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For those of you interested in actionscript 3, you’ll notice that FuseKit just hasn’t updated their code yet. Which is totally unfortunate cause I love FuseKit. Anyway, I use Tweener for AS3 which has gotten the job done even though I haven’t done anything major with it yet. Anyway draw.logic has an awesome post on the best animation packages for AS3 with pros and cons on each. Great little resource!

Also I know this is the first time I’ve mentioned this particular blog, so if you’re big on resources for Flash, this is an awesome blog to add to your news reader. My hats off to Ryan!

Celso Gomes is an interactive designer working at Microsoft who has come up with Nibbles: a series of “snack tutorials for hungry designers” that cover the use of Expression Blend to build WPF and Silverlight content. The site itself is a stunning example of Silverlight, with faded animations and transitions and accordion bars: it makes my own work seem feeble by comparison. Make sure you check it out - it’s inspiring…

“Go deep not wide” is the moral of the story in an article recently written by Amy Hillman. Great insight for first timers and veterans planning on usability studies in their organization no matter what the size.

Major props to the Mono team, they’ve implemented Silverlight in Mono, they’re calling Moonlight in record time. I’ve gotta hand it to these guys, the whole project is completely incredible.

So I saw this has the lead story on reddit this morning and couldn’t help but chuckle. This is case in point of why the whole idea of using the internet needs to be completely overhauled. Like big time. Html is dead.

Some of the features are

• AIR Project contains all necessary files for out-of-the box launching of Adobe AIR applications
• Export wizard for bundling and deploying Adobe AIR applications
• Easy import of Ajax libraries into Adobe AIR projects
• Integrated content assist for Adobe AIR SDK
• Help and online documentation

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Great facts about quitting smoking. You should, I did.