Macromedia has released the Flash Communication Server MX and they already have up an impressive development center for the server. This new server from Macromedia sports multiway audio and video streaming and messaging, making it ideal to be in the center of collaboration systems and multimedia delivery. Macromedia has only released it for Windows so far, but there are versions for Linux and Sun in the lineup. We have some screenshots up at Flashmagazine.com of the development part of the communication server, and there will be more articles made available […]

Toast.com offers a Flash based GUI for their free e-mail service. It looks good, and I am sure it will appeal to those that think Hotmail and friends look too damn ugly. But the usability of this e-mail Flash application could have used a real workover. First of all, why not use some common GUI idioms instead of making up their own GUI? This kind of application is most certianly not going to become the primary application for any of the users (ok, I take that back — there might

Interesting article by Gary Rosenzweig about how to protect your Flash and Shockwave content from thieves, he has some good suggestions, but I think John is right when he says that its probably better to make a theft-protection system that only fails once in a while – that way its harder to catch for the thiefs. [Via John Dowdell] (Welcome back from the accordion vacation John :-)

Macromedia has added the Macromedia Application Development Center for ASP.NET to their list of resources for people wanting to use Macromedia Flash MX and DreamWeaver MX together with ASP.NET technology. So if you are developing solutions based on Microsofts ASP.NET, you now have a lot of useful information available at Macromedia.com. If, on the other hand, you are a Java developer, you should check out the Macromedia Java Development Center. [Via Mike Chambers]

Thought I would link to a couple of new articles posted at Flashmagazine.com. David Vogeleer has written a nice follow-up tutorial on arrays: The Power of Arrays II – You can also read his first tutorial “The Power of Arrays – Array Fundamentals” Stephanie Reindel of Flash99good has written an article titled “We’ve Got Flash – The Ominous Wow Factor and Its Adverse Affect on Usability” As you might have discovered, Flashmagazine.com hasn’t only been redesigned, it has also woke up from the sleep that it has been in more

Flashmagazine released the ‘beta’ of their new site today, Flash has been substituted with HTML in the implementation of the site. Even with Flash MX the text flow options just wasn’t there to make it possible to make a good publishing system for the site. Sad really, since the site was one of the few examples of a content site implemented in Flash. Even though Flash is no longer the format in which the site is published, the main topic is still going to be Flash and vector graphics and

Seems like Samuel Wan also had some extra time for experimentation yesterday, he has posted a lot of interesting projects today: Local Connection is the tool for getting rid of all those pesky fscommands headackes in Mac IE and Netscape. Sam has made available source code and a demo, and links to more information about local connection. I’ll let Sam introduce it: Local Connection kicks ass, and totally relieves the headache of fscommands in netscape, mac IE, and other broken browser platforms. I’ve created very short demo file which shows

Branden used the holiday (4th of july) to do some research on shared fonts, the result can be seen today in his Shared Fonts Redux article. This is very useful information for anyone wanting to deal with shared fonts in Flash. Could someone make sure that Branden gets some more vacation time please? *g* Here is what Branden writes about it: I spent a good chunk of time during the holiday yesterday taking another look at shared fonts. That research has resulted in a lot of information on exactly how