Just an update to my post on Vector Magic was a free tool from Standford that created vector images from bitmaps. (A bitmap image is basically made of data that says make this pixel red this one green, vector images have data that says draw a green line , make a red square). Well to [...]
Entries from February 2008
Vector Magic gone commercial
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development · Websites
Great Flash Game Site
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
I love video games. I may not be the most leet or great but I really enjoy playing them. I’ve got a couple of consoles at home (PS2, XBOX 360, DS, Wii) that I play on a regular basis. Plus there is always my PC. With the XBOX 360 they included functionality to earn points [...]
Tags: Games
Been awhile
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
You can tell that I’m not a professional blogger as I take breaks from blogging or more importantly, life takes me away from blogging. I’m still here and have a bunch of subjects for upcoming posts so stay tuned!
Tags: Site News
XP Toolbar Missing Properties
February 14th, 2008 · No Comments
I like to tweak my desktop from time to time (i.e. often) and had a slight problem with a toolbar on my taskbar. I had removed the title and text and couldn’t un-dock, move or resize the toolbar. In this case it was the Quick Launch bar. Right clicking, windows context key did not seem [...]
Tags: Tech Support · Tools and Utilities
Keeping it simple for a side bar
February 11th, 2008 · No Comments
I don’t use the default layout for my Windows XP desktop. First I have my startmenu/taskbar on the right of my screen. This lets me see more running tasks as I work and seems to work faster for me. I was also using Google Desktop for a sidebar but found that it too up way [...]
Tags: Tools and Utilities
Gmail Experiment - Delta Stage
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Ok still using the Gmail for everything. Still having a few issues and a few new insights.
Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites
Not Feeling the Love in Large Emails
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
I have a few clients who love to send large emails. No I’m not talking wordy I’m talking large attachments. I’ve encouraged them to zip them or some other means of compressing them but sometimes you just can’t shrink some files any more. While there are file uploading sites and [...]
Tags: Tech Support