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Webpage Snapshot with Aviary

MJorge — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:10 +0000

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!

20 Flash Menus Tutorials

MJorge — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:46:38 +0000

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!

OOP Drop Down Menu

MJorge — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:07:56 +0000

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

YuTuplr – Youtube Uploader with AIR

MJorge — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:55:55 +0000

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.

Actionscript 3.0 basics tutorial

MJorge — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:54:07 +0000

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.

Employee address book application

MJorge — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:47:36 +0000

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

Security dangers and Adobe Flash Player, a must read article

MJorge — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:00:36 +0000

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.

Adobe Flash Catalyst beta, the first steps

MJorge — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:53:24 +0000

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.

Using the Flex DataMap control

MJorge — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:46:57 +0000

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

Flash Mobile 10 optimized for Android, Symbian, Palm Web OS, and Windows Mobile phones

MJorge — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:45 +0000

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