I love the effect created by the Fake Lomo actions. Just one problem – I have Paint Shop Pro 5 on my computer. Stop laughing. I’ve had it for years, and it works well for me. One problem – I can’t figure out how to duplicate these steps in PSP5. Anyone have ideas how to do it?
There is a new gadget out on the market that is basically a Radio Tivo. But as I mentioned at Melissa’s site, Mike has something that is even better in my opinion. Not quite as amazingly perfect as my TiVo, but pretty damn close, he got an Avertv Studio Card for his computer for about $80. With it, he can record both TV programs and radio. (Well, when it wants to behave.) Then he used VCDEasy to burn the video that he recorded on the computer on to a CD – not a DVD, a regular ol’ CD – and it plays in my CD/DVD player. Mine reads Video CDs, as do many other DVD players in the U.S., so it is quite an uber cool solution. (More info on Video CD can be found at Doom9.) Or if you prefer you could just watch it on your computer monitor.
So if you have TiVo Envy but don’t want to buy one, it’s a solution worth looking in to!
As some of you may have already seen, changes are under way over at ScriptyGoddess. I think I scared Jennifer with my threat of a hostile takeover of the site, so she isn’t taking down the site as she originally considered. But, in order to keep the site alive and going, we need YOU. Yes, that would be you. Right there, in that chair. YOU.
Where do you come in? Have you figured out a way to do something with your site that you didn’t think could be done? Have you written a cool snippet of PHP, ASP, Javascript or whatever that you are willing to share? Come up with a cool way to do something in pMachine or B2? Whatever the case may be, we’re open to hearing about it. You submit it, we review it, we’ll post it on the site with a by-line crediting you. Also, if I spot something on a site that I think is neat-o keen, I just might e-mail you and ask you if you’re willing to share how you did it or if I can share your post on the site (giving you credit, of course).
Perfect example of why we’re doing this – I spotted a cool grid of thumbnails on a site, and I commented to Ste that I sure wish I knew how to do it. He pointed out to me that there was a MT Plugin that would make it happen for me. Wow! I had no idea! Here I thought it was some code-fu magic. So once I test it out, set it up, get it working, I’ll write up how I did it and share it on ScriptyGoddess. YOU have the power to do this too. If you’ve ever felt like ScriptyGoddess has given back to you, now it is your turn to give back to ScriptyGoddess. Please bring us your offerings…
Please Note: ScriptyGoddess is NOT just for MT users. We are 10,000% open to tips on using any other blog software out there. Your tip for how to do something in pMachine just might inspire someone else to do something in another blog software, and the knowledge will spread and we will all grow.
In the end, it’s all about sharing the love, isn’t it? So help save ScriptyGoddess! Keep it alive! Share the love!
In case you were wondering about my previous “Spork Posse” comment and the whole titanium spork thing, here is the history:
:: Look Mean but be Nice… The original call out for my posse, and my request for a spork. The two were quickly merged in to one.
:: Join the Spork Posse! A button was made for anyone that wanted it, thanks to Jennifer.
:: What The… Lara Flynn Boyle will make you wish you had a spork.
:: At Last… The spork posse made an appearance for the Great Bloggie Debate of 2003 on my site and at Solonor’s.
:: Spork! The amazing DaVinci’s Notebook has a short song dedicated to the spork. I adopted it as the Spork Posse theme song.
There are more posts out there about the Spork Posse, but this is enough to bring you up to speed. Fo shizzle or something like that. Word.
I’ve been giggling about this all day long, but no one at the office could really “get” it. However, I know you will.
When I first interviewed at the law firm, the attorney I met with (now one of my bosses) told me he is also in charge of the firm website. Uh huh, you can see where this is going, right? Yep, added to my job description of being a paralegal was the fact that I would maintain the website too.
It’s a pretty straightforward website, mainly just HTML with some javascript rollovers for the buttons. Nothing too unusual. However, my boss was convinced that the previous designer was a complete idiot. Simple text changes would take her months.
Anyone involved in web design for awhile knows that there are fonts that you should use for websites – the common fonts that everyone has on their machines. If you use wacky fonts and a visitor doesn’t have them, they won’t see your site as you intended.
However, I really don’t know where she was coming from when she added this font tag on every page of the site:
font face=”Arial,New Font Name,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular”
Errr… can we say someone forgot to clean up their WYSIWYG code? Because in all my years of font addiction (I have tons and tons and tons of fonts), I can guarantee there is NO font named “New Font Name.” I am considering having one made though…
Yes, that is at the top of my list of the code that needs to be cleaned up.