Singapore

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Two weeks have gone by, after the hacking and the new release of NewsOffice.
But we went along as usual. As a new version of NewsOffice was really waiting for itself we went on our way, took along some suggestions from forum visitors and from our inbox. I am happy to say we almost got it done. NewsOffice version 1.2

It is not done yet, but we only have to fix some bugs and create some minor systems. It will be done within a week orso. I am also working on other projects at the moment.
As the title gives it away I am currently in Singapore. It might not say much to some, but it's a small country in Asia..
You could say: "Ah we all travel and go to other country's". Yes that is true, but I live in the Netherlands! That's a twelve hour flight and a six hour time difference. Because I am in Singapore some project come to a standstill, like Shore, and I am focussing on NewsOffice and the work I am doing here. This message is just so you know, if you are interested on how things are going.

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn, Newanz Staff

(One of) our worst NiGhTmArE(s)

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First of: Download the New NewsOffice 1.1.1 Version.

About the new version

Well this a day we will remember for a while, the first (public) bug ever in a script of Newanz. Oh the joy
What happend?
Today I woke up. Just like any other sunday. I was thinking: what to do? "Mike and Mike's", Shore or just relaxing?

NO!

I logged in, went to check for some errors in our error log, and damnit there were some hack ATTEMPTS to crack NewsOffice. That's just the worst my day could start! I did a quick Google to NewsOffice and yes there it was, the bugsite milw0rm.

RoMaNcYxHaCkEr, found a bug in news_show.php. (for the ones that look for a link to the site, I gave enough keywords for a quick google search?)

So what did I do?
Well first contact some people to start up the project again, this was a bug that was dying to be fixed. And so said, we got right to it.
...3 hours later...

Done, he he, about time security bug fixed and prevent some other access methods we were eager to fix. In the mean time I helped out three people with installing NewsOffice and except for one person, it all worked.

What did we learn? We will keep googeling our projects for reported bugs, but then again, we find them in our error logs too.

One last thing: We got an open letter to RoMaNcYxHaCkEr:

Thank you for reading,

Tom de Bruijn - Newanz Staff

New photoshop tutorial: Shaperz

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Welcome again to Newanz,

It's uncommon that we are back so soon after a news post, but we got some good news.
We have made some updates on the Photoshop section

New tutorial

We have just completed writing our latest photoshop tutorial, it's about how to make your own Gallery - Shaperz Serie or Gallery - Shaperz 2 Serie.

Creating shaped based wallpapers / images
Create great looking wallpapers and images using abstract shapes.

We have added it to two tutorial database websites: Pixel2Life and Good-Tutorials.com. Most of the time if it get's added there the rest of the sites automaticly follow, how curious
Now of course we hope to get more visits this way, that is if they get added. Which of course we really really want!
Also we added the result of the tutorial, a nice Shaperz 2 - Gallery, to the collection in our portfolio.

Now what's new on the tutorial is that we added two new scripts. You already had time to look at the great
Lightbox 2 script that we use in our portfolio, this is now also used in this tutorial!

Newanz Plus

A new logo has been created! A small variation to the default logo of Newanz which we rarely use now a days, but it still can be viewed in the portfolio under Newanz Plus » Logo's. Yeah well other than some small bug fixes we have nothing else to report.

We hope to get back very soon with new updates!

Thank you for reading,

Newanz Staff