A new resource has been made available at Macromedia.com today, the Mobile Development Center is packed full of valuable content for anyone wanting to develope content for mobile devices, its very comprehensive - even to the point of offering information about solutions not directly tied into the Macromedia product line.

Here is a rundown of the articles available:

• Mobile Development Center
• JD's Forum : Why you should care about devices : John Dowdell
• Logged In : The Future of Flash on Devices : Top Developers
• Selling Macromedia Flash Device Content to Clients : Phillip Torrone
• Flash Enabled : Flash Design and Development for Devices Chapter 5 : Understanding the Flash Application Development Workflow
• Macromedia MX Featured Community Site : PocketPCFlash.net
• Nokia Communicator, a Silver Brick of Gold : Glenn Thomas
• Developing for the Nokia 9200 Communicator : Chris Pelsor
• Creating Full-featured Macromedia Flash Apps for Pocket PC : Anthony Armenta
• Getting Started with Macromedia Flash on Pocket PC : Bill Perry
• Creating Apps for "Sometimes-connected" Devices : Mike Krisher

[Via Mike Chambers]

PAVLOV Lab'Dog is a funny Flash cartoon about a.... (drum roll) lab dog. I thought it was really funny, and can't wait till the guys at Cromozone (out of Belgium) comes up with more experiments!

[Via Valyard.ru]

Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil.

In all dominant browsers, using the <a target="_blank"> tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button. The new window does not retain the browser history of the previous window, so the "Back" button is disabled. This is incredibly confusing, even for me, and I've been using the web for 10 years

My personal reason for not using _blank tages on my weblog is that I think it should be up to you - as the reader - when you want a new browser window to open.

Here is a little tip for you if you want to open new windows (I do this all the time myself when I want to look at something and go back to where I was by closing the window I opened):

Hold down the shift key while you click on the link (for Internet Exlorer and Opera - for Mozilla, hold down the control key while clicking the link) , that will make your browser open the link you click in a new window.

Hollowcube.com is Michael Gunn's weblog with news from the Flash scene, and some interesting projects. Michael's latest project is a Cell phone messaging system made in Perl with a Flash frontend.

Denim is a really wicked cool project that the Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkley have been working on. I'll be a little lazy and quote Branden from his posting (Its late here, ok? ;-):

Denim is a pen-based Java application that you use to design working prototypes of web sites that consist entirely of sketches. You just sketch out the pages, draw lines between them, and they work!

It is based on a SATIN, a toolkit that they developed for making pen-based applications in Java. Very cool stuff, be sure to check it out.

[Via Branden Hall]

This is a flash animation follow-up of the Apple Switch campaign. I thought it was hillarious: macboy.com: Switch Gates

[Via Josh Cooper]