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  • Using The Accelerometer Sensor in ActionScript 3

    You can track the rotation of a mobilde device by using the accelerometer sensor on it. Techniques making use of the accelerometer may be used to rotate the screen when the device is rotated or to control an object in a game by rotating the phone. Interacting with your smart phone by rotating it around…

  • Create a Flash Racing Game Tutorial

    If you’re interested in gaming and blogging, YouSayToo lets you earn from your flash games and allows you to make money blogging. In this tutorial we’ll cover the creation of a flash racing game. I got the permission from Remus C. from gameSheep to publish this awesome tutorial. View Tutorial

  • Playing YouTube Videos In Flash Using ActionScript 3.0

    This tutorial will teach you how to play a YouTube directly inside your Flash movie without having to navigate to the YouTube website. This is possible to do by using the YouTube API provided by Google for developers to their own websites and applications on top of YouTube. The example below shows a YouTube video…

  • Website Tour with jQuery

    Today we want to share a little script with you that allows to create a tour on a website with jQuery. This can be very useful if you want to explain your users the functioning of your web application in an interactive way. You might have noticed that Facebook used something like this to explain…

  • Image Zoom Tour with jQuery

    Today we want to share a little zoom tour script with you. Showing a main image initially, we want to be able to zoom into certain parts of the image by clicking on tags, using another image for the closer view. This next step can contain other tags that again allow to show more images.…

  • jTextTranslate: A jQuery Translation Plugin

    The double-click functionality in the New York Times was somehow fascinating but also highly discussed because it boldly used the browser functionality to get the definitions of words. Fortunately, the double click now causes not an immediate popout to appear but lets the user confirm by showing an interrogation mark. This inspired me to create…

  • Create a Multi-Layout Portfolio with WordPress

    WordPress, as a content management system, is often used for creating portfolio websites. With the evolution of user interface design and functionalities, a new trend has emerged: displaying portfolio items in different layouts. This tutorial details the process of creating a dedicated portfolio section in WordPress’ backend, and using jQuery and CSS3 to display the…

  • A Comprehensive Introduction to the Type Tool

    Who doesn’t know the Type Tool? This is maybe one of the most powerful and useful tools of Photoshop. We’ve all used it at least once, but do you know all its potential? That’s why I decided to write a comprehensive guide about Photoshop’s Type tool, including do’s and don’ts of the most important features…

  • Quick Tip: How to Simulate X-Ray Photography in Photoshop

    Take a banana and cut it in half with a very sharp blade and take a photo of it over a white piece of paper. With the pen tool (P) selected, go to the paths window and create a new path that follows the border of the banana. I know there are other several ways…

  • Quick Tip: Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Feature

    With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows…