Archive for January, 2010
Why art?
In speranta ca marea majoritatea dintre voi petrec foarte mult timp in fata calculatorului si pentru ca multi nici nu stiu cum sa isi faca viata mai usoara din punct de vedere al sanatatii incercati in primul rand cand ajungeti la birou sau acasa in fata computer-ului din dotare sa va acordati cateva minute sa reflectati asupra conditiei voastre
Ma simt sau nu confortabil pe scaun in fata calculatorului?
Raspunsul trebuie sa fie simplu DA sau BA!
Aici intervine Ergonomia. Desi poate suna ciudat Ergonomia spatiului de munca este o stiinta care se ocupa cu design-ul jobului si echipamentului pentru a se potrivii cu muncitorul. Astfel ca de ce sa nu facem ceva in privinta acestui lucru reusind in acest sens sa ne imbunatatim viata si productivitatea in munca (cat de corporate suna, dar sa nu pierdem din vedere esenta).
Lista punctelor esentiale
Daca cautam putin pe net despre ergonomie si exemple gasim o gramada, unele mai detaliate altele mai simple, ce pierdem noi insa din vedere este faptul ca cele mai importante le putem face fara prea mult efort, astfel ca am agregat o lista cu cele mai importante si usor de facut aspecte in ceea ce priveste ergonomia noastra la locul de munca sau acasa…
Odata cu introducerea Google Autosuggest au aparut pe net tot felul de cautari neinspirate din partea motorului de cautare, dintre care unele mai ciudate ca altele.
Am incercat si eu sa caut ceva acum si la primul cuvat scris lista de sugestii a fost putin cam dubioasa
Unii cauta femei peste tot
Cele mai multe rezultate le au cei care cauta fete pentru prietenie, deci cei mai fericiti sunt aici burlacii si violatorii. Dar daca suntem atenti putin pe langa femei pentru casatorie si frumoase sau necasatorite (exista si oameni de genu asta se pare) exista niste baietasi care cauta femei pentru produs … hmmm … ceva nu este in ordine aici. Dar personal nu ma mira ca la noi in tara se cauta fete, femei si fetite, fie ele pentru produs sau orice altceva…
“I think it was you, the great amateur life player, who pointed out how lovely I was. Until that time, I think it was safe to say that I had never really been aware of my own timeless brand of loveliness.
But his words smote me because, of course you see, I am lovely in a fluffy moist kind of a way and who would have it otherwise?
I walk, let’s be splendid about this, in a lightly accented cloud of gorgeousness that isn’t far short of being, quite simply, terrific.
The secret of smooth almost shiny loveliness of the order of which we’re discussing in this simple, frank, creamy soft way doesn’t reside in oils, unguents, balms, ointments, creams, astringents, milks, moisturizers, liniments, lubricants, embrocations or balsams, to be rather divine for just one noble moment…
Team Fortress 2 is one of my favorite PC games (I only play 2) and has this nice little feature that let’s you take a screen-shot right after the enemy kills you. A few days ago I reviewed some of them and they are quite funny 
Have a look to see for your selves…
Text Escaping Unescaping
For a project I worked a few months ago I needed to escape special characters used to pass some information from one point to another. Of course I used at that point the great application built by Marc called Unicode2HTML but I needed more than that. I wanted to convert also to other formats like \uXXXX or Punycode so after searching the net for a tool like that I found a very nice library built by Satorux called strutil.js.
The library actually does exactly what I wanted, it converts a character to a bunch of formats that I can use. The service Satorux has build, using this library, can be found at Text Escaping and Unescaping in JavaScript.
I decided to port this online version to an application so we can use it in offline also. This was a good project because it concluded to be my first Adobe AIR project (hope more will come).
I won’t make a tutorial on how to build an AIR app in this article because there is no point you can search the net for this kind of things and you will find dozens of great tutorials. But what I want to share with you is the application itself and the simplicity of the AUTO UPDATER Framework Adobe AIR has…
The text-shadow declaration allows you to create a text shadow; i.e. a slightly moved, slightly blurred copy of a text. Just like drop-shadow from Photoshop styles. Using this css property we can create a glow effect for our texts.
Some examples
This text should have a text-shadow.
This text, too, should have a text-shadow.
Syntax for text-shadow
p.test{
text-shadow: #6374AB 20px -12px 2px;
}
So text-shadow accepts 4 values (3 for position and 1 for color):
[Via thefwa.com & dbogdan]
Crayon Physics is one of my favorite games that will make you buy a new mouse or keyboard but it’s really fun.
is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
And now the guys from Kloonigames are making a birthday sale for this crazy game. All you need to do is go Crayon Physics web site and click Buy The Game button. On the Paypal site you can donate as much as you want and you will receive an eligible download link (yes it can be 0 but come one you can spare at least 1$ for this game).
Enough said go and donate a buck or two and enjoy this wonderful game. Bellow is the trailer and some screen-shots for those of you who haven’t heard about this one…
Photoshop Scripting
I needed one day to make a mirror effect (you know when you place two mirrors one in front of the other and look at them) for 50 photos and started to make them by hand in my PS. I soon give up because it was taking to long and tried to find a solution that will be more easy to use and more quicker. Lucky me that Adobe thought of this kind of problems and offers us two ways to solve this issue.
The Methods
The first one: ACTIONS are very easy to use directly from PS. No programming required, no nothing, just record what you want to do and then apply that steps to a bunch of photos.
Another way is to use SCRIPTING is PS to achieve our desired output. Basically PS let’s us use scripts to automate most of the processes that we make by hand.
A script is a series of commands that tells Photoshop to perform a set of specified actions, such as applying different filters to selections in an open document. These actions can be simple and affect only a single object, or they can be complex and affect many objects in a Photoshop document. The actions can call Photoshop alone or invoke other applications…
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