The Best Structure for your Flash Site - a step by step tutorial from Mark Angeletti

Want to learn how to create a flash website? Here's a very useful link that teaches how to create the best structure for your flash site.

In this article, we'll develop a navigation system. Though it might seem trivial, this will serve as a good example for this article and the techniques can be applied to any project you're working on, be it a full Flash web site, a Flash poll, or a Flash RSS reader. Incidentally, I've created all of these in the last month, and all exhibit the structure that we'll see here.

Here's the link: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/best_structure_flash_site.htm

Editing in the cloud: Meet the YouTube Video Editor

This video offers a quick tutorial on how to use the YouTube VIdeo Editor: http://www.youtube.com/editor

Video editing usually requires installing software packages and having a fair amount of technical savvy. But we think video editing should be fun and easy, so we're introducing a new tool that anyone could figure out: it's an online video editor, now available in TestTube, our ideas incubator.

Without installing any software, it allows you to:

- Combine multiple videos you've uploaded to create a new longer video
- Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos
- Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs
- Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click -- no upload necessary

Source: YouTube

Get rid of Access Denied (license_expired) A license has expired on the Proxy "The SGOS license has expired" error message on my computer's browser

Got this error message on my laptop. I'm surprised co'z this is the first time I got this error message on my Firefox browser and I can't visit major sites like google, youtube and my blog. So I fired up my other browser Internet Explorer and same error appears. Here's the error message:

Access Denied (license_expired) A license has expired on the Proxy, and your request is not permitted: "The SGOS license has expired" A new license must be obtained. For assistance, contact your network support team.

To test if this error message is appearing only on my machine, I turned on my desktop machines on my network and still  I got the same error on both FireFox and IE browsers of each workstations. Not all sites have this error message but this is annoying because all of the major sites that I used have this error message.

How did I get rid of this error message?

Good thing I have this Hot Spot Shield from AnchorFree installed on my laptop. HotSpot Shield ensure you are private, secure and anonymous online. It secure your web session, data, online shopping, and personal information online with HTTPS encryption. It also protect yourself from identity theft online, hide your IP address for your privacy online and access all content privately without censorship and bypass firewalls. It works on wireless and wired connections both on pc and mac.

Although there are advertisements, but that's fine for me since I can now access all sites and get rid of that "Access Denied (license_expired) A license has expired on the Proxy, and your request is not permitted: "The SGOS license has expired" A new license must be obtained. For assistance, contact your network support team." for now.

If still you can't visit major sites because of this same problem after some troubleshooting like rebooting your machine, your router, updating your software and browsers, feel free to try this Hot Spot Shield from AnchorFree and I hope it will work for you like how it works for me.

New Friendster Gets A Total Makeover

It was Friday when Friendster unveiled its new look after its launch at the Boni High Street. The new Friendster looks simpler and better. With the new horizontal navigation on top showing important pages like Home, Profile, Friends and Photos, the new friendster is now more user-friendly.

The new friendster's shoutout  loads faster than the old one. It reminds me of Facebook's status updates that loads fast after you type in anything that's on your mind.This time, the new friendster wants you to shoutout and tell your ka-friendster "what you're doing right now..."

The new friendster is also rich in Gifts and Fun with lots of game applications. Let's just wait if Zynga will work with the new friendster to put their addictive game apps like Poker and FarmVille.

After this total makeover, will Friendster get back those users who switched to other Social Networking sites like Facebook? Will the new friendster users forget that smiling friendster emoticon favicon "friendster icon" and enjoy this new face of friendster? A lot of internet savvy is saying that friendster was already out of style or boring, will they appreciate this new look of friendster?

Here's the new friendster video.

Google Free Website Hosting

Google is offering a free hosting. With google, you can now create and update your own website for free. All you need is a Google account. If you don't have a google account yet, you're missing a lot of your internet life! If you already have gmail account, just go to Google Sites to create your own free website. 

With Google Site, you can easily create a website that can host and attach different files like .zip and html documents. Enough for a personal, family, team and even small organization website.Google is not just a free hosting for your website. It also has backend interface where you can design your own site. You can even choose a site template if you don't know where to start or don't know how to design your own website.

Google free hosting offers 100Mb per site. With maximum attachment size of 10Mb and without limit on the number of webpages. That means you can create any number of pages for your site until you reach the 100Mb site quota. That's enough for you to have your own personal or organizational website for free. 

Want to have your own personal site for free? Create now with Google Sites. My personal site, www.siteniregie.co.cc is an example of a website created with Google Site. Check that out. :)