The interesting flash'y things of August:
1. Search engine optimization for Flash - the new article by Todd Perkins is a must-read for everyone who cares about good search engine visibility of flash content.
2. Things every Flash developer should know - just the flash site I like by noted Flash guru Grant Skinner.
3. FlashEff 2 review - get acquainted with this great flash animation tool.
4. Flash Fun Pages - lots of fun and nice flash ecards and cartoons. For newbies - to save swf file you like, in Firefox simply click Tools > Page Info > go to Media Tab and save swf file to your computer. Then send it to your friends, view by yourself or publish to your blog\website (don't forget about copyrights :))
5. Cannonballz - the new dimension of flash games. "Cannonballz is the first ever Augmented Reality game using ZugMo Motion Capture Technology, Flash and Facebook to make both you and your friends the stars of the game". Now you are not just a player, you are the part of the game.
Showing posts with label flash tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flash tools. Show all posts
Links of the Month (August 2009)
Free Flash MP3 Players and Fash Video Players
I've found a great site today and want to share my find with you. MyFlashFetish.com is a place to create free flash audio player or flash video player that can be automatically published to one of the online services including Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Blogger, LiveJournal, and many others. Great choice of skins available, easy customization, built-in search of tracks and videos and one-click adding them to playlist, saving playlists for further use - these and other useful features can be found at MyFlashFetish.com.
Comparing to desktop applications for creating flash audio and video players, MyFlashFetish.com has both advantages and shortcomings. Its advantages are: easy searching for tracks needed and adding them to playlist, easy embedding players, and free hosting for created players.
Among the shortcomings are:
- inability to upload mp3 files directly from PC. They must at first be uploaded to any free hosting where you can get their URLs for adding them to playlist;
- inability to stream online radio with these flash audio players.
Nevertheless, I seam MyFlashFetish.com to be a very useful tool for everyone who wants to create flash player for free and easily post it to the profile, blog, website, etc.
Flash Graffiti Creator
Best places to download flash tools
I have some favorite directories of flash tools (or swf - shockwave flash - tools) where I download flash software - both free flash tools and paid ones. I use and recommend the following software directories because of their smart system - all tools are divided into categories and you can easily find what you need. 
ALL Flash Tools – comprehensive flash directory with an extensive list of flash tools, flash components and even a few articles and flash tutorials.
Flash Wanted – this flash directory offers flash components, JSFL extensions, SWF applets, FLA sources and flash related software downloads.
My Flash Soft - flash software: flash design, presentation and slideshow makers, game creators, animating, sounding and other flash development tools.
SnapFiles – all software is handy divided into shareware and freeware to simplify searching. Contains lots of web authoring tools including software for flash development.
Swftools – the ultimate directory of flash tools, apps, utilities. Here you can find flash software, flash freeware tools, flash sitegallery and flash tutorials.
Download.com – probably the most popular software downloads directory. Of course, it has flash tools section. Squeeze yourself through sponsored links and you'll find lots of useful flash utilities.
Best Firefox add-ons for Flash developers and other useful Flash development tools
Here is my list of what helps in Flash development. The best Firefox Flash plugins are: Flash Tracer – allows seeing all the output generated by the "trace" flash functions while running any .swf Flash file in your browser. To run Flash Tracer, you need Flash Player debug installed in Firefox. Also, you have to enter a path to the file with debug info, for example C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\Logs\flashlog.txt. Flash Switcher – allows switching between various Flash Player versions with a few clicks. Web Developer – must have plugin for all web developers, but can be of use for Flash developers too. I like resize option and lots of other web developer tools also simplify everyday work. Load Time Analyzer – allows developers to measure and graph how long web pages take to load in Firefox. Muspell – allows testing variables in flash files in addition to modifying their values while they run to provide alternative methods of debugging and testing their flash applications. The only problem is that the last available version of Muspell is for FF 2. Tamper Data – allows tracking Flash activity in Flash websites which load external data or communicate with backend scripts. HBXTracer - helps developers to test HitBox implementations on HTML pages and Flash content. Search plugins – here you can find five amazing Firefox search plugins for Flash and Flex developers to search ActionScript 3, Flex 2, Flex 3 LiveDocs, Adobe Labs and Macromedia Flash 8 directly from Firefox search bar. Two more tools for Flash developers I like: Charles - is especially useful for Adobe Flash developers as you can view the contents of LoadVariables, LoadMovie and XML loads. Charles also has native support for Flash Remoting (AMF0 and AMF3) that makes it better for debugging and tracing .swf files than, for example, Firebug add-on. SWFAddress - SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash. It's a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. I hope my list will help you in Flash development and I wait for you to add your favorite tools to the list!
Must have flash tools for website owners and bloggers
The extensive lists of flash tools in flash software directories make website owners and bloggers hesitate what tool to choose to create flash elements and embed them into a web page. In this post, I want to list my own selection of the most helpful flash website tools – tools for creating flash media players, flash animation and graphics effects, flash slideshows and flash graphs. Each of these utilities is a highly ranked swf tool used by web developers and general users. But the most important for me is that they are easy-to-use tools with intuitive interface and great features set. I’ve divided all the tools in some categories depending of what they are used for.
1. Flash tools for creating flash media players and embedding audio or video to a web page:
• flash mp3 player creators:
Fun SoundPlayer Maker - allows you to create Flash music players and buttons for your website.
SWiSH Jukebox - converts your MP3s to cool Flash sound players at the click of a button.
Website Music Player - easily add music to your Website with this advanced flash mp3 player.
FlashWAmp - transforms any original Winamp skin to Flash sound player for publishing background music to sites.
• flash video player creators:
VLC Media Player - a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.
JW FLV Media Player - an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website.
CoffeeCup Web Video Player - convert your movies to Flash and get them on the Web.
2. Flash animation tools:
CoffeeCup Flash Firestarter - quickly creates complex text and image effects with just a few clicks of the mouse.
SWiSH Max - everything you need to create stunning fully interactive Flash animations. You can create shapes, text, buttons, movie clips, and motion paths.
IncrediFlash XTreme 1.0 - filters and blend modes, 100+ text effects, videos, music, sounds, interactivities, layer effects.
3. Flash slideshow makers:
Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder - helps you create elegant flash slideshows, flash photo albums, flash photo galleries, etc.
Amara Slideshow Builder - developed to help create and design Adobe Flash Player compatible photo slideshows and photo albums.
CoffeeCup Photo Gallery - an easy-to-use photo gallery creator for a website.
FlashSlider - make flash slide shows with photo and sounds, and share them on the web in a few minutes.
4. Flash charts creators:
Animated Chart - generates animation charts as movies in Adobe (Macromedia) Flash™ format for publishing them to web sites.
XML-SWF Charts - a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data.
Swiff Chart – an easy-to-use tool which lets you create animated charts in Macromedia Flash format.
AmiChart - create animated column, line and pie charts with just a couple of clicks of your mouse.
These flash tools can help you to create an attractive website content and make your web page or blog eye-catching and unusual.
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