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Summary: Should change the name to Flash MX 2004 BEGINNER TIPS
Review: All the tips in their are pretty lame. Like the tip on how to paint inside, erase fills or fill with gap, create a button using HIT state. Com'on, that not a tip if it can be found in the manual.
Save your money, read the manual and you will learn more than what you can get out of this book. Or, follow just one tip in that book, "Buy MM Flash MX Bible" instead of buying this book
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Summary: Great for Beginners!
Review: Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips describes itself as being a book that contains all the cool tips you would normally find in the margins of other, more in depth Flash books. The tips are mostly user-interface-related, often pointing out less known but useful features that will save you time and make common tasks easier. The book is smaller than most Flash books - it's only 191 pages long, but the space is used well. On each page there are an average of four tips-take away about 20 or 30 pages for table of contents and index stuff and you that leaves room for quite a few tips-you do the math. It's all color and the paper quality, layout and design are commendable. The author takes a very casual approach to his writing, making the book very readable and even entertaining. If you've been using Flash for a short amount of time, or if you're new to the software, this book will be useful to you. It's a quick crash course that will have you working efficiently from the beginning rather than learning everything by trial and error. If you've been using versions of Flash previous to MX 2004 and already consider your self to be an intermediate or advanced user, don't expect to find too much new here. Most of what you'll find will be little things here and there that will improve your process, but a lot of the material covered in this book will already be familiar. There are a few, but not many tips specifically related to Flash MX 2004-most of what is covered are features that were already available in Flash MX. None of the features in Flash MX 2004 Professional such as Screens or Forms are mentioned. There is a small section on ActionScript, but most of what is mentioned are fairly small (but useful) tips or tweaks to the interface to make coding simpler. If you're new to Flash and/or looking for a quick way to bring your Flash skills up to par and to improve your workflow, check out Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips.
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Summary: Great for Beginners!
Review: Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips describes itself as being a book that contains all the cool tips you would normally find in the margins of other, more in depth Flash books. The tips are mostly user-interface-related, often pointing out less known but useful features that will save you time and make common tasks easier. The book is smaller than most Flash books - it's only 191 pages long, but the space is used well. On each page there are an average of four tips-take away about 20 or 30 pages for table of contents and index stuff and you that leaves room for quite a few tips-you do the math. It's all color and the paper quality, layout and design are commendable. The author takes a very casual approach to his writing, making the book very readable and even entertaining. If you've been using Flash for a short amount of time, or if you're new to the software, this book will be useful to you. It's a quick crash course that will have you working efficiently from the beginning rather than learning everything by trial and error. If you've been using versions of Flash previous to MX 2004 and already consider your self to be an intermediate or advanced user, don't expect to find too much new here. Most of what you'll find will be little things here and there that will improve your process, but a lot of the material covered in this book will already be familiar. There are a few, but not many tips specifically related to Flash MX 2004-most of what is covered are features that were already available in Flash MX. None of the features in Flash MX 2004 Professional such as Screens or Forms are mentioned. There is a small section on ActionScript, but most of what is mentioned are fairly small (but useful) tips or tweaks to the interface to make coding simpler. If you're new to Flash and/or looking for a quick way to bring your Flash skills up to par and to improve your workflow, check out Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips.
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Summary: Useless information even for a Flash novice like me
Review: Here's the killer tip - don't get this book. It proves you can get anything published if you come up with a good title. There is absolutely nothing killer about any of the so-called tips, many of which are just commentary or ads presented as "Hey, look, I just gave you another great tip." If you are completely new to using computers you might learn the most basic fundamentals of how any application works, like clicking on things to select them, or that you can reposition windows. Ooo, wow! Flash's built in online help covers every topic here without the trouble of thumbing through this waste of paper. And the author's overbearing self-absorbed tone makes it all the worse. There are plenty of good Flash books at Amazon, get one of them but avoid this one.
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Summary: Mixed feelings but mostly like it
Review: I have read the other reviews as I often do and I must say that it seems they're a bit jaded or something. Yes these tips are geared toward the novice, but I found many that were quite interesting even for someone like me who has quite a bit of experience in Flash. I actually teach Flash and many of the questions I get from my students are addressed in this book. Make no mistake, the book is for new Flash people, but I for one like the style of writing (at least makes reading somewhat interesting) and the tips work well for me. There's one tip about adding an extension to variables in actionscript that forces Flash to recognize the variable as a certain type. I must say, I had no idea about this one and couldn't find it in the online help files anywhere. Anyhow, I certainly don't agree with the one stars at all, but then again I would say the book is geared more toward the novice for me, so I can't agree with the 5 stars. So I'll go with 4. Take it for what you will.
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Summary: Mixed feelings but mostly like it
Review: I have read the other reviews as I often do and I must say that it seems they're a bit jaded or something. Yes these tips are geared toward the novice, but I found many that were quite interesting even for someone like me who has quite a bit of experience in Flash. I actually teach Flash and many of the questions I get from my students are addressed in this book. Make no mistake, the book is for new Flash people, but I for one like the style of writing (at least makes reading somewhat interesting) and the tips work well for me. There's one tip about adding an extension to variables in actionscript that forces Flash to recognize the variable as a certain type. I must say, I had no idea about this one and couldn't find it in the online help files anywhere. Anyhow, I certainly don't agree with the one stars at all, but then again I would say the book is geared more toward the novice for me, so I can't agree with the 5 stars. So I'll go with 4. Take it for what you will.
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Summary: great steal!
Review: I thought this book was a steal! I consider myself quite well versed in Flash, particularly in animation, but learned A LOT from this book. Flash is too big of a program to be an expert at everything, so no matter what you are into you will take something away from this book.
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Summary: Pretty Weak Tips
Review: I'd have to agree with the denigrators and I'm basically a novice. You could save the $30 and just goof around with the program for a couple of weeks and you'd have most of what's in here under your belt. Annoying editorial voice that thinks it's much more clever than it really is to boot. It would be a good book for the toilet in a design studio, however. Which is where I suspect the majority of copies will wind up.
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Summary: Great Book, for the little stuff...
Review: I'm going to first preface this review by saying, if you are looking for advanced development techniques or samples of complicated physics or communication code, you will not find that in this book. People have come to expect any old book about Flash to cover anything and everything as well as provide working code samples specific to a project they may be working on at the time. This book, however, is aptly titled.
Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips has got plenty of little tidbits of information that will help to speed up your workflow, make you more familiar with the user interface, even help you out in times of crisis. The author's self-exhaling sense of humor makes the book fun to read as well.
Everyone should be able to take away something from this book, whether you are a seasoned Flash professional like myself, or a total n00b donning the self applied title of a "Flasher", there will be something in this book for you.
I'd recommend reading the Amazon sample pages if you are unsure, and if after that, you are still unsure, look for a copy to flip though at your local bookstore before purchasing on Amazon.com.
Final summation - the information inside is well worth the price.
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Summary: Not Killer? It seems killer to me
Review: I've seen some of these reviews saying the book is full of the basic information that every novice should know. I'll say this... I consider myself more than a novice and I've counted about 25 tips so far (from my limited exposure to the book) that I had no idea how to do. I guess novice is a relative term. Anyhow, I am a big fan of the Killer Tips books and have many of them. I am much more versed in Photoshop and would say that that Killer tip book for Photoshop is full of the same kind of stuff. In the Photoshop book there are only about a dozen tips that I would call killer. It seems to me that these books are targetted more toward those with less exposure to the programs they're discussing. I think the term Killer tips is misleading for the whole series. For instance in the Photoshop and Dreamweaver ones I've seen a tip on how to Tile your windows. That's not killer, right? But for someone it may be I guess. So, I for one am thoroughly enjoying this book. For instance there are tips on transparent Flash movies, disabling the menu for the plug-in, forcing your movie to sync voice with animation, calling javascript, and tons more that i loved. There are also pointers to websites to help you decode your Flash movies if you lose your work or encrypt your work to absolutely protect it. And for me, the worst part about Flash has always been the interface and windows. There are tons of tips on how to organize these and collapse them in ways that help a lot when i have to work on my mom's 800x600 screen. Okay, so I'm rambling. All in all, I recommend the book as a great resource guide and a lot of really powerful tips.
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