Adobe announced today that it is working with Google and Yahoo! to make SWF content visible to search engines. Although some search engines, like Google, have been able to read the contents of an SWF for a few years, only static content was visible – no dynamic data was seen, making it impossible to make […]

Adobe releases the beta version of Flash Player 10 today on Adobe Labs. On my birthday! I’m so proud…
Some of the new features are described on Flash Magazine. Particularly intriguing is the ability to load and save files using the FileReference object. Instead of simply passing files back and forth, it seems you can actually […]

I noticed this on www.flashmagazine.com this morning. The folks at Flashloaded have created a 3D image browser component for Flash. The component uses Papervision 3D and allows you to create these very cool, very dizzying walls of images that can be spun around, zoomed, tilted, etc. Just remember to take your Dramamine before you use […]

I recently completed a dvd-rom project that inspired me to write this quick tutorial. A client wanted to create a library of all their television promos - a disc they could distribute to their sales force containing all of the promos in a format that could be used in Power Point presentations. The disc needed to have an interface that allowed the user to search through the contents of the disc, play flv versions of the promos within the interface, and click a button that would reveal the location of the video file on the disc. It was this last part that proved trickiest - getting Flash to communicate with the operating system and open folders and select files wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. If you need to do something similar, hopefully this tutorial will help.