When used properly, Flash is awesome. Unfortunately, a lot of Flash sites look and feel like s**t, and increased use of devices like the iPhone or iPad could start a slow but unstoppable process of “Flash destruction,” if things continue to evolve as they did in the last few years. Speaking for myself and from the user’s point of view, I don’t want Flash to die, I just want to get best content for my desktop computer, and best content [...]

If you want an easy way to distribute and monetize your application or to add social and collaborative capabilities to your applications, Adobe can help you with Adobe Flash Platform Services.

Using Distribution service you can share your application to social networks, mobile devices, and desktops. It also enables developers and businesses to track the distribution of and user engagement with their applications. Finally, it enables monetization of applications through ad hosting.

Paid promotion provides guaranteed installs for applications that might not otherwise [...]

One of these days, I will go out and start shooting. No, I am not crazy – I’ll take pictures, I won’t shoot anyone! Anyway, guns are illegal here, so we’ll stick to a bunch of images being displayed in a browser. Obviously, it’s about a free Flash image gallery, as you can see below…

… and its name is dfGallery, currently at version 2.0. Requiring only the Apache rewrite module with PHP 5+, php_json and php_curl extensions to be in [...]

This is an awesome morning, I tell you! It’s cloudy and cool, and I just got a link to a great video from a friend of mine. OK, here’s the video, although we’re not going to talk about it. What I have for you today is a video player component for your sites, and I am sure most of you will find it useful. After all, it’s always better to have some video content on a page, riiight?

FLV Player [...]

Did I mention the fact that I love slideshows? Probably I did that, but I also hate them, as long as they don’t have pause and zoom features. This time, it’s all about a slideshow/image gallery script that has pause, as well as the ability to display a thumbnails gallery of all images available. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come for free, and it doesn’t have that zoom feature… but at least you can win a license worth 25EUR, if you’re lucky! [...]

Microsoft’s Silverlight is trying to steal a serious slice of the market share the ubiquitous Adobe Flash managed to grab so far, and maybe even outrun it. If any of these will happen, that remains to be seen, but since some people are already thinking about converting their Flash content to Silverlight format, I am sure the topic of today’s last article is a very interesting one.

SilverX is a Windows free software for doing exactly what I just said – [...]

Integrating various media files to your website gets more interesting with each day, as the number of noobs surfing the Internet increases. I didn’t say it with a bad intention, it’s just the fact that older people getting to discover the World Wide Web, and even some of the young ones, simply won’t install video codecs, a PDF reader, an audio player, and other similar “must have” tools, because they think Windows has everything one may need out of the [...]

Any serious designer shouldn’t mess with Web-based site creation tools… or at least that’s what I was almost sure of some years ago. Now, I think that using online resources like Wix can’t hurt, at least in the early stages of a site’s development. Even more, you can come up with quick low-budget designs that won’t look low-budget at all, but let’s see what’s so special about today’s pick, shall we?

With Wix, there’s no need to download anything or learn [...]

Bookmarks… oh, my, bookmarks! No matter how much I try, I simply can’t have them sorted properly. Sure, I use categories and tags, but I always end up with some bookmarks completely messed up, while others are nicely ordered. Oh, well… while the Flash component I’ll tell you about next won’t help me solve that issue, it will surely make your site much easier to bookmark by its visitors!

FlashBookmarks is a fully customizable Flash CS3 component (and absolutely free, too!) [...]

These days, delivering multimedia content gets more and more interesting with each day. I am not thinking about the low prices of HD cameras and the impressive amount of storage offered by most portable drives available these days, because sometimes you don’t need to get out and grab your own content. For example, think about various school projects…

… and no matter what you need to deliver, as long as we’re talking about multimedia, MegaZine is a great platform to use. [...]