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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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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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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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Flash Player 9 beta

Flash Player 9 public beta

In case you didn't know, it's about time to check the Flash detection scripts for your sites! 

A final public beta of  Flash Player 9 is available since early June from Adobe. The release number is 9.0.r2, which normally means it's close to final release.

Please note that It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure existing content plays back correctly and that there are no compatibility issues.

You will need to uninstall any previous version to use this, please report any bugs.

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Animated Chart

Animated Chart

Generate charts as movies in Adobe (Macromedia) Flash™ format for web site publishing.
All items and structures of the charts are customizable by clicking on the chart preview directly.

Animated Chart works in 3 simple steps:

1. Select a chart type: Area, Bar, Bubble, Column, Doughnut, Line, Pie, (XY) Scatter or Stock.
2. Select the data source file.
3. Customize the chart.
   Click on any element and select an attractive transition effect: Appear, Grow, Fall, NeonAppear, Slide, Gather, Swing, Rotate.

After all 3 steps are completed, export the results as a SWF file or an image file, a HTML file or a projector file.

 

 

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PostcardViewer

PostcardViewer

PostcardViewer is a free Flash image viewer.
The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface.

Looks very nice, very lightweight, very simple to use! 

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AutoViewer

AutoViewer

AutoViewer is a free Flash image viewer designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.
AutoViewer-Pro has increased customization options and does not include the download link.

Features:

• Auto-Play allows you to view a gallery hands free.
• Displays image captions and gallery title as a text overlay.
• Intuitive image navigation via mouse.
• Keyboard navigation (Spacebar, cursor keys, 'Home', 'End' keys)
• Interface rescales to fit any aspect ratio images and monitors.
• Lightweight (34k).
• Image pre-loading to prevent waiting for each image to load.
• Cross platform - Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).
• Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are redirected to an upgrade page.
• FlashObject to fix IE's active content update
• Free!

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Encoding with Riva FLV Encoder

Riva FLV Encoder

Transode your existing video files to the advanced Flash Video (FLV) format with this free encoder.After selecting a source-file, you can easily transcode it into Flash Video using one of the presets, or your custom settings.
To view the result Riva FLV Encoder comes with the free Riva FLV Player.

Currently you can transcode the following formats: AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, WMV.

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Encoding with MediaCoder

MediaCoder

A free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features. 

Supported Inputs:

 * MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, AMR NB/WB, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio
 * FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio (APE, APL), OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV
 * H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, 3ivx, RealVideo, Windows Media Video 7/8/9, DV
 * AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia, ASF/WMV, Quicktime MOV, OGM
 * CD, VCD, DVD, CUE Sheets

Supported Outputs:

 * MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, AMR NB/WB, MusePack, WMA
 * FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio (APE, APL), OptimFrog, WMA Lossless, WAV
 * H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, Flash Video, etc.
 * AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, PMP (PSP Media Player?Format)

 Softpedia guarantees that MediaCoder 0.3.9 is 100% FREE, which means it is a freeware product (both for personal and commercial use) that does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

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ImageVue

imagevue

Very good, feature rich Gallery with simple configuration via XML, auto thumbnailing, image descriptions, full admin..

 

Some features include:

• Simply create folders and upload your images
  
• Automatic thumbnails created on server
  
• ImageVue gallery can be loaded into other Flash presentations as subitems.
  
• Add descriptions to any image with the admin
  
• Altering the visual appearance, changing text attributes, colors and effect styles can all be done in the configuration file config.xml.
  
• All sourcefiles are included
  
• No limit on amount of images

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