Posted 2 years, 11 months ago at 10:12 pm. 1 comment
The website I made for UBC Printmedia Research Centre is finally up and running. Many printmaking elements were applied to the design. For example, the cursor on the menu is a widely-used printmaking tool called a “roulette”, the animations were made of student artwork, the background was created by combining a picture of a copper plate and a photoshop-imitation of a piece of textured fineart paper, and the photos in the banner on the top are things you can see in the cozy PRC hut.
http://www.finearts.ubc.ca/prc
The site is best viewed without linux because the flash plugin on linux does not support transparency.
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Posted 2 years, 11 months ago at 12:40 pm. 2 comments
Recently I have been occupied with planning my trip to Tokyo. I need a tool to drop down all the access maps, restaurant addresses, train schedules…etc. I tried to do it in Word, HTML, WordPress…etc, but none of them beat the convenience of TiddlyWiki.
Click to see me using TiddlyWiki to do my travel planning.
Inter-linking, dynamic regions, keyboard shortcuts…. and they all happen within a single HTML file! :coolgrin_ee:To try it, right-click and save this file to your computer.
The demo itself is probably more impressive than TiddlyWiki. It was captured and slightly edited by Wink.
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Posted 2 years, 12 months ago at 2:50 pm. 1 comment
Just a little tip on killing the Messenger 4.7 ghost on your Windows XP. The old msn is not really uninstalled when you remove the component from control panel (or delete/rename the folder), there’s some magic within XP that would keep re-installing the old msn for you. This happens when you use an application that makes accidental calls to the old msn interface, for example, the free and lovely Desktop Sidebar. Next time you reinstall Windows, first thing to do: Start -> Run… and enter:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
(Replace the long whitespace with a single space, I don’t know how to overwrite WP formatting.)
This will permanently remove msnmsgs (the current msn is msnmsgr) and its registry records from your Windows. Actually, just do it now. Next time you launch your msn messenger 7, it will reinstall some system files and figure out the rest for you. I have no idea why the old one is not removed by default. :longface_ee: