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Enabling Mousewheel on Flash (AS3)
Pixelbreaker is kind enough to show us the light towards enabling mousewheel on MacOSX! Finally after years of anticipation. But on the other hand I am also hoping there will be support for horizontal scrolling, and that would really revolutionize on how navigation will going to be created. Thanks!


Tag Galaxy
A very innovative (note the word innovative) way of presenting a metaphor of 'searching' through categories of pictures. I am impressed by the presentation and usage of PV3D here, but on the same time, what impressed me is the concept behind that makes good use of a metaphor , planets vs. related keywords. Instead of displaying only text, this site gives you a good idea on 'related' planet nearby. Awesome. Additionally, the navigation is very usable. Note the history/back option.


foedus
A list of hardcore but detailed work to be precise is in it's bucket here. I'm always impressed by how subtle the designs is but without the elements present in their work, it will be just another plain-jane site. Serves as a good design inspiration as well.

From all fancy looking sites and sounds, perhaps you might interested to do some reading on the dark side of Flash that is contributing towards the Web2.0 webosphere.


Get Out And Play
One of the cool looking and fun site I have stumbled across throughout this year. On the first look, I never realized it would be a marketing campaign site by Nokia, to rebrand the Ngage plat form which serves like an online marketplace for gamers to play and share. What is cool about this site is the clever use of conventional idea, but blends with some wicked twist, and a hell lot of effort. Note : the video.


Bar Da Boa
Some viral site takes us into creating fancy looking character and sends it to our friend, and back and forth. This one? Takes a look at tattoo and real time "tracking" of the text you input on the video that has the character.


Street Fighter
The classic fighting game is making a comeback this year. And that is with a big bang on our face. Probably you might start to ask me why I am talking about this site while it has nothing in spectacular about it's backend or glitters? But I would like to emphasize on the good use of media in this case, the video itself is a great selling point for the whole site, it's beautiful and...powerful. On the other hand, you might notice that there is a widespread usage on anchor link. the # symbol. It is especially crucial in these day where Flash is always questioned on it's realiability between switching forward and back inside a browser history. Look, a fine example.


Acrobat.com
No this not the usual annoying slow-loading pdf reader that we always used to hat...like? This time around, this site sure hits the bulls eye. Do not be fooled by it's plain looking introduction landing page. Wait until you go inside you can't stop your mouth from opening wide from the great thoughtful navigation for the users, and design. This site acts like a all-in-one manager for your documents just like how Google manages your emails, calenders, documents and so on, just that this one is in Flash, and it's 'exceptionally good'. Really.


White Void
A very inspiring studio that leads into some ground breaking interactive design work.

Nat Geo Offroad Challenge
And when I thought driving inside Flash has died down. Thanks to Kai for this. It feels

Goodness Inside

Foundation AS3
Going through the ups and downs in Actionscript 2.0 is not like an overnight experience, I know and I understand. But time has to go and the new one has to come. Actionscript 3.0, is all of our nightmare. It's been year more than a year, perhaps even 2 or more. But I'm glad I found few resources that deemed helpful to me, that helped me built my first button in AS3! Yay. On the site itself you may find very helpful resources on the example file that you can do in AS3. But of course with the book guidance, it would be even easier and faster to learn than guessing each syntax. Enjoy.

On the other hand, after getting firmed up in basics of AS3, you might want to look into some interesting basics in Papervision 3D, which this site from Dennis Ippel gives you a heads up on how to quickly set an environment in AS3 + Papervision.


Singularity, the global web conference: October 24-26, 2008
Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.


Setting up FMS3
If you are into multiplayer-flash programs, Flash Media Server 3 would be the best choice, but the price itself might already kill half of your intention of doing something big, but on the other side, there is this open source engine known by the name Red5, an alternative. How awesome is doing multiplayer is? Look at :

Dofus
An online massively multiplayer game built on the Flash platform. It's excitingly beautiful!

Adobe, Make Some Noise

Adobe, Make Some Noise
Interesting enough, this has start to slowly gain momentum in the Flash creative circle. What is this you ask ? Below is an extract on what it is all about...

“Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE is a campaign, which addresses the lack of dynamic sound manipulation in Flash. ”

Nice I would say since this would kick some start at looking into some supersonic sounds application in the future. More robust one that enables us to input more microphone and control/detect level of treble/bass/frequencies.

Creating the right W3C validation Flash page

Sometimes it just kills you to figure out on how to make the both world of Flash and HTML in one lovely space. But no matter how good you are in Flash, you will always bound to HTML in holding your lovely website. I wouldn’t say it is a burden to learn and adapt to the web standards, since it will not only help us, but the future of web.

There are of course various methods published on the web previously on how to create a valid page that embeds the Flash object, which is entirely different from what your Flash’s F12 can do.
I now introduce SWFObject, a very versatile javascript utility that makes your day shine brighter. Not only it embeds your flash file that complies to web standard. It’s being constantly developed and updated. Now on version 2!

But what surprised me is that they even provides you a dumb-proofed HTML generator that saves you a lot of hassle on figuring how to alter the original HTML template to fit your needs.
What can I say more? It’s one of the MUST-HAVE tool inside your personal Flash toolbox.