Open Flash Gauges is a set of open source Flash files, supported with serverside connectors (ASP & PHP), to display any numeric data as gauges.

Gauges in the set are:

• Percentage
• Thermometer
• Dual
• Resource Meter
• Meter
• Status
• I/O
• Digital readout

There is also a pure JavaScript-Canvas gauge that uses MooTools & JSON as the data + a Flash gauge again uses MooTools & JSON presented in the website..

Website: http://www.darkartistry.com/content/view/129/48/

Demo: http://www.digitaldarknet.net/flash/

AudioPlay is simple Freeware MP3 player based on Flash technology. It looks like play button.

The “play” button, once clicked, starts playing the mp3 file & turns into a “pause” button. That’s all AudioPlay does.

The images used can be easily changed by simply updating the current image files.

The settings that can be configured from a xml file:

• background color
• mp3 file name
• loop (never, x times or unlimited)
• autostart

It also supports multiple instances on the same page.

To conclude, it is an ideal player to be used as a background music player.

Website and Demo: http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/

By using a Flash Gallery you can create slide shows efficiently. All you need is, access to a computer system and related software to customize. Below is a very nice and attractive collection of flash xml galleries . Review the list of Free Flash Galleries. Most of them are dynamic and use a XML file to load the pictures and an action script file to customize the effects if needed.

Flash Gallery 0.2

Flash Gallery is a Free, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file.

It may be used in any kinds of personal and/or commercial projects. Flash Gallery may not be redistributed or resold to other companies or third parties.

Website: http://www.flashgallery.org

Demo: http://www.flashgallery.org/demo.html

Download: http://www.flashgallery.org/download.php

Airtight Interactive

Some great Flash work from Airtight Interactive.

1- Simple Viewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Features:

Intelligent image pre-loading.
Intuitive image navigation
Lightweight (17k).
Customizable interface – Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
Resizable interface – Interface scales to fit browser window.
Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).
Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are messaged to upgrade Flash.
International font support.
Keyboard Navigation (Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down)
Mousewheel navigation
Optionally right-click to open image in a new window.
Free!

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

Demo:

• Hi-Res Demo - Full-browser, no captions.
• Lo-Res Demo – Full-browser, captions, background image.
• Small Format Demo - Embedded in HTML page.

Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/simpleviewer.zip

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As every user has different screen resolutions & browsers can be resized to custom sizes, the browser won’t generate scrollbars at Flash movies with 100% sizes and possibly a part of the content may not be shown to the user.

swffit is a script that that resizes your flash movie automatically if your browser window size is smaller or greater than your flash minimum desired size to keep it accessible.

How to use it?

• Include swffit.js to your webpage
• Call the function: swffit.fit("my_flash", 1000, 590);
• That’s all

swffit can also be controlled with an API including enabling/disabling it or adding functions when it is activated & more.

Website: http://swffit.millermedeiros.com/
Demo: http://swffit.millermedeiros.com/example.html

Macromedia Flash & ajax, by default, has lacking seo features as there is, normally, only 1 url address for all the contents within these web applications.

A seo & deep linking solution for flash and ajax is SWFAddress that is developed by Asual.

SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It’s a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. SWFAddress enables a number of important capabilities which are missing in today’s rich web technologies including:

- Bookmarking in a browser or social website
- Sending links via email or instant messenger
- Finding specific content with the major search engines
- Utilizing browser history and reload buttons

Seo & deep linking for Silverlight is on the way. There is already an example for Silverlight.

Website: http://www.asual.com/swfaddress
Demo: http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/

sIFR is one of the most popular solutions for using any font on websites.

There is now another similar solution named sIFR Lite which has some new features but specially much lighter (3.7kb rather than 22kb).

Here are the other differences:

• It auto-detects the text color of the elements (they are entered manually in sIFR).
• It is completely object-oriented.
• It no longer uses CSS selectors. Elements are targeted by tag name and class (a slight loss in ease of use, but faster, lighter, and more maintainable).

The original sIFR is well-tested & widely used but sIFR-Lite is not. So, it would be great to hear your experiences about sIFR-Lite.

Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Website: http://www.allcrunchy.com/Web_Stuff/sIFR_lite/