Archive for July, 2007

UpdateStage.com Is Alive!

UpdateStage.com
For all the Director folks, UpdateStage.com is still alive! :cool:
This is what it’s written on the page

The CMS version of updateStage is down. Between that and a severe hard drive crash here at the office I’m reverting updateStage to a more simple site. The Mile High Table is back online as well as the quirk list. Any broken links will be fixed over the weekend. Thanks for your patience.

See, UpdateStage.com is still functioning.
Even the site is considered “new” and not 100% complete, but still the Mile High Table is working as well as the quirk list.

For your information, Mile High Table contains a huge list of all the Director Xtras. It’s an useful table for all the Director Xtras seeker. Quirk list contains an assortment of reports of Director misbehavior. So you can’t solve a certain “bug” in Director, check the quirk list out 1st before you made your complain in Director forums. The quirk list does provides a good solution for most of the Director misbehaviors. :D

Cheers for Director!

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Select Font with AMP Font Viewer

Creativity is not the only part of design. An appropriate font used is important too to enhance a piece of art.
However, choosing a font from hundred(thousand) over installed font types is kind of frustrating. :(

By using AMP Font Viewer to select a font, it definitely will save your precious time and energy.

AMP Font Viewer

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

• Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts (Windows 2000/XP required for PostScript OpenType fonts)
• Supports Type1 fonts (Windows 2000/XP required)
• Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
• Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
• Deletion of installed fonts.
• List of all installed fonts with several display options.
• List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
• Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.
• It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.
• Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
• Dual English/Spanish version.

This freeware also got a few awards from Nonags, SnapFiles, Its Free 4 U.Com, Featured in, Lockergnome and SnapFiles 2004 Most Downloaded Freeware Font Tool.

[Download AMP Font Viewer]

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PIKOM PC Fair 2007 Kicks Off (Again) This Weekend

PC Fair
Ya you’re right. Pikom PC Fair 2007 II will be kicked off on this weekend at KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur on 3 - 5 August 2007, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
pikommap.jpg(Click to enlarge)

If you’re not a KL area resident, you also can join this party at the following locations:

3 - 5 August 2007
11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Penang International Sports Arena, Penang
Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau
Dewan Jubli Intan, Kluang, Johor
Sabah Trade Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Dewan Tun Hj Mustapha, Lahad Datu, Sabah
10 - 12 August 2007
11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Johor Bahru City Square, Johor
Jalan Wong Ah Fook, 80000 Johor Bahru
Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak
Jalan Stadium Perak, 31400 Ipoh
Central Square, Sungai Petani, Kedah
Jalan Kampung Baru, 08000 Sungai Petani
Dewan Sri Mentakab, Pahang
Mentakab, Pahang
   
16 - 18 August 2007
11:00 am - 9:00 pm
KB Mall, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
Jalan Hamzah, 15050 Kota Bharu
Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu
Padang Hiliran, 21100 Kuala Terengganu
   
17 - 19 August 2007
11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Mahkota Parade Melaka
Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir, Melaka
Star Parade, Alor Star, Kedah
Jalan Teluk Wanjah, 05200 Alor Star
Dewan Merdeka MP Manjung, Perak
Jalan Pinang Raja, 32040 Seri Manjung

So what’re you looking for in coming PC Fair? USB thumb drive? Blue-Ray burner? Apple iPhone(I hope they have)? Or maybe just plan to go there because of showgirls? :twisted:

In case you can’t find the showgirls’ location way out, here is the venue layouts of all the exhibitor.
Have fun and I will see you there!

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Everything About LINK


Don’t you agree LINKs are the main source of targeted traffic?
If you are new to link building, there’s a pdf written by Patrick Gavin, President of Text Link Ads Inc, talking about The Definitive Guide To Link Buying.

Everything About LINK

This is a complete guide that covers a lot of topics about “links”, for examples,
Why links are important to you.
Why link popularity is the top factor in top search engine rankings.

It also explains a lot of technical glossary term like Link Popularity, Off Page Criteria, PageRank, On-Page Factors, Anchor Text, FFA Link Farm, Citation, Reciprocal Link Exchanges, One Way Links, Deep Link, Site Wide Links, Backlinks and etc.
…»»Continue reading Everything About LINK

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Game - Bowman 2

Description:
Test your bow skills and shoot an arrow through the heart of your opponent.


Instructions:
To shoot an arrow, click anywhere in the game window. (Make sure you have enough room to adjust strength and angle) and move your mouse back and down and finally release the left mouse button when you’re ready to shoot.

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WordPress Shortcut Keys

WordPress Shortcut Keys
Since we have the articles for Gmail shortcut keys and Yahoo! Mail shortcut keys, i think this list of WP shortcut keys is also a must for all the WP users. :D

Command
Shortcut

Alt+P

publish
Alt+B bold
Alt+I italic
Alt+Q Blockquote
Alt+T more (Read More tag)
Alt+U ul (Unordered list)
Alt+O ol (Ordered list)
Alt+L li (list item)
Alt+A link
Alt+C code
Alt+S ins
Alt+D del

Look carefully, all the WP shortcut keys are combined by “Alt“+”Key”, not “Ctrl”+”Key”. It’s different from normal softwares’ shortcut keys.

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Adopt An Online Pet

If you want to make your blog more interesting and lovely, try to adopt an online pet. The concept is similar to “Tamagotchi“.

Bunnyhero Labs provides 20 interactive cyber pets for you to “adopt” and put on your webpage, myspace, xanga, livejournal, blog, etc… for free! You can have simple interaction with your pet by feeding it and play with it. :D

These are the steps on how to adopt an online pet:

Step 1:
Choose a pet at http://bunnyherolabs.com/adopt/.
Adopt An Online Pet

Step 2:
Customize you pet by giving it a name and key in adopter’s name(your name or nick). You can select a color for your pet too.
Adopt An Online Pet

Step 3:
Get the suitable code for your blog and insert it wherever u like it to appear in your website.
Adopt An Online Pet

This is my pet - KD.

Isn’t it cute?

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Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts
After Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts, this is another list consists all the Yahoo! Mail! keyboard shortcuts which I think is quite useful if you “afraid” of mice.

Command Shortcut
Check Mail m
Check All Mail (includes all POP accounts) Shift+m
Close Current Tab Ctrl+\
New Message n
New Message in its own window Shift+n
Reply r
Reply in a new window Shift+r
Reply All a
Reply All in a new window Shift+a
Forward message f
Forward in a new window Shift+f
Mark As Read k
Mark As Unread Shift+k
Flag l (that’s an L, not a one)
Clear Flag Shift+l (that’s an L, not a one)
Delete Item Your “delete” key
Print Ctrl+p – or just p !
Save Draft Ctrl+s
Send Message Ctrl+Enter (Alt+s also supported)
Turn Reading Pane on and off v
Navigate through tabs—right to left motion Ctrl+[
Navigate through tabs—left to right motion Ctrl+]
Open message in its own tab Enter (select a message first, or more than one)
Edit contact info Enter (select a contact first, in Contacts)
Find a word or phrase in a message Ctrl+f
Expand window to maximum height F11
Next message (in message tab) Ctrl+. (that’s Ctrl with the period)
Previous message (in message tab) Ctrl+, (Ctrl with the comma)
Next (or previous) message with same Subject;
Next (or previous) flagged message;
Next (or previous) unread message;
Next (or previous) from: _________
To set this up, press:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+up arrow.
Click the option you want, then OK.
Now: To use the shortcut, press:
Ctrl+Shift+down arrow (for next message) or
Ctrl+Shift+up arrow (for previous message)
Skip to oldest unread message Ctrl+Shift+End
Move message to a folder d
Close read-message tab Esc
Start a new chat Ctrl+Shift+c or c

[Source from Yahoo! Help]

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Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers

Have you wondered what kind of font style is used by other bloggers? What are their blogs’ font size, color, font-family, margin and text-align?
I did a small research on font style used by few famous bloggers before I modify my font style on k-director dot com since my last theme layout updated. To have appropriate font style in your website is not only can increase your reader’s reading speed but also makes your blog in a tidy layout.

These are what I got for my research:

JohnChow.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
background: #d5dbe1;
margin: 0px 20px;
font: 76%/1.6em verdana, tahoma, “lucida grande”, sans-serif;
color: #333;
text-align: center;

LiewCF.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
font-size:62.5%;
font-family:‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background-color:#d5d6d7;
color:#333;
text-align:center;
margin:0;
padding:0;

Problogger.net
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
font-family: “Arial Narrow”, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin: 10 0 0 0;
padding: 0;

JohnTP.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
font:62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif;
color:#333;
background:#444;
text-align:center;
margin:0;
_margin:0;
padding:0;

HongKiat.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
color:#000;
font-family:Tahoma, “Myriad Pro”, “Myriad Web”, Arial;
font-size:1em;
text-align:center;
vertical-align:top;

I increased k-director dot com’s font-size to 12px with font-family:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif’. I hope you all will have a comfortable experience while reading my content.
If you find it is difficult for you to read such a big font, leave me a comment to complain it.

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BREAKING NEWS Director 11

I just got this breaking news on Adobe Forum. Samuel Joseph IV received an email from Adobe asking him to take a survey on how he uses Adobe Director. In the email it says that Adobe Director 11 will be released in ‘near the end of 2007‘ not ’some time in the middle of 2007′ .
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