Twitter is a micro-blogging service which allows user to send and receive messages known as tweets. Many tweet for many several reasons. Some tweet to update their friends on what’s going around them and sharing cool stuff, like where to shop. Celebrities tweet to update their fans on their new upcoming events and activities. Companies also tweet to get to their customers. And all that for FREE!
In order to tweet, one must be able to be online or has mobile connectivity. I use Tweetdeck to send and receive my tweets. Tweetdeck is an application build using Flash Air and has recently released a new version which enables multiple twitter account. Good for those tweeting for work and personal.
I also use TwitterFox to tweet while browsing the internet. Twitter fox runs on Mozilla Firefox as an Extension. I started tweeting using TwitterFox before switching to Tweetdeck. Read the rest of this entry »
You’re designing an online banner using flash. You included a 1 pixel border to compliment your banner. Looks great on your screen. As soon as it’s uploaded, you noticed that the border is missing. How could it be missing you say. Lol…
I couldn’t be bothered about this until recently. I had to design a few flash banner and the requirement was to have a 1 pixel border with #333333 stroke color. Cis!
So I gave it a try. Did a quick 300×250 pixel banner and wallah!
300×250 flash ad with missing borders
Notice the missing border on the right? I found out how to get it to work. The one below is being treated and currently all four sides of the borders is showing. How did I do it?
So you wanna be a web designer/developer but needed an environment to test your projects. If you want you could buy a hosting package and start developing online or you can opt to do your development on your very own desktop.
Download XAMPP 1.7.1 from apache friends website. For first timers, I strongly recommend that you download the Installer (Basic Package).
XAMPP 1.7.1 installer packages includes Apache HTTPD 2.2.11, MySQL 5.1.33, PHP 5.2.9, Openssl 0.9.8i, phpMyAdmin 3.1.3.1, XAMPP Control Panel 2.5, XAMPP CLI Bundle 1.3, Webalizer 2.01-10, Mercury Mail Transport System v4.62, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.31, SQLite 2.8.15, ADODB 5.06a, Zend Optimizer 3.3.0, eAccelerator 0.9.5.3, XAMPP Security, Ming. For Windows 2000, 2003, XP, VISTA. Read more.
Hello. My name is maggot and this is my blog. I design my own mobile theme and share them on my blog. Please comment if you love my stuff or if have any inquiry.
Sometimes I crap a lot. Actually I still do... Most times I like to keep things short. I can't help it. It's like a feeling of missing something... It always is.
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