Lifehacker shared an absolutely cool tip for Aviary. Imagine, you want to take a snapshot of a entire website that could be somewhat painful cause the page is too long. Using aviary that process is much simple and fast.

Just type in your browser http://aviary.com/ followed by the link you want to take the snapshot.

For example, to take a snapshot of Beedigital entire page you would type: http://aviary.com/www.beedigital.net/blog

Wait a few moments and you will get:

The process doesn’t take too long and the image will be automatically opened in Falcon.

Give it a try!

TutorialLounge collected a huge list of Flash tutorials based on menus and navigation systems. The list offers many options and techniques developing menus, Actionscript 3.0, XML, motion tips and more are all present on the list.

For sure a nice article to follow and study. Lot’s of good stuff there.

Have Fun!

Andre Cavallari wrote a tutorial to FlashTuts+ explaining the process to create a AS3.0 OOP drop down menu where all the data is pulled from a XML file.

The final application can be used in any Flash project you have without the need to recode.

Actionscript 3.0 Drop Down Menu

Last month Jesse Macfadyen shared a tool he developed, the YuTuplr. YuTuplr is a AIR application that allows you to simple upload Youtube videos.

The application and the source code is available to download at Google Code, and you can take a look at nitobi where Jesse explains the process of development for the application.

For those who want to start scripting with AS3.0 there’s a nice set of 4 tutorials or articles at massiveProCreation Blog explainning the basics of it.

The articles include:

ActionScript 3.0 Basics part 1.
ActionScript 3.0 Basics part 2. – Simple Menu, using tweener Tutorial.
ActionScript 3.0 Basics part 3 -loading xml data.
ActionScript 3.0 Basics part 4 – news reader component.

Andrew Shorten from Adobe created a cool Flash Catalyst beta and Flash Builder 4 beta application that gives you a employee list where you are able to search and view the full contact information from each individual. Data is loaded from a database via Coldfusion.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Creating an interactive UI in Flash Catalyst
3. Exploring data-centric development in Flash Builder

Flash Catalyst tutorials

While surfing at at www.nitrolm.com I was presented with a very interesting article that for sure will interest all the developers using Adobe Flash Player.

With it you will learn on how to protect and secure your applications against an external attack.

A must see. Very interesting reading.

Tanya Heins released an article under Flash Catalyst tutorials at Adobe Developer Connection explaining the basic concept and first steps on Flash Catalyst.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Designing user interfaces in Photoshop
3. Importing a Photoshop design
4. Working with pages and states
5. Creating a popup window in a project
6. Designing transitions between states
7. Publishing a project for distribution

This tutorial will teach you the techniques on how to change the concept of a static file to a fully interactive application.

Anirudh Sasikumar explains the capbilities of Flex DataMap component and the process of building a simple and powerful application.

The final application will allow you to:

- Show the same data on a DataGrid and on the map.
- Reflect the changes made in the DataGrid on the map.
- Lets you box-select multiple items on the map.
- Lets you make free form drawings on the map, which can be saved and restored.

Flex Developer Center

There’s an article at Lifehacker causing some comments announcing that Adobe is preparing the release of Flash Mobile 10 for almost every phone OS. The release of the first beta is pointed to be announced in October at Max.

Also the article features the Adobe’s earnings presentation at slide 13 where you can confirm this announcement.

Via Lifehacker

Shane Johnson shared a nice tutorial at FlashTuts+ on how to create a multi-propose contact form using Flex. You will work with many features and components available under Flex framework, also a CSS style file will be created and implemented on you form to stylize the application.

Here you have a very detailed and complete tutorial on how to create a RSS reader for your favorite blogs. The process is very simple and you will easily be able to complete the task even if you’re a beginner with AIR.

Build an Adobe AIR RSS reader

The folks at Creative Geek Talk developed the IPinfodb service to be available in Flash and Flex using Actionscript 3.0. Now it’s possible for you to track your visitors geo location. This can be very useful even in a hidden mode to detect where your visitor’s are so that you can show your services or product according the location.

Ready for a marathon of stunning Flash websites? Smashing magazine is sharing another list of fantastic and eye catching websites developed with Flash.

Here’s the 50 reasons why Flash is still the top tool when talking about interactivity, inspiration, creativity and liberty.

Have Fun!

Wait, I just remember something. When thinking in cool stuff one of the companies that came to my mind is 2Advanced. When do you think we can expect the “v6″ 2advanced website?

The Adobe Max 2009 is now accepting your submission on applications or sites to apply for a Max Award. The submission may be done until the 31 July 2009. The available categories are: Advertising and Branding, Education, Enterprise Productivity, Entertainment, Mobile, Public Sector, Social Networking and Social Responsibility.

You may submit your own works or some other stuff you feel might have a chance to be nominated for the awards.

Good Luck!

Adobe Max 2009 Submission

Ahmed Nuaman explains on this tutorial at FlashTuts+ how to create a wrapper to allow loading Youtube videos using the YouTube Player into a Flash project using Actionscript 3.0

The Process:

Step 1 – The Plan
Step 2 – Starting the Wrapper
Step 3 – Handling Sandbox and Security Errors
Step 4 – Preparing to Load the Player
Step 5 – Creating the Initialising Function
Step 6 – Loading the Player
Step 7 – Dealing With Events (in AS2)
Step 8 – Resizing the Player
Step 9 – Now the Player’s Ready
Step 10 – Destroying the Player
Step 11 – Stopping the Video
Step 12 – Creating the Wrapper
Step 13 – Using the Wrapper

Last week lack of posts is due to a trip I have done with two friends in Mountain Bike for 7 days. We made 500miles+/- and visit the 7 nominated historical villages from Portugal.

Here’s a small video:

And the Photos:

Welcome to the second part tutorial by Jesse Freeman about Flash Camouflage Framework. In part 2 of the tutorial you will focus on the design side of our site by cleaning up the layout, skins and adding interaction.

Have Fun! Flash Camo Tutorial.