Nuno Mira – Flash Developer

Although the installation on my new notebook went smoothly, I didn’t have the same luck with my desktop.

The installation took forever and in the end I got a error message regarding missing components.
I tried it over and over, searched the web, read and tried everything I could find.
The Creative Suite 3 cleanup script was no solution…
Then I came across this technote: ‘Error “Licensing for this product has stopped working” when you start any Adobe Creative Suite 3 application’ – whose title doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the problem but the solution – uninstalling the Macromedia Flash Player 8 – worked.

The instructions to uninstall the Macromedia Flash Player 8 using the Windows Install Clean Up utility – msicuu2.exe – is in the middle of the technote, so make sure you read it carefully.

The Adobe Creative Suite 3 Trials are finally available for download.

Get them now!

As soon as you start writing your first lines of code in ActionScript, it’s pretty likely that you’ll use _root.

_root is an identifier that references the main timeline of your movie.

When you use _root, you’re using absolute notation.

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The best email client has just been updated and is available for download.

Thunderbird 2 RC1 was released yesterday.

I’m not on my main computer, so I haven’t installed it yet. I’ll install it as soon as I get home.

I’ve been using a beta?/alpha? version for a long time without any problems. I can’t remember all the new features included in this release, but I remember the new look and a great feature I’ve always missed (which I don’t know it’s even available in any other email clients) – Session History Navigation. This feature allows you to navigate back and forward through the email messages you’ve already opened, just like the browser’s back and forward buttons allow you to navigate through visited web pages.

Read the release notes and find out what’s new.

You can download it here.

Mike Downey has posted a huge list of links, all Apollo-related.

In case you missed something from the last couple of days, here‘s a good chance to find it.

There is a lot of free learning material popping up right after Apollo Alpha has been released on the Labs:

1. Release Notes
2. Building Your First Flex-based Apollo Application
3. Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide
4. Video Tutorials from Linda.com
5. Introducing Apollo