTween beta 3 looks to add support for 3D rotation with smartRotation, rotating in the shortest direction, along with many bugs fixes.
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Grant Skinner continues to keep himself pretty busy as he announces the creation of gtween,a new tweening engine for AS3 developers. Unlike many of the tweening engines availables to AS3 developers, this new tweening engine comes equipped with an impresive set of features.
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Posted on 02 October 2008
Tags: Adobe AIR, Book
Adobe AIR Bible promises to be a well rounded book on the topic of developing AIR using Flash, Flex, and JavaScript. The AIR Bible will get developers up and running building simple AIR application, then take them through all aspects of the new API.
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Steven sacks just posted custom class that creates an Apple style preloader. It's a simple class that uses the Flash Drawing API which makes it light and efficient.
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Posted on 08 September 2008
Tags: AS3, SimpleAS3
SimpleAS3 offers a fresh approach to Flash scripting that helps regular users create interactive experiences with less code than standard AS3.
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FlashEff is a Flash CS3 AS3 component (by JumpeyeComponents) created for easing the animation process. It is also a collection of over 100 patterns that enable cool animations and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be used/customized from both, the visual interface and API.
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