CU3ER is a free Flash 3D image viewer that can even amaze the users who don’t prefer to use Flash.

It is an easy-to-use slider which can be customized via XML & offers beautiful 3D transitions.

Images can be viewed with the auto-slideshow feature where 2 different types of preloaders can be selected or using the prev-next buttons.

The core of the slider, transitions, can be configured in many ways too. The number of slices, animation direction, duration, delays, colors & more can all be customized.

And, optionally, it is possible to display a description box for each image.

CU3ER is very well-documented and can be used freely in both free & commercial websites.

Adobe used to have individual Cookbooks applications for Flex, AIR & Mobile that presented code snippets created by the community.

Now, they have combined all, with new additions, under a single Adobe Cookbooks application.

The website is a great place for finding ready-to-use code samples for Adobe products, specially ActionScript & Flex.

Besides adding new snippets, users can request for the ones that they can not find & other users can create/share them.

The new Adobe Cookbooks also offers a better search/browsing experience with titles like "related recipes" & "contributor lists".

XML Banner Rotator is a free Flash component to display rotating images with style.

It is highly customizable via a XML file & comes with 35+ options including the masking size and speed.

The position of the elements on the screen, number of images & colors can all be controlled.

Besides any HTML page, XML Banner Rotator can be inserted into any FLA file too.

P.S. Download requires free membership.

Last week, a post at WRD had announced the giveaway of 3 Monoslideshow licenses.

The winners of this amazing Flash image-video viewer has been selected and can be found at the bottom of the post.

To Remind:

Monoslideshow is a flexible XML-driven Flash image & video viewer for easily displaying media on any website with style.

It comes with 500+ options that makes the viewer to fit into every design & usage type.

The viewer handles large collections easily with the album-browsing support.

It can be controlled via JavaScript + AS3 APIs and has RSS support which makes it possible to create image slideshows from Flickr, etc.

The Winners:

The winners of this great application are:

• Eric Peacock (comment #66084)
• vedat (comment #65951)
• @digitman (Twitter)

Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for contributing.

Monoslideshow, a beautiful & customizable Flash image / video viewer, is giving away 3 licenses (€ 25 value/license) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details on joining the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post.

What is Monoslideshow?

It is a flexible XML-driven Flash image & video viewer to easily display them on your website with style.

Whether a professional portfolio or a simple image rotator, Monoslideshow can handle them all.

With over 500 options like:

• dimensions
• custom fonts
• enable/disable startup logo
• background sounds per media

& 10+ professional effects, creating something unique is not difficult. Also, besides the XML file, various settings can be configured via the JavaScript & AS3 API.

The media presented in Monoslideshow can be categorized inside albums & quickly switched between with a "click" for faster browsing.

Another great feature is the RSS support which makes it possible to create image slideshows from Flickr, etc.

How To Win The Free Licenses?

You have 2 options to join the giveaway where you can do both of them to increase the chance of winning:

• comment to this post with at least "I want the license" text besides any other comment
• ReTweet this message at Twitter: Monoslideshow: Amazing Flash Image/Video Viewer – 3 Licenses Giveaway http://bit.ly/fWQp8 (by @umutm) (click the link to ReTweet easily).

Winners will be selected randomly on 10 August 2009 (1 week later).

Good luck to all.

This is a free Flash image viewer with a magnifying glass created by the talented team at Flabell.

It is activated once the user hovers the image which makes it very functional specially for e-commerce websites presenting products.

It is possible to customize various variables from XML or HTML:

• image path (image of any size)
• the display area size
• the lens size

P.S. Download requires free membership.

JC Play List is a free Flash list component for creating sliders from multimedia lists (for ex: .xml and RSS 2.0 feeds from Picasa and Flickr)

It is built with AS3 & can display any kind of lists including items that contain images, titles, descriptions, index numbers, additional information, custom backgrounds and overlays.

The component offers various navigation methods which can be used together or separately, like:

• navigation through previous/next buttons
• scroll bar and/or mouse movement
• horizontal/vertical layout

And, although it comes with a default skin, it is possible to create & implement new ones.

Bumpbox is another Lightbox clone which offers a very easy usage & has some advantages over others.

There is no need to mention the media type to be displayed as it detects them automatically & as a nice feature, Bumpbox can display PDF files besides FLV, SWF, images or HTML content.

It is built with MooTools & displays the modal box with a nice bump effect.

The script works for both local & remote files. And, to show FLV files, it uses Flowplayer media player.

Uploadify is a jQuery plugin for implementing single + multiple file uploads easier & better.

It requires Flash (which completes the upload) & a server-side file in any language (. PHP one is included) which processes the uploaded file.

The plugin offers various options to control & customize the upload interface like:

• files types
• max. number of simultaneous files
• auto or manual start of uploads
• size limit
• callback on every step (onSelect, onCancel..)
• & more..

And, implementation is as simple as any other jQuery plugin; just by calling a function.

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).