Ever want to be able to reference personalized information each time a user visits your Flash? Before Flash MX, you needed to use PHP cookies. But Macromedia/Adobe created Flash Cookies called SharedObjects to make this easier for you. I’m not kidding! It’s like two lines of code to save and retrieve locally-stored data each time a user browses the site.

Case and point, try entering your name and age to the Flash below. Then click “Store” and either click the “Refresh” button, refresh your browser or hit F5.

A number of posters on Donline have left comments requesting that the Flash File Uploader allow for users to specify a specific directory for the uploaded files. In the past, the uploader hardcoded the directory for uploads to be “/files/”, with thumbnails automatically going into a newly-created child folder called “/.s/” (the auto-thumbnailing option was added in Version 2).

Some minor modifications to the Flash FLA, index.php and upload.php were made to enable users to specify their own directories for file uploads. Naturally, this opens up a security breach as wily coders can point to unspecified directories outside the current folder, if those directories are writeable. Hopefully, this won’t become an issue for you, but I’m requiring all users of the scripts to still read and accept my disclaimer before proceeding.

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I can’t really criticize this guy, because he’s absolutely right on almost everything he says. Actually, strangely, a great resource for people that have a hard time remembering encoding rules.

Head on over to AFComponents.com, the providers of the GMap we’re using for the MovieBamba Meet Me at the Movies® People Map (coming soon!). Their UMap component for Actionscript v3.0 now allows for relief (topographical) maps and others. Check their original post below:

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According to Microsoft (labs.live.com/photosynth), "the Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor. "