Adventures In Flash...
Yesterday, I was poking around one of my usual haunts and discovered that after several months of inactivity, the site had been updated. There was a new flash animation available for viewing and I thought that it was good enough to be added to my personal animation collection. Sometimes, saving a flash animation can be as simple as using the File > Save functionality in the browser. But, in this case that didn't work. I recovered a flash animation file, but, it was unusually small. After investigating the source code for the page I began to suspect that the flash file I had recovered was some sort of animation loader and not the actual animation file. The next step was to venture into the browser cache and see if there are any goodies to be found. There was a good sized file in the cache that appeared to be a likely candidate. I simply copied and pasted the file to another folder and changed the extension to ".swf". More often then not, that usually works. But, in
