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Christmas is here
Here is my wish to all of you, mase with BannerSnack. May all of us be filled with joy and happiness not only this Christmas, but every day of the year.
New PhotoSnack, BannerSnack and SnackTools release
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.
SnackTools, PhotoSnack and BannerSnack has just been launched for testing
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.
Merry Christmas to all of you
Here is a Christmas greeting e-card made by me with bannersnack, a new banner maker web application from JumpeyeComponents.
Happy Holidays folks !
Create Flash banners without Flash
Today JumpeyeComponents launched a new web application called BannerSnack that lets anybody easily create Flash banners and publish them. The product is still in its beta stage but most of the features are already implemented and working. All you have to do to create a Flash banner is to create your account on BannerSnack, access the application from the website and start using it.
By using a free account, you can create, save and publish your banners without problems but there are a few limitations in comparison with the premium account:
| Free account | Premium account |
|---|---|
| you can only choose from a limited number of banner sizes | you can create custom size banners |
| you do not have access to all the setup parameters of the animations and filters | you can fully customize the animations and filters |
| you have a limit of 25 MB of storage space for your images | you have a 250 MB storage space for your images |
All these limitations are gone if you purchase a premium account, which costs from $9 per month up to $149 per year.
The application itself is easy to use and has a fairly intuitive interface. The banners are based on a slide like structure with different types of transitions between them. You can use text and images for your banners on which you can apply different show/hide animations and filters. These filters and animations are based on the FlashEff engine, so you can use many of the eye-catching animations possible only with FlashEff.
Once you finished your banner, you can save it in your account and then publish it to the web. You can even set the banner to be public, which means other users will be able to access and edit it. Of course, their changes will not reflect in your banner, they will be saved separately.
But enough talking… I mean writing… For more information you can simply access www.bannersnack.com to check it out and to start using the banner maker application. There’s even have a short video presentation of the features of BannerSnack and you can also read a blog about a interesting stuff on marketing and banners (I’ve already subscribed to this blog… you should too).