Flash and Joomla News by Eyezberg

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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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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Flash Player 9 for Linux

Flash Player 9 for Linux beta is available

This beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages:

• one is for the Mozilla plugin and
  
• the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player.
  

Either will need to be downloaded manually via the Adobe Labs website and unpacked.

The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory.

This screenshot by Adobe's James Ward is from a pre-alpha version of Flash Player 9 running a JBoss Collaboration client on Linux.

Let me quote him on this:

Flex 2 and Flash Player 9 are changing how the world builds and experiences web applications. Now we have a ubiquitous and consistent virtual machine to run real applications in. And we have an amazing programming model and SDK to build those applications with. Best of all, it's all free (as in beer)! I have been working with JBoss on a Flex based collaboration client and the results have been stunning. It's beautiful, extremely fast, and as soon as Flash Player 9 on Linux debuts it will work the same on any OS or browser, without any "if IE" workarounds! When Apollo is available this will get even more interesting since we can take the same collaboration client application and run it offline, without the browser!

Download | Release Notes | Version Test (after install)

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SWF Decompilers

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
  
  

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Various Flash News

Various Flash News 

It's been a while, so here's a short mix of interesting reads. 

Flash team are asking for your feature requests for Flash 9.

• Player only
• Interactive designers and developers
• Designers and animators

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Flash Player - Forward, Backward, Platform Compatibility

Nice article about Flash Players forward, backward, and platform compatibility and how it makes life so much easier for developers.

Smaller changes which caused some problems pointed out in the comments, such as IE7 detection, introduction of the sandbox and the crossdomain.xml policy file, POST data in Safari 1 and no native scrollwheel support on OS X..., are all the network, browser, or ui layers around Flash Player.

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Current schedule for releasing the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux is early 2007.

A a beta version  [will be released] in advance of the final version. However, it will be a beta in the classical software engineering sense-- i.e., a version that we believe to be largely bug-free and submitted to the users in the hopes that the last of the bugs will be found and reported. by Mike Melanson

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Proxwar

Proximity War

Very! addicitve game, a bit like Abalone if you know that: place your armies either next to a weaker oponent to take his over, or next to one of yours to strengthen it (ot both simultaneously), and try to have the strongest army /most territory at the end. 

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Blox

Blox

Nice game, seems easy at first, but once you're 3-4 levels in, it gets a bit more difficult.
Too bad the full version is commercial.

Something for the brains. 

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