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Graphika Manila 2010

Brownspank — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:56:59 +0000

Graphika Manila 2010 is the fifth installment of the Philippines’ premier multimedia design conference. Creative professionals and passionates will once again gather on August 7, 2010 at the SM Mall of Asia to be treated to a whole day of design wisdom and inspiration from both local and foreign talents. If you’re into art and [...]

Who The Hell is Samuel Garcia?: The Facebook Redirect Problem

Brownspank — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:48:42 +0000

In a nutshell: The problem has to do with particular models of Linksys Routers (WRT160N v3 and WRT310N). Want the fix already?: manually set the DNS servers on your computer, instead of the router. I recommend Google Public DNS or OpenDNS. If you’re still interested in the details, continue with the rest of the [...] You might also like:

Fireworks Zone: Wallpaper Contest

Brownspank — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:20:41 +0000

Fire up Fireworks and get creative! Fireworks Zone is holding a contest for the best Adobe® Fireworks®-created wallpapers. All Fireworks enthusiasts are invited to join the open theme contest, which runs until December 1, 2009. The most awesome wallpaper wins a copy of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Web Premium and an invitation to write an [...] You might also like:

Ping This! Bookmarklet

Brownspank — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:44:30 +0000

I’m no programmer by any stretch of imagination; I mean, I do ActionScript every now and then, but nothing too fancy that will blow anyone’s minds. Still, that didn’t stop me from whipping up a dead-simple bookmarklet that allows me to submit Web links to Ping.fm: Ping This!(Drag the link onto your Bookmarks Toolbar for quick [...] You might also like:

Rapid Fire #11: Dot Matrix Effect

Brownspank — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:43:27 +0000

In this resurrection post for the Rapid Fire tutorial series, we make use of Adobe® Fireworks®’s Grid Fill Texture to apply a dot matrix effect to any vector element. Begin with a vector or text element of your choice. For this tutorial, let’s download a world map vector EPS by Studio 7 Designs on Vecteezy [...] You might also like:

Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets

Brownspank — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:07:54 +0000

thepoet: Who is this @JasmineTiy and why is he/her/it they keep on spamming @thepoet in their twit. I don’t even know what they are saying. → JasmineTiy: How comes there’s 2 @thepoet iz dat even possible → thepoet: @twitter f*d up big time on the username. there’s two @thepoet @thePOET so that’s why i’m getting all these [...] You might also like:

Who The Hell is Samuel Garcia?: The Facebook Redirect Problem

Arched Text: A Fireworks Command

Brownspank — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:44:25 +0000

Fireworks guru Aaron Beall caught wind of my Arched Text Inkscape Tutorial a few days back, pointing out that the task of arching the bottom of the text can be done in Adobe® Fireworks® (in fact, it’s even easier with Fireworks’ Distort tool). He even provided a quick walkthrough for the benefit of other Fireworks [...] You might also like:

Multibox: Troubleshooting Checklist

Brownspank — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:33:27 +0000

I ran into Phatfusion’s Multibox while looking for a way to display MOV files in a lightbox fashion. I know, there are probably better ways to do it, but I was pressed for time, and Multibox happened to be sitting in the first page of my search results, so I went with that. I liked [...] You might also like:

Lucida Hybrid Revisited

Brownspank — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:55:09 +0000

I wrote the article on Lucida Hybrid almost two years ago, as a remedy to the quirks of Lucida Grande’s less-than-perfect cousins. Since then, it has received quite a number of hits; enough to make an impact on a few stylesheets. Also since then, things have changed drastically (within the context of the article): Lucida Sans‘ [...] You might also like:

Ironic Spelling Fail

Brownspank — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:37:21 +0000

That’s not how you spell ‘success’. Nevermind that neither the company (for which the ad was made) nor the printing press (that ran the ad) bothered to spell-check. If your tag line plays with the idea of spelling, please proofread.