Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
A favicon is a small icon that appear next to a website url in the browser. The size is just 16×16 pixel. Very small. I was wondering how to create that. Then I start searching and found a few tutorials on how to create a favicon. You can use Adobe Photoshop with plugin from Telegraphics installed. I used this one to create mine.
There are many websites that offer the service to create this favicon from image file, and the one that I like is dynamic drive favicon generator. Search engine is great.
Posted in Computer, Web Development, Tips | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Image from: http://photoshopcontest.com
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
They call this ‘The Next Generation-Generation’ digital cameras. Now you can take optimised, high-quality movies easily upload them directly to YouTube. This is a part from the press release:
| DOVER, NJ, JULY 10, 2007 – Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of two new digital cameras with the cutting-edge EXILIM Engine 2.0 image processing module. In conjunction with the release of these cameras, Casio, Inc. announced today their agreement with YouTube to include a unique YouTube Capture mode and bundle software to provide ideal settings for recording, storing and uploading video on the company’s newest EXILIM digital cameras – EX-S880 and EX-Z77. This agreement represents an effort by Casio, Inc. to directly engage the YouTube community by simplifying the process of creating and sharing videos.
The increased popularity of video sharing Web sites such as YouTube offers a great opportunity for innovation, said John Homlish, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Casio, Inc. We recognized that there was a demand for an easier way to upload high-quality video and are thrilled to be the first digital camera company to be able to offer a solution for consumers.
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3 Innovative Features:
- H.264 High Quality Movies - 1.5 hours of recorded movies with 1GB SD Card
- Movie Compression Technology - Upload directly to youtube in 2 steps, connect to a PC and upload.
- Face Detection - Capture the face you focus on!
Casio also produces great cameras.
Posted in Gadget, Digital Camera, Tech | 5 Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Google (and many other search engines) has the ability not only to search on keywords, but also using a more advance query language to really narrow down your search results.
If we know the technic, we can search faster. For example, you are a fan of Shakira and want to find one of her songs, let say Hips Dont Lie. Try enter this query to google search box:
intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”shakira” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”
or
intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”hips dont lie” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”
If you’re lucky, from the google’s first few results you can download your MP3.Just change the format from mp3 to ram,ra or whatever , even video format such as avi,mp4 etc.
I’ve created a tool to skip those unfriendly query. For sure there’re a lot of similar tool out there, but using tool that I created myself just feel nothing but good.
Try the MP3 Search Tool.
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
While listening to the song of Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape at youtube, I found an interesting theory:
Salary Theorem
The less you know, the more you make.
Proof:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time
And since Knowledge = Power and Time = Money
It is therefore true that Knowledge = Work / Money .
Solving for Money, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of Work done |
Nice.
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