The hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the Flash MX 2004 user who needs results fast! In today’s economy, time is money. Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips is all about speed, showing users how to get more work done in less time. This book is designed to increase productivity (and even quality) by providing shortcuts, tips, and little-known tricks that will surprise even the most experienced Flash MX 2004 user. Built on the premise that "Speed Kills", readers will get faster at manipulating Flash MX 2004 and have more time to be creative in their design and their code. Author Shane Elliott has assembled almost 300 tips to help readers with creating effects and animations, ActionScript, components, optimization, and a host of other topics.

Useless information even for a Flash novice like me
Here’s the killer tip - don’t get this book. It proves you can get anything published if you come up with a good title. There is absolutely nothing killer about any of the so-called tips, many of which are just commentary or ads presented as "Hey, look, I just gave you another great tip." If you are completely new to using computers you might learn the most basic fundamentals of how any application works, like clicking on things to select them, or that you can reposition windows. Ooo, wow! Flash’s built in online help covers every topic here without the trouble of thumbing through this waste of paper. And the author’s overbearing self-absorbed tone makes it all the worse. There are plenty of good Flash books at Amazon, get one of them but avoid this one.

Should change the name to Flash MX 2004 BEGINNER TIPS
All the tips in their are pretty lame. Like the tip on how to paint inside, erase fills or fill with gap, create a button using HIT state. Com’on, that not a tip if it can be found in the manual.

Save your money, read the manual and you will learn more than what you can get out of this book. Or, follow just one tip in that book, "Buy MM Flash MX Bible" instead of buying this book

Great Book, for the little stuff...
I’m going to first preface this review by saying, if you are looking for advanced development techniques or samples of complicated physics or communication code, you will not find that in this book. People have come to expect any old book about Flash to cover anything and everything as well as provide working code samples specific to a project they may be working on at the time. This book, however, is aptly titled.
Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips has got plenty of little tidbits of information that will help to speed up your workflow, make you more familiar with the user interface, even help you out in times of crisis. The author’s self-exhaling sense of humor makes the book fun to read as well.
Everyone should be able to take away something from this book, whether you are a seasoned Flash professional like myself, or a total n00b donning the self applied title of a "Flasher", there will be something in this book for you.
I’d recommend reading the Amazon sample pages if you are unsure, and if after that, you are still unsure, look for a copy to flip though at your local bookstore before purchasing on Amazon.com.
Final summation - the information inside is well worth the price.

Great for Beginners!
Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips describes itself as being a book that contains all the cool tips you would normally find in the margins of other, more in depth Flash books. The tips are mostly user-interface-related, often pointing out less known but useful features that will save you time and make common tasks easier.

The book is smaller than most Flash books - it’s only 191 pages long, but the space is used well. On each page there are an average of four tips-take away about 20 or 30 pages for table of contents and index stuff and you that leaves room for quite a few tips-you do the math. It’s all color and the paper quality, layout and design are commendable. The author takes a very casual approach to his writing, making the book very readable and even entertaining.

If you’ve been using Flash for a short amount of time, or if you’re new to the software, this book will be useful to you. It’s a quick crash course that will have you working efficiently from the beginning rather than learning everything by trial and error.

If you’ve been using versions of Flash previous to MX 2004 and already consider your self to be an intermediate or advanced user, don’t expect to find too much new here. Most of what you’ll find will be little things here and there that will improve your process, but a lot of the material covered in this book will already be familiar.

There are a few, but not many tips specifically related to Flash MX 2004-most of what is covered are features that were already available in Flash MX. None of the features in Flash MX 2004 Professional such as Screens or Forms are mentioned. There is a small section on ActionScript, but most of what is mentioned are fairly small (but useful) tips or tweaks to the interface to make coding simpler.

If you’re new to Flash and/or looking for a quick way to bring your Flash skills up to par and to improve your workflow, check out Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips.

Great resouce and very easy to read
The book is really easy to read with heaps of color images, and lots of finger tip tips.

The author writes very clearly and has many tips to speed up you flash authoring.