The Foozoo design studio blog does not display images on its front page : black and white is the color of sobriety. Inside pages will feature, obviously, images, plus a nice soft blue font that highlights margins and  Based on the very simple Hemingway-19 theme for wordpress, Foozoo adds a few very interesting plugins. Most interesting is the WP-cumulus plugin that transforms the original tag cloud to a real Flash based sphere with mouse 3D effect.

Initially designed to display images, the Flex coverflow component displays a smooth carousel of still shots and has been extended to disaply videos. This is the Video cover flow that illustrates Flex components in Adobe’s Flex beginners screencast. The image Cover Flow component is available via Doug Mc Cune’s blog, who is the guru behind this magnificient opensource release.

Is full wyisiwyg still possible in a world of multiple technology convergence ? Working with Flash has many drawbacks among which HTML Search engine optimization is one of the most important. Silex CMS tackles with that issue and many more. And this opensource GPL FLASH CMS provides more than just content management via Flash based interface.

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Drag and Drop Tree Component . Allows dragging of nodes within a tree, dragging external objects to a tree, and dragging nodes to a custom trash object, re-ordering nodes with drag & drop, populating the tree from an xml document, retrieving an xml string representing the tree

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=804451

Monoslide show is a great gallery / slideshow flash applet that takes images list from user edited XML configuration file. One of its great features, apart from the incredible flexibility it allows, is the quality of the transition effects, such as Random Ken Burns effect that will do the trick for most professionnal movie like silide shows ! One drawback is that it lacks a user friendly admin module, every configuration has to be edited via the XML file. Just that is powerful enough though, and worth its price.

http://www.monoslideshow.com/