We could go on and on linking up reviews and demos of Flash CS4 over the next few weeks, so we’ll just keep adding links of minor importance to this post. Check back from time to time for updates.

• Flash CS4 Actions Panel FAQ
• Extending Adobe Flash Professional CS4
• Advanced Motion Editor and Presets
• Flash CS4 New Features on Lynda.com
• Flash CS4, Big Changes Ahead
• Flash CS4 Actions Panel FAQ
• Flash Player 10 Ligatures Demo

Lee Brimelow posted up a 19-minute feature tour on gotoAndLearn() — you’ll definitely want to head over there and check it out. As he says, it’s just enough to whet our collective appetities until Flash CS4 is officially released. However, it will probably blow your mind.

Today, Aaron Simpson at Cold Hard Flash posted a few videos demonstrating the new Bone Tool and Inverse Kinematics features of Flash CS4.

The Bone Tool basically allows you to group objects together as a flexible jointed object similar to how you’d rig a skeleton in a 3D application.

I recently discovered the Adobe, Make Some Noise campaign blog. Their mission:

We want you and the whole Flash community to be aware of the issue that the current and possible future versions of the Flash Player will lack dynamic audio capabilities. You may ask why this is important but currently a lot of companies are developing online applications for text, video and image processing. We see software moving into the internet daily. Only audio is missing at the moment.

Their site lists out current Flash audio projects and suggests a wishlist for Adobe to consider. I think their cause is a valid one and, being an advocate for music myself, I’d like to see these advancements included into the Flash Player. Audio in Flash has definitely come a long way, but these recommendations could further solidify its already substantial lead.

What is Adobe Flash Paper you ask? Yeah, I don’t know exactly either but as of yesterday Adobe has decided to discontinue the product.

Adobe will continue to sell and support the current FlashPaper 2 version, but won’t be updating the technology to support Microsoft Windows Vista and IE7, which will make it virtually worthless.

If you’re dying to dig deeper, you can read more here.

Word on the street is that Adobe will be revealing CS4 on September 23rd. This is not a launch date, but we should get some juicy details to wet our palette until it does come out. If you were going to buy CS3, it may be worthwhile to hold off for a month or two (if at all possible).