Came across an user review on Produle with a nice example for creating branded widgets. Click here to read more.

The asset manager in Produle now supports Adobe Flash SWF assets.  SWF files can now be easily added to your widget using the “Flash” Component listed under “Media” category.  Here are some use cases of this feature:

A Gaming Widget (courtesy: Destroybox.com)

Interactive Flash Banner with feeds and sharing

Standard and Professional plans are now available for Produle. You can upgrade your basic plan to avail premium features listed below. Upgrade can be done by clicking the ‘Upgrade” button in User Settings. The subscriptions are on a monthly basis and plans can be switched or cancelled anytime. For any questions regarding this, contact support or forums.

Here are some widgets created by our users: click on the images to view them:

The below diagram shows the overview of the parts used to build widgets with Produle.

Adobe Flash Catalyst is an interaction design tool which was recently released as a Public Beta. From my initial impressions, it seems to be an awesome software for creating interactive prototypes for flex. Though one of the use cases of Produle is for creating UI for web services, Both these tools behave differently and address different problems. However I tried to recreate one of the samples made with Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 mentioned in adobe devnet. Click here for that tutorial. The Produle version of the application (”Employee Directory”) is embedded below. It uses PHP for communicating with the database and to return XML, whereas the UI and Data Service connection was done in Produle.
Link to the Produle App.

If you are a frequent visitor to our site, you should have recently noticed the word “widgets” taking more prominence.  This is because we have re-labeled our web service from “Interactive flash applications” to “Flash Widgets”.   The main reason behind this change is that many of our visitors tend to skip the “interactivity” word and associate flash applications with animations and banners which isn’t. We believe that “Widgets” are best suited for the type of projects you can build with produle. However this is only a label change as part of our product strategy and it does not affect the way you create applications in Produle. Whether naming your finished application as widget, flash app, website, dashboard, web service app - its your own call!

We are glad to announce that Produle is now open for business. This web based service for creating interactive flash applications was first announced as a preview on February this year. After 3 months, the preview program ended recently this month. We thank all our preview users for giving invaluable feedback about the product.

During this period, the product has seen tremendous change especially in terms of usability. We will continue to hear your thoughts and make progress.

As mentioned in the signup page, the service is available in free and premium plans. The premium plans will become functional once our payment integration is complete which would be announced when ready.

If this service is of interest to you, go ahead and give it a spin!

Align operations are now found in the Top Menu of the Composer. This helps to position a set of components to the left, right, top or bottom similar to what you find in an image editor. You can select a set of components either by mouse or by using pressing the SHIFT key. After selection, they can be uniformly aligned by choosing the respective align operation from Menu->Align buttons.

While Produle brings in the technology to create and edit flash apps right from your browser from anywhere, traditional users are more comfortable launching and interacting with applications using icons rather than URL. Also desktop apps have the advantage of having more screen real estate which is vital especially for users with lower screen resolutions.

Official Produle Icon:

Here comes Mozilla Prism, an awesome way to launch and run web apps just like they were installed in your PC or Mac. You can view the “Getting Started” Video from  http://prism.mozilla.com/started/ and download Prism from here. Then unzip the archive and run prism.exe. Enter - http://app.produle.com for the Produle App and you might want to use the icon given above.