Can’t afford alienware? No problem. Your computer casing can be cool too. See how these people design their computer casings.
Can’t afford alienware? No problem. Your computer casing can be cool too. See how these people design their computer casings.
Time is the luxury I can’t afford, that’s what I’ve been telling people around me. Working life is stressful, especially if you are in my position and it’s something I will not write more. (You know me then you know what I’m talking about)
The balance of my life - mahjong. If you think this is an old man’s time passing entertainment, you are fucking wrong. I read blogs about singaporeans, famous ones, stupid ones, everyone. Seems like Singaporeans like to play mahjong too, but Singaporeans play 4 sided mahjong - often call 4-kah mahjong.
Now, that is way boring. I don’t know what they like in it. It’s slow, annoying, time wasting. Sian, even my brother in Singapore plays 4-kah mahjong. Damn it. People around me play 3-kah mahjong. Fast, heart stopping, big credit turnover and fast thinker required. That’s what I call a game. I’m such a junkie, will spend most weekends playing. Weekdays too if I have the kakis.
I’m looking forward to accomplish all patterns in the mahjong-finishings. Let’s see,
I’ve finished in these ways,
渣糊
5番（鸡） - 9番
å…¨ç’å—
å…¨ç’å—平糊
å…¨ç’å—对对
å°ä¸‰å…ƒ
全10番 爆
and of coz these patterns, that pissed people off
天湖
地糊
大四西
å°å››è¥¿
大三元
è‚®è„糊
å…¨å— çˆ†
ä¹å连环 （ä¹èŽ²å®ç¯ï¼‰
盖盖糊
起手4飞天糊
4飞满糊
and my collection is lonely without these :(
[满清18罗汉]
[起手14花]
once I complete this 2 patterns, I think my journey will end and I shall die :)
Google Adsense has officially announced that they will no longer tolerate Google ads near images.
We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn’t actually being offered. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers.
Publishers should also be careful to avoid similar implementations that people could find misleading. For instance, if your site contains a directory of Flash games, you should not format the ads to mimic the game descriptions.
So if your AdSense display something similar to this, you might want to change it. For more details, click here.
There are few sites (and I really mean quite a few) I’ve came across that looks similar to digg.com, personally with digg.com.my coming the closest. Design and layout are almost perfectly the same. Are these sites just copycats or just simply helping to spread the concept?
Humsurfer, India
Yigg, Germany
Spymy, Malaysia
Shouthub, Malaysia
Shakk, US
Fuzz, France
Digg.com.my, Malaysia
Microsoft windows keyboard shortcuts. You might know most of these shortcuts, but probably not all of them. If you have more keyboard shortcuts, please let me know :)
Directly inserting images in PNG format with transparency will leave you with a white spot when display in Internet Explorer. It makes your image looks ugly and this is really the last thing any web designer or webmaster would want on their website. Here’s a solution on how to solve this white spot and let the PNG transparency recovers.
Let’s take a look at the difference of PNG images (with transparency) on both major browsers: Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 6
PNG with transparency blends in nicely with no problem
Internet Explorer does not turn your transparency transparent, thus leaving you with a big ugly white spot.
Create a container to store your image. In this case I use a <div>.
Create your <div> inside your <body>, just like this.
<body> <div class="flower"></div> </body>
Next, create a <style> if you dont have one. Make sure they are between your <head> </head>. Put the following css inside.
<style>
body {background-color:#000}
div.flower {background:url(flower-transparent.png) no-repeat; height:100px; width:100px}
</style>
The CSS codes above displays your PNG image in a <div>. Works fine for Mozilla Firefox, but not for Internet Explorer. To get it working cross browser, create another set of css just for Internet Explorer right below your <style> </style>. Insert the following codes.
<!–[if gte IE 5]>
<style type="text/css">
div.flower {
background:none;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=’flower.png’ ,sizingMethod=’crop’);
}
</style>
<![endif]–>
Your IE should now give you a perfect blend like the picture below.
Hotmail - acquired by Microsoft (MSFT) in 1998 for about $400 million. Hotmail was a second-tier free email service when Microsoft bought it and the acquisition did little to improve Microsoft’s internet portal ambitions.
Skype - acquired by eBay (EBAY) in September 2005 for $2.6 billion. While it’s early to call this one an absolute dud, eBay does not seem to have a plan - or at least a plan that would justify the acquisition price - for how to integrate Skype’s calling service with the core auction business.
MySimon - acquired by CNET (CNET) in 1999 for $700 million. The price comparison site mySimon was supposed to launch CNET into lots of non-tech verticals - not a bad idea at the time. Unfortunately CNET had no idea how to effectively integrate mySimon and it’s now withering away, surpassed by newer, shinier price comparison engines.
BlueMountain.com - acquired by Excite@Home in 1999. $780 million for an online greeting card site. ‘Nuff said.
Lycos - acquired by Terra Networks for $4.6 billion in 2000. Yeah, I never heard of Terra either. The warning bells should have gone off when the deal was originally announced in May 2000 at a value of $12.5 billion, only to fall by more than 50% by the time it closed in October of that year because each company’s stock price was plummeting.
Netscape - acquired by AOL (TWX) in 1998 for $4.2 billion. To be fair, this was a mercy acquisition. By the time AOL bought the company, Netscape had been humbled by Microsoft’s free Internet Explorer browser. AOL clearly had no plans for Netscape and as a result the once pioneering company is now an afterthought.
GeoCities - acquired by Yahoo! (YHOO) in 1999 for $3.56 billion. When was the last time you visited a site with a geocities.com domain? I can’t remember either. Shortly after the acquisition, innovation on GeoCities appears to have ground to a halt. GeoCities could have been MySpace, but the entire social networking revolution passed them right by.
Excite - acquired by @Home in 1999 for $6.7 billion. Remember Excite.com? Remember how it was the #2 or 3 portal for awhile? Well, a whole year and a half after the cable company @Home acquired Excite (for $394 per user!) in January 1999, the combined entity filed for bankruptcy never to be heard from again. Classically disastrous.
AOL - merged with TimeWarner in 2000. This one is obvious. While Time Warner finally seems to be turning things around at AOL six years after the fact, this merger was doomed from the start. Shortly after the merger AOL’s business started falling apart fast, with TimeWarner holding the bag. There was never a coherent integration plan and all that talk of synergy is - thankfully - dead and gone.
Broadcast.com - acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $5 billion. Yahoo! paid a mind-boggling $710 per user back in the hey day of the bubble. But why does this rank higher than the AOL boondoggle? Two words: Mark Cuban. Yahoo’s ludicrous overpayment for Broadcast.com gave Cuban the money to go out and buy the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and permanently implant himself on the American psyche. Unforgivable.
Written by James Nicholson in Seeking Alpha.
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
The information at Lightbox JS website pretty much covers everything from demos, installation, faq and trouble shotting. Grab yourself a copy of the script of Lightbox JS now.
Codename Grand Paradiso (Alpha1) will be the next release after Firefox 2.0. I believe this will be Mozillla’s Firefox 3.0. It has been released by Mozilla for public download, for testing purposes. You can participate in helping the alpha testing by downloading the browser here.
The use of rounded corners on website has becoming very popular. Many websites are starting to kill the sharp edge and go with rounded corners in their buttons, navigation bar, header, banner, etc. Just how easy these rounded corners images can be created? I’m here to show you few which I think are few of the good ones.
This google script generates a PNG format rounded corners for you on the fly. Simply copy the scripts below into a browser and hit enter.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/roundedcorners? c=999999&bc=white&w=4&h=4&a=tr
Tweak the following parameters to get the rounded corners of your choice.
Parameters:
| c | the color, as either a name or a CSS-style color spec (RGB or RRGGBB) sans #. Color names that seem to work: black white gray red green blue yellow teal olive purple. Can you find more? |
| bc | the background color, same acceptable input as c |
| h | height in pixels |
| w | width in pixels |
| a | which corner to generate; tl is top left, tr is top right, bl is bottom left, br is bottom |
Spiffy Corners creates you rounded corner without using images. It make use of CSS and HTML to create a rounded corner effect that works well in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Visit Spiffy and generate your codes.
Cornershop is rather a combination of both. You fill up your requirements in the textfield, and your desired corners (in images) will be generated, together with CSS and HTML.
These guys are cool huh? Too much of spoon feeding for web designers :)
SPA (Snap Preview Anywhere) is a very cool kit that grabs hyper links on your website and gives your user a graphical preview. Move your mouse over hyperlinks on this page to check them out. It’s customizable and signing up is free.
I was reading Jeremy’s blog and the topic “Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?” caught my attention. Jeremy claimed that Google slightly googlify an interface Yahoo! did for IE7 marketing. Take a look at the interface did by both Yahoo! and Google for IE7 marketing.
Yahoo! had personally double checked with Microsoft and Microsoft has not been providing template for this. It seems so much like Google is duplicating, from content to layout, but when I checkout Google’s IE7 page, it was already changed to this.
Similar right? It seems like Google is fast in recovering the situation. Then I began to dig into this copying matter and search if there’s more of these cases around in the past.
And I found a Google’s fight back.
Apparently after a detailed research, Google published their sponsored ad like this. Pastel boxes with a darker border on the right-hand side of the search results.
No long after that, Yahoo! changed their sponsored ads, adding dark border in pastel boxes and it look like this.
A while after that, Google decided to changed their ads UI and came out with something like this. Blue background for to ads and blue line seperating right side ads.
Yahoo! followed and came out with something similar.
So Jeremy, this seems like a tie huh? If Jeremy hates Google so much, why bother using google sponsored ads in the blog?
I’m sure most of us has visited Ms. Dewey, a video based search site powered by live.com
Ms Dewey’s real name is Janina Gavankar. It just came to my attention that Ms Dewey also played in a movie call Cup of My Blood.
Search with Ms Dewey, visit Cup of My Blood official website or visit Ms Dewey’s flickr account
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