Flash Kit weekly Newsletter April 18, 2006 Vol. 210

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In this issue:

1. From the Webmaster
2. Announcements
3. Battle(s) of the Week
4. What's New

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1.From the Webmaster
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I hope everyone had a great Easter, Passover, Pesach, Ostern or
whatever you like to call this past weekend. I know in this
little part of the world, the weather and the company were
perfect!

This nl will be short but I just wanted to welcome a couple new
folks to our team. Starting with cancerinform, he joins the Flash
Kit Team as the newest Flash 8 forum moderator. Cancerinform has
been an active member of Flash Kit since 2002. He has over four
thousand posts to his name and has been recognized by the
community as being a dedicated, knowledgeable and impartial
member. Good qualities and among other traits that we look for
when we considered a member for modship on Flash Kit.

I would also like to welcome Commander Q to our team as the new
moderator to the also new Flash Foundry forum. While Commander Q
may not have followed the typical process of becoming a mod on
Flash Kit due to the nature and timing of the position, he does
come onboard with a wealth of knowledge in both graphics design
and moderator experience. Commander Q is here to help us with
any questions or suggestions about our new sister site Flash
Foundry, so please get in there and start making some money by
submitting your own resources and picking up some content to help
you with your next project.

Thank you everyone and have a great week!

Mike Houghton
Flash Kit webmaster

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2. Announcements
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2.1 Announcements

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FlashRelief announces QuickPoll -- A customizable poll component
QuickPoll quickly create an online Flash poll. Customize fonts,
colors, sizes, number of choices and more. Includes three pre-
built templates. Uses PHP for poll data storage and quick setup.
Create an unlimited number of polls. Read more here.
http://www.flashrelief.com/quickpoll/index.html

IncreditTools announces Flash Demo Builder 1.0 Flash Demo Builder
is an easy tool for creating tutorials, presentations,
interactive quizzes and product demonstrations. Publish to Flash,
DVD, CD, EXE, AVI, MS Word, Email and Website. Get your copy
here. http://www.flashdemobuilder.com/

PJ and Supreme4 components Version2, ultimate text effect for MM
Flash Version 2 has matured to become an all-in text-effect
solution for anyone working with Flash. PJ and S4 Version 2 can
be used by users of any skill-level. For experienced users custom
modifications can be done quickly. Details here!
http://www.patrickjansen.net/components/

Marmalade Multimedia is pleased to announce the release of
FlashAmp 3 FlashAmp 3, the sound-visualization utility for
Macromedia Flash 8 and MX2004. Designed for Windows and
Macintosh, FlashAmp 3 will synchronize sound in Flash, audio
animations and visualizations, lip sync character animations and
more! http://www.marmalademedia.com.au/flashamp/

Check out the all new iconflash for your next Flash project The
all new iconflash.com gives you over 200 professionally designed
Flash icons complete with FLA, SWF and PNG files Flash icons
perfect for use in any Flash website or movie. Get the full
details and pricing here! http://www.iconflash.com/

MDM announce Zinc OSX Update with Browser Functionality MDM have
just released a new update to Zinc 2.5 for Mac OSX. The update is
the first to include Mac OSX Browser functionality and will allow
users to access both local and online HTML files directly in
their Zinc Applications! Get it today!
http://www.multidmedia.com/track.php...ect=/software/
zinc/osx

SWiSHzone.com - First with a DirectShow FLV source filter
SWiSHzone.com announces the release of a DirectShow (DS) FLV
source filter which is now included with the SWiSH Video2
installation. SWiSHzone.com is the first and only company to
offer a DS FLV source filter.
http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?a...o&tab=overview

Sascha Wenning and Sebastian Wiehe announce the release of
ImageBox2 ImageBox2 is an all new free Flash based innovative and
versatile online/offline multimedia platform for presenting your
jpg swf flv and mp3 files. Download your copy and get all the
details right here! http://www.imagebox2.de/

VitalStream and NETGUI Simplify Video Sharing for Consumers in a
Flash VitalStream and NETGUI have teamed up to create WEBBEO, the
first complete, hosted solution enabling consumers to combine
compressed digital video with Flash Animation Authoring and
upload it to the Web in minutes. Full Story here!
http://www.webbeo.com/


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3. Battle(s) of the Week
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March Madness may be over but nepzap2 is keeping the flames white
in "jwin vs. daVulf vs. nepzap2 :: Battle of a million scan
lines". Check out these guys amazing work!
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=678537

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4. What's New
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4.1 New Movies
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OPEN SOURCE MOVIES!

Planetary Attack
An amazing animation with visors and lasers where the enemy base
is destroyed.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=3857

Missty home page
Check out this great template. Submitted by Andrzej.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=11322

Wave effect
Check out this fully adjustable wave image.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=11308

Image Matrix Stretch
Submitted by Sean Toru. Bitmap manipulation of an image which
gets stretched over to the right hand edge once it passes over a
certain point. To move the image, just hover over it and to
toggle images just click.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=11310

Jelly Balls
Sorry for the wait... Dragable, collideable, destroyable, jelly
balls. By Li
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=11309

PhotoFade II - Fading Picture Viewer
Latest version of the PhotoFade program. Easier to use and
understand. Fades from one photo to the next - allows for any
combination of background images, picture descriptions, and photo
displays. Imports external SWF files. Great for web pages,
business sites, art displays, or anything where you want to fade
from one image to the next. Use freely and enjoy.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=10654

From my design works
Check out this brilliant portfolio submitted by ArdaFb. The
template is rich in sound and color.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=11324

Rain
Author: Ronen Ziv, This is my first Fla file on the web so please
tell me if you like it or not. The sound has been taken from
Flash Kit. This is a great web site! Well done! Ronen
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=11323

Molecules
Submitted by pablomargaria. Check out the molecules zooming
around in brilliant colors and random design.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=movies&ID=4957



4.2 New Tutorials
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Custom Trailing Cursor in Flash MX
A tutorial on how to create your own trailing cursor in Flash MX
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Special_Effects/Custom_T-Siddhart-1331/index.php

Level Codes (to skip to a level)
This 5-step tutorial will show you how to create a level-code
kind of thing that will let a user type a code into a box, press
OK, and go to a certain level, depending on the word/phrase.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/Level_Co-Dan_H-1326/index.php

How to make a Vault! How to make a vault where people guess the
secret code, if they get it right it links them to another page!
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/How_to_m-ME-1328/index.php



4.3 Featured Sites for this Week
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Check out the latest Featured Sites for this Week:

Orbit White Friends of Bright
Posted by Line, Hilarious video, rich colors, great sound and
intuitive layout. Load time may be a couple minutes but well
worth the wait.
http://www.friendsofbright.com/

SSH International Consultants w.l.l.
Company Website created using Adobe Photoshop CS, Macromedia
Flash MX 2004 and Dreamweaver MX 2004.
http://www.sshic.com/

Green Apple Design
An esthetically built flash site for a design firm called Green
Apple Design.
http://greenappledesign.in/

CSdezign.com
Check out the exciting use of Flash in this personal portfolio of
Chris Silverman.
http://www.csdezign.com/



4.5 Featured Loops
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Jam
Just A Piece From A Song A Friend And I Was Working On. Live
Guitar, Roland Td-6v Drums. Thought It Sounded Good For Not
Rehearsing Anything. TC
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9815

Sorush
A clip of top sound which belongs to all music lovers, webmasters
and ADOBE2.COM
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9816

Rasing The Sail Created in FL Studio 6, From the major motion
picture "The Truman Show" Original composition By: Phillip Glass.
I just got board one day and created a trance version of Raising
the sail. Please let me know if you use it! enjoy
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9814

Southern Gangsta Groove
Dirty South Hip Hop beat with dramatic Piano and Strings.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9813

Trance - Loop 2
Trance-loop with atmospheric sounds.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9809

Trance - Loop 3
Trance-loop with atmospheric sounds.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9810

Trance - Loop 4
Trance-loop with atmospheric sounds and vocals.
upt_http://www.flashkit.com/jump.php?type=loops&ID=9812



4.6 Featured Articals
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Efficiently Paging Through Large Result Sets in SQL Server 2000
This article looks at updating our previous stored procedure to
provide an even-more efficient approach. The stored procedure
presented at the end of this article can be used for classic ASP
applications, custom paging with the DataGrid in ASP.NET 1.x, or
used by the ObjectDataSource to provide custom paging for the
GridView in ASP.NET 2.0 applications. Read on to learn more!
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/041206-1.shtml

Use Relative Instead of Absolute Paths The web is such a fluid
environment that, at any time, you might need to move or rename a
branch of your application or maybe even the entire application.
It's times like these that you'll be kicking yourself for hard
coding all those links to your application's supporting files and
images.
http://www.asp101.com/tips/index.asp?id=131

Subclassing Pages and Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0
Sometimes the simplest things in ASP.NET 2.0 turn out to be the
hardest things to implement. One example is trying to have a
shared property across all your web pages. This article shows you
how to subclass the System.Web.UI.Page class in order to build a
master page that "knows" the user and let's you easily add page-
wide properties.
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/060413.htm