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Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 2

Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d. This is step 2, 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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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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Creating a AIR Web Service Package with Flash and AS3- Base Service Class And Simple Twitter API

In this series of tutorials, you will learn the basics of architecting a simple but powerful Web Services Package. We'll start off by creating a class which will be the base of all our services and then continue to create a very simple Twitter API.

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Expanding the AS3 Videoplayer

Alright, here's the second part of the video player tutorial. We will be adding the following new features: - Playlist support - Fullscreen support - Save volume - Clickable progress/volume bar

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How to build a AS3 Videoplayer

Today we explain you how to create a videoplayer with some basic features like this one. These are: - Play/Pause - Stop - Preloading - Scrubbing - Volume handling There will be another tutorial, which will extend this player. So be sure to check it out. Requirements Adobe Flash CS3 Try / Buy Source Files Download Constants As always, we begin with setting [...]

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Create a AS3 Slideshow with XML

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple slideshow using as3/flash and xml

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

In this tutorial I'm presenting you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites, or our personal page. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a different interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Pretty cool stuff. We gonna connect weather.com XML data file with our flash widget. Weather.com offers us a free service to do that.

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Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

In this tutorial I will show you how to build a simple 3D photo album in AS3. We will build an application similar to this one. I will use two AS3 libraries: FIVe3D and TweenLite, both open source. Five3D is a lightweight 3D library written by Mathieu Badimon. TweenLite is one of the many libraries available for script based animation in AS3. It was created by Jack Doyle from Greensock. It's principal characteristic is that it's small (hence it's name) and simple to use. FIVe3D and TweenLite work very well together!

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Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

As we've already promised you, here's the tutorial about how to create a 3d spectrum display from a sound file with papervision3d and flash. On this tutorial, we'll focus on the 3d part. If you're not comfortable with the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum method then you should read the previous tutorial.

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