October 15th, 2007
Its been awhile since my last post but rest assured I have not abandoned this blog. I have just been busy playing around with some Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator. The results? I took the time to learn Illustrator because I never actually used it before and it is strangely familiar yet very different from Photoshop. One of the things I did was to trace an old-school Nissan Skyline.
It needs a lot of work but I am trying to keep it really simple. Take a look:
Original picture:
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October 3rd, 2007
As I re-learn to develop web pages and learn more about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), it has become apparently frustrating how a simple page can look nice sitting in Mozilla’s Firefox or even Apple’s Safari but come out looking crappy on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. And it amazes me how a large software company like Microsoft is able force feed its users to use its incapable browser. Sure, I read that IE7 will resolve all the CSS output problems it has seen since IE5 through IE6 but why can they not just fix all the problems before. In addition, if every Windows OS has Internet Explorer that comes with it, shouldn’t they be on the fore-front and be the most compliant browser available?
The more I become familiar with CSS, it is apparent of the flaws that are in... Continue Reading...
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October 2nd, 2007
A home entertainment media center that has all the movies and music with a graceful user-interface that rivals Apple’s software? I came across this expensive yet bad ass home entertainment unit system and I am utterly blown away. This multi-media home theater solution is called Kaleidescape and if you watched their product demo video, you too will agree that this is the future.
The user-interface appears to be similar to something from Apple iTunes except it navigates through movies and music. The Kaleidescape unit is a server that comes pre-loaded with a whole lot of programming and the scalability to increase data memory for more storage. The server unit acts as the main brain unit and from there you are able to connect its Kaleidescape movie player device to any room and you... Continue Reading...
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