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MegaZine3 is a pageflip - flash book engine written completely in AS3, is free for private use, and open source.

MegaZine 3 uses a completely dynamic approach, allowing full configuration through external XML files.

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MegaZine 3 Features:

• Simplicity - automatically generate a control bar (via the NavigationBar plugin) that allows jumping to every individual page.
• Deep Linking - integrated support for SWFAddress, a JavaScript library allowing to deep link flash movies.
• Page Caching -  if the page count exceeds a certain limit (exact value can be set manually, too) not all pages will be loaded into memory at the same time.
• Element System -  making it possible to define any number of elements per page. Default elements include images, flash movies, videos, sound and more.
• Gallery functionality - Every element may hold an additional url to some image or swf, which will displayed when clicking the element, or clicking the “zoom in” button in the element.

Flash XML Image Slideshow - with slick navigation and design, fully customizable via XML, with a motion blur effect on image transition. The gallery navigation bar changes its color based on the displayed photo colors.

Via XML, you can also define URLs, when the slideshow images are clicked, transparency of the navigation bar and more.

The slideshow comes with the free flash source file - .fla file. In order to download it, a free membership is required.

Tip: When you hover the “Products” button over the flabell.com, all products with the large number of downloads are free.

Buystockflash - with hundreds of categorized Flash files like Flash Components, Image Viewers, Preloaders, Music & Video Players, Animations, Flash Menus, starting at just $1, Buystockflash is one of the largest library of stock Flash online.

Whatever you need, flash image gallery to display collections of images, beautiful flash preloaders, slick flash menus, or simple flash animation, you can quickly find it at Buystockflash. All flash files at Buystockflash are categorized, additionally you can sort all files by newly added, most viewed, most popular or just downloaded.

Buystockflash is also a great place to sell or to buy flash files. As an author you can sell Flash files and make 50%-75% from every sale, users can refer a new buyer and receive 50% from their first deposit or to refer a new seller and receive 10% from every sale for 12 months.

dfGallery 2.0 - the new version of the popular Free Flash Image Gallery.

It allows integration of most popular photo sharing sites like Flickr , Picasa , Photo Bucket and Fotki along with background music and theme engine built to support custom themes with multiple skins for each.

The administration console built on CodeIginter lets you manage multiple galleries and albums of different types.

This is just the alpha release (current version 2.005) and they expect lots of feedback to get this to its best possible.

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A while ago, we have introduced 17 Free Flash Gallery Solutions for Your Images and Flash 3d Curve & 3D Grid Photo Gallery. Here is another one.

Flash Gallery is a free application that allows you to create a slideshow on your website easy and fast. You won’t need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or from Flickr photostream with a nice fade in/out effect.

As a perfect addition to 17 Free Flash Gallery Solutions for Your Images, a new Free Flash image galleries from flashmo.com, 3D Curve and 3D Grid Photo Gallery.

Free download package includes source files, FLA, SWF, and HTML.

20 Free and attractive Flash Image Gallery solutions currently on the Web.

Update: This Article will be regularly updated with a new free flash image galleries.

1. Flash Gallery - a lightweight, only 11KB, free photo gallery that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file. Take a look at Demo.

2. Flash XML Gallery by Tony Yoo, take a look at Demo, and Download flash source files [.fla file included].

3. dfGallery - one of the most powerful Flash-based galleries, support Flickr , Picasa , Fotki, Photobucket and custom Images. It’s easily customizable, support full screen mode, both RSS and custom images, liquid layout - fits to any size you specify, you can specify background MP3 music, with multiple language support, … and more.

4. Flash Page Flip Photo Gallery template for Picasa based on the free version of the FlashPageFlip flash engine. Demo.

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The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free, within a simple but powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-get drag-and-drop graphical editing environment.

The Effect Generator lets you select from whole multitudes of transitions, layouts, animations and public media, so your imagination is the only limit. The site also contains a moderately-sized template library, which, aside from illustrating the power of the effect building system, also lets you rapidly configure stock effects.

Once created, effects can be rapidly posted to blogs, social networks, or any custom HTML page.

The main propose of this news slider is to show news on the front page, with a title, an image, some descriptive text, and a link to the full article. It uses XML using the new AS3 XML features for fetching the data.

Visit the Flash XML News Slider Tutorial and download free source files. Demo news slider.