Flash and Joomla News by Eyezberg

Wink: create interactive multimedia tutorials for free

Wink is a free Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (for example to explain some functionality of everybody's favorite CMS Joomla! ...).

Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. 

The cool thing about this software (apart from it being free) is that it generates an swf file which can very easily be presneted online. Capturing mouse movements and keyboard input is automated, so it is really esy to use and you'll quickly achieve professional results. 

SWF Decompilers

A bad reputation for sometimes usefull tools: Decompilers allow you to read the ActionScript and extract ressources from SWF files.

Here are the best known of these tools, which might just come in handy some day when you need to look up in an swf which file it loads, or how that particular fonction works.. Range goes from free basic tool to commercial ones with many options:

• Flare

  is free, simple to use by right-clicking an SWF
  
  

• SWF Decompiler

  is very cheap but limited
  
  

• AVE Imperator

  is said to be good, haven't tested
  
  

• Sothink SWF Decompiler

  works well and allows you to recompile a fla from the swf
  
  

• Eltima Flash Decompiler

  has the same functionality
  
  

• ActionScript Viewer, aka ASV

  the best-known, very actively developed decompiler with many features and extensions