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SWFs to become fully searchable - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Today, Adobe announces a new search engine solution, a special Flash Player that runs on the server to provide Search Engines a "real" look at what's inside your Flash and Flex files, including any dynamic data it pulls in. We talked to Justin Everett-Church from Adobe to get to know more.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/swfs_to_become_fully_searchable/

Review: BB FlashBack 2.0 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

UK based software developer Blueberry software specialises in creating screen recording and video authoring software. They recently launched version 2.0 of their flagship product BB FlashBack. We haven't looked at video screen capture tools for a little while so we decided to see what BB FlashBack 2.0 has to offer.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/review_bb_flashback_20/

WebDU 2008 - Day 2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The second day at WebDU came with beautiful weather. The about 330 attendees was treated to a fun keynote by Tim Buntel and a series of more advanced sessions than the day before.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/webdu_2008_day_2/

flXHR and flensed tools - (Found July 2, 2008 )

flXHR is a new solution to eliminate cross browser issues by handling the XMLHttpRequests using Flash and then return the result to your favorite JS framework. Flash is omnipresent and it's powerful. Why not tap into the power of Flash - even when you're doing Javascript That way there's less to download and you can even load data across domains
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flxhr_and_flensed_tools/

Mike Chambers interview Part 1 - about Mike, Macromedia and Adobe - (Found July 2, 2008 )

At the OnAIR event in Stockholm, we grabbed the tour host Mike Chambers for an informal chat about him, how he joined Macromedia, the Adobe merger and corporate culture in the two companies. After switching to Adobe, Mike has taken on new roles and titles and we caught up with him at the Munchen-Brewery in Stockholm.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/mike_chambers_interview_part_1/

Mike Chambers interview Part 2 - about AIR - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Mike and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) goes way back. About 5 years ago, Mike worked on the Macromedia Central project. It was short lived, but the lessons learned went into what is now known as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). In Stockholm, we talked about the history and future for AIR.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/mike_chambers_interview_part_2/

CS3.3 available - (Found July 2, 2008 )

About a month ago, Adobe announced a paid upgrade to Creative Suite 3. Today they announced the immediate availability of Adobe CS 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions. Do you need it Probably not.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/cs33_available/

RIAJobs.org launched - (Found July 2, 2008 )

This evening, Peter Elst officially launched a new pet project, a site offering job listings for the entire RIA community. It's free to use and covers not only Flash and Flex, but also other technologies such as AIR, AJAX, Gears, JavaFX, Silverlight as well as Web 2.0 in general.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/riajobsorg_launched/

Mate: Event driven framework for Flex - (Found July 2, 2008 )

This article will introduce you to the Mate framework for Adobe Flex. "Mate" (pronounced "mah-teh") is a tag based framework used to build Flex applications. Mate helps define the architecture of your application. Two important goals of the Mate framework are: simplicity and non-intrusiveness. Using the Mate framework will help you create a loosely coupled application. There is a companion Mate application along with this article available for download that demonstrates how to call a web...
http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/mate_event_driven_framework_for_flex/

WebDU 2008 - Day 1 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

In a foggy Sydney, WebDU kicked off in classic fashion with brand new set of hilarious animations from Nectarine poking fun at the speakers, Adobe, Microsoft and the web community at large. After this, Mike Downey took stage to present the Adobe Keynote where he showed Flash CS4 publicly for the first time.
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/webdu_2008_day_1/