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Zeh Fernando highlights the new “Alias Text” feature in Flash MX 2004 and explains how fonts actually work and why this feature is usefull for Flash developers. Very nice article.

“Many of you have already noticed our new and updated macromedia.com. We call it macromedia.com 2004, and we’re very excited about it.” If you are like me and have completely forgotten to check the DevNet Center this week, get there now! Apart from articles about the new products it also contains some interesting insight into [...]

I think I love Apple (screenshot) Nice to see such a great promotion of Studio MX 2004 on the Apple.com website.
By the way; did I tell you that my newest gadget, the iPod 15 Gb, is on it’s way to me? I had the option to specify a personalized message that will be engraved [...]

Flash Player 7 supports CSS. Check here for a nice sample application that shows the capabilities. Now how’s that?
ps: If you have not noticed yet, Dreamweaver MX 2004 has many major improvements for creating CSS based sites as well! Looks like I need to polish my CSS skills (and grab Eric Meyer his book from [...]

We announced Studio MX 2004! Check out all the great new features at our redesigned site www.macromedia.com. I’ve been working with all the new tools for quite some months and can’t do without anymore. The list of cool new things is way too long to mention here, so check out MX 2004 yourself! I’m looking [...]

You might have noticed that you can pre-order Studio MX 2004 or any other product from the MX 2004 range. I have received some reports from European customers that experience problems when pre-ordering. This seems to be due to the Euro Store redirecting to the USA Store, and when arriving there being directed back to [...]

Flashtival News: We’ve been very busy updating the site with detailed session information, so if you have not yet decided to join this conference you really should check it out! We’ve also lowered the price for the ticket! Next week we’ll do more updates to the site, so make sure that you visit it regularly.

Flashhosting.nl has published a nice Dutch article on Streaming Video for websites writting by Macromedia partner Forward Thinking. It is a 19 page article that discusses usages of streaming video on the web and the differences between video on TV and on the internet. The third part of the article compares the difference between [...]

WOW! As you probably know, performance and stability improvements were one of the top priorities for the release of ColdFusion MX 6.1. Tim Buntel, on an internal mailinglist, pointed to the new Performance Brief for ColdFusion MX 6.1 which is now available. It shows that the ColdFusion development team did a great job!
Some [...]

We’ve opened registrations for Flashtival 2003! The sooner you register yourself, the better price you’ll get. The agenda is posted, detailed session information is to be expected later this week. Flashtival 2003 is going be great fun with fantastic speakers and hopefully some nice exhibitors (feel free to contact me if you want to become [...]