Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and Actionscript 3.0

Flickr stores on their servers, photos form all their users around the world, and they have an open api so you could interact with it, and make your own developments, like PicNik.com, the photos online editor, where you could import your Flickr photos and make it look really cool.

Now in this tutorial I’m gonna show you how to interact with the flickr data base, making your own photo search engine, looking for tags on the photos.

Create a Flickr Viewer using Flex

In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate photos from Flickr in your Flex application, using as3flickrlib.

Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Flex/Air

YouTube’s mixed easy movie access with community uploads to create a startling new service. The online problem is that you can only access YouTube when you are online. How can you access those movies when you are offline? Let’s solve that problem by building a downloader with Flex and AIR.
In this article we will build a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally. You will be able to take your favorite YouTube videos with you wherever you go.

Create a Card Flip Effect For Flash Player 10 using ActionScript 3

It surprises me that one of the most commented upon and downloaded classes from my blog is a card flipping effect. With that in mind, I thought it might be an interesting exercise to recreate this effect targeting Flash Player 10. As of the writing of this article, Flash Player 10 Beta (Astro) and the corresponding API documentation have been released. This article will step you through the classes used to achieve a card flipping effect using the new rotationY property that exists in Flash Player 10.

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