Farewell Tumblr, It’s Been A Blast
In late January we moved the Envato Marketplace blogs here to Tumblr, and it has been a blast. A crazy 4,006 posts later over seven tumblogs, we’ve come to appreciate Tumblr’s speed and flexibility, its informal atmosphere, its variety of post types, its integration with other social media sites, and its bookmarklet that allows you to create Tumblr content from just about anywhere.
Many of you have found a home at Tumblr too, with 1,252 of you creating your own tumblogs and following us. If you’d like to give your new home a fresh coat of paint, you’ll want to check out ThemeForest’s Tumblr Themes section and pick out something that appeals.
But it’s time for us to move on. A new unified blog called Envato Notes will be launched in the next day or so. The new blog will support marketplace authors, sharing tips and giving advice that will help you market yourself more effectively. It will also be a central place for the community to get together and keep up with the latest Envato news.
Besides visiting the new blog, make sure you’re following ActiveDen on Twitter, hang out on the ActiveDen forums, and keep your skills up to date by regularly visiting Activetuts+.
See you around!
Quick Tip: Exploring the Flash CS5 Code Snippets Panel
“In this Quick Tip I’ll show you how to use the brand new Flash CS5 Code Snippets Panel to easily add keyboard and mouse interaction to your projects, without necessarily needing to learn AS3. Let’s take a look!”
The file of the day is YouTube video player with live preview playlist by bitfade.
“This player is for YouTube videos, it uses YouTube API batch processing to get video’s information, which allows to fetch data for up 50 videos with a single API call.”
Community Badges
The Envato Marketplace has a variety of badges that are used to indicate certain attributes or accomplishments of our community members. Badges can only be provisioned by staff and are not to be used in any other way (ie; as part of an avatar).
We’ve just added a new referral badge. Click the link above to see a full list of badges.
Flash for Android: Introduction to BitmapScroller
This is an introduction to my BitmapScroller class. I’ll explain how to get it up and running with ANT and FDT.”
Aeon XML Banner Rotator/Image Viewer/Video Player by flashcreed.
“Exciting new banner rotator, image viewer and video player with playlist that allows you to fully customize and expand your project with a professional look. Make sure you check the entire list of awesome features.”
Flash for Android: Beer Tapper Preview
“Today’s quick screencast is a preview of the latest Flash Android game I am working on with Aidan Coyne. This game is a port of Beer Tapper and I plan on reskinning it to help promote my Developer Happy Hours.”
This week’s featured item is Papervision 3D Gallery by flashanctuary.
“This large scale hi-res grass texture has been created using 16 separate 12 megapixel photographs, which have been carefully edited and combined into a single perfectly tiling, 100% seamless image.”
“Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.”
