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ferdymania over in the UltraShock forums recently posted some new ActionScript 2.0 classes, myVector and Enumerator, adapted from respective Java equivalents. You can see the classes here.

The Miami Herald has a little blurb, How bubble brains spent mega$$, about Shocked, a Trio documentary airing tonight about how in the internet boom of the 90's Macromedia commissioned Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame to make cartoons for shockwave.com. For a cool $2 million, Stone and Parker would make cartoons for the site. The results were so raunchy that they would never be seen. Not surprising. An interesting story about Macromedia's use of money (at least at the time).

Macromedia just released a new version of Breeze which is to enhance web communication. From the press release:

"Macromedia is making web conferencing more useful and effective for businesses by giving them more power, control, and flexibility over their information," said Kevin M. Lynch, vice president, Macromedia. "Macromedia Breeze enables the free flow of information within organizations by building on their existing expertise, assets, tools, and technologies that are already available."

This is worth checking out as it is, after all, the month of free breeze.

After the month of March, Contribute 2 will raise in price by 50% or from $99 to $149 US. If you have any interest in the product (Try, Buy) which "is the easiest way for individuals and teams to update, create, and publish web content to any HTML website," you may want to act now. As of today, this has been running on the main banner of Macromedia's website.

Half-Life 2D is a Flash-based video game based loosely on Half-Life 2 which has been in the works for quite a while now. It was originally supposed to be available before the release of Half-Life 2 in September of 2003, but like Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2D had also been pushed back for who knows how long. The developers, however, still concede its release will be before that of Half-Life 2. A German Half-Life fan site, city17 recently posted an exclusive preview of the upcoming Half-Life 2D game. The translation is a little rough, but understandable. If you know German you're in pretty good shape.

Freestylermx has recently released FX Studio 2004, a wonderful collection of Fireworks resources available free for download. And get this, you can even download the packaging! Both the box and the CD label are available in the case you decide you need those things. Thank you Coen Naninck.

Coen from Fireworks Zone has pointed out that Nansya has updated Fireworks styles. There are three hefty pages of styles available for download.

So there's been some changes and I've put the new design into effect. I tried not to make it too terribly drastic - most of the coloring is pretty consistent with before, but there's a different layout and a little more accessibility with the menu listing on the right.

I'll be tweeking this thing in the next couple of hours so some colors and formatting is sure to be off. No worries, I'll get to it. Just a matter of time.

Flash Guru has a list of the Flash Film Festival Winners posted. I'm quite fond of Wefail Lovers myself.

I sat down last night and made up a new design for the site. I chopped it up and HTML-ized it today. Here is a preview. If I need to go back to the drawing board, let me know ;) All I need to do now is work it into the news/downloads templates and it should be good to go. I expect to get that done by the end of the weekend.