FlashGuru takes up the issue with the buggy Show Streaming feature in Flash MX. The Show Streaming Option gives you information about loading speed on different bandwidths, with Flash MX you can now export your SWFs using GZLib compression, but the Show Streaming option doesn’t take that into concideration when showing you download times. There are some interesting comments following the article.

Got an e-mail from Phil today, where he told me that he has updated his Flash RSS Reader again. This time around its the very neat code to implement the mouse wheel scroller with Flash that has been added. The only problem with it is that it only works with IE 6.0. Let me quote from his e-mail where he tells me about his Flash RSS Reader updates: The most important is the implementation of the mouse scroll wheel control for the scrollbars in IE6. […] I’ve also written a

John Dowdell writes about Flash and “eye-catching” ads. He is talking about those highly animated banners taking all your attention away from your real task. when I’m reading an article I don’t want stuff exploding and shaking and whirring in other parts of the page. John asks for a good solution. A utility for stopping all SWFs will probably be included in the ad-killers that are available today. I can understand why John don’t want to see that happen for Flash. I have to wonder why Macromedia hasn’t thought about

This is one of the things happening last week that I managed to not tell you guys about. Don’t ask me why. Branden has released code for SHA1 Secure Hash for Flash MX So what is SHA1? I’ll steal one of Branden’s comments: It is a checksum on steroids, and here’s how that’s good: I want to validate against the server, but I don’t want to send the actual password accross. So, what I do is contact the server and ask for a random value. The server then records down

Branden Hall writes about the problems that can arrise when dealing with bitmaps and images in Flash, and has a couple of solutions it might be worth looking into: Tiny Bitmaps – Big Problems

Its probably safer to link to these Goddesses of Flash, than to try to ignore them *g*. So thats what I decided to do. Flash Goddess is a new web site dedicated to women working with Flash. Ann-Marie Cheung wanted to highlight that this is not just a male business and the quest is on to “discover where all the Flash Goddesses are hiding. Of course anyone up on their Flash would have heard of Jessica Spiegel (Webstyles.net, We’re-Here Forums) or Irene Chan (Eneri.net), but there must surely be more…”