13 Nov, 2008
Over the weekend, I was trying to redesign my Flash Actionscript IDE to look dark…looks like I’m addicted with Dark Themes now, my eye pupils are more relaxed on the new colors settings. For those whom are using big CRT can consider this; what I heard was using darker themes tend to save energy and produce lesser heat. Anyway, take a look at my cool actionscript IDE now.
Here are my settings but, it does that few hours for your eyes to get accustomed with the sudden switch of light to dark theme. Is just like driving in heavy rain using sun glasses. Then again, you can always revert to default settings if you don’t like it.
Settings
Font Used (Windows) : Consolas
Font Size : 11
Foreground : #FFFFFF
Background : #333333
Identifiers : #0066CC
Keywords : #FF3399
Comments : #808080
Strings : #99CC00
9 Nov, 2008
Yeah, a biggy and vague topic. Those of you who wondered into my site probably read a lot of forums and technical blogs each stating their own style of installing Microsoft Windows Vista.
About a few months ago, I was trying to upgrade my Pentium 4 to Windows Vista SP1, but encounter tonnes of blue screen problem to system hangs on boot up. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!
Then, I reformatted and stopped the SP1 from auto updating until I resolved this issue. Later, this month - I decided to get a new set with better hardware and hopefully having less trouble in installing to Vista. Prior to that I’ve done some research here and there.
I listed out some of the important pointers one should take before considering about installing Vista on your test machine.
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5 Nov, 2008
EventListener EVENT.ENTER_FRAME as we all know is useful to trigger function you want to check up on conditions for a indefinite period of time. e.g. A check for game over state in a flash game. However, to control the flow of the your flash projects, usually we build only one of these and employ it to the stage trigger various function to have a better control over the code.
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8 Oct, 2008
Just last month, I was rushing to compile my favourite 80’s song and later I noticed all the albums does not have an album art for it. How do I create a generic album art? Simple - there’s actually a lot of sample album art inside your iTunes installation folder. All you need to do is to browse the folder called X:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.Resources (Where X is the drive you installed your iTunes into) and take a look at the sample of graphical generic album art you get.
To fit the album art into your compilation, first start iTunes and open up your playlist. Shift click and select all the songs you wanted to compiled as one album under one album art for e.g. My Classical Collection 2008. Simply edit one of the selected album in the playlist (while songs are selected, rename just one and all the selected file album will be renamed accordingly). Next you may want to assign an album art for it by dragging images from the folder which I’ve mentioned to the album artwork section in ITunes located at the left hand corner.
20 Sep, 2008
Normally editor such as notepad, editplus, notepad++, visual studio, devstudio and many more. They came with light theme by default, which means utilizing white as the background and the syntax as the colored ones. Have you ever seen a dark theme before?
A dark theme looks like a classical o/s prompt command or linux terminal. I found a wonderful color customization from Boris Popoff that day, regarding the customization of color template for dark theme for Aptana IDE. After using Aptana IDE for quite some time, I find dark theme suits my vision better, cause I always thinks that white background on the lcd monitor can be way too bright. Well that’s just my field of vision.
For those who are new to Aptana IDE - Free javascript IDE can read my review here
The font used for this is MS-Consolas. When tweaked your IDE will look like the picture above.
To download this color customization template for Aptana IDE check out http://gueschla.com/labs/green-chaud/.
