One of my visitors pointed me to the fact, that it's currently a bit difficult to find old Flash Player 6 versions for testing purposes as there is only v7 served. You can get all old version from v5 down to v2...

If you take this discussion about Central on Yahooray as a snapshot of public reception (aka non-community) I see a rather mixed feeback with a tendency to the negative side. Two issues are: What is this thing anyway? People don't see the...

As this is a beta after all, for those who wonder how to report a bug in Central or if you are missing a feature already here's how you do it: just use "Send Feedback" which you will find under "Help" in...

"A clean, unified place for your Internet work": Macromedia Central Public Beta...

Electrotank have just released a new version of their multiuser XML socket server ElectroServer 3. For up to 20 concurrent users it's free. For more users the price range goes from US$299 for up to 50 users up to US$2999 for unlimited...

As a European I always found one thing about US-patent legislation absolutely ridiculous: the ability to obtain patents on completely trivial software solutions, algorithms or interface elements. Just remember the "Amazon 1-click-shopping" feature or the charges of Adobe vs Macromedia because of...

One of the most useful code libraries I know is already available for ActionScript 2.0: Robert Penner's Easing Equations are ready for download now....

I guess you already read elsewhere that the FlashParade in Marseille will be one of the biggest European Flash conferences in this year. You also might have noticed that the 3-day-ticket price of just €53.82 is unheard of for a conference of...

Not in Bulgaria, not in Romania, no - Fergus Falls, Minnesota is the place where Flash Crackers were found. Originally from China, the crackers with aliases "M-99" and "Black Cat" where located right in the US. Some heavy charges are expected....

Flash MX is almost retired and there comes Robin Debreuil with his new blog and reveals a command that has always been there and hasn't been discovered by anyone yet: __bytecode__ - it allows you to insert precompiled Actionscript bytecode at compile...

Bing! for (var i = 0 ;i<a.length;i+=8){ trace(String.fromCharCode(parseInt(a.substr(i,8),2))) } I couldn't help it....

Oliver Debon, creator of tools like SwiftGenerator, SwiftMP3 or Quake Video Maker has some ugly trouble going on with his former webspace provider. Under his former URL one only finds some text with some defaming allegations, which made me really wonder, because...

Google has a new feature I didn't know yet: the calculator. It looks like it can give you the answer to regular calculations (17+4), covert units (12 inch in centimeters or 30 degrees celsius in fahrenheit), tell you the value of constants...

I must say that I take it as a personal insult not to be included in Dave Yang's new blog's swfoo.com 100+ entries long link list. Was that a grammatically correct sentence?...

I have built this little "Floater" class which allows you to have text in Flash flow around circles and rectangles. Here's a quick demo - just drag around the circle or resize the elements. The nice thing about is that its performance...

In case you didn't know: MX 2004 trial versions are available for download now. And of course you can buy them, too....

I just noticed that the official Flash Player version is now 7,0,14,0 - no mention of public beta anymore. So if you haven't done so yet - go and upgrade your player to the latest version here and experience a nice speed...

Sometimes I browse through Robert Sedgewick's "Algorithms In C" for inspiration. Recently I checked out the Graph Algorithms - more for the beauty of the adjacent graphics than because of their usefulness. Reading the code for Boruvka's Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm I...

The guys from extrajetzt, known for amazing projects as Fastfroots or Composer, have finally launched their website. I like it! A well chosen color scheme and love for the little details. Under the hood you'll find browser-back button support, direct deep links,...

Do you listen to music whilst programming? I'm only asking because I stopped that quite a while ago. I think it was after reading this short paragraph in Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit: as a young man he asked animation genius...

Okay, this is waayyy off-topic, uninteresting, and selfish but as it's the weekend I give myself the absolution. I just found out that I made it up to position #16 in search results if you search for "Mario" on google. And this...

What a nice idea: Found Magazine publishes notes, photos and other stuff that people find on the street. And there are some real strange, funny and frightening finds among them. [Via Netzministerium]...

Looks like I'm a bit late on this, but this is definitely a case where I make an exception to my first-or-never-policy: Grant Skinner, the creator of FlashOS and gModeler joined the ever growing pack of Flash Bloggers with his gBlog. I'm...