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What is Adobe thinking? Have they decided that americans are poor and europeans are filthy ritch, and that a product should cost twice as much in Europe as it does in the US? It appears so. Flashmagazine.com has this story: CS3 international pricing insane showing the disgusting mugging of european customers by Adobe. There is a petition going on, so if you are also disgusted by the price policy of Adobe – then you should really take a minute to sign the petition!

Flashmagazine.com has a first look at what is to come in the new Flash CS3. Flash CS3 Preview – Flashmagazine Although this is the third iteration of Adobes Creative Suite, for many of us, this is the first true test of the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe a year and half ago. And based on what we have had a chance to see, it appears the first thing on the agenda was integration. Among the enhancements: Better performance for the new virtal machine and ActionScript 3, better integration with the

Jensa of Flashmagazine fame has finally gone to the “bold” step of setting up his own blog: Flashgamer This is what Jensa has to say about his new blog: Flashgamer won’t be a blog about me, but rather about some of my hobbies. I’ll post cool Flash Games that I find, personal opinions and small reviews on various games I play and maybe some Flash code snippets / rants. We’ll see. If you are intersted in Flash and game making then you should really pay attention to Jensas Flashgamer blog!

Flash 8 has been released. With improved scripting, improved font handling, improved video codec courtesy of On2 technologies VP6 codec. and a lot more that you can read about in Flashmagazines Flash 8 coverage

Todd (What Do I Know) has done a lot of work on his open source Flash slideshow since I reported on it 1/2 a year ago. It has been released in a “regular version”, and is to be released as a “pro” version with more capabilities soon. Lets hear what Todd has to say about it: SlideShow on the Way I rebuilt the original code as an ActionScript 2 class, and compiled a drag-and-drop component named (originally) SlideShow. It has all the features of the first version: dynamic image loading,

This was a nice discovery today. A Flash gallery application, the SimpleViewer is free (as in beer (not sure about the license)). Together with the free (as in open source) .redSPLASH PHP administration interface you can run multiple galleries and administrate them easily. [Via My Canon 10D and me]

Flashmagazine – MMUG UK May 2004 The London Macromedia User Group has an enviable track record of attracting world class speakers. In the last year alone Lucas and Aral have managed to present Ben Forta, Tim O’Reilly and FlashMagazine columnists Steve and Ali from iteration:two. This trend continued last night with a formidable double bill of Grant Skinner from Canada and Mike Chambers, Macromedia’s Technical Product Manager for Flash. Nice article by Flashmagazine’s John Dalziel. Read it and you will know what Macromedia wants you to know about the future