Wow… Ultrashock.com is 10 years old! Thinking about Ultrashock brings back a whole lot of memories! I did some work behind the scenes in its early days and I’m really happy to see it’s still around.

Ultrashock is one of the original Flash community sites created by Peter “NRG” Van den Wyngaert and Patrick Miko. It’s fantastic to see that the Ultrashock community is still alive and kicking. Back in the early days it was mostly just a forum but these days Ultrashock is so much more. They are now also selling the coolest creative assets around. From the coolest and most original background music to some amazing particle engines. You can find it all on Ultrashock these days.

To celebrate their 10th anniversary they put together an amazing bundle with tons of creative files and vouchers. Instead of paying $1500 you can now get it for just $49! Go grab it today!

Fellow platform evangelist Lee Brimelow has published a great tutorial on how to use the daily build of the Flex SDK and its command-line compiler to create Flash Player 10 content.
Go check it out.

The pre-release version of Flash Player 10 (code-named ’Astro’) is now available on Adobe Labs. We’ve already shown Flash Player 10 at a number of events so most of you have a good idea about its new features like rich text layout including right-to-left language support, 3d effects, custom filters and effects with Pixel Bender and more hardware acceleration for bitmaps, filters, video and blend modes.

Unfortunately, there’s currently no tooling available to let you play with all these new features. This pre-release version is mainly there for you to test your current projects and to provide feedback on its performance. To allow you to test the new effects and capabilities, the Flash Player team has put together some demo projects for you. Additionally you can also start building your own Pixel Bender effects.

More information and download links on Adobe Labs.