The official poll period should have ended an hour ago, however, I checked the results and there is a tie, but we can only pick one logo, so we’re going to leave the poll open for another 24 hours to have more votes to select teh winner. If you have not voted already, then please do that now.

 12 hours are left before the poll gets automatically closed by our vBulletin script. If you have not already voted for our upcoming logo (and you are a registered member at the forum) then help us in selecting the final winner of this competition. Click here to see the finalists and vote.

Our competition is almost over, please help us select the winner of this competition by voting in the final poll here.

THANKS to all of you who made submissions for our logo competition. We are going to examine all the submissions we received, select the top three and put them in a poll for you to select the winner!

Just thought we’ll remind you of our current logo competition. Don’t miss out your chance to have your mark on Republic of Code and to have a new iPod nano as well! The deadline for submitting your logos is next Sunday the 18th of January. Check out all the details of the competition here.

In response to what was suggested on the forum, we are going to have a quick competition for making the new logo for Republic of Code. 

Prize: 1 8GB iPod Nano for the first place winner of the competition.

Contest:
Design a logo for the Republic of Code.

• The logo must include the words “Republic of Code”.
• The logo must not include the logo or trademark of any other company, website, or individual.
• The logo must be submitted in AI format.
• We are NOT asking for a banner, but just a logo on a white background.
• Take note of the fact that the logo should remain distinctive even when used in a small size (eg. as a Favicon).
• The logo is preferred to be usable in monochrome as well as full color.

Method of Submission:
All submissions are to be sent to competition@republicofcode.com, along with the participant’s full name and contact details including a mailing address to which the prize could be posted. You may submit up to three logos, but only one will qualify for the final poll.

Choosing the Winners:
The Republic of Code team will select the best three submissions and put them in a poll for the registered forum members to vote for the winning submission.

Deadline:
January 18th, 2009. The poll will be started on the 21st of January and will be closed on the 25th of January.

Qualification:
Individuals from all around the world qualify for this competition. Registration is not required. The moderators, administrators, and website owners and their families do not qualify.

Legal:

Today we start a new era with this website under a new name: Republic of Code. Our new name is reflective of the nature of this website as one with a universal message for all those people wishing to learn. The Republic of Code will continue to bring you the best tutorials on the Internet on Flash, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and many other design and development applications.

You can check our ever expanding collection of tutorials and join our forum to get some instant feedback.

Video Tutorials:

• Color Cast Removal And Photo Filters In Photoshop

Tutorials:

• Playing Sounds with ActionScript 3.0

Misc:

• We’re Back Online!

Oman3D experienced a living nightmare this passing week due to the horrible service of 1and1. Some of you might have noticed that the website was down on Monday and Tuesday and that the forum remained locked until a couple of hours ago.

On Monday we received a letter from the abuse departmant of 1and1 because of an alleged spam complaint, in less than 10 minutes we received another email saying that they are locking up our server because of the massive number of complaints they are receiving. We do not use 1and1 to send any emails and our newsletter is managed by a third party (ConstantContact). I instantly tried calling up 1and1 but the customer service people told me that the abuse ‘department’ cannot be reached by phone and the only way to unlock the server is by responding to the email we received. I had to wait for 36 hours until the server was unlocked, I never received an email from 1and1 telling me why it got locked or who sent the complaint. I sent an email to the complaint department and they never replied back to me either.

I received an email from the abuse department today threatening to lock our server again because it was allegedly hacked and that I have to respond to their email and update all my scripts if I do not want them to lock it.

I do not care if a hacker was the reason why a complaint was sent in the first place, but nobody at 1and1 seems to want to talk to us and explain what is happening. I do not have respect for this company anymore and will never deal with them ever again. We moved Oman3D to Media Temple and we will never go back to 1and1. If you do not want to have your website shut for days with no warning and nobody to talk to get it back then make sure you stay away from 1and1.

We are sorry for locking the forum for a couple of days, we had to ensure that we move all the files to the new server before we start it again.

Sorry for this and hopefully it will not happen again.

Video Tutorials:

• Coverting Photographs Using Shapes In Photoshop
• Black And White Conversion With Camera Raw In Photoshop

Tutorials:

• The “If” Conditional in AS3
• Creating A Flower Stand And Vase In 3DS Max
• Creating An Attractive Stylish Forum Signature
• Creating a Grid Image Gallery in Flash Using AS3
• Creating Animations Using The AS3 Tween Class
• Creating Button Rollover Effects In Fireworks
• Using Pen Tablets In Photoshop
• Mass Image Resizing Using Photoshop Actions

Website of the Month

• Igor Bogun

Misc:

• Massive Price Cut for ActionScript Books on Amazon