Not too long ago, the choice of professional tools for developing content for the Flash Platform was limited to a handful of commercial offerings with a sprinkle of open source alternatives.

Macromedia and HP have formed a partnership to integrate, market and sell the Macromedia Flash Platform and the HP Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for mobile devices.

Now this is sexy! Today Apple announced the iPod nano, a very elegant, slim digital player that supersedes the iPod Mini (which is no longer listed on Apple’s website but is there if you know the URL).

File this one under coolness. Mazda has unveiled a new concept car that further moves the push to orphan the soon-to-be old-fashioned use of keys-by replacing keys with USB flash drives.

Converting PowerPoint to Flash would absolutely be a good choice to distribute your bulky PowerPoint Presentation.

Locking down Macromedia Flash
Now that more and more people are jumping onto the Macromedia Flash application bandwagon I’m starting to see a growing number of questions about security and Macromedia Flash. In particular, developers are often unsure if Macromedia Flash applications can have the same level of security as a well-designed HTML-based application. The answer to that question is most definitely yes, if you design your application properly.

These days, Flash users fall into two main categories: designers, who can dream up amazing Flash user interfaces, and developers, who spend most of their time pressing Ctrl+Enter. The Flash developer is a relatively new moniker. It describes someone who prefers to interact with Flash using a text editor, rather than manipulating movie clips on the stage. This article is an overview of must-have tools for Flash developers. Most of them are free, some are not. But all of them can save you time and effort.

Getting your Flash on TV? Isn’t Flash for the Web? Yeah, that’s right. Macromedia’s Flash can be used to create videos for television. Why would you want to do this if it’s gonna cost you time and money?

A developer has created a Flash-based interface portal for Google Earth and MSN Virtual Earth.

Macromedia Flash Player 8 is here and packed with useful and innovative features. Performance and memory consumption are also significantly improved in the new player, and you will notice the improvement without changing a line of code or recompiling.

Because a large portion of our Web application user interface is done in Flash, we here at Cafe ID (http://www.cafeid.com) took special interest in Monday’s official announcement of Flash 8 by Macromedia.

Although we don’t know whether Microsoft ever envisioned such a big market about PowerPoint on its first release.

Is your company planning to join the wide, wide world of the Web and is keen into building a corporate website? Perceptively, a company’s decision of building a web site arises from the need to inform and reach out wider to potential clients of their service or products.

Do you want to have a feature rich web site with animations, sound, and an opening splash screen?

Since the inception of Flash, it has been the programming medium of choice for many companies. Most professionals recognize the superior visual aspects that Flash has to offer.

In an extremely innovative move on Yahoo’s part, they’ve introduced Flash support into their video search service, an integration none of their competitors have pulled off, unless they’ve done it behind closed doors.

The Deep Impact probe hit comet Tempel 1 yesterday at a collision speed of about 23,000 miles per hour.

Macromedia Flash Swift 3D is an innovatory extension for Flash MX. Swift 3D instantly converts text and artwork into spectacular 3D animations without leaving the Flash interface.

Ever browse across a website that took ten million years to load or required a road map to find the navigation bar? True, Flash Technology might impress your clients till their eyes fall out.

Web-enabled consumers are tossing their cookies in greater numbers; and although this phenomenon is related to the stomach-churning activities of some Internet marketers and their offerings, it has more to do with taking back control of their Web browsing, and less to do with violent physiological reactions to bad snack food.

Henk Van Ess has started off a new blog, Search Bistro, with a scoop he claims to have found: Google’s evaluation labs.