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Yesterday Powerflasher released an update of there Eclipse Plugin FDT which is the AS2 Editor of my choice.
“[…] The new Powerflasher FDT 1.5 version is available from now on. It is a free minor update for all FDT fans. We hope the development time for version 2.0 with AS3 support feels short with it.”
- Eclipse 3.2 support
- MAC help update improved
- Better UTF-8 Support
- Project- and workspace wide reference search
- Mark occurrence in the editor area
- external Flashplayer with real helpful features and ANT support (windows only for the first step)
- classpath editor (imports projectclasspaths to the Flash IDE)
- And of course bugfixes and small other improved things
More info here and in their forum.
I just saw it in the Flashcoders list.
Sephirot has created a Firefox extension to switch the Flash Plugin.
I aleady tried and it after two clicks you switched the plugin! Now that’s pretty usefull!
Get it here.
“Google Co-op is a platform that enables you to customize the web search experience for users of both Google and your own website.”
I have created a Co-op search for Flash/Flex related stuff. Check it out here:
SWF Blog/Tech Search Engine
Direct link to the search engine.
The search engine is open so feel free to contribute and add Flash/Flex related blogs and sites.
For me it was faster as expected and the blogs are running hot.
The Flash Player 9 beta for Linux is available.
Jesse Warden has blogged some links to Adobe blogs with additional information.
I am not using Linux (yet) but it is very important to see that the Flash Platform becomes truly crossplatform.
Maybe you know GSpot, a software to analyze videos to determine the codecs and parameters of a video file. I have used it often in the past but stopped using it because many codecs were not support and video evolution is a rapid thing.
Now I saw (due to posts in the ffmpeg-list) that there is a new version since September (first update for 2 years) which supports FLV, MP4, DV1/2 and more.
I already tested it with an FLV (Sorenson Spark and VP2) and it works as expected and tells you a lot information like e.g. the total number of video frames, “Frame Quality” in bit/pixel-frame.
Btw: The discussion in the ffmpeg-list is about the possibility to use VBR for the audiopart of a FLV which is (due to the analyze of GSpot) used by YouTube.
Talking about YouTube I haven’t blogged about the merge with Google as this was even in quite every local news and if you did not know it yet you should get worried about the information channels you are using 
I updated the little Flex application to work with the final Flash Player 9 as the old version was build with Flex Builder Beta 2. See my old blogpost here.
Open the GUI here (Flash Player 9 required)
It’s Open Source. Simply rightclick and select “view source” or click here.
The command you create is for transcoding to Flash Video (FLV).
Check the ZDNet article
Apollo looks very promising. The integration of Flash, Flex, AJAX and PDF is awesome and the most important point is that it will be truely crossplatform (Windows, Mac and Linux) when the Flashplayer 9 is ported to Linux.
