If you’re a web designer, the first thing you brag about is your breathtaking, space-age portfolio. Flash based portfolios have a real advantage because they’re dynamic, interactive. It’s an awesome experience and it makes you want to click on every inch of the page, just to see what other exciting things pop up. Take a look at the following eye-catching Flash portfolios of a few creative web designers.

Kiluka

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Adobe has just released the free Flash Media Playback player, and here’s where you can download it from. The media player allows you to publish videos and other media online in a matter of minutes,  with just a few lines of HTML.

“Adobe® Flash® Media Playback is a free, standard media player for the Adobe Flash Platform. It can be used by any website with only a few lines of HTML, enabling playback of video and other media in minutes. Its extensible plug-in architecture enables easy integration with content delivery networks (CDNs) and advertising platforms, as well as support for analytics and additional third-party services.”

Bloggers will be able to configure video content easier and business owners or enterprises can monetize video content and customize the media playback’s interface to blend in with the professional design of their brand and website. Find out more about all the features and benefits you can get from the Flash Media Playback .

These are the top 5 Flash components, packs and authors that caught our attention this last week. Check them out!

Got a project and don’t really have the budget, the time or the skills to develop a Flash gallery to showcase the products on sale? How about a free 3D carousel gallery like this one?

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Flash websites are becoming easier to embed, navigate and handle by the minute. One great feature that you can use to present your business to clients is deep linking. This allows you to get a unique link for every section of the template, which is dynamically generated based on the section name.

How is this useful? Well, if you want to send a client the link for a specific image, you can do that just like with a regular HTML site.  To see how it works, here are three awesome Flash templates developed by FWDesign that you can use if you are passionate about your business and want it to grown, but don’t have the technical programmer skills to do it yourself.

Flash Template Web Deep Linking

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Adobe will be hosting a free live session on Friday where CS pro, Paul Trani, reveals tricks on how you can develop content for the web, desktop and mobile devices using Flash Professional CS5. This is a session you don’t want to miss, but if you happen to, you can still watch the recorded session.

“Starting out with an overview of design considerations as well as important optimization techniques so your content plays exceptional regardless of platform. Also, see how to …adjust content regardless of screen size as well as how to take advantage of specific functionality on devices such as mutitouch and acceleromenter capabilities as well as accessing the native keyboard.”

Use the following link 15 minutes before the session starts to join:  http://bit.ly/AskaCSPro_4 . Also, check out the event’s Facebook page to see who else is coming.

We’ve got a great Flash round up for you this week.  Four selected files along with a featured author have caught our attention and we believe they’re worth checking out. Click on each of the items to find out more about it. Enjoy!

Having an out of the ordinary navigation in your website doesn’t mean it should be complicated for the visitor to find his way around. We all enjoy a cutting-edge Flash navigation that allows us to discover and experience what the site has to offer. Here are a few examples of creative flash navigation that caught my attention this week.

Snapshots of Provence

The creators define it as “a sound and visual experience from the travel book of photographer Thomas Duval and sound designer Tacteel“. This website has a stunning Flash navigation and works better than a tourist guide, combining relevant images, sounds and videos that represent the specific of a city. Use the showreel to navigate and explore.

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Firecode is a new Flash developer on FC but he’s already got the attention of our members with a collection of awesome and diverse video players. You might have also noticed he’s made a name with his Flash tutorials that are very useful and comprehensive. So, if you need an expert’s advice, he’s your guy.

When it comes to his Flash video players, FireCode has created his own, unique style. Just take a look at this slick YouTube video player:

Not only does it include a very cool design, sharing on Twitter and Facebook buttons, but it also supports all video formats that Flash Player can play, streaming and Youtube videos. If you’re tired of that same old video player design that everybody’s been using for years, then you’ve found your match.

Check out Firecode’s awesome Flash video player collection below or visit his portfolio here.

943 million dollars! That`s the record revenue achieved by Adobe in the second quarter of this year.  Shantanu Narayen, President and chief executive officer at Adobe, announces a successful launch of Adobe Flash CS5 and believes that its adoption will remain strong throughout 2010.

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