Since I haven’t posted in a long time and don’t have any ideas for any useful tutorials I thought I would do a walkthrough/guide for Hack This Site (hts). HTS is a site that helps you learn how to hack. Even if you don’t want to be a hacker, I still recommend you sign up because it teaches you A LOT of stuff. I will try and write a spoiler free guide for almost all the missions (the ones I have done anyway). You I will post links to them here.

Basic Web

Whilst I was stumbling I came along a sweet little thing made in flash. [link]

Just thought I’d share it

Tom has been talking about it for ages, but it has finally happened. Newgrounds is getting redesigned and getting a ton of new features (see below).

Site-Wide

No more pop-ups. Period.

100% valid HTML + CSS… even in the Forums.

User Pages

Blog-style news section moderated by no one but you.

Your flash, audio, and favorites all showcased under a customized header.

Stats and info redesigned to reach your audience more easily.

Audio Portal Changes

Featured audio playable right on the Audio front page.

Audio submissions now include album art.

Audio visualizer on every song page.

Flash Portal Changes

Enjoy games & movies like never before.

Expanded submission info in the main listing.

Streamlined submission process.

In-page commenting and voting.

Tons of Other Stuff

New wallpapers, icons, & Flash aids.

Access to all your tools from one convenient location.

A search that was hand-tailored to NG content.

New emoticons, secret items, level icons, auras… and the return of the Bytesize player.

Sounds like they are trying to let the users do more than just submit and vote on flashes (much like deviantArt)

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a cool reflection effect for your animations. I am using Flash CS3, but most versions of flash should work. Here is is example of what we will be making:

PaperVision3D is was released yesterday. What is it you ask?

Papervision is the 3D engine I’ve been working on during the past months.

It started as a simple way to transform MovieClips to achieve the 3D illusion. By changing their position, size, rotation and skew you could almost forgive the lack of perspective.

But the latest version, fully optimised for Flash 8 Image API, uses triangle tesselation to distort textures. Now we can render complex objects in “real 3D”!

You can download it from Google Code and find out more about it at the Papervision Blog.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make MC’s (movie clips) snap to a grid through actionscript using some basic math. I am using Adobe Flash CS3, but Flash 8 and Flash MX 2004 will work fine as well. If you are using CS3 just make sure you select an AS (Actionscript) 2.0 file.

Here is what we will be making:

Draw a 10×10 circle on the stage. Make it a MC (F8), set its registration to the center. Before you click OK, hit the button that reads ‘advanced’ if it hasn’t already been pressed. Tick the checkbox that labeled ‘Export for ActionScript’. In the ‘identifier’ text box enter ‘ball’.

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I have had a few people ask me for my Wii friend code, but haven’t been connected to the internet with it until yesterday.

Anyway, mine is 1922-5865-9103-9353. Add me or whatever, post your code down below in a comment so other people can add you as well.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a simple currency converter. This is a great tutorial if you are just starting out with Visual Basic. If you haven’t already, you need to download Visual Basic 2005 for free and install it.

First of all you need to open Visual Basic 2005. Hit Ctrl+N or File>New Project. Select ‘Windows Application’. You should see a screen that looks something like this.

If the toolbox is not already open hit Ctrl+Alt+X to open it. Put 3 radio buttons, 3 text boxes and 1 button onto the form. To do this you cab double click the items in the toolbox or drag them on. Rearrange them so they look something like this.

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This guy has way to much time on his hands.

I haven’t done any tutorials for AS (Action script) 3 yet, but I thought it was about time I did. This is a very simple tutorial that will determine which key is being pressed. Obviously you must have Flash CS3.

First of all open a new flash document.

Open the actions panel (F9 or Window>Actions) and enter the following code.

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