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Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1

This tutorial article is a Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d. This is step 1, of a 3 part tutorial that will sweep many useful techniques used in web application design, Flex, and Flash 3D design.

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Extending the AS3/Flash9 Slideshow with XML

In this second part tutorial we're going to add some more features to the slideshow application. Those would be forwarding and rewinding slides, play and pause the slideshow and linkable slides. If you haven't read the first part tutorial yet, you should do it before continue. You can read it here.

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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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