Artefact Animator provides an easy to use framework for procedural time-based animations in Silverlight and WPF. Download the latest version from http://artefactanimator.codeplex.com/.

Inspired by the Flash community and forged out of frustration, Artefact Animator brings to WPF and Silverlight what Tweener has done for Flash. If you’ve ever tried to get into animation in C# you’ll soon realize there are way too many steps to get you where you need to be. The consequences are that developers don’t love to animate UI and designers are limited by what they can animate when working with dynamic content.

via http://www.artefactgroup.com/blog/2010/04/artefact-animator-live-and-open-source-for-silverlight-and-wpf/

In two years it’ll cost me at least $2500! but it’s still way better than my last phone.

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Can it get more fun than this?
Sure, but it’s still very cool. With the addition of the Nintendo Wii internet browser comes the chance to access websites. What better reason than to stream content from your computer to your living room - or wherever you Wii?

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“BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.”

I think it’s great, but while I’m wishing I could code my own version like the pros, this guy has a more humorous take on it. Seriously though, who coded this fine piece of AS?

Research via the web - the value of experience
I can’t say it’s all perfect, but chances are I’ve received most of my info from blogs/boards/forums. I bought a few books here and there, but nothing beats proven experience. Here are a few sites that made me jump on the blog-wagon

• Josh Spear
• Brand Spanking New
• Andre Michelle
• Quasimondo
• Reflektions
• Createage
• Processing
• Infosthetics
• Gizmodo
• Trends