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Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and AS3

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.

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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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Create a AS3 / Flash 9 MP3 Player with spectrum display

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a Flash mp3 player with a spectrum analyzer written in AS3. We’ll focus on the spectrum analyzer and build just the basic functionality for the player itself.

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