I’m here. I’m back. For the time being at least. School is still ongoing – my last exam is May 1 and then commences my full time summer job where I get to plan a University event (and create their website!). So I’m still very busy and it’s hard for me to get into a comfortable enough space that will allow me to write something of use. After May 1st, however, things will change. I’ve just had two exams on Tuesday so the free air is so very close! Until then.
P.S. I was totally excited when I got my Macheist bundle. Totally excited. Yay for Hit List and World of Goo!
Using really simple techniques, I’ve created my first wallpaper in Photoshop! It’s super simple and I like to think it looks good – it matches the general look of my iPod as well. The desgin was essentially a spash of colour on a rather colourless yet elegant background.
If you choose to use it, I’d love to see it on your desktop; maybe you can post a link! Anyway, it’s a 1280 x 800 resolution image, so sorry for anyone who doesn’t use this format. It’s my first wallpaper so it isn’t fully featured yet!
Let me know what you think!
There’s a new Browser in town, Safari 4 Beta. I read over the features and was excited by what I saw. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you’ll get when you download it.
- Top Sites – Look at your top sites in a snazzy grid view and click on any one to visit that site.
- Cover Flow — Browse through your history and bookmarks like you would in iTunes or Finder
- Full History Search — Type in your keywords and get results in Cover Flow style
- Nitro Engine — Javascript is said to start 30x faster than IE7 and 3x faster than Firefox.
- Tabs On Top — Tabs now don’t take up your favourite’s space because they’re now right at the top of the window
- Windows Native Look and Feel — Windows users will find that their copy of Safari 4 beta looks and feels like any other Windows app, including Windows fonts; however with the same engine as the Mac version.
- Cosmetic changes — You’ll notice everything looking a little brighter and lighter. Bright is good.
I like the top sites idea and it’s executed well except I wish I could manually choose the sites by typing and saving a URL. Also, I’m still not convinced with the look of the new Tabs position on Safari’s window. They’re so far away and I definitely need to get used to that. One last thing I miss is the progress bar that fills while the webpage loads. It’s been replaced with a spinning animation with no feedback as to how much the page has loaded. It’s not really helpful because you can’t tell if a page hangs the moment it happens, you have to wait until your patience runs out while loading to hit CMD+R.
Anyway, I’ll give it a couple of days and of course, it’s still beta so hopefully some things change. Now, go get it!

Long time it’s been, eh? That’s because my courses at university and other responsibilities have been taken up a lot of my time. I recently got a new job at my university that put me in charge of developing the website for an upcoming event. I’m really excited because it’s the first time I get to design logos, icons, and websites and get paid for it!
The tools I’ve been assigned to use are Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4. These of course will be added to my Photoshop CS4 and GIMP. I’ve never used these apps for professional purposes before; I’ve always just tinkered with PS and GIMP for my own personal projects and enjoyment. I’ve only used Flash and Dreamweaver in High School a number of years back so I definitely need to dust off and polish my aging abilities with those apps. I’ll be asked now to push the limits of my imagination, creativity, and technical smarts with this job and I know I’ll do myself proud!
If I’m happy enough with my work and feel comfortable sharing, I’ll definitely put some imagery here and links to show off my work!
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A couple of days ago, I opened up Cydia and I found LiveTime and I’ll admit, I didn’t jump to it right away. At first, I thought it was another one of those clock widgets that sit on your springboard and tell you the time. Today, I was perusing my RSS feeds when I came across a review of the app and I obviously realized that I was dead wrong about this thing!