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If you ever wanted to read most popular (and a bunch of unknown) image file formats directly in Flash/Flex, be sure to check out Zaail: http://www.zaalabs.com/2010/04/introducing-zaail-40-image-format-support...

I'm the first to admit I'm no fan of Apple.

Whilst I admire their marketing machine and ability to sell last year's technology to the masses, their technical innovation and sheer lack of co-operativity frustrates me.

Well it's finally been released: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/?promoid=BPDEQ

Watch this space for my thoughts on Adobe's next iteration of the Flex platform.

This isn't a new app, but I've only just stumbled across it. Welcome to Gliffy, a web application that allows you to create diagrams of different types and shared them amongst other people:

http://www.gliffy.com/

The first of many great ideas for Flash player apps on Android:

http://newteevee.com/2010/03/10/the-ultimate-music-video-jukebox-via-fla...

... and I can't wait!

With the advent of Flash Player 10 at the end of 2008, Adobe opened up a new generation of image processing techniques using the Pixel Bender system. In its simplest form, Pixel Bender allows the Flash or Flex developer to run mathematical algorithms used for image processing (and in fact other tasks) at a greatly increased rate. Flash Player does this by offloading those calculations to the computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) which is often faster than the main CPU.

This tutorial demonstrates the use of the Pixel Bender system in Flex Builder 3.

Adobe have signficantly changed the skinning system in Flash Builder 4 to give the developer greater abilities to create custom skins for existing and custom components without having to dive into Flash or any other graphics application.

This tutorial takes you through the basics of skinning a Flex 4 component.

Just wanted to let readers know about a newish magazine that I've been keeping an eye on. Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine is a bimonthly mag containing reviews, tips and interviews about all things Flash & Flex.
If you're looking for something dedicated to development, take a look: http://www.ffdmag.com.

Flex 3 brings to us powerful skinning abilities. In this post I'll show you how to create a simple skin for a Flex button.