As much as I hate Google Chrome at its current state right now, I do miss that clean and pleasant interface. I’m still stuck with FireFox right now, because my job requires me to use IE for most of the tools in the office, and FireFox have that IETab addon that allows me to open [...]
Posts made on October, 2008
GMail Redesigned V2: Revamp Your GMail!
Thanks to Bebe who showed me this website, now my GMail looks like this: This is an addon for Firefox (I think it works with 2.0 and 3.0) that changes your GMail stylesheet. Here’s more screenshots: Neat, isn’t it? Want it? Visit Globex Designs and get it!
Icons – Silver HDD Icons
I got bored earlier, and started making Hard Disk icons for my dock: The icons are 24-bit PNG, 300px X 300px in size. I know it’s a weird and unconventional size, but most dock applications are able to resize them properly. Updates: Version 0.50 – Initial Release – Includes 5 Icons: Plain Disk, Spindle Disk, [...]
How To: Generate List of Files in a Folder Quickly
Often, I find myself making new contacts, and throughout the discussion, we might be deciding to exchange music, attempting to listen to new genre of tunes and potentially discover something that I like. However it gets quite troublesome when the other party goes like “Hey tell me what you have in your music folder?” and [...]
Creating "Soft-Focus" (Dreamy) Effect with Photoshop
The “soft focus” technique is pretty popular in late-80s and early 90s, as a way to show a dream-like effect on photographs. Back then, it was commonly achieved by using a “soft-focus” filter in front of the camera lens. Today, we can easily create this effect with Adobe Photoshop. Note: This tutorial is written based [...]
Why I Ditch My iPhone for N95
This post is written in an attempt to explain to many of you who think I’m a complete idiot to ditch my iPhone for a “mere” Nokia N95. I had no choice but to explain. I hope you can understand why now. Primary Reasons: iPhone is a great multifunction device, but it is in general [...]
GCM Unix Tower Dinner / Buka Puasa Event
We had a “buka puasa” event (in English, that’s literally “break fast”) around a week before the recent Eid celebration. Here’s some photos to be seen (click on the image below to see it): [svgallery name="gcm-ux-dinner-23"]
QuickTip: Organize that mouse cable!
If you’re using a notebook with the USB ports intelligently designed to be very close to the edge on the right side, you might face an annoying problem where the mouse USB cable will always get in the way when you plug it in, like this: (In my case, I don’t really have the option [...]
