Intel-based Set-top box running Flash, HD Video
Intel has demoed its Set-top box with CE 3100 Media Processor, which combines an 800MHz Pentium M core with a proprietary video processing core all on one chip at IDF. That sep-top box runs Flash UI as it has FlashLite for Digital Home running on top of Linux.
This is the product i am working on 
Good to see demos of the product for which i am working on...
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65 Excellent Flash Designs
Adobe Flash has evolved from just Game Programming, dealing with Video playback to a most complete web technology, which can create any enriching visual experience that is not possible with HTML and CSS. Though Flash is not favourite medium for accessibilty and Usability, it has its own advantages in creating a highly interactive Web Content other than advetising and Games.
Smashing Magazine has a post which tell us about how to use nice graphics, content, designs and graphics motion in creating complete Web Portals. It has some best practices which designing any portfolio for your website. This has around 65 Flash Design examples.
Check them out....
Free Flash Components
Flash Components are some third-party components that can be added onto your Flash as add-ons or extensions and make use of them. You can install these components using Adobe Extension Manager.
Now-a-days we can get many many rich Flash Components for free.
FlashScope has release some nice and useful Flash Components, which are absolutely free. Take a look at them, you wont regret. They are really useful.
Using Tween Class in Flash AS3
Using Tween Class, we can animate, fade or move any specific movieclip to animate over a specified period of time.
import fl.transitions.Tween; import fl.transitions.easing.*; var myTweenX:Tween=new Tween(_mc,"x",Elastic.easeOut,36,260,3,true);
We can use different Easing mechanisms to perform this animation. We have following differnet Easing methods:
- Back : the animation will go beyond the end position before bouncing back into it
- Bounce: the animation will bounce back a few steps when it reaches the end position before settling at it
- Elastic: a mixture of Bounce and Back effects combined
- None: no special tweening, the object movement will not speed up along the path
- Regular: the animation will gradually increase or decrease in speed as specified by the easing method
- Strong: a more emphasised Regular effect
25 Nice Flash Website Templates
Now a days most of the websites are being shifted to Adobe Flash, Owing to its rich experince and look & feel.
Recently i came across a post at FlashUser.net which has some 25 awesome Flash Website Templates.
Go ahead and try out those templates.
Make your website Flashy
Skinning Flex/AIR Components
Skinning is like changin the look of the components. To skin Flex components, we can use either Bitmaps or swfs or programmatically we can skin.
In this post we will be looking into skinning Flex Components graphically i.e. using Bitmap images and using SWFs. Using skins we can define the whole appearance, different states of the components.
For example, we will see skinning a button now. We can give whole new look to different states of button like down, up, over etc.
Working with Sound in AS 3.0
In this post, we are going to look at handling, playing and dealing with Sound in Adobe Flash AS3.
The simplest way to play any local mp3 sound is that you need to make a URLRequest to the mp3 file and pass it to Sound object.
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("sample.mp3");
var mySound:Sound = new Sound(req);
mySound.play();
Checking the loading of the Sound
Sound class can dispatch events like ProgressEvent.PROGRESS and Event.COMPLETE to check the loading process of a Sound File. Using ProgressEvent.PROGRESS event, we can keep track of how much of the Sound Data is being loaded and how much sound has been played.
Using Inverse Kinematics in Flash CS4
In this post we are going to look into a Cool Feature in Flash CS4 called Inverse Kinematics. To use this, we have a new tool called Bone Tool. 
We can use this bone tool to create bone structures on both Shapes and MovieClips.
Alpha-Channel Masking in Flash
In this post, we are going to see how we can implement masking in both Flash using AS2 and AS3. In extension to this, we will talk about Alpha Masking as well.
Mask in Flash is something like a window through which we can see any other Display Object. In Flash, the Display object that we see through the mask is termed as a Maskee.
Some cool Flash Components…
I have come across a post from AjaxLine, which has some 3o Flash Components. Have a look at these components. These components seems to be good, which we can use for some nice Flash Apps.
Try out these components...