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Today Microsoft made the Flash 5 player for Pocket PC available for download. With Flash 5 support for mp3 sound, advanced scripting, and XML is added to the Pocket PC 2002 platform, making it easier to deploy advanced applications on mobile devices running Pocket PC. While its nice that we have finally gotten access to a Flash 5 player for the Pocket PC 2002 platform, its kind of sad that it would take so long for the player to be ported to this fast expanding platform. I hope Macromedia will […]

Mike points out that Macromedia has made available an ActionScript class that will parse the XML feed into a DataProviderClass “which makes it pretty easy to use”, quote Mike Chambers. There is also an example there of how you make sure that you are able to load the XML newsfeed from the Macromedia site, as far as I can tell what he is doing in CFML is a regular redirect from a local domain url to Macromedia’s URL. Since Macromedia isn’t showing the code for PHP, ASP or Perl –

The Flash Enabled book site has been launched. Its all in Flash, and looks great. I miss some sample chapters from the book, but otherwise the site seems to give good insight into what the book covers – giving brief descriptions of each chapter. The site also contains the important extra files to check out while reading the book. You will need the book to get access to the files though. For more on the Flash Enabled book, check out my previous post.

eat orange :: 100% vitamin c Is not about oranges, but rather another Flash blog on the horizon. Thanks to my frequently updated referer logs (still trying to figure out if I should make it available), I spotted this new Radio weblog. Seems like it could become an interesting place, especially with Sean Voisen’s interests: I’ll be posting links to information and tutorials on whatever “new-fangled” technology interests me most at the given time. Right now, this seems to be Macromedia MX technologies, the Jabber XML protocol, and Cocoa/Obj-C. But,

Buraks has released Action Script Viewer 3. The latest version can decompile Macromedia Flash 4, 5 and MX SWF files. I know some of the people in the community would want all information about tools such as this to be secret. Personally I think its important to know how easy it is for people to steal your code, and how unsafe information in an SWF file really is. [Via Flazoom]

Macromedia – Flash Communication Technology With the introduction of the Macromedia MX product family, Macromedia has announced its intention to provide new server solutions for enabling the creation of next-generation communication applications that leverage the Macromedia Flash client. The new communication server technology will unite communication and applications

Another Flash blog, SwfNews: News For Flash Developers. Its Matt Rice that is running it. It seems light – not much information there yet. Dave Winer is linking to it, I think he should have linked to some of the other more meaty Flash blogs too. (No, I am not talking about mine – I am just meta-blogging most of the time).

FlashGuru is back with a new remake of his site – now titled FlashGuru’s MX 101, this time based on Moveable Type (good choice Guy!) I only discovered that it was back today, not sure how long it has been available. He has already posted a lot of interesting news blurbs. The only thing I am missing is a link to the RSS feed. Yeah, I know I tend to nag about the XML RSS feed, but for a good reason, it makes keeping updated a lot easier – I

Phillip Torrone has been hyping the release of the book “Flash Enabled” for a good while now on his site, flashenabled.com. Its a book covering Flash design and development for devices. A field that is bound to grow in the time ahead. Especially with Flash now being able to be the frontend of web services. The book is written by a group of well known Flash community participants. Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers, Branden Hall, Andreas Heim, Craig Kroeger, Steve Leone, Markus Niedermeier, Bill Perry, Fred Sharples, Glenn Thomas and Phillip

Mike Chambers: New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com Mike Chambers has the 411 on all the new Flash MX content released at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center Lots of usefull information there, articles by Branden Hall, Robert Reinhardt, and many more. On subjects ranging from objects, components, embedded video, using timelines to maintain application state, to Flash MX and PHP.