August 2010
37 posts
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.
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Quick Tip: Exploring the Flash CS5 Code Snippets... →
“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!”
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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.
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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.”
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Clients from Hell
clientsfromhell:
Can you make the site loader slower? We want it to feel more elegant.
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WatchFlash 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.”
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WatchFlash for Android: Introduction to Git
“GitHub.com is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. This screencast is designed to help you work with projects on GitHub.com.”
Click the link above for another two videos.
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WatchFlash for Android: Android’s Web Browser
“To kick off the Flash for Android series I show off how FlashBum.com runs on two Android phones, the Nexus One with Flash Player 10.1 and the HTC EVO with Flash Player Lite 4. I’ll then walk through a couple of other sites, pointing out some of the things you should bear in mind whilst developing for mobile devices.”
Click the link above for...
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Freebie Friday
Our free file of the month for August is The Reveal — A Flexible Progress bar by marcfolio.
“First impressions are key in today’s design savvy world, and often the first thing we see when entering or view a flash file is a boring progress bar or preloader. Feeling like an opportunity was being lost to better communicate and engage the viewer I created this set of preloaders. A simple...
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Clients from Hell
clientsfromhell:
Me: “OK, let’s start by opening your web browser.”
Client: “Web browser? Oh, you mean Internet Explorer?”
Me: “Sure, that’ll work. Now you’re going to click on the web address window at the top of your browser and type in…”
Client: “Wait, wait, slow down. What do you mean by click?”
Me: “… like, click with your mouse button.”
Client: “Mouse button? What? Man, this is really...
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Featured Author
This week’s featured author is Flashembed, who has been with ActiveDen since April, has 3 ActiveDen items, and has made 36 files.
Bringin’ 3d to AD. Thanks, Flashembed! View Flashembed’s Portfolio
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Exclusive Freebie: Text-To-Speech Utility →
“First of the month (more or less) and therefore time for another Exclusive Freebie! This month ActiveDen author flashanctuary offers up an interesting tool making use of the Google Text-To-Speech API.”
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HTML5 training: Taking a first look at HTML5 →
“In all my years of teaching and writing about web design, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a topic explode in terms of interest level and passion as quickly as I have with HTML5. Despite the huge amount of interest in the topic, there is still a great deal of confusion about what HTML5 is and how to go about learning it. In my opinion, one of the best ways to approach HTML5 is by first...