Sometimes you need to pass values from components to skin, for example having a dynamic layout. Using Flex sdk 4 you can transfer values using content property of the hostComponent ({hostComponent.content}).
I made a small example that use hostComponent.content, changing the values of HSliders the colors of the component will be changed.

So [...]

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Today, 11th of August, Motorola launches Droid 2 mobile phone on Verizon mobile network and it will be available in stores on 12th of August. The important is that this is the first mobile phone that comes with Flash Player 10.1 out of the box.

Droid 2 is running Android [...]

Jozef Chúťka has did manage to create anaglyphs using Pixel Bender and displacement maps. The result is amazing!

There are multiple kinds of 2 color glasses used with anaglyphs but the demo in Jozef’s article is for the common cyan-magenta glasses.
To find out more read Jozef’s article: http://blog.yoz.sk/2010/06/anaglyphs-with-pixel-bender-and-depth-map/

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The next release of Flex SDK is code-named Hero. It has three main goals:

Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.
Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.
Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving [...]

Serge Jespers did post an article regarding the new application Innovation Mecom has built for Dräger Carina medical device. The application is a simulation that reproduces all functions of the real device. So it is possible to get a real good impression of it even without using a real device.
Watch the following demo about [...]

Last two week I seen two great applications that make use of multi-screen experience capabilities of Flash Platform.

Androideroids by Grant Skinner
Desktop MP3 Music Player by Mihai Corlan

The first is a prototype multiplayer asteroids game in which each player uses an Android phone as their game controller. The player connects to the game and [...]

Yesterday, Adobe has released AIR 2.0 runtime and can be downloaded at get.adobe.com/air/.
The new things in AIR 2.0 are:

New Webkit with additional HTML5 and CSS3 support
Multitouch and gestures
Enhanced drag-and-drop support
Enhanced socket support
Enhanced printer interaction
DNS resolution
Local microphone API
Native document handlers to open document
Native process APIs
Native installer
Socket servers and peer-to-peer networking
TLS/SSL sockets
UDP networking support
Global error handler
IPv6 network [...]

Yesterday Adobe did release Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 7.
This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Consumers can try the prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs, [...]

Half a day ago new versions of Flash Player were released. I’m talking about Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 6, Flash Player “Gala” for Mac OS X 10.6.3, Flash Player 10.1 for Android and a few other versions.
Flash Player “Gala” introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which should reduce [...]