View the full-resolution version at screencast.com. Jing is a wonderful, free, cross-platform app from Techsmith for recording screen captures and screencasts. It lets you share your recordings immediately (without a separate encoding process) through Techsmith's screencast.com screencast hosting service, Flickr, and via your own web server with FTP access. One thing I couldn't get it [...]

Adobe's announcement that Google and Yahoo! will be indexing Flash content at a much deeper level was met with all sorts of reactions last week, ranging from praise from the Flash and Flex communities to utter shock and horror from some HTML fundamentalists expressing fear that the end was nigh. Well, it appears that Google [...]

The SWF format is now totally open. Rejoice! This is big: Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications as part of their new Open Screen Project 2008. When Mark Doherty emailed me to tell me about his post on Adobe's Open Screen Project 2008, I wasn't expecting such an [...]

I just released version 1.33 of The GAE SWF Project and, as tradition would have it, need to head to bed in the next few minutes lest I should expire. The updates in a nutshell: The Yahoo! Astra TabBar component does not show the focusRect when navigating by keyboard. I fixed this for the example but [...]

I just updated The GAE SWF Project to add the proof-of-concept Google App Engine Flex 3 client. The source code download now includes the source code for the Flex project. The Flex client works exactly like the Flash 9 client and shares an almost identical codebase. 99% of the framework is the same. I'm going [...]