A little undocumented feature for you that might come in useful, mainly for people who use the Flash 9 Authoring Tool to create their Flash Movies, as and when it becomes commercially available (currently in public alpha). It allows you to specify a function that is called when the playhead of the Movieclip timeline enters the specified frame number. Their are four parameters to the method, i only completley understand the purpose of the first two, the other two are worth investigating more. MovieClip.

I must have missed this one in the aggregators, so thought it worth mentioning.

If, like me and many millions of others, you have deserted Internet Explorer, and now choose to use Firefox as your default web browser, then the following little tool is going to come in very handy. Alessandro Crugnola has written a very useful Flash Plugin Switcher for Firefox that sits in the bottom right hand corner of thr browser and allows you to select and quickly switch between different versions of the Flash Player, from Flash Player 9 all the way back to Flash Player 2.

Adobe have just recently released a beta version of an update to Flash Player 9 that adds new Full Screen capabilities to the Flash Player. This feature was primarily introduced into the update so that video players can go fullscreen, but it has lots of other uses aswell. Full Screen mode is activated using either Actionscript 2 or Actionscript 3 by setting the value of a new property Stage.

Im having a nightmare, my email is out of control! Seriously out of control. My one email address that ive stuck with for over 7 years is now a disaster. I recieve *alot* of email and also alot of spam. Since the beginning of 2006, ive recieved nearly 28,000 emails, which is excluding email from flash related mailing lists, of which i am subscribed to over 30, but i use a newsreader to check them. My inbox as it stands has over 16000 undread messages, which i need to sit down and filter through.

I am now an Adobe Community Expert, which i guess is Adobe’s name for what used to be Team Macromedia. Therefore as part of my duties i will be spending more time on my favourite forums answering Flash questions again. Ill be around the Flash 8 and Actionscript 3 forums on Flashkit, where i am a Senior Moderator. I also visit the forums on Kirupa and Actionscripts.org now and again.

The public voting for the first ever Adobe sponsored Y Design awards for Excellence in Digital Design is now open. The Y Design Awards is a new initiative launched as part of the London Design Festival which recognises and celebrates the UKs leading creative talent demonstrated through the use of digital technology. In honour of the technologys 10th anniversary, this years award scheme will centre on Macromedia Flash by Adobe, i am honored to be judging the awards.

I get bored really easily, so besides work, experimenting with Flash, football, Xbox 360, drinking and weight training i needed something else to occupy my time. Enter the Traxxas T-Maxx 2.5R, my new R/C Nitro Monster Truck that arrived last Friday. This beauty is the real deal, a proper bloke toy! 45mph top speed, but with upgrades i can get it up to 60mph. Me and my friend both bought one so we could race together. We went cruising in the woods this weekend for the first time.

The final vote is live and kicking today. Choose which Flash site you feel is the most influential from the past decade. There have been a tonne of kick-ass sites in that time, but the people have spoken and chosen the final ten candidates for this unique award.

The Flash 10th Anniversary interactive experience is online now for all to see. See and read all about the significant milestones and websites in the past 10 years of Flash. Visit the year 2000 to find your’s truly or 2001 to find Relevare. Also dont forget to checkout the Artist Gallery area containing special 10th anniversary animations from both Nectarine and Mudbubble.