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	<title>Aaron Benson &#124; DFW Interactive Designer/Developer &#124; Flash Enthusiast</title>
	<link>http://www.bensonarts.com</link>
	<description>DFW Interactive Designer/Developer</description>
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		<title>GalleryCMS Launched</title>
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I&#8217;ve released an application called GalleryCMS. It is a CMS for Flash photo galleries. It features an easy-to-use admin interface, automatic thumbnail generation, xml generation. It is built on the amazing CodeIgniter framework. It&#8217;s totally free software you can use for your own projects. You are free to distribute and resell. 
GalleryCMS provides a means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/gallerycms/</link>
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		<title>ActionScript 2 &#8211; Fullscreen Flash Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
This code will create a grid of thumbnails that will display fullscreen &#8211; and the number of thumbnails changes dynamically based upon the size of the browser window. It works similar to thefwa. This example loads a series of Movie Clips with an ID assigned to each one. But this can easily be customized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/actionscript-2-fullscreen-flash-gallery/</link>
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		<title>Creating a YouTube Gallery using jQuery Fancybox</title>
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Today I&#8217;ve created a gallery of YouTube videos and I&#8217;m displaying them using the awesome jQuery Fancybox. It is similar to the popular LightBox2, but I like Fancybox because of it&#8217;s look &#8216;n&#8217; feel and lightness.  Download the source and we&#8217;ll go through it.
I&#8217;ve created a really simple PHP script called video-req.php that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/jquery/creating-a-youtube-gallery-using-jquery-fancybox/</link>
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		<title>ActionScript 3 &#8211; Dynamic Menu</title>
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Here I&#8217;ll be showing you how to create a menu in Flash that creates a navigation structure from an XML file. Each button can load various types of media (images, swfs, videos) or even open a web page. We will open Flash and create a new Movie Clip called &#8220;nav&#8221; and give it the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/actionscript-3-dynamic-menu/</link>
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		<title>ActionScript 2 &#8211; Find File Extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say we have a scenario where we have an XML file that contains references to files that are mixed media types and our Flash file will conduct a certain operation based on the file&#8217;s extension. You could structure your XML like this:

&#60;asset url=&#34;movie.flv&#34; type=&#34;movie&#34; /&#62;
&#60;asset url=&#34;image.jpg&#34; type=&#34;image&#34; /&#62;

But type=&#8221;movie&#8221; isn&#8217;t quite so user-friendly and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/actionscript-find-file-extension/</link>
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		<title>Freebie: ActionScript 3 &#8211; Flash text using XML &amp; CSS</title>
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Ok, so I&#8217;m a little behind the curve in AS3 right now. But I&#8217;ve gotta get learning because I see a lot of AIR apps and other AS3 apps I need to build in the future. I&#8217;ve a had a little spare time today to follow Colin Moock&#8217;s Essential AS3 book. I&#8217;ve made it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/freebie-actionscript-3-flash-text-using-xml-css/</link>
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		<title>Freebie: Flash MouseWheel Scrolling (AS2+XML)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something I&#8217;ve been wanting to figure out for a while and just now had time to take it on. In this example we&#8217;re scrolling text in a MovieClip that uses a traditional scrollbar and the MouseWheel. MouseWheel scrolling only occurs while the mouse is hovering over the text area. If you use this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/freebie-flash-mousewheel-scrolling-as2xml/</link>
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		<title>Rusty Blog</title>
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Yes, this is what happens when you neglect your blog site. A nice write up on how I parse XML in Flash will be coming &#8220;soon&#8221;.
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		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/uncategorized/rusty-blog/</link>
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		<title>Using YouTube&#8217;s video storage to showcase video content</title>
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We were tasked with creating a full Flash website to showcase user-generated video content for a contest that a local restaurant chain (Rosa&#8217;s Cafe) is currently running. Any patron to their restaurant is encouraged to film themselves going crazy for Rosa&#8217;s. They can upload their video at www.crazyforrosas.com and be eligible for $5000 or a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/using-youtubes-video-storage-to-showcase-video-content/</link>
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		<title>Freebie: Dynamic Flash Video Player</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Download includes versions for 4&#215;3 and 16&#215;9 aspect ratios.


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        var so = new SWFObject("/examples/videoplayer/video_4x3.swf", "mymovie", "500", "405", "8", "#000000");
            so.addParam("menu", "false");
			so.addParam("scale", "noscale");
			so.addParam("allowFullScreen", "true");
			so.addVariable("myVideo", [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bensonarts.com/flash/freebie-dynamic-flash-video-player/</link>
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