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Yes that’s it. Nothing more to say. “Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. “

A greate article posted in Switch Blog on how to make an advanced Data Gride and loading the data from an external XML file.

ERain today announced the release of Swift 3D version 5.0 for windows. The software is now available for purchase in ERain Website. New features introduced in this version can be found here.

For those who are unfamiliar with the program. Swift 3D is tool to create 3D graphics and animation for Flash. You can export the 3D model into flash and use it with your Flash project. You can export your model/animation in other formats too such as avi, jpeg, swft, 3ds. It also supports lightning, cameras, texturing, vector and raster rendering… etc.

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide is now available free for download from adobe labs. Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Swartz in general explains how to create AIRs application using Flex. This book is for developers interested in leveraging the Flex Framework to build and deploy Flash-based applications to the desktop via Apollo.

Adobe has recently published two articles on combining Flex and Java technologies.

• From Java to Flex
• Flex and Java – A perfect technological marriage

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.

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.

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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