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If you are a Flash developer who recently made the switch to OS X like I have, you may be missing some of the great Open Source Flash development tools out there. I’ve always been partial to SciTE, specifically SciTE|Flash, because it is light, simple, and has some nice features. I recently found a port of SciTE for Mac OS X. It doesn’t have the Flash extras, but it does have basic Actionscript syntax highlighting. With a few tweaks, you can make it work just like SciTE|Flash.  Read more...

I’m reading in a lot of places that, as a result of the Adobe/Macromedia merger, a few applications might be shelved permanently. There are rumors floating around that one of these apps might be Fireworks. I very much hope that is not the case. I use Fireworks almost exclusively for web design. Fireworks was built from the ground up as a web design tool. It is to web design what Autocad is to architects. It’s vector-based features and nesting symbols make it perfect for designing an entire site’s GUI.  Read more...