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Sean Voisen of Eat Orange has released Eat Orange Blogchat Version 1.0. The Flash based Jabber application is made with his Flash JabberConf API (see previous posting). He has also made available the source code needed to make your own Flash frontend for Jabber, you will need to set up a Jabber server to run chats on your own domain.

Coolin Moock’s ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is the best ActionScript book you can find out there, and now Colin has announced that he will be making ActionScript: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, the mini-site includes a FAQ that should answer most of your questions about the book project, including: When will asdg2 be available? As usual, I indent not to rush the book. O’Reilly and I prefer to publish books that add a lot of value, not merely rehash the Macromedia documentation. This requires an incredible amount of research, testing,

Optimaze! is a Flash vector optimization/compression program that most of you might not have heard of. The developers of Optimaze, the UK based Ideaworks3D, first showcased their technology at the FlashForward 2001 New York City, they knocked everyones socks off with their compression technology and have been promising to release their excellent program ever since then. When I was attending FlashForward 2002 in San Francisco I again got to see their product taken to the next level. This time not only doing amazing compression but also adding vector effects to

Mario (Quasimondo) keep on producing cool projects, this time around its the Flash Connection v1.0 that has been released. Mario writes: [It] tries to visualize the ties between the flash-related sites that I currently link to. My rough crawler could of course only read HTML so pure flash sites will probably show no outgoing links. At the moment the information gets served by a static XML file, but in the future I try to make it fully dynamic (perhaps it is even a better idea to crawl RSS feeds). I

A new cool resource for anyone using any of Macromedia’s MX products for developing or designing web and multimedia content: Designer & Developer : Tips Library Its nice to see Macromedia coming along with a more interactive resource center. At the Tips Library you can contribute with your own tips, to quote Macromedia; «ways of saving time, checking quality, or making your site something “special”»

Macromedia has released a developer beta of a new Flash 6 player, codenamed Airwolf. The list of bug fixes and extra features in the player is actually quite impressive. The Flash 6 build r39 beta can be downloaded from Macromedia.com. Mike Chambers have been nice enough to provide a username and password: Username : betabits Password : flex475 New features / fixes include: Masking Device Fonts Accessing ID3 properties in MP3 files with the Airwolf Player Flash scriptability (XPCom/LiveConnect) support for Netscape Text fields are now more efficient and consume

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

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.