Free Flash FLV Video Player - AS3
Someone asked for a new video player.
This is a simplified version that I use on a number of my projects.
Hope you guys like it and use it.
Flash Friday - 3D Trails, Flash Blackholes, Pixel Bender Watercolor and Much More
10 Less-Known Yet Powerful ActionScript Libraries / Classes
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/10-less-known-yet-powerful-actionscript-libraries-classes/#comment-38197
Cool Pixel Bender Experiments
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/02/cool_pixel_bend.html
Water Color with Pixel Bender
http://www.derschmale.com/2009/02/16/flash-watercolour-simulation-using-pixelbender/
Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm microarchitecture – Part 1: Introducing Cairngorm
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/cairngorm_pt1.html
3D Trails with Papervison
http://blog.zupko.info/?p=264
Seb’s Blackhole in Flash
http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?p=383
Away3D Smooth Transitions
http://www.closier.nl/blog/?p=83
Flash Friday - 3D, Flex and Video Tutorials
Papervision 3D Roundup
http://flashenabledblog.com/2009/02/19/tutorials-papervision-3d-roundup/
Creating PicLens with Flex and Away3D
http://flashenabledblog.com/2009/02/17/tutorials-creating-a-piclens-web-application-with-flex-and-away-3d/
Car simulation with Maya & Papervision3d
http://www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/13/car-simulation-with-maya-papervision3d/
Google Calendar Lib
http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/documentation-for-as3googlecalendarlib/
Flex OpenID Login Component
http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.02.17.html
Making Things Walk in Flash 3D
http://www.everydayflash.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/09/making-things-walk-in-flash-3d/
Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/20/1525233&from=rss
What is the F4V Format For?
http://theflashblog.com/?p=748
Some Fantastic Video Tutorials
http://tv.adobe.com/#ch+MAX
Google Maps API for Flex
http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/02/18/intro-to-google-maps-api-for-flex/
Top Flash/Flex Developers To Follow On Twitter
Wanna get the inside scoop on what is happening in Flash and Flex and get in contact with some of the innovators in this expertise. Just follow these people and you on your way.
@leebrimelow - Lee Brimelow from TheFlashBlog.com and GotoAndLearn.com
@ryanstewart - Ryan Stewart from RyanStewart.com
@bigspaceship - Michael Lebowitz from Big Spaceship
@mesh - Mike Chambers from MikeChambers
@peterelst - Peter Elst from PeterElst.com
@mrdoob - Mr.doob from MrDoob.com
@adobeted - Ted Patrick from TedOnFlash
@gskinner - Grant Skinner from GSkinner.com
@pixelbender - Adobe Pixel Bender from Adobe.com
Click the person’s name to go to their Twitter page to follow them.
If you have any suggestions for others, leave a comment to who you think should be on this list.
Top Flash Links For This Week
3D vs 3D
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2009/02/12/3s-vs-3d/
Away3D 2.3 Is Out – Check out these demos
http://away3d.com/away3d-23-feature-overload
TubeLoc (a mashup of YouTube and LocalConnection) is an ActionScript 3 library that serves as an adapter to the YouTube ActionScript 2 Player API.
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/articles/tubeloc.html
Lita - SQLite Administration Tool (AIR)
http://www.dehats.com/drupal/?q=node/58
wonderfl online compiler, code snippets, ActionScript – Crazy cool
http://wonderfl.kayac.com/
NY Times Article Search API
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/announcing-the-timestags-api/
GTweenTimeline
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2009/02/gtweentimeline.html
Papervision Primitives
http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/23-papervision3d-primitives-17-new-ones/
Intro to Flex – Part 2
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=100
New WiiFlash Demos
http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/?p=178
PixelBender Camera Experiment
http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/feedback.php
AS Language Reference in an AIR app
http://www.airdoc.be/
GTween Beta 5 released
http://www.gskinner.com/libraries/gtween/#download
Standalone Flash/Flex/AIR debugger
http://www.monsterdebugger.com/
New 3DSMax XML Exporter & PV3D XML Primitive
http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/new-3dsmax-xml-exporter-pv3d-xml-primivtive/
Flash CS4 Spherical Panorama (animating uvtData)
http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/flash-cs4-spherical-panorama-animating-uvtdata/
Working with the FLARToolkit – Augmented Reality
http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2009/02/03/seb-and-his-magic-particles/
Another FLARToolkit Demo
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/02/awesome-flash-demo-from-japan/
Gtweeny – Lightweight Gtween
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2009/02/gtweeny_lightwe.html
Latest Rumors About Flash and iPhone
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1948
AIR, Away3D, Flash, Flex, papervision
Free MP3 Search Engine - Flex Seeqpod
This is just a quick and dirty example of a MP3 search engine. This searches Seeqpod and then brings the results back. Most of all it lets you download the MP3 straight from page. I tried to get some other search engines like Mooza, but they were way too slow. I would love some suggestions of sources and any other functionality you guys can think of. Anyways download the source and check out the demo and enjoy.
MP3 Search Engine (636)Enjoy!
Free MP3 XML Playlist Player
If you haven’t seen Viewzi, go check it out right now. Its a great way to view your search results. My favorite view is the “song view” made by Joshua Sterns. Well I saw this and thought everyone should have a beautiful and easy to use interface like that for their own content. So I made one and am now releasing it to you. Its very simple and it resizes to fit almost any size. Make it full screen or make it part of a page. All you have to do is make a playlist that is structed like this:
<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<playlist>
<song title=”Chocobo Piano Loop” artist=”DJ_XBrav” src=”mp3s/NG5402.mp3″ />
<song title=”House Of Kalm” artist=”ProfitZ” src=”mp3s/NG7890.mp3″ />
</playlist>
And pass it in through the Flashvars through the HTML. Here is an example of that code:
<param name="flashvars" value="xmlpath=mp3_playlist.xml" />
Still not sure how to do it then check out the example and view the source of the page. You can also download the source below and change it as much as you want.
Enjoy!
Free 3D XML Website
So this is a very basic 3D XML Website with absolutely no design skills put into it, just an example to get started on 3D in Flash. I know there is 3D in Flash CS4, but many people don’t even have CS4 yet. So this version is for them, the beginners with CS3. This reads from an xml where it loads an image for each item you put in the XML, when the menu item is clicked it loads the SWF content specified for that node in the XML.
Please post in the comments what features or interactivity you would like to see in the next version.
3D XML Website (1493)Enjoy!
BrainStormr - Flex Meet YouTube, Twitter and Blogger
http://brainstormr.weberlabs.com
As a warning this application is in Alpha stages, but I love to show people the capabilities of Flex and Weber Design Labs. This application searches YouTube, Twitter and Blogger then shows the data in a brain storming visualization. It started off as an experiment and grew to an application that is useful for research, opinions, finding what is the buzz, etc. So enjoy this free service.
Here are a few features I plan to rollout in the future:
- Search Digg Data
- Enable History management
- Save Content to Lists and Then Email Lists To Anyone
If you have any suggestions please make a comment. I would love feedback. And yes, I know the name is stupid and as soon as I have a name I will work on the logo.




