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Big news for the Flash community, developers can now download the new Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition stand alone player. This is a prerelease version for developers to test their Flash applications before mobile phones start shipping with full version of Flash Lite 3.

Technically it should work on any Nokia S60 3rd edition or later devices. Adobe has not certified Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition on any other Nokia S60 3rd edition devices and cannot guarantee that the player will work on them. Other Nokia S60 3rd edition or newer models include: 3250, 5500 Sport, 5700, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, 6290, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, N71, N73, N73 Music Edition, N75, N76, N77, N80, N80 IE, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N91, N91 8GB, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 US 3G, N95 8GB.

All the hype and rumors surrounding Microsoft Silverlight in last few days has now come to an end. Microsoft announced that SilverLight 1.1 will be now named SilverLight 2.0. The second installment of SilverLight (Microsoft’s-damn-freaking-way-to-monopolize-the-market) will support C# and Visual Basic of the .NET Framework which is a big plus. That’s a big move from Microsoft to beat down Adobe Flash.

Silverlight 2.0 is still in the development process and will take time to be out in public but the alpha release is out. Many firms and businesses are adopting Silverlight (instead of Flash) for their web applications due . But Flash still dominates the World-Wide-Web with a penetration over 93% for Flash Player 9 and over 99% for previous versions.

The battle between Adobe and Microsoft is still going and Microsoft is catching Adobe fast. If Adobe doesn’t do something fast they could lose this war. Oh god, I can feel the tension between Bruce Chizen and Steve… not that Steve, I meant Steve Ballmer. I don’t expect any gracefulness from anyone of them to the other, but I expect them to speed up the RIA (Rich Internet Application) development process and start working on getting rid of bugs been out there for years!

A new logo for Adobe AIR has been announced. Mike Chambers posted the new logo on his blog as he says:

Adobe AIR is built on top of three core web technologies (HTML, Flash and PDF), and we wanted the logo to represent this. Thus, each corner of the logo represents one of these core technologies.

Wonderful news for all Flex 2 students out there! Adobe Flex 2 is going to be free for education purpose. A detail of this news is available at Yahoo Finance.

Flex Cookbook is looking for authors. If you have a Flex recipe and you like to publish it on a famouse series of books from O’Reilly here is your chance.

Interview with, Scott Petersen, the creator of the C/C++ translator into ActionScript 3.0. The sneak peak playing Quake game after converting it from C/C++ into Actionscript made alot of arguments on how powerful AS3.0 is. The MAX sneak peak of playing the game shows Quake running in Flash Player.

Thanks to Flex RIA United, they posted actionscript resources websites on their blog.

Here is their list:

Action Script Library – A collection of code snippets for use with ActionScript.

ActionScript.org Library – A collection of over 700 scripts for you to use, a large selection of tutorials and more.

Actionscript Physics Engine – A free 2D physics engine for Actionscript 3 from MIT.

ActionStep.org – An ActionScript 2.0 open source component framework for writing to the Flash player.

Animation Package – An ActionScript library (Flash player 6 and above) with a focus on keeping file sizes down.

AS2lib.org – The AS2 library open source framework to work with Actionscript 2.

AS2Unit.org – An Actionscript 2 testing framework that lets you run repeatable tests on your classes.

Flalog.com – Tips, tricks, and tutorials for Flash and ActionScript.

FlashKit.com – Code snippets, reviews, links, over 1,000 tutorials.

Flashtica.com – A designer-oriented site with open source scripts and links to lots of resources.

GoToAndLearn.com – A site with very in-depth video tutorials on various aspects of Flash.

Jim’s Flash Bestiary – A collection of small Flash movies with accompanying source code to learn from.

Kirupa.com Tutorials – An extensive collection of tutorials on just about every conceivable aspect of Flash.

OneFlex.org Codes – A site for people to post and share code snippets for ActionScript and MXML.

OSFlash.org – A home for open source Flash projects that any registered member can contribute to.

Smart Webby Flash Tutorials – A collection of tutorials for Flash for beginner to advanced developers.

TutorialOutpost Flash Lessons – A huge collection of tutorials on many aspects of the Flash program.

Oh yes.. I meant the “!!!!!!!!” thing! Can you believe that you can play Quake I on Flash? That’s what you’ll see on this video.

Peter Elst has uploaded video sneak peek of Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago. Scott Peterson’s C/C++ conversion to AS3 tool is truly amazing. He converts the whole Quake game which was written in C++ into AS3 and played the game in flash player.

Peter Elst posted few sneak peek videos of MAX Chicago 2007. He is in process uploading all sessions he attended on that conference.

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a simple cartoon animation like the one hereunder:

It is easy, simple steps, and totally suitable for beginners.

Two big releases today! Adobe released Flex 3 Beta 2 and Flash Lite 3. Adobe has been releasing Flex 3 Beta for testing and now releasing the new version of the beta.

Flash Lite is the flash player version for mobile devices. The new release supports FLV flash videos that might do a great impact in the mobile world. This will allow even low resource small mobile phones to play FLV video like the one youtube uses.