Build a Photo Viewer Using Flex and the Flickr API

Sep 30th in Flex, Widgets by Matthew Casperson
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In this tutorial you will learn how to use the as3flickrlib library to create a Flash Flickr photo viewer.

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Build an AS3 Photo Slider Widget for Social Networking Sites

Aug 10th in ActionScript, Widgets by Gerb Sterrenburg
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Today we’re going to build a Photo Slider widget which can be placed on social networking sites like Orkut or MySpace. This widget will be based on Google’s Open Social API and contains a Flash application, which will show all photos from your public photo albums in a slideshow.

"Plug-in classes" will handle the transitions of the slideshow and this tutorial will include writing two of those "plug-ins".

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Creating a Feed Reader Widget with Adobe Flex 3

Jul 22nd in Flex, Widgets by Mario Santos
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In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create your own Flex feed reader application. In this case, the final result will be a simple feed reader which can be used in your blog or site to display your favorite feeds.

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Assemble a Nifty Twitter Widget using Flash and the Twitter API

May 8th in Screencasts, Widgets by Shane Johnson
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Flash will work neatly in combination with the Twitter API to create a Twitter widget for any webpage. Follow Shane Johnson (@ultravisual) as he demonstrates building an interface, pulling in specific XML data and tackling cross-domain policy issues..

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