Search Engines Soon Ready To Reveal Flash Content

Adobe has just announced that they are teaming up with search industry leaders, Google and Yahoo, to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications. This new search engine solution is essentially a special version of the Flash Player which enhances search engine indexing of the SWF file format.

What this means for the average Flash user and their clientele is that this new advancement will uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will also provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Fun times with Flash content and search engine optimization are finally right around the corner.

If you're looking more for more info on this topic, check out Adobe's official press release.

Flash Navigation with Actionscript and XML

Tutorials | Flash Navigation with Actionscript and XML

In a Flash Website, if you just need two or three “alone” buttons for your site navigation you can simple design them and place it in the stage. Or, to be more elegant, you can make an array in as3 and place them in the stage too. However, if you are creating a dynamic Flash site you will need to create a dynamic navigation to it. One of the chance to achieve this goal is by using a XML file. The following tutorials shows you how to do it.

This tutorial covers how to create a dynamic Flash XML navigation menu using Actionscript 3.0 and XML. Each button has a roll over and roll out animation. Control the click throughs, button titles and the total number of buttons with the external XML file. Once the Flash file is created you can update the menu just by editing the XML file.

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This tutorial demonstrate how to build a simple menu, using AS3 and XML class showing the benefits of using XML in your applications.

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James Gonzalez shows you how to combine several of the simple ActionScript 2.0 techniques to create a semi-transparent, animated pull-down menu.

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Dragging in 3D with Papervision 3D

Tutorial | Dragging in 3D with Papervision 3D

Andy Zupko wrote an awesome tutorial showing you how to create a dragable 3D object using papervision 3d and as3. A nice and ellegant approach to the CameraObject3D method. FYG the as file is only 9k!!!

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Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component

Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component

Flash and Flex Examples:

All of the code samples listed in this section are built in Flex 3 / Flash CS3 and provided free of charge under a BSD license.

	Creating a YahooMap object in MXML. This example demonstrates the minimum MXML and ActionScript required to create a YahooMap and geocode an address. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Creating a YahooMap object in Flash CS3 This example demonstrates the minimum ActionScript required to create a YahooMap and geocode an address using the Flash CS3 component. Output | Download Flash Source
	Map Events This example demonstrates listening to various events dispatched from the map and displaying the event data. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Markers This example demonstrates how create random markers on the map using the SimpleMarker object. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Polyline Overlays This example demonstrates how to create a PolylineOverlay and drawing in Flash within a geo-context. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Geodesic Polyline Overlays This example demonstrates how to draw a polyline as a geodesic. (A segment of a great circle) View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Drawing Custom Overlays This example shows how to create a custom overlay to draw a scaled circle on the map on mouse click. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Geocoding This example shows geocode address and latitude/longitudes using the default map event listeners. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Local Search This example shows you how to query the Yahoo! Local listings in ActionScript and display search results on the map. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Map Utilities This example demonstrates the distance API built into the YahooMap component. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Sample Search Application This application uses Flex as the layout engine and the YahooMap component to create a simple app that accepts user input to center the map. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Custom Markers Application This application demonstrates creating custom markers and a simple user-interface to adding markers. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	GeoPlanet Sample This example uses the Yahoo! GeoPlanet API to query the neighbors of a place and display them using a custom marker. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	Weather Map Application This application uses the ASTRA Web APIs Library to display weather data on the map using a custom marker. View Source | Output | Download Flex Project Archive
	AIR Sample A desktop application built in Adobe AIR that demonstrates reading a file on the local file system to load and display markers. View Source | Download Flex Project Archive

Adobe Reader 9

Adobe Reader 9 Now Available

Good news. Adobe Reader 9 is now available for download from the Adobe website. You can download it for your version of Windows (2000 SP4 or higher) or Mac OS X (10.4.11 or higher) from here.

So if you now have Acrobat 9 Pro or Pro Extended, and want to start using Acrobat.com for Shared Reviews, or page view sharing (Acrobat 9 Standard too), or to let others get the full experience of a PDF Portfolio, and you don't know if they have Acrobat 9 yet, well fear not, because now they can get Reader 9 to collaborate with you!