Adobe has just announced that they are teaming up with search industry leaders, Google and Yahoo, to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications. This new search engine solution is essentially a special version of the Flash Player which enhances search engine indexing of the SWF file format.
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Last week I mentioned of a very innovative Adobe AIR application called AIR iPhone. AIR iPhone basically simulates the user interface of the iPhone. It has the capabilities to make calls, receive calls, check voicemail, add contacts and even send voice messages, all using Ribbit.
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If you're even a just little bit excited about AS3, then you need to leave right now and head over to Grant Skinner's generously donated slide deck from his Introductory AS3 Workshop. Grant's slide deck includes 165 slides and they are filled with useful code snippets.
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Create a loading spinner within Flex with this neat tool called loading spinner. Loading spinner is a Flex component similar to the many "spinner.gif" that are used on Web 2.0 pages.
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Adobe just released SwitchBoard in Adobe Labs which is aiming its potential in that direction. Adobe technology code named SwitchBoard allows AIR applications to communicate with applications in the Adobe Creative Suite.
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Imagine, a fully-functional iPhone on your desktop that enables users to make calls, take calls and capture voice messages on their computer. Well, now most of that can now be achieved. Joe Johnston has created the AIR iPhone, a desktop application created with Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3.
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FX Video is an open source video player built with Flex. The FX Video control lets you play an FLV file in a Flex application. It also supports progressive download over HTTP, streaming from the Flash Media Server, and streaming from a Camera object.
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Here are 31 different sets of Flash fullscreen backgrounds. These Flash fullscreen backgrounds are resizable and of high quality available at Flashden.net. Also, take note that many of fullscreen backgrounds listed are Flash animated backgrounds.
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The visualization component displays sound spectrum data in a variety of graphical formats and supports the use of bitmap effects without requiring changes to the component class itself. It draws dynamically based on size and keeps memory consumption to a minimum.
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In a previous post, I introduced a new MXML component called ImageRail created by Andrei Ionescu of FLEX{er}. Andrei has added updated it to add some new features that were considered missing.
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