23 Sep
For all Animation/Motion Graphics designers, be informed that International Motion Graphics & 3D Models Competition “Asia Inspires ME” is now OPEN for submission!
Winning entries will be showcased at ME booth at inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in Singapore.
Check out http://www.motionelements.com/blog/events/17 for more information.
Competition Period: 1 September - 31 October 2008.
For any enquiries, email: artists@motionelements.com
3 Sep
Finally some tech related news!
I’m posting this using the extremely fast Google Chrome, Google’s latest product - a web browser.
I’m just going to make this a short one and list down some first impressions and things I’ve noted while using it for the past 30mins.
Firstly, the browser is extremely fast when rendering pages! Even faster than Firefox in fact. Booting up the browser for the first time, Chrome prompts you to transfer your bookmarks/passwords/everything from Firefox. And everything they transferred alright. Even the history! Installation was fast, easy, and required little to next prompting.
Now, the first thing that prompted me to make a post is, Chrome doesn’t require users to install Flash as a plugin. Flash works right out of the box. I’m not sure if it’s because I already have Flash installed on Firefox or IE. But on my experience with Firefox, I still need to install the plugin even if I have installed it in IE. And vice versa of course.
This is a sweet little move that shows how much Google supports RIA in their browser.
Next, there’s this sweet little option called the “Create application shortcuts…”. Again, another feature to make RIA “more in sync” and working more like desktop applications. I can create a shortcut for my blog’s admin page, and you can choose to make it appear in Start/Desktop or Quick Launch. Works just like a application - even though IE’s shortcut URLs do the same thing. I guess Google made it sound much nicer - Application shortcuts. =P
Opening a new tab gives you 5 thumbnails of your Most Visited pages. A very handy feature that I never thought I would have need.
Lastly, I tried to access a music site which requires IE due to DRM reasons. And sadly, it still doesn’t work for Chrome as well. What is interesting though, is that the javascript that website is using seem to detect Chrome as Apple’s Safari on Windows.
Take a look for yourself: Nokia Music Store
Other things worth mentioning that perhaps you would have known by now is, tabs appear on the top of the address bar for Chrome, instead of under it. I don’t really see the benefits of this little change in the layout of the UI yet, but after more use, maybe I will prefer/hate it compared to the usual below the address bar tabs.
Conclusion
Chrome is fast becoming a replacement of Firefox for me. What it lacks right now, is the amount of Add-Ons that Firefox has. Time will tell if Chrome will replace Firefox completely for me, but for now, Chrome has impressed me a lot. It’s definitely made a good first impression.
Edit:
Chrome still doens’t support Java integration. That means that iBanking doesn’t work, and so does some upload managers for photo websites that uses Java.
And there is a new incognito Window thing, this is a very useful window to use if you’re in an internet cafe or in office!
8 Feb
I just upgraded my Firefox to 2.0.0.12 earlier today, and I was about to go to Yahoo! to check out movies when I got served by this page:
I think this is a really dumb thing to do by the Yahoo! Developers. If you are unable to properly detect the latest versions of browsers, please don’t write a script to block those with the latest versions out.
15 Jan
Have you heard of this? Because this is the first time I have, and seen it in action WITH Papervision 3D.
Unbelievable shit. I can imagine just how much more creative we can get with this!
Don’t know what the hell I’m saying? Check it out here.
For more information about the camera they used: http://www.panoramic-imaging.com/panoramic_video_service.asp
21 Oct
My previous post, Opening a Thickbox iframe in Flash, became the most commented post in my blog history thanks to Hugo and Jason . =D
I’m really excited to see that people are reading my blog as always, but unfortunately, it seems that the code that I posted wasn’t working for them. I spent some time debugging the files Jason sent me, and I realised that the code I posted indeed didn’t work anymore, although the same code worked for me for another file still.
I haven’t found out why, but I’ve found a new solution to the problem, and this time, I’ve posted source files. The FLA is in Flash 8 format since the ExternalInterface works in Flash 8 onwards anyway. =]
The solution I found to make it work was adding the following param to the swfObject:
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
I hope this zip helps people who’re trying to do this!
Source Files: http://www.designfission.com/opening-thickbox-in-flash.zip
7 Oct
I’ve removed all the Google ads. My experimentation tells me that I will need to allocate time to practice SEO and to maximise adsense income. lol.
The ads have been here a little over 2 months, and I got about US$3.60 from it. But I can’t withdraw anything until I get $100 of course, so I pretty much earned $0.
I’ve changed the theme of the site to prepare for a custom theme. This theme for now, I think has more readability and looks more organised than the iTheme one.
If you would like to see the iTheme skin instead, do let me know.
29 Sep
I just came back from watching a late night movie(Balls of Fury), it was hilarious and lame at the same time. Maggi Q was amazingly sexy lah. You guys should go watch it. It relieves stress. lol.
Anyway, I met up with Isaac as well, who was desperate to look at girls cos of the 2 weeks confinement he just finished. =P He looks funny when he’s “botak”. I took some pictures of him botak as well, due to popular demand. Check your mailboxes, group 11 ppl!
26 Sep
This is my first post with Zoundry, a desktop blog publishing tool.
Anyone who uses WordPress should check this out! It’s really easy to setup, and it’s totally free. So go check it out. 
23 Sep
It has been a really busy and fulfilling week for me. After the period of drought, there’s this flood now! I’m talking about freelance projects that is.
I’ve been contacted by previous clients. Contacted by people whom I do not know, and I do not know where they got my contact from. Contacted by recommendation. Contacted to replace/cover up for people going to NS. lol.
I guess from now till I enlist, I’ll be busy already. It came at good timing, I’ve been broke for a while now. =P
Enough about myself now. I’m just here actually to post something exciting for everyone to share. Yeah, I always share. =P I don’t keep what I know to myself, unlike many people I know.
So here’s the news - Gotoandlearn.com is back up! If you haven’t been there, get there now. I hope I can open a site one day that is as helpful as his!
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