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Pretty good movie made from Metal Gear Solid fans.

Adobe has announced Flash Player 9 Update 3 Beta 2, codenamed: Moviestar, which includes HD video standard support (H.264) and HE-AAC audio codecs. The update also includes hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. This will open a huge creative ideas and possibilities for web developers.

If you have no idea what is H.264 codec, it provides a high quality (high definition) video experience. I guess YouTube can now provide HD video service to be played on their player which is made from Flash.

More details about the beta update is posted in Adobe Labs. Tinic Uro also provided a post on his blog about the update.

More Flash blogs and developer’s related websites are coming out recently. Yahoo! has launched Flash Developer Center, “an ever growing repository of tools, articles, tutorials, and information on all things Flash”.

Flash Developer Center starts with launching ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications (ASTRA) which is, for starter, a collection of Flash and Flex components, libraries and toolkits. In this inaugural release, ASTRA contains five UI components that complement the existing set provided with Flash CS3.

This will help understanding Mashups

Great news for Flash community!!! sys-con has launched Flex Developer’s Journal.. “Flex Developer’s Journal (FDJ) is the first and only independent magazine serving Adobe Flex developers”. Finally, great news for every Flash/Flex lovers! Web Developers are taking Flex more seriously and let’s hope that more journals about Flex will come out.

More and more comparisons… this time from Plugin to Shout blog. Here is the comparison.

Today while browsing through Digital Backcountry blog I found out a link to a new Flash Blog. It is Yahoo Flash Blog which will have articles and news posted by Yahoo Flash developers. It is great to see more flash developers publish their knowledge and experience online to learn from them. It is a great new blog joining the flash blogosphere.

David Stiller gives us some tips and notes on how to save bandwidth when displaying flash videos online and how to display video faster on client browsers.

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Anand Vardhan made a great article on choosing between Flash or Flex when working on a project to make an SWF file. The article is titled “Adobe Flash Or Adobe Flex: Make Your Choice“. An example is given when to choose Flash and when to choose Flex.

New article posted in AjaxWorld by Ric Smith which talks about RIAs and what are they good for and why Ajax still growing despite the strength of Flash and Silverlight. Read here.