There's a new page on OSFlash for Open Source Flash Tutorials. I've added links to some of my tutorials here on FlashAnt and to a couple on the OSFlash site itself.

If you know of any other tutorials on open source Flash-related topics (and I know that there are quite a few), feel free to link to them there.

Igor Dimitrijevic just released his open-source Flash Text Formatter, a wonderful generic syntax highlighter that uses keyword definitions in XML. Using it is very easy, you just pass the name of the source file you want to highlight and the XML keyword definition you want to use through flashvars and FTF displays it beautifully in Flash with line numbers and syntax highlighting.

FTF also comes as a WordPress plugin -- another reason to switch to WordPress.

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I was just viewing a PDF in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 and got a pop-up asking me whether I want to upgrade to 7.0. I had put this off due to the large size of the Acrobat plugin but thought, "Hey, what the heck, OK..." and clicked "Yes". Next screen, I had to choose which apps I wanted to install (umm, I thought I told you I wanted to upgrade Acrobat). So, ignoring the Adobe Atmosphere, Adobe Photoshop Album (???) and "Install the Yahoo! Toolbar" options, I added "Adobe Reader 7.0" to my Selected list and *boom* there was "Install the Yahoo! Toolbar" added to my selected list also.

Me: Oooooh! [Clicks on "Install Yahoo! Toolbar" to remove it from the Selected]

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Up until recently, I had no trouble running Apache on my development machine. Then, one day, seemingly out-of-the-blue, Apache started complaining that it could not bind to port 80. This one almost drove me crazy until I found out Skype was grabbing the port and being very stingy with it. In case you have Skype running and Apache won't start, exit Skype, run Apache and then run Skype. (If Apache already has port 80, Skype doesn't complain.)

I just noticed that Miranda released a new (stable) version four days ago. What I love about it is how easy it is to install/upgrade: I made a backup of my existing miranda32.exe and plugins folder (just in case), unzipped the new release into the existing folder and I was up and running with version 0.4.0.1, with all my settings, plugins, etc. intact. Life should be this easy! :)