Flash Magazine

Updated Flash Player 10 Beta on Labs

Adobe just uploaded an updated version of Flash Player 10 Beta on their Labs site. The new version contains several fixes as well as a new command - the unloadAndStop is a brilliant addition to the API!

SWFs to become fully searchable

Today, Adobe announces a new search engine solution, a special Flash Player that runs on the server to provide Search Engines a "real" look at what's inside your Flash and Flex files, including any dynamic data it pulls in. We talked to Justin Everett-Church from Adobe to get to know more.

RIAJobs.org launched

This evening, Peter Elst officially launched a new pet project, a site offering job listings for the entire RIA community. It's free to use and covers not only Flash and Flex, but also other technologies such as AIR, AJAX, Gears, JavaFX, Silverlight as well as Web 2.0 in general.

CS3.3 available

About a month ago, Adobe announced a paid upgrade to Creative Suite 3. Today they announced the immediate availability of Adobe CS 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions. Do you need it? Probably not.

Mike Chambers interview Part 2 - about AIR

Mike and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) goes way back. About 5 years ago, Mike worked on the Macromedia Central project. It was short lived, but the lessons learned went into what is now known as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). In Stockholm, we talked about the history and future for AIR.

Mike Chambers interview Part 1 - about Mike, Macromedia and Adobe

At the OnAIR event in Stockholm, we grabbed the tour host Mike Chambers for an informal chat about him, how he joined Macromedia, the Adobe merger and corporate culture in the two companies. After switching to Adobe, Mike has taken on new roles and titles and we caught up with him at the Munchen-Brewery in Stockholm.

flXHR and flensed tools

flXHR is a new solution to eliminate cross browser issues by handling the XMLHttpRequests using Flash and then return the result to your favorite JS framework. Flash is omnipresent and it's powerful. Why not tap into the power of Flash - even when you're doing Javascript? That way there's less to download and you can even load data across domains?

WebDU 2008 - Day 2

The second day at WebDU came with beautiful weather. The about 330 attendees was treated to a fun keynote by Tim Buntel and a series of more advanced sessions than the day before.

WebDU 2008 - Day 1

In a foggy Sydney, WebDU kicked off in classic fashion with brand new set of hilarious animations from Nectarine poking fun at the speakers, Adobe, Microsoft and the web community at large. After this, Mike Downey took stage to present the Adobe Keynote where he showed Flash CS4 publicly for the first time.

Flash CS4 sneak peek pictures (updated)

At the WebDU conference in Sydney, attendees got a sneak peek of the new Flash CS4 IDE and we`ve got pictures for you. A brand new property inspector and timeline will change how you work with Flash.