Mike is doing what I wish I had time for, having fun with Flash Communication Server MX. His latest fun was hooking his XBox up against the video in of his machine and sharing his playing with everyone else. Thanks a lot Mike, now I have to go out and get myself a new video card and webcam :-) hehe Mike also writes about his first trials with the Flash Communication Server, sounds like a lot of hard work (not). Could someone tell me where I can buy more hours […]

Scott over at ActionScript.com writes about a petition for Flash by Linux users. This is an old issue, a lot of people have been wanting Flash on Linux for a long while, and Macromedia has been claiming that the development of Flash for Linux just isn’t worth the investment. While they support Linux as a server platform, they claim that there is really not a desktop market on Linux. I have always argued that its a catch 22, as long as companies such as Macromedia refuse to publish their products

Fellow Flashmagazine’er Jens Christian has taken the time between having a nice (rainy) norwegian vacation and writing books to write about what he calls the Video Wars. He boldly states that victory is in the numbers, and that when it comes to the video player wars on the net, Flash MX will be the winner. Interesting to see the comments coming in from other Flashers, John Dowdell writes: I suspect we’ll see people use Flash video in new ways, rather than just head-to-head in the old ways Dave Burrows: the

PowerConverter will let you publish your Powerpoint presentations to Flash. If nothing else, it will make your PowerPoints smaller in file size and more accessible on the web. I would rather have used another tool for making interactive presentation – such as Flash MX, especially since they are charging US $299 for this PowerPoint “plug-in”. [Via John Dowdell] (blogger has broken their permalinks – and its been broken for a while now)

Macromedia published a press release today saying they have signed a technology development and distribution agreement with America Online (AOL). Macromedia Flash Player will continue to be distributed with AOL software and will feature enhanced functionality that will enable AOL members to enjoy a more robust content experience. Its a short press release that has sparked some speculation at SwfNews — notably from someone within Macromedia ;-) The part of the press release that has been emphasized is “improve the quality and user experience of many of our AOL client

The Flash Film Festival 2002 NYC awards have been handed out, and here are the winners, courtesy of Josh Dura

Seems like Smashing Ideas have a very cool XML-blogger screensaver, they showcased it at FlashForward in NYC and fellow flash-blogger Eric Dolecki was there and writes about it on his blog. Glenn Thomas of Smashing Ideas have promised to make the files from FlashForward 2002 accessible at FlashStudioSecrets, expect the files to be up on tuesday. (Thanks Eric for letting me know)

Kenny Bunch has released the BrowserHistory Class for Flash MX, its a cool component when you want to implement back and forward buttons in Flash. Kenny decided to use the SharedObject intance and seem to have come up with a pretty good history solution. And it should work nicely with most browsers supporting Flash.