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Stylized Designer Country Logos

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:29:30 +0000

Found some very nice designer country logos. Check them out (Click on the thumbnail below):

The original post is in Spanish(?), so I don’t really know who to to give credit to. No Philippines in the list, though

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Super Saiyan Sonic Unleashed E3 Trailer

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:23:05 +0000

It’s Super Saiyan Sonic!!!

WeGame.com - Gaming Videos

(HINT: it’s near the end of the trailer)

What a way to start the day.

Super Saiyan Sonic Unleashed E3 Trailer

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SoundManager 2

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:18:08 +0000

Just stumbled upon SoundManager 2, a JavaScript library that handles sound playback, something that has been missing in JavaScript, which leads developers to resort to Flash instead.

From the website:

SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.

The description basically states that SoundManager still uses Flash for playback, which is a bit heavy and still not a native solution, but a workaround is a workaround. Kudos to Scott Schiller on the awesome work!

SoundManager 2

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Google is now an MMOG - first impressions on Google Lively

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:26:39 +0000

It seems that Google wants a piece of the VR (virtual reality) revenue pie oh so famously milked to its bare skin and bones by Second Life, by introducing the new Google Lively (beta, of course!)

From the website meta-description:

Chat and hangout with your friends in rooms you design and customize your avatar. Experience another dimension of the web with Lively by Google.

Lively’s features include the following:

Create your own virtual space
Chat and interact with your friends in rooms you design
Express yourself
Customize your avatar and stream personal photos and video
Add your room to your site
Invite your friends to chat and help decorate

Google may have has also embraced the popular torrent based distribution method by providing a 450kb download, which is what I believe to be a torrent downloader. Note that this is just my unconfirmed hunch. After all, the mighty Google has all the bandwidth in the world to spare, and then some.

Of course, creating an account is easy as 1-2-3. If you already have a GMail account, all you have to do is sign in to the Google Lively website and it’s activated.
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Google is now an MMOG - first impressions on Google Lively

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Diablo III revealed by Blizzard

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:43:46 +0000

The army of darkness has once again come alive, this time in full 3D glory!

Blizzard, makers of World Of Warcraft and Starcraft has unveiled Diablo 3 last June 28. Screenshots and photos can be found at the official Blizzard website for Diablo III.

While you’re at it, check out this Diablo 3 insider preview over at mmosite.

While there is no mention of a release date, we can be almost certain that it will come after Starcraft 3. Blizzard has assured us that we can look forward to a fulfilling multiplayer experience. This is very exciting, given that its predecessors were Diablo 1 and 2 were huge successes in that area. Combine that with the running the #1 MMOG World of Warcraft I look forward to a very mature gaming experience.

When that time comes, I am sure we will have another smash hit first person and MMO game to look forward to!

Diablo III revealed by Blizzard

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Manny Pacquiao floors David Diaz to win fourth major title

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:28:38 +0000

This post is for Manny. You are the greatest! Mabuhay ka Manny!

Hatton, you’re next!!!!

“His punches are just too fast” - David Diaz

Sorry guys no match videos here, YouTube keeps blocking them

Manny Pacquiao floors David Diaz to win fourth major title

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Firefox 3 CSS handling bug: blurred background image with no-repeat + positioning

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:22:01 +0000

I first noticed this bug in the first beta release of Firefox 3. Whenever I apply a CSS rule to an element in order to give it a background image, if I add the top or bottom positioning rule along with the no-repeat rule, I get a blurred version of that background image.

First look at the image in the example below, which appears blurry:

CSS:
#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) top no-repeat; }

Compare the image above with the image below, which is what it should look like:

CSS:
#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) top; }

Now notice that the only difference is the absence of the no-repeat rule.

Blurring does not occur if the no-repeat rule is by itself, or if I use the left and right rule, or if I specify the background image location in pixels. The following rules will not cause any blurring:

#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) no-repeat; }
#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) 10px no-repeat; }
#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) 5px 10px no-repeat; }
#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) left no-repeat; }
#containerMain { background: url(images/backgroundMain.jpg) top left no-repeat; }

In essence, the background blurring bug only appears whenever the no-repeat rule is used in conjunction with the top or bottom positioning rule. This is probably due to Firefox 3’s rendering engine attempting to center the image which it does so successfully but with a blurred image.

I did not care back when Firefox 3 was still in beta, but now that it is actually out of beta I can’t help but feel disappointed that this “bug” was left unfixed.

Firefox 3 CSS handling bug: blurred background image with no-repeat + positioning

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How to fix the “Attention, some dangerous trojan horses detected” virus

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:48:32 +0000

I recently fixed a machine that got infected by a virus that works like this: every time you click on a directory, an error message gets displayed that goes like this:

bq. Attention, [name]! Some dangerous trojan horses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C:\WINDOWS. Download protection software now!

This error message is then followed by a dialog box. Clicking on it takes you to the website http://free-viruscan.com/id/4912933/4/1/ (WARNING: The website is a FAKE meant to deceive the visitor into downloading and executing a program that will create more virii. Do not interact with it).
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How to fix the "Attention, some dangerous trojan horses detected" virus

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Puddle of Enchantment

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:02:10 +0000

Puddle Of Mudd - Psycho -

Over the past few days I’ve been appreciating Puddle of Mudd’s last album Famous. I’ve had it when I first came out October of last year, but I’ve never really had the chance to appreciate it as I did now. I mean I love POM but when on my first few listens, “Famous” didn’t really stick. Their sound has sort of changed and I guess that alienated me.
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Puddle of Enchantment

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Happy birthday to me!

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:09:43 +0000

So today is my birthday. Happy 13th birthday to me!!!!

Okay. I lied. I’m 14. Gomen, gomen ^_^;

Happy birthday to me!

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