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		<title>Outlined circle, square or any polygon in Photoshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing filled polygons in photoshop is fairly easy, however, an outlined circle without the fill seem to be a bit difficult to create. You probably figured it out yourself but for those who haven&#8217;t i have outlined the steps below. There are many ways to create the circle and i]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drawing filled polygons in photoshop is fairly easy, however, an outlined circle without the fill seem to be a bit difficult to create. You probably figured it out yourself but for those who haven&#8217;t i have outlined the steps below.</p>
<p>There are many ways to create the circle and i am only  providing two its up to you to choose which method you prefer later. In my own personal opinion, i find method 2 to be the easiest and more accurate.</p>
<div>Method 1: using the polygon tool (U)</div>
<ol>
<li>Add a new <strong>layer</strong></li>
<li>Using the <strong>polygon tool</strong> (press U)</li>
<li>Draw a polygon (circle) in to the canvass</li>
<li>To make a circle or square hold down the <strong>shift</strong> key while drawing the object</li>
<li>At the <strong>layers</strong> palette (press F7, if there&#8217;s no layers palette)</li>
<li>Select the layer with your polygon on</li>
<li>Drag the <strong>Fill</strong> Slider bar from 100% to 0%</li>
<li>Right Click on the polygon layer, and choose <strong>Blending Options</strong> at the context menu</li>
<li>At the <strong>Styles</strong> sidebar, select and place a check at the <strong>Stroke</strong> check box</li>
<li>Adjust the <strong>Size</strong> of the stroke in pixels</li>
<li>Change the <strong>color</strong> and the <strong>position</strong></li>
<li>Then click <strong>OK</strong></li>
<li>You may resize the polygon by using the <strong>Free Transform</strong> (Command-T) key</li>
</ol>
<div>Method 2: Using the Marquee Tool (m)</div>
<ol>
<li>Add a new <strong>layer</strong></li>
<li>Using the <strong>Marquee tool</strong> (press M)</li>
<li>Draw a polygon (circle, square, etc) into the canvass</li>
<li>To make a circle or square hold down the <strong>shift</strong> key while drawing the object</li>
<li>At the <strong>Edit</strong> menu, choose <strong>Stroke</strong></li>
<li>Set the <strong>Width</strong> in pixel,</li>
<li>Set the <strong>color</strong> and <strong>location</strong></li>
<li>Then click <strong>OK</strong></li>
<li>You may resize the polygon by using the <strong>Free Transform</strong> (Command-T) key</li>
</ol>
<div>Method 2 is way simpler and the polygon is more concise compare to method 1 either way its up to you to decide.</div>
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		<title>Better &amp; Enhanced Diablo 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diablo 3 has just opened its doors, yes, players who opted for beta testing can now play Diablo 3 Beta, that is if you were invited. The beta release includes 5 classes namely the witch doctor, barbarian, wizard, monk, and demon hunter. The beta will let you play up until]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diablo 3 has just opened its doors, yes, players who opted for beta testing can now play Diablo 3 Beta, that is if you were invited. The beta release includes 5 classes namely the witch doctor, barbarian, wizard, monk, and demon hunter. The beta will let you play up until King Leoric also known as &#8220;Skeleton King&#8221;. You will also be roaming around a familiar place from the old Diablo place called &#8220;New Tristram&#8221;.  I&#8217;m still playing the game so i can&#8217;t give out much comment but i might record some video about it here. </p>
<p>The greatest change to the game would probably be the auction house which will allow us to use the in-game gold or real cash via Paypal to purchase and trade game items. If you have used Diablo 2, you probably have gone to forum sites and trade from there which is prone to scams and other forms of cheat. the auction house will be a great addition to the new Diablo series. Runestones by class is also new to D3 give you more control over your skills and abilities including enhanced damage, better accuracy, AOE or other special effects. The henchman from D2 were replaced with even better followers in which you can now outfit them with armor and have skills that can be upgraded too. Another new feature is the achivements, which we already saw in Starcraft 2, and i find it very cool just to be able to track how we progress throughtout the game. </p>

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		<title>Must Have Game Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bethesa Studios, the makers of Fallout 3 is about to release yet another epic Game from the Elder Scrolls Series entitled: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is the fifth installment of the series where everything in the game has been changed. the new game is now using the Creation]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bethesa Studios, the makers of Fallout 3 is about to release yet another epic Game from the Elder Scrolls Series entitled: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is the fifth installment of the series where everything in the game has been changed. the new game is now using the Creation Engine with more enhanced graphics and fine tuned details. The new engine features enhanced graphics detils to trees, leaves, rolling clouds and many more. It renders a huge world which can be access by a map ingame. The game has been set in the lands of Skyrim a province eurpted into civil wars in hundreds of years after the events in oblivion.</p>
<p>The main objective of the game is to defeat the god Aldiun in the form of a dragon. You will get to play a character as the last living dragonborn to save Tamriel from being destoryed.</p>
<p>Hundreds of weapons available throught the game. Its unique level-up system allows you to master a weapon or spell eacht itme you use them. You can use single handed weapons and spells as well as double weild them. A unique skill in the form of a voice is also available as a quest which gives you a new set of skills that are activated in the form of a shout. Altough, you will need to kill dragons in order to activate them. In game loot and items can be zoomed in high detail. The skill tree can be accessed in contellation like user interface lets you plan on which skills you want to develop as you progress. A level up of a certain skill grants you a perk as a bonus which you can use in battles.</p>
<p>The games release date is on November 11, 2011. Available via Games for Windows, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 with Xbox Live enabled. The game also features a collectors edition which can be pre-ordered at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy and Game Stop for the US. Check the website for the other countries supported at http://www.elderscrolls.com/skyrim/pre-order/</p>
<p>More information about the game at the <a href="http://www.elderscrolls.com/skyrim/">Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim</a> website.</p>
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		<title>WordPress won the battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tildemark.com/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like i&#8217;m back to blogging. Its been tough moving and testing on a live blog. i do have a lot of visitors so I hope they can find the pages they clicked from the SERPs. One thing i don&#8217;t like with Worpress is the search, its not very intelligent]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like i&#8217;m back to blogging. Its been tough moving and testing on a live blog. i do have a lot of visitors so I hope they can find the pages they clicked from the SERPs. One thing i don&#8217;t like with Worpress is the search, its not very intelligent compared with Movable Type. If you are going to be looking for something in my blog, you better hope you can still remember the post title as WordPress will only search only by page title and tags. I have edited every post and added some relevant tags in them. Hopefully the developers will add a config or an option to allow us to tweak the search behavior to our liking. One reason that opted me to move is that i primarily use WordPress to create sites for my clients and they would ask me why i&#8217;m using another platform, I&#8217;m afraid that they might think WordPress might be inferior since i don&#8217;t use it myself.</p>
<p>Anyway, here i am and will be posting regularly, i hope. Well, i still have alot of broken image links to restore ang several urls to manually redirect.</p>

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		<title>Melody test post</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tildemark.com/melody_test_post_1/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[this is a test post using melody this is why i am so hesitant to upgrade. and now im getting error 500 all over the place. the installer from the repo 1.0.2 is missing some css and js files. melody lists my current them as unknown and somehow i can&#8217;t]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is a test post using melody</p>
<p>this is why i am so hesitant to upgrade. and now im getting error 500 all over the place. the installer from the repo 1.0.2 is missing some css and js files. melody lists my current them as unknown and somehow i can&#8217;t change it, it might be a javascipt file missing. anyhow, i think this will stay for a couple of day until i am able to fix this otherwise im switching back to movable type.</p>
<p>Update: looks like its working after doing a complete overhault</p>
<p>Update: yes, that&#8217;s right. i have moved into wordpress <img src='http://www.tildemark.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Geek Gets Owned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working an a site, saw the ad on the SERPS i&#8217;d thought i&#8217;d like to share them. Lolled for a moment there. I don&#8217;t know why people hate them, would that be because they suck? LOL. Seriously, seen a loot of movies that featured them, even Chuck bought a branch,]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was working an a site, saw the ad on the SERPS i&#8217;d thought i&#8217;d like to share them. Lolled for a moment there. I don&#8217;t know why people hate them, would that be because they suck? LOL. Seriously, seen a loot of movies that featured them, even Chuck bought a branch, that could be something. I think there is just something people don&#8217;t see behind those glasses, i think. Lolled again.</p>
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<div style="text-align: none;">Anyway, its been tough deciding which blog platform i would choose, and that made the site sit for over a year now, I&#8217;ve been busy posting my blog somewhere else. So, i have decided that ill be sticking to MT for a few more months or years until then.  I can&#8217;t really move to WordPress without hacking in some of its codes in order for my blog to fit in with the URLs and stuff not to mention WordPress keeps on updating every few months so it would be very frustrating to keep on updating the site just to align the widgets or make it work.</div>
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		<title>Rest in peace 6A, Farewell MT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a month now since Six Apart makers of Movable Type, TypePad and the late Vox; the poneer in bogging and also my bogging patform announced a merger with VideoEgg. The two will rename into Say Media. Even if Say Media, a mrketing focused company say that they will still]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its been a month now since <a class="zem_slink" title="Six Apart" href="http://www.sixapart.com" rel="homepage">Six Apart</a> makers of <a class="zem_slink" title="Movable Type" href="http://www.movabletype.com/" rel="homepage">Movable Type</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="TypePad" href="http://www.typepad.com/" rel="homepage">TypePad</a> and the late <a class="zem_slink" title="Vox" href="http://www.vox.com" rel="homepage">Vox</a>; the poneer in bogging and also my bogging patform announced a merger with <a class="zem_slink" title="VideoEgg" href="http://www.videoegg.com" rel="homepage">VideoEgg</a>. The two will rename into Say Media. Even if Say Media, a mrketing focused company say that they will still continue to support these platforms, for me its a sign to migrate. Look at what they did to Vox, they only give us a couple of months notice. So if i stay, what could possibly happen? Hmmm&#8230; are we going to see adsense like ads on all blogs run by free type pad blogs in the future?</p>
<div>I really love Movable Type, its the platform i used ever since i started <a class="zem_slink" title="Blog" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="wikipedia">blogging</a>, although i&#8217;,m an <a class="zem_slink" title="Search engine optimization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization" rel="wikipedia">SEO</a> guy, and you know that <a class="zem_slink" title="WordPress" href="http://wordpress.org" rel="homepage">WordPress</a> is way ahead when it comes to quickly customize your blog for SEO purposes but i stayed. Not anymore obviously, so i have decided to leave and say farewell to my 6 years with Movable Type.</div>
<div>Where to go now? Well, i&#8217;ve been looking into migrating to the following platforms:</div>
<div><a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> &#8211; with its famous one click install but prone to security issues.</div>
<div><a href="http://expressionengine.com/">Expression Engine</a> &#8211; the Framework i love to work but is not free</div>
<div><a href="http://openmelody.org">Melody</a> &#8211; Movable Type alternative but still in alpha state</div>
<div>Well, i am still undecided.</div>
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		<title>Blocking or Redirecting Spammers by IP Address Using HTAccess</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tildemark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several months of fighting with  manual comment spam, I have decided to block all the traffic coming from India. All they do is just post useless comments everyday, which made me wonder if its their job to post spam. Anyway, blocking people by IP is very straight forward using htaccess. I]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After several months of fighting with  manual comment spam, I have decided to block all the traffic coming from India. All they do is just post useless comments everyday, which made me wonder if its their job to post spam.</p>
<p>Anyway, blocking people by IP is very straight forward using htaccess. I will show two ways on how we can block browsers based on their IP addresses.</p>
<p>Blocking by IP block is not a very good idea because you will also block legitimate traffics too. Normally, you will do this in at least a week duration and then lift the restriction back to normal.</p>
<p>Blocking IP and displaying 403 Forbidden<br />
India&#8217;s IP block that is spamming me non-stop is122.180.0.0. Adding the following code below to the htaccess, blocks all traffic coming from that IP block. You can also block specific IP by  writing its entire IP address.</p>
<p><code>order allow,deny<br />
deny from 122.180.<br />
deny from 123.123.123.123<br />
allow from all</code></p>
<p>Redirect Traffic to a specific page</p>
<div>
<p>Redirecting the traffic to a page might be useful instead of just giving them the 403 error page. What is did is to redirect all the traffic from India to a Rick Rolled YouTube page, lol.</p>
<p><code>RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^122\.180\.\d+\.\d+$<br />
RewriteRule .* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g [R=302,L]</code></p>
<p>R=302 is a status code for temporary redirect and L stands for Last as in the last line. You can add more RewriteCond IP addresses by inserting an addtional line before the RewriteRule Line.</p>
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		<title>Fix No Internet Access in Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just upgraded my PC to Windows 7 and since I never tried Windows Vista before; this new operating system is alien to me. Well, i never encountered any problem during the upgrade, its not really an upgrade since Windows 7 does not support upgrades from Windows XP to]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have just upgraded my PC to Windows 7 and since I never tried Windows Vista before; this new operating system is alien to me. Well, i never encountered any problem during the upgrade, its not really an upgrade since Windows 7 does not support upgrades from Windows XP to Windows 7.</p>
<p>The install was smooth so i proceeded to install the software i needed to work until i stumbled upon a problem along the way. My internet access got lost and i am somehow connected to an unidentified network instead. Its gotten more weird for i was able to browse the network. My only problem is that i am not able to connect to the internet.</p>
<p>It happened that before i installed Quicktime. I guess its the culprit, but i can&#8217;t uninstall it because i need it.</p>
<p>I first learned that by disabling and then enabling the local area connection, internet access is restored. Certainly its not the perfect solution and i can bare myself the pain in doing the same task every time i turn the PC on. Here is a video on how to disable and enable the local area connection.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7dqGBd9kctc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>If you are somehow not contented with the solution, you can always uninstall Quicktime or try disabling the Bonjour service. See the video on how i fixed it.</p>
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		<title>Increase activeCollab upload limit using htaccess</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the most easiest way to increase the upload limit not just on activeCollab but almost to all PHP applications like WordPress is by configuring the .htaccess file. Editing you PHP ini file can be hard if you do not have access to server or if your are on a]]></description>
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<p>Probably the most easiest way to increase the upload limit not just on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.activecollab.com/" title="activeCollab" rel="homepage">activeCollab</a> but almost to all <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.php.net/" title="PHP" rel="homepage">PHP</a> applications like WordPress is by configuring the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess" title=".htaccess" rel="wikipedia">.htaccess</a> file. Editing you PHP ini file can be hard if you do not have access to server or if your are on a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service" title="Shared web hosting service" rel="wikipedia">shared hosting</a> environment. </p>
<p>Copy and paste the following code below to increase PHP upload limit, i have set the limit to 20MB but you can change it to your liking by editing it.</p>
<p><code><br />
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M<br />
<br />php_value post_max_size 20M<br />
<br />php_value max_execution_time 300<br />
<br />php_value max_input_time 300</code></p>
<p>UPDATE:
<div>
I found some people experienced difficulties in adding the lines above especially on WordPess installs. So here is an updated script for your .htaccess file with PHP versions included. Adding the lines above will generate an Internal Server Error (Error 500) on systems although i did not experience this on my installs.</div>
<pre><code>
# PHP 4, Apache 1.
&lt;ifmodule mod_php4.c&gt;
php_value memory_limit                    64M
php_value post_max_size                   20M
php_value upload_max_filesize             20M
php_value max_execution_time              300
php_value max_input_time                  300
&lt;/ifmodule&gt;</code></pre>
<pre><code>
# PHP 4, Apache 2.
&lt;ifmodule sapi_apache2.c&gt;
php_value memory_limit                    64M
php_value post_max_size                   20M
php_value upload_max_filesize             20M
php_value max_execution_time              300
php_value max_input_time                  300
&lt;/ifmodule&gt;</code></pre>
<pre><code>
# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
&lt;ifmodule mod_php5.c&gt;
php_value memory_limit                    64M
php_value post_max_size                   20M
php_value upload_max_filesize             20M
php_value max_execution_time              300
php_value max_input_time                  300
&lt;/ifmodule&gt;</code></pre>
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