Title tags are the single most important SEO variable

Note: SEO Title Tag 2.1.0 adds compatibility with WordPress 2.3!

Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization (”SEO”). It blows my mind how post titles are also used as title tags by WordPress, considering that post titles should be catchy, pithy, and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture additional search visibility.

Now, thankfully, there is a solution, allowing you to decouple post titles from title tags. Introducing… the SEO Title Tag 2.1 WordPress plugin.

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Flash Drawing API

The drawing API is used to draw using only lines of code.

In the drawing API we have the following functions:
lineStyle(thickness,rgb, alpha)

The first thing you need to do before drawing is choosing your pencil.

You can choose the thickness, rgb(color) and alpha(transparency).
moveTo(x, y)

In the real life you have to move the pencil to the place where you are going to draw, this function is for that, we move the "pencil" to a desired x and y position.
lineTo(x, y)

After choosing a starting place we tell the "pencil" to draw a line to an x and y position.
curveTo(controlX, controlY, anchorX, anchorY)

This function is to draw a curve, anchorX and anchorY are the position of the end of the curve. And controlX and controlY tell to which direction the curve is going to be draw.
beginFill(rgb, alpha) || endFill()

When we are drawing an object that we want to fill with a color we call the function beginFill() before moving the "pencil" and after the last lineTo() we call endFill().

You are going to understand this when we go on examples.
clear()

This function is our virtual eraser, if we want to erase what we did and call clear().

Let's draw a square:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("dBoard",1);

First we create a Movie Clip to draw on, we will call it "dBoard" and it will have 1 as its depth.
dBoard.lineStyle(1,0,100);

Define which "pencil" we are using. In this case the thickness is 1, the color is 0(black) and it has no transparency (100).
dBoard.moveTo(30, 30)

Here we move the "pencil" to the place we want as the start.
dBoard.lineTo(60,30);

image 1
dBoard.lineTo(60,60);

image 2
dBoard.lineTo(30,60);

image 3
dBoard.lineTo(30,30);

image 4

If you want to erase the square call clear().

To draw a square filled with black:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("dBoard",1);
dBoard.beginFill(0, 100);
dBoard.moveTo(80, 80)
dBoard.lineTo(110,80);
dBoard.lineTo(110,110);
dBoard.lineTo(80,110);
dBoard.lineTo(80,80);
dBoard.endFill();

image 5

Draw a curve:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("dBoard",1);
dBoard.lineStyle(1,0,100);
dBoard.moveTo(130,130)
dBoard.curveTo(180,180,130,230);

image 6

This is every thing you need to know about the drawing in actionscript, with these functions you can draw almost everything.

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ExternalInterface is the way to go with FLASH 8 pop up windows

external interface code and example

Pause an animation on page blur, resume on focus (From Flash Kit)

CODE FOR FIRST FRAME IN FLASH MOVIE

import flash.external.*; // this is for calling JS function on the Html from Flash without getURL.
content_status = "off";

// this is the function that toggles the widget on and off
function toggle_widget(content_status) {

if(content_status == "on"){
ESPWidget.instance.resume();
}else if(content_status == "off"){
ESPWidget.instance.pause();
}else{
// no other values accepted
}
}

// Register our toggle function for Browser to use
var ei1 = flash.external.ExternalInterface.addCallback("widget_focus", null, toggle_widget);

// this function will cal a JS function on Html page with 'str' argument
function sendText(str) {
var greeting:String;
greeting = String(ExternalInterface.call("getFromFlash", str));
}

CODE FOR THE HEAD OF THE HTML PAGE
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get the code from flash kit
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Flash Player 9 is King !

Flash Player 9 is at 95% penetration already !
The most recent statistics from Adobe shows that 99% of all users are now able to see Flash content and 95% can see the latest version.

According to the latest survey by Millward Brown, 99% of US and Canadian customers can now view Flash Player 6 based content and for Japan the figure is even 99.5%. The stats have never been this strong and even accounting for statistical errors, this is nothing less than amazing.

Keep in mind that the percentage will vary from site to site depending on the target audience, but that these numbers are often a good indication.
Read more at Emmy Huang's blog
the stats

CS4 is on the horizon

"If you are a designer, Flash CS4 will blow your mind."
theflashblog
"The term devigner has emerged to describe people who are skilled at both design and development and this is exactly the type of person that best flourishes inside of the Flash authoring tool."

Transition from AS2 to AS3

Are you looking for a guide to help you move From Actionscript 2.0 to Actionscript 3.0? Below are two (2) good sources for making the basic AS3 transition
transition link 1
transition link 2