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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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Setting up Away3d with Flex

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up a simple away3d scene, taking advantage of FlexBuilder's enhanced programming interface. I will also take advantage of the tutorial to introduce Flex to Flash developers who have never used it.

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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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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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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 Flickr Viewer using Flex

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

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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.

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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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