Flash Bookmarks is a free Flash component for integrating social bookmarking links to any website easily.

It supports the most popular sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Facebook, Google and Reddit.

The look & feel of the social bookmarking menu created with the component is totally customizable. It is possible to change:

• the icons to be displayed
• the size of the icons
• the aspect of the hint text for the icons
• details regarding the bookmarked data.

Flash Bookmarks can be both added by drag’n drops from the component panel of Flash or by code (AS3).

Wix is a free web-based service for creating simple to advanced Flash websites.

It offers 100s of ready-to-use and well-categorized free Flash templates (like e-flyers, photographers, business & more) or everything can be created from scratch with a blank one.

Wix is very easy to use with its drag’n drop editor that enables anyone to add:

• any type of media (sound, video, images)
• shapes, cliparts, animations, effects
• advanced photo albums (slideshows, coverflow, carousel & more)
• & lots of widgets like Google Maps, RSS, contact forms

to their websites.

If you want to sell stuff, the application has a solution for that too. It offers PayPal buttons to be added & configured with ease.

Although Wix looks like a perfect fit for anyone who is not into or new to web design (considering it does not require any programming skills), it is also a solution for experienced users to create impressive websites very quickly.

Websites created by this free web design service are search engine friendly & hosted free. For anyone looking into getting more with Wix, check the premium upgrades.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

MegaZine 3 is an open source & free Flash pageflip engine for presenting any content with a book-like interface where users can flip the pages.

It is built with ActionScript 3 & customized very easily via XML files.

Features of MegaZine 3:

• deep linking with integrated SWFaddress support
• control bar to navigate through pages easier (can be disabled)
• page caching for faster browsing
• ability to use any content in pages like sound, images, movies & more
• easy customization of background, colors & ability to create transparent pages
• advanced localization support (even sounds, iamges can be bound to languages)
• image zooming & image galleries inside pages

This pageflip engine is well-documented & a working demo can be found here.

Tip: There is a batch-script offered at the download page for auto converting PDF documents into Flash pageflip presentations.

Some other free pageflip engines:

• PageFlip (a basic & free version is mentioned for download)
• Quadra Silverlight Flipbook Control
• Flex book component

Hemlock is an open-source Flash framework which offers the richness of Flash & the scalability of XMPP.

It eases the creation of real-time & multi-user applications like games, collaboration and more.

Generally, real-time applications are handled with polling where a database is queried every x seconds to get the latest updates.

With the Hemlock approach, a client registers for a message and is only contacted when a relevant one arrives. This is clearly a better method as it is much real-time & cost-effective (no unnecessary polls).

Flabell is presenting another handy resource for creating Flash-XML based survey with multiple questions.

An unlimited number of questions & a variable number of answers can be added by simply editing the XML file.

When users select an answer, they can pass to the next question & all answers are stored inside the XML file for visualizing them later (not included within the code).

P.S. Download requires a free membership.

Flabell is presenting a free Flash-XML slideshow which can be customized with ease.

Images presented are displayed with a blur effect & the color of the navigation bar can change on every image (using the colors of that image can be a good idea - set manually in the XML file).

For every image, you can also define:

• URLs, when they are clicked
• target to be _blank or not
• transparency of the navigation bar

The slideshow comes with the source file (.FLA) & in order to download it, a free membership is required.

XML Flash Voting Poll is a free component for creating nice looking Flash-based polls.

It is built with AS3 & supports one active poll with an unlimited number of answers.

Many variables can be controlled in the XML files like:

• the question’s height, text, color, size
• background colors used
• distances between items
• messages displayed after voting & more

The download package includes images (.AI & .PDF) & fonts used.

P.S. Free membership is required for downloading the component.

This is a very flexible Flash full-text-search component that supports multiple images and texts.

All aspects of it can be customized via XML files, including the images, texts, colors, sizes and more.

The component supports unlimited text / images & it can resize the height depending on the number of items.

For skinning it, no Flash experience is needed as everything is done by updating the XML files (colors, speed of the effects, etc.).

The download package comes with all the source code including FLA files, PSDs & fonts used.

Wrapper is a cross-browser HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript that sits on top of your standards compliant HTML page.

It simply wraps a HTML/CSS content & displays it within Flash without any need to compile.

A serious advantage Wrapper offers is eliminating cross-browser issues. And any content that is Flashed is available to search engines as the code is still pure HTML.

The engine also has built in methods within CSS to load custom fonts, display elements as any shape, and fill them with linear or radial gradient background colors.

For a standard website demo, click here & for a Wordpress demo, click here (don’t forget to check the sources of both pages).

Simple Flash Mp3 Player is a minimalistic player from Flabell (who also created this advanced Flash mp3 player - see WRD post).

It is built with AS3, offers a play-pause button & a draggable volume bar. Once the player is initiated, it displays the song info to be played.

There is a sound visualizer at the backend which, besides the rhythm of the music, transforms with the level of sound too.

The music to be played is set via FlashVars in the HTML code. And, the player can be customized via XML files easily.