Color synthAxis is a cool Flash application that will help you create and experiment with color palettes. Be sure to check out the tutorial before you begin!

Christian Cantrell sent me a link to his latest piece of work that was co-developed by Mike Chambers. The Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit is a freely downloadable package that lets you seamlessly communicate between Flash and JavaScript. You can call JavaScript functions from Flash, and visa-versa. From their product page they state that:

While there have been ways to communicate between JavaScript and Flash in the past, they have not worked reliably across browsers and/or platforms. Furthermore, these techniques only allow you to pass strings between JavaScript and Flash, and not complex data types such as objects and arrays.

AgencyNet Interactive has an incredible promotional site built using Flash that incorporates some very cool video elements and great transitions.

PHPObject from GhostWire Studios is a set of Flash Components and an opensource alternative to Flash Remoting for PHP developers. With PHPObject, you can call a method of a PHP class/library on your web server as if the class/library was defined in Flash itself.

X Factor Studio has a nice XPath implementatin for Flash. Available for both ActionScript 1 and 2, XPath4AS2 is very close to being a complete XPath implementation.

[link via Vinnie Stubbs]

Grant Skinner has a good tutorial that saved my skin a while back. Internal Preloading in Flash MX 2004 explains how to get a Flash movie that contains many components to preload properly.

Stumbled across this last night – the AMFPHP Wiki is a collaborative project to begin creating documentation for the PHP implementation of Flash Remoting. If you have had any experience with AMFPHP, be sure to visit the Wiki and contribute!

Many advertising sites have been using Flash to create popup/popunder ads that get past the excellent popup blocking in Firefox. You can learn how to Block Flash-based Popups in Firefox at the at Forever Geek website.

alphaWorks is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Laszlo. The technology preview is an Eclipse-based development environment for creating Laszlo applications using the LZX declarative mark-up language.

IT Manager’s Journal has an article titled RIA platforms lend apps more Flash and offers glowing reviews of Flash, Flex and Laszlo as web application platforms.