New set of Video Tutorials by flashextensions.

• Processing the Enter Key in a TextField.
• Debugging External Classes.
• Referencing XML with an ID Tag.
• Detecting when a MovieClip is Created.
• Quick Registration Point Change (with ALT key) .
• Create a Quick Panel with Flash 8 Filters.

Updated, Flash 8:

• Flash Detection and Express Install. Learn everything you need to know in order to build your own detection agent and installer.
• Flash External Interface. Learn seemless communication between external applications and Flash with this new Flash 8 featrue.

Previous related entries:

• Flash:Video Tutorials, September 7th,2005.
• Flash:Video Tutorials, August 24th,2005.
• Flash: More Video Tutorials, August 9th, 2005.
• Flash: Small tip, Tuesday, August 2nd.
• Flash: Video Tutorials, Tuesday, August 2nd.

Check watercoolergames.org, a “forum for the uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment”:

New animation on Tokyo Plastic, the Opera Dude.

A list of factors that influence your page ranking in search engines, over at SEOmoz.org. Very comprehensive, everything listed by importance, and includes techniques you maybe didn’t know they get you banned.

www.thetvboy.com

via BoingBoing.

Dirty underwater simulation using perlinNoise, DisplacementMapFilter and a webCam:

SWF sample (You need a wbcam connected to your computer):

If you don't have a webCam, just click here to see the same effect apply to a static picture.

[flash]http://www.blog.lessrain.com/wp-content/upload/myperlinnoise_01.swf,250,250[/flash]

Quick And Dirty Source Code:

I heven't found any information about this, but must be a strong and logical reason (conflicting issues) to do not show certain words such as 'Open' and 'Save' as context menu items.

If you try the following script you will see what I'm talking about (Maybe is just me...):

The Less Rain Retail Empire is expanding, with our new shop opening its doors mid October. Lots of LR T-Shirts, Japanese snacks that should be banned (like the infamous dried wasabi peas), and other schnick-schnack.

Ron Jonzo, our Man with Pen (TM) will unveil a new series of paintings at the opening party, a limited edition silk-screen poster will be available, too!

Less Rain Super Centre
Linienstrasse 154a
10115 Berlin

Opening party: 14th October
Exhibition: 14th October till end of this year

Shop opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10am - 8pm, from 16th October

Check out the Fertilizer Festival, running from 20th to 23rd October in and around Shoreditch, London. With Seed, Jan Jelinek, T Raumschmiere, FSK, Chicks on Speed, B. Fleischmann, and more...