Drupal 5 Flash Filter can now be found in the SWF Tools package. This package is fairly stable now and will have a formal release during May.
Q. What is different about flash_filter in SWF Tools?
-- While [flash:filename.flv] syntax is the same, it has different syntax for passing additional variables. Q. What hasn't been ported yet?
-- The integration of 3rd party code for extracting meta data from swf
The slideshow transforms images attached to a post into a JavaScript enabled slideshow. Any post can have a slideshow. The slideshow can be placed above, below or within the content of the page.
The Taxonomy Filter module is designed to present an easy-to-use interface for narrowing down taxonomy listings to find topics that are tagged by multiple terms. This is helpful for sites that use multiple vocabularies to create a multi-faceted information architecture.
Prior to Drupal 7 (see note in the "Drupal 7.x version" section), the core Drupal taxonomy module has the ability to do this with the following URL format:
/taxonomy/term/x,y,z
which will display a listing of all nodes tagged with terms x, y and z. However, not many visitors to your site will be aware of this functionality.
The Taxonomy Filter module allows your users to enjoy this functionality without needing to know the URL syntax described above. It does this by displaying a block of links that reference multiple terms from one or more vocabularies. The vocabulary filters are defined in the module's configuration settings. There the site administrator can specify that a vocabulary be 'filtered' by one or more vocabularies. The arrangement of the links in the block can also be specified by selecting one of the four menu templates -- default, cloud, context and dynamic.
A "help tip" is a message or instructions that appears only on some pages. This module allows you to create help tips and configure where and how they are displayed. For example you could
show a random tip on every page, or
show a welcome message that users may hide once they've read it, or
Macromedia Contribute is a website management tool with a WYSIWYG editor and permissions management. It is nice (but not unique) in that you can force the user to choose styles from a specific style sheet and you can hide your php snippets and other stuff. This module allows you to display the content of html files which are maintained by Contribute (somewhere else on the same server).