Lloyd Humphreys

PirateZoom

Lloyd — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:24:49 +0000

PirateZoom So, for my school graphics GCSE project, I need to create graphic products to promote The Pirate Party/The Pirate Bay. I wanted to do something cutting edge, something different from the business card-letterhead fever that seems to grip the classroom. So I want to make a DeepZoom app! I got 44 images from people in [...]

Nikon D60+Sample Shots

Lloyd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:17:11 +0000

So guess who got his Nikon D60? It’s grrrreat. Takes some wicked pictures. I got it with an 18-55mm DXII lens, and I plan on buying a 35/1.8 and a 55-200(since the 18-200 is prohibitively expensive). Sample night shots, taken at looooooooooooooong exposures (15-30seconds). Your browser does not support iframes.

Protected: Family

Lloyd — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:35:04 +0000

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Amazon is pretty epic for clothes

Lloyd — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:02:52 +0000

Like a true nerd I get loads of my clothes off the internet. Recently I ordered some stuff off Amazon – and they’ve got some GREAT deals. I mean, I got some Gelert (for those of you who don’t know who they are, they’re a big hiking brand) trousers for ₤6. Delivered. I got some [...]

So what am I doing with my life?

Lloyd — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:50:51 +0000

I was thinking while I listened to MTG today. What do I ultimately want to achieve? What does any 15 year old boy want to achieve? I suppose by now you’ve gotten that I’m not your typical 15 year old boy. I don’t want to be a footballer, I don’t really want to be famous… I’d like [...]

This is some funky shizz

Lloyd — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:13:25 +0000

Ah c’mon, this is some awesome stuff! I’ve got to resist the urge to make hilarious jokes at this. C’mon. I’m eggagerating. OHNOIWENTTHERE. But on a more serious note… can you imagine how hard/time consuming it was to make these speakers? Epic stuff. I bet they sound crap but… wow. Kudos just for having the [...]

This is why Bebo sucks

Lloyd — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:53:27 +0000

<rant> I am neither a Penis nor a Vagina. Bebo sucked because of all this stupid crap I’d get. Basically, I think this is the most retarded crap on the planet. Seriously. Why would you create this questionnaire? Why would you take this questionnaire? How effing bored would you have to be? I am neither. [...]

Making your Photoshop animations web-ready

Lloyd — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:15:31 +0000

Lloyd, you lazy rats ass! You didn’t teach us how to make our animations into GIFs for the web. Well yeah, sorry. I forgot. I’d been on granpa’s ol’ cough medicine. So here it is. Got your animation? Good, because this tutorial is a bit useless without it. Hit up the File menu, then go to Save [...]

Animating in Photoshop

Lloyd — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:48:43 +0000

Is incredibly simple. So here I go explaining it to you guys’n’gals! Today I’m going to make a counter that counts down from 5, movie-style. You’re going to need to be familiar with layers, but if you’re not you’ll probably be able to follow anyway. If you can’t – that’s what comments are for, right? Start by [...]

Team Fortress 2

Lloyd — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:22:37 +0000

Team Fortress 2 is on Steam for a free weekend, and it’s also half price – only 7 squids! Bargaintastic considering the fun I’ve had out of it (you’ll probably know I’ve been playing waaaay too much if you follow me on twitter) So go pick it up, drop me a tweet/IM and lets play [...]

I’m not deeeead

Lloyd — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:51:29 +0000

I don’t think? I’m also not a robot… …..or am I? Enuff. First off, damn I regret some of my GCSE choices. Namely, Freeeench. I’m so very annoyed. I should’ve picked History. Or RE. Or something that wasn’t French. And you all know my stance on History and RE. And if you don’t, I’m not going to explain it [...]

My Xbox Beowulf Cluster

Lloyd — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:58:30 +0000

So I’m going to make an Xbox Beowulf cluster. An 8 node Xbox cluster? Yeeees please. Whats a Beowulf cluster? Loads of computers linked together to make one big powerful one. Why? Because it’s fun, I can, and I can use it for cool [...]

Facebook Connect is Working :)

Lloyd — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:10:09 +0000

Comment and try it out! To make it work, click Connect —-> and login using your Facebook username/password (I can’t see them, you’re logging into Facebooks site). Click Authorize or Connect or whatever it is you see, and then you’ll be able to comment on the site and anything you write will (optionally) be posted to [...]

K2 Borked by WordPress 2.7.1

Lloyd — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:59:00 +0000

So my Blog has been down these last couple of days after I updated to Wordpress 2.7.1 – anyways, I got around to fixing it so I figured I’d tell you how! Head over to the K2 Nightly Builds and download the latest, and copy it over your existing K2 install. Should work just fine [...]

O2/RIM/SBE customer support is awful

Lloyd — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:44:47 +0000

And not just awful. It’s fucking horrific. I managed to break my berry a couple of days ago, and ever since I’ve spent all my time trying to get hold of SBE Replacement and Repair, who RIM pay to fix their phones for them. I got the number off an O2 representative, whom I got [...]

Installing BackTrack 3 to a USB Stick in Vista

Lloyd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:42:24 +0000

Not really TOTALLY Vista, but I did it in Vista, so ‘nuff said. You’re going to want at least 2GB for this. They’re hella cheap nowadays, too, so just pick up a new one if need be! 1. Download the USB version from here: http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html 2. Extract it (use 7-Zip or another unzipping utility). Don’t delete the image [...]

Ooh, Wordle!

Lloyd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:08:38 +0000

Found this today. Wordle! It also ties in with TweetStats to make some cool stuff. See mine here. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3087/3160920229_3154b2255f_o.png

PayPal :(

Lloyd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:38:20 +0000

PayPal annoys me more than words can describe. So I’m transferring an amount into my account, and it tells me its going to take till the 8th of Jan. That’s a long time to think we’re living in the day and age where stuff gets done at a snap of the fingers… Worse still, I [...]

HP MiniNote 2133: It f**king rocks

Lloyd — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:19:18 +0000

So why do I think this magical piece of high quality, precision cut netbook is fabulous? I dunno. It’s got the HP charm. Now, I love HP. They’re cool. They’re innovative. They’ve got the Home Server, the TouchSmarts and most importantly, the Pavilion Tablets (I own one, and I love it). And y’know, HP [...]

£30 a month?

Lloyd — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:56:54 +0000

My computer costs are spiralling, especially with this credit crunch, and so the electricity bill just got raised £30. Now Mum wants me to start turning off the computer whenever I’m nowhere near, which would absolutely kill it for me, since I’m usually encoding and don’t want to have to do that when I’m using [...]

Best. Song. Ever.

Lloyd — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:39:09 +0000

Posting From The Dash!

Lloyd — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:28:24 +0000

Okay, so I LOVE the new WordPress. It’s great. It’s been updated for the ultimate speediness, customizability (biiig word) and ease of use for me, meaning I post more often, meaning you guys get better blogging! It’s coming along niiicely now. Loving it!

Updating WordPress to 2.7

Lloyd — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:19 +0000

Bye bye plugins, bye bye stability for now. I’ll be back in a bit y’all. Never again will I have to piss around with FTP – 2.7 has installation baked to the core, so it does everything itself. Scoooore!

Gifted Flickr Pro

Lloyd — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:01:37 +0000

So a BIIIIIIG thanks to a Mr Awesome who wishes to be kept anonymous for buying me Flickr Pro. Seriously, I’m really thankful So keep an eye out for plenty more photos and sets Thanks B

Cool Genetic Modification Generator

Lloyd — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:21:16 +0000

Is cool. It changes the car each time to try and get the furthest. It’s kindof addictive to watch. Enjoy. http://www.wreck.devisland.net/ga/

So I have a funky new theme

Lloyd — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:34:34 +0000

As you may have noticed, I have this awesome new Theme. It’s called K2. Now, I had to do this the hard way (new CSS, rotator script) because I was stupid and didn’t notice that K2 did it itself. I’m not changing this since I’m proud of having kicked CSSs metaphorical ass into making this [...]

Considering a New Theme

Lloyd — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:03:34 +0000

So I’m updating loads tonight. My main grievance is that this theme makes everything lower case, so I’ll have to keep that trend, or change it on all my old posts (OCD, YAAAAY). Considering K2 with a modded header, and Aeros. Keep an eye out for funky new updates.

Oxite

Lloyd — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:30:30 +0000

Doesn’t Oxite, the Open Sauce blogging engine from MIX Online look fabulous? Yeah, I thought so too. Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. We know this because it runs MIX Online. http://www.visitmix.com/Lab/Oxite Download it here

iTunes Coverflow

Lloyd — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:36:53 +0000

Today we’re making some iTunes Coverflow-like stuff. 1.Grab an image, and put it onto an artboard. 2. Duplicate the image – right click its layer, Duplicate Layer. 3. Flip it vertically by heading to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical. 4. Arrange the two Layers so they look like this: 5. Mask the upside down image by selecting its Layer [...]

Sticky Taped Polaroid

Lloyd — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:32:37 +0000

Before we begin, am I spelling Polaroid wrong? Do I even care? Nah. Credit to ColorBlindPicaso of Flickr for the image used in this tutorial. Original Image. 1. Create a new image, mine’s 900px by 900px. Then get the image you want to Polaroid-ize. 2. Grab the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M). 3. Select the entire image, then hit the Move [...]

Photoshop brushes

Lloyd — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:51:04 +0000

One of the handiest things in Photoshop is the ability to use other peoples/make your own brushes. Brushes are artwork to be used by the Brush tool, and their colour can be changed using the traditional colour palette. So, let’s create a coffee-stain-ring to put on our coffee table. 1. Go get a picture of a coffee-stain [...]

Photoshop Butchery

Lloyd — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:50:18 +0000

Last time, we looked at how to make a Polaroid-like scatter of images. Today, we’re going to cut them out and put them on a coffee table – and add a few coffee stains, too Before you think I’m going crazy and think “Hey, why don’t we just do that all the time [...]

Photoshop Polaroid Effect

Lloyd — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:55:13 +0000

Been messing around with Photoshop lately, and since I teach myself how to do things by writing tutorials on how to do stuff – so I can reference back to them and so that you can read them at the same time. Win-win. Before we begin, I’m editing a great photo by Sebastien.b from Flickr. All [...]

Installing Windows 7 in VPC07

Lloyd — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:50:13 +0000

So you want to install Windows 7 in a Virtual PC huh? Well, here goes! First you’ll need to get it.. I’m going to assume you already do, since you’re here, but if you don’t, don’t you think it’d be a good idea to fetch it from Microsoft’s website? What makes my tutorial different from [...]

Server Issues

Lloyd — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:54:01 +0000

Seems the power supply died on the server hosting my website and email these last fews days – but now I’m back, and it wont happen again! So anyways, I have a few posts I want to share… coming soon!

Completed Fable II

Lloyd — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:52:05 +0000

Completed Fable II with Endaf today. Cool storyline, funky creatures. I especially loved the little leprechauns shouting insults at you The magic and unlockable expressions were neat too. I ended up picking cash at the end – cuz I’m a greedy áss I also loved the gamerscore which pushed me over 6000G, finally. [...]

Obaaaama!

Lloyd — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:42:18 +0000

Can you guess who I want to win the election? While I think McCain (mm oven chips) probably deserves it after all his years of public service, he’s also getting on a bit and Obama seems the better choice. Plus, I’d be glad to give some racists a punch in the face with a *black* [...]

Last.fm

Lloyd — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:12:16 +0000

Loving it! Found a few new bands already.. and now you can perhaps discover some by flicking through my recently played list in the sidebar here. Enjoy!

Want a Sidewinder X6?

Lloyd — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:07 +0000

Course you do. The gaming keyboard from Microsoft! Stefan, the Mega-Microsoftie, teamed up with Bill from Microsoft Hardware to showcase some of our newest gaming keyboards and mice last week… and you guys are the lucky benefactors of this meeting because Bill decided who better to have some of these brand-spankin’-new-amber-glowing-high-fraggin’-devices than you 8ers!??! So if you [...]

What if your whole world…

Lloyd — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:22:38 +0000

was someone’s school project? School project from myaka on Vimeo. I love how we’re all just school projects inside school projects Made me smile.