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
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/.
12 Aug, 2008
Oh yeah, just in case I forget I’ll just post this one to remind me. Adobe Spry AJAX LoadURL is one of the method used by Spry Framework to post data accross site without refreshing of pages.
There’s other methods as well, such as Post Form using XHR method. But I’ll be posting on this one first
Like all AJAX you can customized your data to send and trigger a callback functions. Spry LoadURL is part of SpryData.js so make sure you include it in your script tag.
Let’s take a look of the parameters to use:-
var req = Spry.Utils.loadURL = function(method, url, async, callback, opts);
More info on how to use it at here. Here is my demonstration for php.
I wrote some sample on how I use loadURL to with sample effect for callback here.
Check out more on source code sample.
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2 Aug, 2008
For those thinking of buying IPOD Touch, here 12 cool subtle things you should know when you get this fantastic device. I call it subtle because - it is a kind of user experience thingy.
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