Fireworks Zone: Wallpaper Contest

Published on October 21, 2009 in General. Closed

Fire up Fireworks and get creative! Fireworks Zone is holding a contest for the best Adobe® Fireworks®-created wallpapers. All Fireworks enthusiasts are invited to join the open theme contest, which runs until December 1, 2009. The most awesome wallpaper wins a copy of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Web Premium and an invitation to write an article for the Fireworks Developer Center. There are cash prizes, books, and tees to be won, too!

Go to Fireworks Zone’s contest page for more details. Good luck, and show them all what Fireworks is really capable of!

Ping This! Bookmarklet

Published on August 22, 2009 in Bookmarklet, Javascript, Microblogging and Ping.fm. 9 Comments

I’m no programmer by any stretch of imagination; I mean, I do ActionScript every now and then, but nothing too fancy that will blow anyone’s minds. Still, that didn’t stop me from whipping up a dead-simple bookmarklet that allows me to submit Web links to Ping.fm:

Ping This!
(Drag the link onto your Bookmarks Toolbar for quick access.)

Update (10 Sept 2009): It seems Ping.fm caught wind of this, and decided it was worthy of adding to their Integration page. (It wasn’t there before.) Hooray for the Internet!

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Rapid Fire #11: Dot Matrix Effect

Published on July 11, 2009 in Adobe, Design, Fireworks, Rapid Fire and Tutorial. 9 Comments

Sixthings dot matrix effect - final output

In this resurrection post for the Rapid Fire tutorial series, we make use of Adobe® Fireworks®‘s Grid Fill Texture to apply a dot matrix effect to any vector element.

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Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets

Published on May 29, 2009 in General, Twitter and Typography. 3 Comments

thepoet: Who is this @JasmineTiy and why is he/her/it they keep on spamming @thepoet in their twit. I don’t even know what they are saying. →

JasmineTiy: How comes there’s 2 @thepoet iz dat even possible →

thepoet: @twitter f*d up big time on the username. there’s two @thepoet @thePOET so that’s why i’m getting all these replies who I don’t even know → Continue reading ‘Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets’

Arched Text: A Fireworks Command

Published on March 27, 2009 in Adobe, Extensions, Fireworks, Software and Typography. 2 Comments

Fireworks guru Aaron Beall caught wind of my Arched Text Inkscape Tutorial a few days back, pointing out that the task of arching the bottom of the text can be done in Adobe® Fireworks® (in fact, it’s even easier with Fireworks’ Distort tool). He even provided a quick walkthrough for the benefit of other Fireworks users over at FireworksGuru Forum. Continue reading ‘Arched Text: A Fireworks Command’