FlaRIA

FlaRIA makes creating W3C valid websites easy

is yet another Flash (AS2) / PHP based online content management system. You can download and use it completely for free, only thing that'll happen is after 100 visits a "powered by" / register link will be displayed. Registration is on a per-domain basis.

Features:

Create W3C HTML 4.01 Transitional / W3C CSS Valid FLASH / AJAX and PHP web-sites online.

•  Create, edit and update your web pages without ever leaving your browser window.
• Add HTML, Flash9 / AS3, PHP, Javascript, Java etc. code elements to your flash site.
• Deep linking and real URLs for flash, full support for google analytics.
• Add any content - images, videos, 3D, animation, text and components with couple of clicks!
  
• Edit links, x, y, width, height, depth, color and alpha.
• Image editor with multiple image banks, video editor, style editor for components, link editor, WYSIWYG template & text editor, HTML/CSS editor.
• Create menus online! XML editor / menu manager.
• Filemanager for uploading/deleting/renaming of files.

As George would say: "What else..?" >>

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Elf Yourself

Elf Yourself

Nothing spectacular, but fun: upload your own jpg photos, and they'll be inserted into this very Christmas-like animation of dancing elves.

 

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Flash Decompiler Trillix

Flash Decompiler Trillix

I already have an article online with an overview of free or commercial SWF decompilers.

The guys from Eltima now kindly gave me access to a full version of their latest release, named Trillix.

I've test-driven it over the week-end, and everything worked perfectly on a SWF I brought over from work which I didn't have the source file for. 

The tool is just GREAT! I can replace URLs, I could recreate the fla from the swf, and the result, exported from Flash (which Trillix opens for you when decompiling is done) to swf, looked exactly like the original SWF.. except I had changed the URL to point to eyezberg.com for some fun, which also works!

If you want to check out: the swf is here: www.clubmed.ch, and here's a screenshot of the extracted images:

I'm not going to attach the .fla obviously, but it is 100% working, and I'm sure it will come in handy next time our agency gets a link wrong  on a friday afternoon!
Here it is opened in Flash:

I was going to post a long review about this software, but I like it so much (having tested it now, I would definitely pay for the full version!) that I am going to play around with the tons of options some more instead and see what else I can change: texts, colors, links..

I love it, thank you Eltima / Stani !

PS: Mac version available also!
 

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Open Flash Chart

Open Flash Chart

A nice simple open source Flash Chart: use a simple text file, or the provided PHP class to pull in dynamic data.

It's all lfree, you can download the .fla to edit, the PHP file, you get all you need to get you started, even a tutorial.

Thanks Teethgrinder!

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Visited countries

Free Flash Map of all the countries in the world you have visited

Interactive Maps provides a very easy way to integrate a map of your visited countries to your website:

1. select the countries via checkboxes
2. click generate
3. copy the code output for you
4. paste into your site

Here's mine: Thank you! (might not show if using Mozilla browser...)

Make your visited countries map

Flash charts

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amCharts

amCharts provides free dynamic pie, line, and bar charts 

Today I received notification about some new Flash charts called amCharts.
You can download and use these charts for free.
The only limitation of the free version is that a small link to the web site will be displayed in the top left corner of your charts.

You can choose amongst 3 different animated chart styles:

• Pie and Donut chart

  Your pies can easily become donuts. They can be 2D/3D and you can set desired angle and height. When you click on a pie slices or legend entries, the slices can slide out/in.
  See examples (opens in new window)
  

• Line and Area chart

  The user of this line chart can zoom into the desired area of the line chart! You also can hide/show graphs and turn on/off balloon tips indicating the value of the point. You can add custom bullets, links and descriptions on your points. You can have two Y axes – this is very comfortable if you want to display data which differs a lot.
  See examples (opens in new window)
  

• Column and Bar chart

  It is only one tool, but has all column/bar features you might need – it can be clustered, stacked and 100% stacked, may be 2D or 3D. Like in the line chart, you can add links and descriptions to bars/columns. You can switch from Bar chart to Column chart just by changing one variable.
  See examples (opens in new window)

These charts read data and settings from XML or CSV files. That means that they are platform independent. Data and settings files are separate – you can have a designer work with the settings file, meanwhile a programmer can work on generating data file in XML or CSV. And you can be sure that they will not interrupt each other. And even more – you can pass data to charts directly from your html.

Read on for pricing and license informations, and link to website ...

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Job offer for Actionscripter

San Francisco-based ActionScript Developer position with Zinio Systems

You can join Zinio Systems, a digital publisher in San Francisco, on a six-month contract with a highly competitive rate, or as a full time salaried employee. You'll be using ActionScript/Flash at the application layer to make [their] website act more like a desktop application than a conventional website. You'll get your hands dirty investigating advanced technologies such as Flex data services and Adobe Apollo to help []them] expand the use of rich media in digital publishing. [They]'re the industry leader in this emerging, exciting and environmentally friendly sector with more publishers signed up to digitize and distribute their publications than anyone else. With the Internet becoming today's magazine rack, your ActionScript skills will drive key Zinio business objectives and impact millions online.

[They]'re looking for smart people to work in a collaborative, Agile development environment where you'll advance your understanding of object-oriented programming design or encryption algorithms within ActionScript, and create sophisticated transition effects.

You'll join an 8-person engineering and QA team and, with another Flash developer, help architect a solid ActionScript infrastructure for consumers to read mainstream magazines on the Web. What makes this scenario especially interesting is our use of Agile development methods (specifically Scrum). Instead of a top down management style you'll participate in a self organizing team that's given a broad problem statement and moves collaboratively to solve it.

You're a solid candidate if you have:

* Used ActionScript with asynchronous XML and back end logic
* Worked with server side programmers
* Understand object-oriented design within Action Script
* At least considered encryption algorithms implemented in ActionScript
* Created sophisticated transition effects
* Hands-on experience on client-server applications
* Thorough experience with dynamic, interactive content in Flash 7 or later versions
 

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DiscoSarko

Discosarko makes Sarkozy dance

As you may not know, today (it's quarter past midnight here), Sunday 22nd of April 2007, we have elections for France's next president. As it stands, this guy here might very well turn out to be the man! No personal opinion here, but he sure can dance: check out combination 2 (steps) and 3 (sound)..

Click the image to visit.

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Kirstin Henry
 

Kirstin Henry 

President and lead developer at GalaxyGoo, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing math and science literacy with online technologies, she specializes in developing educational applications and interactive visualizations of scientific data using Flash. In one of her projects, she developed an interactive visualization of ice core data for NASA.
Henry has presented at both industry and academic conferences including FlashForward, Flash In The Can and the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education.
She has contributed her knowledge of Flash in two books, including New Masters of Flash Volume 3 and Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio 8.

URL: GalaxyGoo

Interview on Actionscript.com  

Her "flower" project on Adobes website -pay attention to the details! (click image to open in new wiindow) 

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Trevor McCauley

Trevor McCauley

Technical Support Engineer working at Adobe Systems Incorporated who works heavily with Flash and Fireworks.

Prior to working at Adobe he worked as a developer for a production company developing for various kinds of multimedia and web-based content. Currently, in his free time, Trevor develops Flash and Fireworks content for his personal site, senocular.com, and moderates forums on popular Flash-related sites such as Kirupa.com, ActionScript.org, FlashKit.com, and UltraShock.com

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