Packt is pleased to announce a new book that helps developers to create, customize and blend images, videos, and audio into their Drupal website. Written by Content Management expert Aaron Winborn, Drupal Multimedia teaches users to integrate multimedia and contribute modules for a Drupal website.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

This book will help developers to contribute modules for adding media, store and display images in any configuration, scale and crop images with ImageCache, and add effects to their images on a Drupal website. They will also learn to create thumbnail overlays with jQuery and custom audio fields.

ComputerWorld: Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.

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"Like many of you, my digital camera allows me to take movies. However, the larger file sizes are not web friendly; thus I wanted to convert my avi files to the Flash format. Here were my two constraints:

1. I wanted a free video conversion program that was easy to use.
2. I did not want to do much html editing to make the content run on the web.

"Adobe skipped a version of Flash for Linux and released stable versions of the Flash 9 player for Windows and Mac OS X long before the beta of Flash 9 to Linux users. Paul Betlem, senior director of engineering for Adobe, explained why the process is taking so long."

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"In January of this year we set up a separate forum category for 3rd party modules and themes, in July we added a Gallery 2 Demo Sites showcase, and the list on the user contributions page on the Codex (our official documentation site) has been steadly growing since it went live over a year ago. Gallery just wouldn't be what it is without the hard work of users just like you. Thanks! Related to your hard work, we have some fun things up our sleeves for you to look forward to in the next couple of months: your plugins and themes downloadable from inside of Gallery 2.2, a theme competition, and maybe a surprise or two :).

The most recent contribution we would like to highlight is Joe7's Gallery Theme Demo. It's a very neat site that let's you apply various Gallery 2 Themes, Image Frames, and Color Packs to one Gallery install to see how they might look on your site before downloading them. Thanks Joe7!"

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"As TV viewing habits change, media companies—and advertisers—are looking elsewhere: They've set their sights on a new breed of startups."

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