FlashPluginSwitcher is a handy (free) little tool for testing .swf files in different versions of the Flash Player. (via Ted Patrick)

I definitely don’t consider myself to be an artist, but I sometimes have to create graphics that are supposed to look nice. This very nice set of tutorials on creating isometric pixel art is full of all sorts of goodness for people like me (and more talented artists, too). (via Marco Casario)

I almost forgot to mention this site, which is what led me to find the Interaction Design Patterns repository I linked to earlier today:

VisDoc looks to be a fantastic AS2 documentation generator at least from the screenshots and the sample documentation (including full docs on the built-in ActionScript classes) . It’s OS X only, which will prevent me from becoming a customer, but I’ll probably try it out on my Mac at work just to make myself wish…

I can’t decide if I agree about the choice to call these design patterns, but in any case here is a nice (albeit small) collection of solutions to common interaction design needs. Be sure not to miss the section on Interaction Design Literature and Sites, which has links to the big names plus some hidden gems.

I’ve been building up a list of these — maybe I’ll pick one one of these days. Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator, which recently added full support for ActionScript 2.0. Lots of other languages in there too, including C#, PHP, Java…