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Flash Schemer is a flash based color generator tool. You can input RGB or HTML codes and get a variation of that color, as well as other matching colors. defmech.com/color/

Flapr is done entirely in flash, I find it a lot easier to use, compared to Flickr itself. For some reason Flickr does not display Search box on the secondary pages, this makes a lot of people’s life difficult - imagine thousands of people searching for the Search box and clicking back button to make a new search. Flapr retrieves the images in the same page so you don’t have to go from page to page as you do in Flickr.

www.bcdef.org/flappr/

Jakob Nielsen in his Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 writes:

Flash is a programming environment and should be used to offer users additional power and features that are unavailable from a static page. Flash should not be used to jazz up a page. If your content is boring, rewrite text to make it more compelling and hire a professional photographer to shoot better photos. Don’t make your pages move. It doesn’t increase users’ attention, it drives them away; most people equate animated content with useless content.

If used correctly flash can be a great tool and a great addition to your site. However if designed badly (especially the fully flash sites) it can be a disaster to a company. Here designed badly means in the usability sense, Read more »

Very entertaining flash game. You can either play against a PC or a human, I have chosen human and played both characters myself… ;) that was fun.

ShutterBook is a new flash based online photo sharing service. Currently it is in Beta, so the service is free. If you want to get a free account you need to register now, because after the official launch it will be a paid service. All beta testers receive Premium accounts and after the official launch, beta testers will keep their Premium accounts at no additional charge. Here is a demo of this service www.shutterbook.com/home/demo.php It seems a nice tool, however if you have too many photos inside one album the connection seems to slow down.