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A debate doing the rounds of the online world these days is whether HTML5 will replace Flash in the near future for online video.

Though HTML5 is yet to get the final approval for bursting on the scene and needs compatible browsers to work well, it is unlikely to crush Flash, mainly because of these reasons: (continue reading…)

In a world where most digital experiences fall flat, the Macromedia Flash Platform offers something different. It’s a lightweight, cross-platform runtime that can be used not just for rich media, but also for enterprise applications, communications, and mobile applications. No matter how it’s used, we designed the Flash Platform so that organizations of all kinds can deliver the most effective experiences imagination will allow. (continue reading…)

A collection of Video Tutorials on the installation of all the necessary components needed to build Flash applications in Eclipse. It continues with a demonstration of how to create and compile a class. It finishes by utilizing existing resources and pre-compiled library swfs to manage and control items within our Flash application.

The next major release of Flash Player, code-named Maelstrom, has significant advances in graphical expressiveness, performance, increased fidelity of font rendering and video delivery, and other new functionality — while still remaining a small download size.

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http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/maelstrom/

More and more handset manufacturers and operators are developing products and services that leverage the power of Macromedia Flash Lite. What does that mean for the Flash community? Massive opportunity. Gary Kovacs explains.
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http://www.macromedia.com/newsletters/edge/february2005/index.html

Exorcist, the beginning is another nicely done Flash Site Design.

The “Flashteam” blog was created to provide the Flash community with a direct source for information about the product development process of the Flash authoring tool. With this blog Macromedia intend to keep the user community closely connected to the product development process. This will be a fantastic opportunity for all of developers/designers in the user community to contribute their ideas, offer feedback on macromedia’s ideas, and really become a part of the development process. Mike Chamber have kicked off the site with his first post.

FlashCII is a tool for creating ascii animations. It converts image files into ascii art and provides a flashed interface for building animated sequences. It allows you to save the animation in a variety of formats. It saves directly to Flash or to another Flash friendly text format for including or streaming text files in your own Flash movies. Plain text saving is also supported. Well, currently the download of the tool is not yet available, you can get yourself notified on their site as and when version 1.0 comes out.

Flash, as a product, has gone through tremendous changes in the past few years. Slowly but surely two user groups emerging from this churning process. The traditional vector graphics designer suddenly finds amongst his midst, numerous web and enterprise application developers using Flash to create rich user interfaces. There is promise in collaboration between the groups as the symbiotic relationship can usher in an era of attractive and responsive user interfaces of enterprise apps making it a rule rather than the exception. (continue reading…)

Win softwares, plug-ins for Macromedia Flash worth over Rs. 60,000 at the Macromedia MAX, Mumbai through India’s Macromedia User Group. Well, you have to be a member of the User group to win the softwares (remember, members of Mumbai Flash User Group, Delhi User Group and Hyderabad are technically members of IndiaMMUG). Details of the competition, the softwares will be announced at the Macromedia MAX, Mumbai at day end, be there till the end. (continue reading…)