This tutorial will lead teach you how to create really interesting and unique typographic wallpaper in few easy steps. Really even beginner will be able to recreate this effect, add their own style and thought in it, I am sure you will enjoy and learn a lot from this tutorial! You will learn how to create good looking background, add lightning effects and work with fonts, sizes, colors to make just necessary places stand out! Let’s get started! Continue reading
Everywhere you turn, it seems Google has a new offering. But how serious are these attempts to own your computer?
Google is rich, with a market cap of $183 billion — that’s billion with a “b” — already 71 percent the value of its much more established archrival Microsoft. With those resources, Google has created more and more software products in an attempt to build a sustainable business outside of the search-based ads that account for most of its revenue — and be the center of your computing universe. Continue reading
Google is making huge strides in embedding its web experience into phones, and the minds of high end mobile users, but China remains its biggest challenge. There, China Mobile adopted Android with one hand, but then changed almost every aspect of it to create its own branded user experience and store. And the country’s leading search engine provider, Baidu, is also proving a thorn in the US firm’s side. Continue reading
Search engines constantly look for new signals they can use to improve the quality of the results they provide to users. Ultimately, user satisfaction is a critical component in retaining or increasing their market share, especially over the long term. Let’s explore some of these new potential signals and the way search engines evaluate and make decisions to use a new signal.
Back in the days of AltaVista, search engines were keyword-centric. These were the days when spammers loaded meta tags with large number of keywords, and also used invisible text to jack up the perceived relevance and value of a search page. Continue reading
Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm, the complex formula and calculations Google uses to rank all web pages, including yours. Continue reading
Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*
A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta starts. Continue reading
Another nice flash component which was to be used within Gatorade’s site. This component focused on the Gatorade Powder Pack. This was a simple implementation of animation, imagery and the use of text. The only activation within this flash piece only lead the user to another part of the site. This piece was developed in Flash CS3 and programmed with AS2.0 as well as TweenLite.
This was another flash component which was to be used on Gatorade’s site. This component utilizes Tiger woods and his drive and compares it to advanced hydration. This site had 3 sections as well which had a story in each to tell. This site was developed in Flash CS3 with AS2.0.
This is a banner ad concept I created for Gatorade. The brand focused on the G2 product and wanted to concentrate on the fact that these drinks had low to no calories. I utilized the idea that 3 calorie balls flies into the scene then drops and falls into a whole only to have the G2 bottles pop back up in its place along with the final CTA.
This was a flash component in which I had to update and re-design for Gatorade. This was a pretty cool project which had awesome imagery that I was able to use.
If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It is FREE and it only takes a second.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.
This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say “thank you”.
Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do.
We can never say enough “thank you’s”.
This was a nice banner ad I created for Dollar General which had a very animated build. The banner was created in flash using AS3.0 and utilizing the TweenMax class.
Just got this in an email and I thought I would share it on my blog.
1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer’s history if you die.
2. Nothing s*cks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the h*ll are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6.. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest needs to start their directions on #5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories. Continue reading
One of the major changes in AS3 is how you deal with XML content. While a lot of similarities carried over from the AS2 days, there are new time-saving niceties in AS3 that make working with XML files easier. One of the introductions is Ecmascript for XML, known as E4X for short. In this tutorial, you will gradually learn more XML tricks as you try to parse the various parts of the following XML data:
This tutorial attempts to cover a lot of ground, so I’ve provided a short table of contents to give you an idea of what to expect:
As you can see, there are a lot of topics that you’ll learn how to juggle in Flash. Let’s start at the top and being by first describing what an XML file is. Read more here.
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Continue reading
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