We’ve just launched a petition on Facebook: we would really like for Google to allow ActionScript 3 .swf files for AdWords. If we scream loud enough, maybe Google will hear us. So please, those of you who have a Facebook account, sign our petition. If Google will allow AS3 .swf file for its AdWords system, we will all benefit.
Thanks to all of you.
Yesss !! Finally it’s here. We’ve been working on these new versions for a few month and last evening (local time) we finally released them: SnackTools, BannerSnack and PhotoSnack.
It took a bunch of great people working for many hours for the past few month. I have to thank my colleagues from the Flash and PHP department for making this possible (and for the many extra hours put into this new release), not forgetting Alin, the product manager for PhotoSnack who came up with the many great features of the entire application, the workflow and the photo albums, Raul who helped us with the design and workflow for PhotoSnack and who is the product manager for BannerSnack, Tibi our great web designer and of course the marketing department without whom, many of you wouldn’t have heard of BannerSnack and PhotoSnack.
Thank you guys, we really make a great team :D.
As for the new releases, you’ll notice a great difference between the new and the previous versions. Now, you can have access to any of those SnackTools apps from the same account, which is a SnackTools account. The new design optimizes the workflow within the web applications so you can make the best of them. You should check them out. Of course, we tried as much as possible to leave your existing banners and albums exactly how you made them.
PhotoSnack comes with a few more photo album templates and new features like downloading a published album and improved publishing system. You can check out the new features here. BannerSnack also comes with new features like a new and improved workflow, undo/redo actions and improved transition effects. The publishing system has features that are only available by purchasing SnackTools points so you no longer have free or premium accounts.
All that’s left to do is for you to try them out. Of course we are always interested in what you have to say about our SnackTools apps (ideas, comments, feature proposals) just send us an emai at contact@snacktools.com or leave a comment to this post.
Finally… I’m in the mood of writing again… I’m sorry to say that it’s a long time since my last article, but hopefully that is going to change.
A lot has happened in the Flash world these past few month and I’m sure you’re up to date with the news so there’s no need for me to list them.
Anyway, if you noticed, during the summer JumpeyeComponents launched a new web application called PhotoSnack. It allows you to create very nice online Flash photo albums. Well, JumpeyeComponents has just launched an updated version of PhotoSnack for testing, which can be found at http://dev.photosnack.net. It has many more features than the initial version and a total of 13 albums to choose from. Here is a short video to get you started: http://dev.photosnack.net/help/tutorials/getting-started/.
Besides PhotoSnack, JumpeyeComponents also launched the SnackTools, which is a suite of web applications containing both PhotoSnack and BannerSnack. All of the web applications are only for testing purposes and JumpeyeComponents is happy to receive your feedback on the applications. There’s also a full-discount coupon (TEST) used to unlock the premium features.
One important thing to note is that the accounts you create in the test applications will be deleted without any notice once the testing is over and the applications are released in their final version. Just keep this in mind while you are playing around with the apps.
This being said, I hope you’ll all have fun with the SnackTools. I’m looking forward to see some interesting examples. If you have any comments on the applications (ideas, bug reports or any other comment) feel free to leave a note here or write to JumpeyeComponents through the feedback application they have on each of the SnackTools web apps.
Today JumpeyeComponents has officially launched the next version of the popular Flash animation tool – FlashEff. Now it has a redesigned workflow that makes life even easier and comes with a solution to lower the file size of your Flash clips: the FlashEff2 component has a lower size than the predecessor and it comes with another set of components – FlashEff2 Light.
The FlashEff2 Light pack contains separate animation components, each one specialized to do one of the main component’s jobs: show/hide animations for symbols, show/hide animations for texts, applying filters, creating buttons and executing commands. So you can use only that one feature you really need for your project without having to import all the FlashEff2 features into your Flash clip. This way you can lower the file size of the final animation even more.
Here are some other features for FlashEff2:
Here you can find more information on the component’s features and watch some nice video tutorials that will help you get started with FlashEff2. There’s even a nice video on the home page based on the comments users left on this JumpeyeComponents blog post.