As Adobe Flash CS4 introduces many new features and tools, new keyboard shortcut commands are bound to follow. Thankfully, Matthew Would decided to release a Flash CS4 keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet.

With much of the attention being pointed to search optimization and the Flash Platform, knowing and understanding the current conditions of how or what search engines are able to reveal from your Flash applications is very important.

This article explains what the issues and challenges are and how to overcome them, whether you are a developer, designer, content owner, website owner, project manager, or even an SEO expert.

I am sure some are thinking, “What!  Flash has a history panel?”.  Yeah, Flash has a history panel, however, how much use can you get from is the question.  Check out this quick article by Keith Gilbert as he goes over the Flash history panel and some of its pros and cons.

Everybody loves a free preloader and in a Flex application the preloader is the first thing the user’s see.  To celebrate St. Patrick’s day, Zee Zang has contributed a tutorial that will run down on creating a seasonal preloader.

Flash CS4 has some new capabilities with basic applications in addition to the cool new 3D methods.  This brief tutorial will create an application that draws a polygon with any number of points and fills it in when all points have been added.

Adobe’s Text Layout Framework, in combination with the new text engine in Flash Player 10, is finally giving Flash developers the kind of typographic control we’ve needed for years.  Check out this example on how to embed fonts using the new text engine.

Do you remember the snippet panel that Lee Brimelow built a while back? Lee has now rebuilt it from scratch using Flex and it has been exclusively built to take advantage of Flash CS4.

With Adobe Flash CS4 being out for a few months now, is there anything about it that is bugging you? (except for the AS editor):)  If so, head over to Lee’s blog and let your voice be heard.

Not sure whether or not to use Flash’s new 3D engine or Papervision3D for simple 3D animations?  The guys over at Big Spaceship run some speed tests to quickly compare the new Flash10 3D capabilities and Papervision3D.  Hopefully, these results will help you choose the right side for you.

Open Video Player looks to provide a standard approach to the core of rich video applications.  This looks to be  great for the Flash community as it continues to grow.