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Hello,

It has been a long time since my last post here at Beedigital. I have decided to take a break on posting here, many factors lead to make me take that decision, however I’m here to announce that this site will have updated posts almost everyday has it use to be some months ago.

Many thinks have change since the last time I visited this page (Add New Post), there’s many to talk about.

Stay tunned.

This last 2 weeks I’ve been on vacations at Albufeira-Allgarve, time to get to the beach with son and family, time to relax and time to prepare next working year.

Posting (regular) should came back at the beginning of the next week, I’m enjoying the last days of sun and rest.

In this last days I have set up 100% my Twitter account. You are invited to follow me @beedigital.

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!

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:

Hello folks.

Today is the first day of Beedigital Forum. This board is available to everyone who need to take doubts, share tips and more with the community. The idea was to create something simple and fast relying more on the information instead of the design. I wanted something simple!

I declare the boards open however I must communicate that I will perform some small changes on it. I will have a search box and will search more functionalities that I think may be useful for all.

I know how boards might be a pain to survive, so I ask everyone to lease populate those boards with useful messages and questions.

Have Fun!

http://www.beedigital.net/forum

flashTuts+ is running a contest where you may win some popular O’Reilly Books! The books are: “Search Engine Optimization for Flash”, “Essential ActionScript 3.0″ and “Flex 3 Cookbook”. All you have to do is follow @flashtuts at Twitter and leave a comment at flashTuts+ with your Twitter username.

Good Luck!

* Best Commercial Game
Corpse Craft by Three Rings
Final Ninja by Nitrome
Questionaut by Amanita Design

* Best Indie Game
Aether by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel
Boxhead: The Zombie Wars by Sean Cooper
Fancy Pants Adventure World 2 by Borne Games

* Best Game Art
Armed with Wings 2 by Sun Studios
Several Journeys of Reemus Chapter 2 by Zeebarf
Questionaut by Amanita Design

* Best Multiplayer Game
Globulos by GlobZ
Minions by Casual Collective
Platform Racing 2 by Jiggmin

* Best Strategy Game
GemCraft by GameInABottle.com
Mastermind World Conqueror by Michael Swain
Warfare: 1917 by Armor Games

* Best Puzzle Game
Epsilon by Dissolute Productions
Gravity Master by Astro75
Totem Destroyer by GABS.TV

* Best Family Game
Bloons Tower Defense 3 by Ninja Kiwi
Skywire 2 by Nitrome
Lego Indiana Jones by Lego

* Best Shooter Game
Boxhead: The Zombie Wars by Sean Cooper
Bubble Tank 2 by Hero Interactive
Last Stand 2 by Con Artists Productions and Armor Games

* Most Creative Game
Auditorium by Dain Saint and William Stallwood
Coil by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl
(I Fell In Love With) The Majesty of Colors by Gregory Weir

* Sponsor Award: Best Nonoba Multiplayer Game
Starland Multiplayer TD by Wayne Marsh
Sneaky Tanks by Ryan Brady
Zombie Apocalipse by Vartagh

At the 6th February 2005 Beedigital was born with my very first post related to Web Design Resources. I show you www.bluevertigo.com.ar , a website with lots of quality resources for web design.

Four years later more 2150 posts were written and 1.000.000 visitors came to this Blog.

I would like to thank you all for coming by, keep visiting, Beedigital is live and growing.

I take this chance to ask you to subscribe to my feed using the URL http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beedigital/vJIB or by clicking the feed buttons at the right, if you want.

I will remember everyone that you can contribute to this blog with your own posts, just visit http://www.beedigital.net/blog/2009/01/would-you-like-to-contribute-and-write-here-at-beedigital to see the details and how to apply.

Many thanks,
Mário

It has been a long time since Beedigital was shut down from Adobe XML News Aggregator, I never knew why or how, I emailed everyone, submitted unlimited times the blog and no luck or answers. At this moment I was (am) perfectly conscious that Beedigital for some reason would never be available again at that place. It’s OK I can leave with that, really!

One hour ago while visiting the aggregator in a unconscious attempt to Ping my feed I got the message “Your ping was successful! Thanks for using Adobe Feeds.” , it used to be “Sorry, MXNA is not aggregating bla bla bla…anymore”.

My question is: What does this mean? I’m not event at the list of Weblogs!

When I was shut down I told to myself that I would never take that or share that problem here at the blog, however I felt it was very unfair to shut down a Blog that month after month added 1 or 2 sometimes even more posts at the top 10 of the MXNA stats.

I ask: Is it important for the community a place that they find useful somehow no matter the bad English or the outgoing links or the opinion of one or two user’s among millions?

For 2009 I will have some new features here at Beedigital starting by allowing everyone who wants to contribute here
by writing posts.

Of course all posts should be related to Flash, Flex, AIR or other related technologies. You will be able to create posts with tutorials, solutions, help requests or whatever you feel could be useful for the community.

All posts will be review by me before going live. To get access to this offer you will need to ask for your user name and password to info@beedigital.net, please do not forget to send your name, email and url if you have one.

At the moment Beedigital gets a lot of traffic and this could mean benefits for you and all our readers.

After receiving the email I will mail you back your username and password (can be changed by you after first login).

Beedigital wishes you a happy new year of 2009!

It’s very strange how this kind of stories might happen so often. My story probably should be similar to many other’s, I’m reporting to let anyone know what happened to me to avoid that you fall in the same error.

One month ago while surfing eBay I was spotted to what it seemed a legitimate Adobe Photoshop CS2 box, it was new, not educational, never registered (could not be), and the best of all it was cheap ($260).
I need Photoshop so I decided to buy it. Problems started 1 day after buying when I noticed that the box was not being shipped from the seller’s country but from Taiwan!

Well the box arrived today, I open it and notice something strange on the box. The colors were somehow blur and not defined, the manual had the same problem.

The box had two Cd’s I pulled the installation one and inserted it in my laptop.

Ups, something is wrong!? They asked me for the serial (was at CD case) but I didn’t had to activate the product!? I clicked at the activation link on the help tab after installation but nothing happened. This issue was the same for the upgrade button.

The software itself works all wrong, arrow keys do not move objects, while in type mode if you press your arrow keys strange symbols appear.

That’s when I started to look at the box carefully and I notice the first sign of a fake product. The CD case didn’t bring the electronic seal they should have. That makes the software inside authentic I believe. Another issue I notice was the fact that the installation CD had some fingerprints on it and the case wasn’t even closed or totally sealed.

I have complain to eBay and Paypal and will be waiting for a solution for this. If there’s a solution.

$260 is 1/3 of what I win in some months. But let’s not discuss this.

The only think I wish the seller this Christmas is that he enjoys well the hard work money I gave him. Sooner or later he will pay for his acts.

The next step now is to wait for Paypal and eBay report of this.

If you want to help me you know how to do it:

This is a very simple and useful tutorial where you will create a image viewer using Actonscript 3.0.

This viewer will give you the option to navigate using the buttons at the movie but you can also navigate with your arrow keys. The right click menu for Flash will display two new options, one to download the current image and another to open the image in another browser window.

There are lots of discussions about benefits and bad thinks about being freelancer or employee. I have create two polls so that we can understand if financial part could be important.

If you’re a freelancer or employee please take your time to vote for the poll you belong.

Freelancers:

Employees:

In the last 24H you may have notice some problems here at Beedigital. I have been changing from server and it wasn’t has smooth has I expected and predicted. Beedigital is now hosted by (mt) Media Temple and I believe I have a more reliable server at the moment.

There are still some simple tasks I would like to perform, not everything is working 100% but I will leave everything fine still today.

If you find something strange please mail me the issue so that I can solve it has fast has possible.

Many thanks,
Mário

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