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Work, Fun and Time


2009
10.16

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As the saying goes, time flies when your having fun. Well that is true of course, and everyone loves to have fun, but isn’t this far worse; time flies when your working hard. But wait a minute, everyone tells me I must work hard most of the time. I even feel like I must work hard most of the time, so does this mean time is going to fly most of the time?

Well yes it does, that’s exactly what it means. When I concentrate a lot I almost completely loose track of time passing. The result of this is hours, days, weeks passing by really quickly. The more we notice time passing, the slower time seems to go by. This isn’t a great scenario because when we’re noticing time pass, we tend to not be working, and not be eating.

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Sand


2009
10.14

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Feeling bored? Feel like procrastinating the day or night away? Feel like doing something with almost absolutely no point for hours on end? Feel like working on something for hours that adds no real value to your life or existence in any way what so ever? (Wow, that sounds like…… Wow)

Well then thisissand.com is just what you need. You can create all sorts of wonderful designs, provided they are comprised of strange pyramid shapes and you don’t mind it having a sandy texture. I do find it quite amusing though, the way the little granules of sand tumble down my monolithic grand sand pile. I must say I have created some rather awesome pyramids, consisting of many psychedelic stripes and colours.

The aspect of thisissand.com that intrigues me the most the is scripting going on behind the scenes, I’d like to have a look at that Action Script! The way people recreate physics on objects using programming interests me greatly.

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Mind mapping software


2009
10.04

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I found some pretty kewl free open source mind mapping software. I am quite the fan of mind mapping, I like to keep track of what I am thinking on a subject and to allow me to reiterate on my ideas and thoughts. This is what mind mapping allows.

The software I found is called Freemind. Its really simple to use, it allows you to focus your thoughts on the actual idea or problem you are trying to map.

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Quickly start a web design in Photoshop


2009
09.11

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At this time, I believe the most common used resolution on the internet is 1024×768 (I hope that changes… soon). And I have read the best website width for a website designed for 1024×768 is 960px, which seems pretty good to me!

So how is this easily done? How can I create the 960 px wide block and center it in 2 steps?

  • Create a new image with a width of 960 px and a height of 1200 px.
  • From the top menu click Image then click Canvas Size. Set the width of your New Canvas to 1200 px.
  • Set the Canvas Extension colour to black.

You can now add guides to show you where your websites boundaries are.

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Trigonometry and Flash


2009
08.20

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For a project I am currently working on I wanted to write code to plot items in a circle. I knew I needed to use trigonometry I just didnt know how to use it.. at all. I left school before (bad idea)  I learnt trigonometry.  I was also under the impression that it would be really difficult, however this is most certainly not the case.

I did a quick google search on trigonometry and action script, within 2 seconds I had found the perfect article; Trigonometry and Flash. This article told me everything I wanted to know, within an hour I had created the code in my application that I needed.

I reccomend this article to anyone, it’s awesome. Trigonometry and Flash