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Giveaway: 3 Licenses for FlippingBook PDF Publisher

28. May 2009

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Giveaway: 3 Licenses for FlippingBook PDF Publisher

Our supporter Page-Flip.com is offering 3 licenses of FlippingBook PDF Publisher. FlippingBook PDF Publisher is a nice desktop application you can use to create Flash flipping books from your pdf files. The usage is very simple, and the application is intuitive, so it will be easy for the user to create his own flipping books in minutes.

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Create in Flex a 3D Image Gallery using Actionscript 3.0 and Alternativa3D

26. May 2009

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Create in Flex a 3D Image Gallery using Actionscript 3.0 and Alternativa3D

The web is a great platform for storing and displaying photos. Gone are the days when your photos sat in a photo album only to be pulled out when you needed to bore relatives with your memories. These days it takes only minutes to upload photos from a digital camera onto an online photo gallery [...]

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Build a contact manager in Flex with ZendAMF; Part One – Layout; From Photoshop to Flex

20. May 2009

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Build a contact manager in Flex with ZendAMF; Part One – Layout; From Photoshop to Flex

The complete result of this 2 part tutorial is a contact manager built in flex that uses ZendAMF to store data in mysql. In this first part we will learn how to build our own layout in photoshop and implement it on Adobe Flex. We will use a simple layout and you will learn some few tips to keep in mind when designing a layout in photoshop and using it in Adobe Flex.

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Create Cool Line Effects using Actionscript 3.0 in Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3

18. May 2009

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Create Cool Line Effects using Actionscript 3.0 in Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of architecting a simple Line Effect, using Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3. We try to cover the basics on the simplest way, so everyone will be able to step in the scripted animation with actionscript 3.0. The fact of using only code to generate animation and effects, will result on a very small file size, which will improve the loading performance on the browser and enables a better interactivity experience.

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Setup Alternativa3D Development Environment

13. May 2009

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Setup Alternativa3D Development Environment

After our Alternativa 3D tutorials series, still some to know about how to setup Flex Builder correctly in order to start deploying their own Alternativa3D Flash Applications. Therefore we created this tutorial to guide and help you through the steps of setting up an Alternativa3D development environment. After completion of this tutorial, be sure to have a look to the Alternativa 3D tutorials series, stepping you in some of the most important features of this powerful Flash 3D engine.

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Integrate Flex Builder 3.0 & Php easly with the fresh ZendAMF

11. May 2009

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Integrate Flex Builder 3.0 & Php easly with the fresh ZendAMF

In this article I will explain how to build a simple adobe flex application that communicates with php using remote objects calls to the new AMF php implementation suported by adobe and called ZendAMF.

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Alternativa 3D Series – Tutorial 8 – Imposters

6. May 2009

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Alternativa 3D Series – Tutorial 8 – Imposters

In the last article we saw what a Sprite3D was, and the performance benefits they have over regular 3D meshes. In this article we will see how Sprite3D's can be used to selectively replace 3D meshes, allowing a large number of objects to appear on the screen while still keeping frame rates up.

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Create and Skin a Photo Gallery with Flickr, Flex and Actionscript 3.0

4. May 2009

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Create and Skin a Photo Gallery with Flickr, Flex and Actionscript 3.0

This flex tutorial shows you how to create a simple Flex photo gallery that uses the Flickr Feeds to obtain the photos. It shows you how to use custom skins, HTTPRequest's and custom components.

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