Flashcooker * SWF tools

y Ed (Java) Diagram Editor - Program from yWorks,with this app, you can create flow charts, UML diagrams, mind maps, and many other kinds of diagrams, graphs and networks. Choose from a wide range of highly sophisticated layout algorithms to automatically arrange your diagrams.

Here's a genuinely fun site where you can design Flash animations online:

Aniboom Shapeshifter

No money, no registration required. Not even an email address.

It has a slick interface done in Flash. You start off with a few primitives which you can group to create quite interesting stuff. Where's Andy G (AKA The Doc)? I reckon he'd have some fun with this.

Available as a shareware offering for five years, Clipyard the handy multimedia tool from Goldshell, is now free!

With Clipyard you can easily and quickly place your created Shockwave material into one bigger SWF file. Plus,your Jpeg, Bmp, Gif and Mp3 files can be converted into the Flash format, and be used in the newly compiled SWF file .

See Clipyard screen shot

Go to Clipyard Download Page

Isn't the internet an amazing thing?
Our little FlashCooker site,with absolutely no promotion at all outside of a couple of mentions on the PB Support Forum , and FC's sister-site, Powerbullet.com has somehow been able to attract sooo many visitors...when I started writing this post, the "Who's online" section (a Drupal site visitor/user counter - see the columm to the right) said that, in addition to me, MarkB,there were 113 guests, and I've seen that figure at

Toufee.com is a site where you can "Create Flash Movies!" online for free, registration is required,but it is a relatively hassle-free process.

Once you've signed up,they offer several tutorials, interactive and video, to guide you through the process of putting together your Flash movie.

They have a card making facility,and they also have an ebay wizard for those of you who have an ebay account and wish to spice up your sales presentation with some flash.

Toufee supports YouTube, Google videos and MySpace content as well.

Thus far,in your Toufee flash movie, you can add frames, text, images, videos, notes, sounds and buttons. They have over 50 different effects that can be applied.