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Nice to see Macromedia showcasing how Flash MX can be used to create hightly user-friendly, hard-hitting AND accessible presentations with “Macromedia Executive Presentation” Its a job well done. We get to see a nice clean user interface, good streaming and video in Flash MX, integrated well with clean Flash content. I hope Macromedia will make available an article that goes into detail on how the presentation was done, and the work that was put into making it. It is a good showcase of how to make a good presentation with […]

Studiowiz has had a major overhaul, and the site is fresher than ever. If Keran McKenzie and the other people over at Studiowiz can keep this up, its going to be a great resource to keep going back to! :-) [Via Pnut’s Thoughts]

Its released, the Flash 5 player for Nokia Communicator 9200 series [Via JD on MX] <obligatory rant> Please don’t let it take 2 years to get Flash MX to various cool devices, pretty please? Pretty please with sugar on top? </obligatory rant>

Samuel Wan keeps on cooking on great Flash MX projects. This time its a Fisheye Menu in Flash MX that is up for serving. Sam’s implementation of the fisheye menu extends the original Listbox component that is part of the Macromedia components shipped with Flash MX. I must say I am impressed with the way the whole list menu handles, and with Sam’s references to sources for building it. But I am not so sure I like the usability aspect of it (see the demo). I feel the menu hides

John comments on RSS as a follow up to my posting about Phil’s Flash MX RSS reader. I wish you had comments on your weblog John, or at least that it was possible to reach you by e-mail. Just wanted to point out that while there is a healthy discussion going on about the RSS format, there is actually an RSS standard (RSS 1.0) being used today that supports categories (in RSS 1.0 called subject). Check out my weblog in RSS 1.0 format for an example.

Vectorkid is a cool site with great tutorials on creating vector art in Flash. With tips on how to greate realistic metal, plastic, wood, cloth and much more. I especially like the vector tomato :-) [Via Flashblog]

This is the coolest intergraton of an RSS parser in Flash MX I have seen so far. Phil Chung work as Multimedia Instructor at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He made the RSS reader for his own use, but promise that he probably will make the source for the reader available in the near future. The scrollbars use the FScrollPane component, not the browser scrollbars, so instead of having the Flash movie appear in a small “box”, Phil is letting it take up the entire browser area. It works

The Flash Enabled Book site was made by Steve Leone one of the authors of Flash Enabled, and the designer of the book as well as the web site. BTW: If you want to pick up the book, you can find it here. [Via SwfNews & Flashenabled.com]