Let your creativity run wild with Adobe’s new line of touch apps! 
Check out this commercial-esque video showcasing Adobe’s line of touch apps and its integration with the new Adobe Creative Cloud.

Further Readings

• Adobe: We’ve got the Touch for tablets
• Adobe reveals Creative Cloud, links Touch Apps to Creative Suite with 20GB storage
• Adobe announces six Touch tablet apps

It is always great to nice to witness a small idea turn into something so much bigger.  Check out this video by the Flash Player team on how MoleHill (Stage3D) came about. Enjoy!

What is “Molehill”?

“Molehill” is the codename for a new set of low-level, GPU-accelerated 3D APIs, Stage3D APIs, that will provide the power needed for delivering advanced 3D experiences across screens using Flash Player and AIR. These new low-level APIs are targeted to experienced 2D and 3D engine developers, delivering a flexible API that leverages GPU hardware acceleration for significant performance gains.

Detecting the shake of a device can be used for gaming or for simply clearing form fields in a Flash app. In this video by Paul Trani, learn how to easily do just that.

Now that some of the Flash Catalyst hype has died down some, this demo is sure to get some of its potential fans pretty excited all over again.  Here is Kevin Lynch’s Keynote from the Web 2.0 conference where he shows how to build a full application using Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, Flex Builder, Flex and the Facebook ActionScript 3 API.

I know Flash Catalyst was meant to bring life to static comps with extreme ease, but WOW it looks like it is bringing a whole new level to “ease of use”.  Hmmmm…I just wonder what that code looks like!   Enjoy the video!

With all the recent developments with 3rd party libraries being supported in AS3, I am still shocked to see people still asking the question “Why ActionScript 3.0?”.  I simply do not get it as AS3 presents so many more pros than cons.

It is almost as if ActionScript 3.0 is the monster in the closet that some people would rather just avoid then confront.   For those who have migrated over, we have found out that it is not the infamous monster in the closet.  Instead, it turned out to be a hanging sweater casting a monstrous shadow.

For those still asking themselves the question of  “Why ActionScript 3.0?”, check out this parody video on the topic.  Cracks me up every time!

Last week’s announcement of Adobe’s releasing of the new AS3 Facebook API definitely brought upon a cheerful buzz within the Flash/Flex community. So, now that there is a new look to the AS3 Facebook API, I am sure many of you would like to take a deeper look into how you can take advantage of this new library in your Flash/Flex projects.

In this video, Daniel Dura shows you how to use Flex Builder to develop your first Flash application on the Facebook Platform using the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API.  The video is about 12 minutes long and if you’ve got the time you should definitely check it out.

Has Flash’s ActionScript editor driven you into complete madness yet? If so, check out this hilarious video parody.

Lee Brimelow, Flash Platform evangelist,  has made his keynote from FlashCamp available.  The video delivers an overall explaination on all the major new feature upgrades within Flash CS4. Enjoy!

Flash CS4 Features explained in video:

• Advanced Text Engine
• Visual Performace
• New Drawing API
• Dynamic Sound Generation
• Local File Access
• Multi-bitrate Video Streaming
• Pixel Bender
• Better Flex Integration
• New Project Panel
• Kuler Panel
• Motion Presets