Tag Archive for 'software'

How fast can your browser run?

Published on July 28, 2009 in design. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Last Friday, we had our wallpaper challenge as usual. Wallpaper Challenge is a practice activity the designers at my workplace have once a week, we are given a topic and given only five minutes to think of a concept and just one hour to create the wallpaper. Though this has been done for a few days now, I have been lazy to update my blog due to the hardware problems my computer is experiencing. By far, this is the most difficult wallpaper challenge topic ever given. Our topic was:

Web Browsers’ Sportsfest

It was very difficult to come up with a concept, and I had no choice but to create a comical scene. I can’t really say that I like the outcome, but Wayne – our senior designer seems to like it. My hate for IE browsers really does show up. Too bad I’ve forgotten to include Google Chrome.

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Busy Me

Published on June 11, 2009 in anime and manga, ramblings and websites. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

I haven’t posted for a long while now. It’s actually amazing since I tend to ramble a lot on just about anything. I’m hesitant to post something without an artwork included, since I promised myself to create an artwork on every post here on my blog. But on situations like this when I have no time to create an artwork, I mustn’t let my blog be covered in flies.

narutoshippuudenOne of my projects is to work on the ChanLu Redesign mock-ups and start recoding of the web application. But… what happened instead? Ok, I won’t be ending up in excuses. I have been watching Naruto Shippuden for about more than a week now. I’m really behind the episodes since during my thesis, even though I wanted to watch the series, I didn’t. I just had the time now and my officemates are updated to the latest manga chapter. You know how horrible the feeling is when your friends are talking about what’s happening on the newly released chapter, and you have no clue about it. So now I’m about 3/4 of all the episodes of Naruto Shippuden. I may eventually read the manga, but I’ll manage my time better.

About 2 weeks ago, my Ubuntu was upgraded from Hardy Heron to Jaunty Jackalope with the help of Wayne. We decided for a fresh install so all my settings and applications were gone. I reinstalled Songbird just now, and even VLC media player. so I may watch anime and movies in this operating system. Also my localhost is ready for the development of ChanLu, but I’m on the addicted mode of watching Naruto.

Also, I posted earlier about the “designer’s website” at my workplace. We now have a deadline on the end of July. So we must hurry up on the development process of this website and hopefully have more time working on ChanLu besides the other projects I’m working on. But I’ll try on making some freebies to make up for the delay on the development of ChanLu.

Songbird

Published on January 1, 2009 in applications. 4 Comments Tags: , , .

songbirdRogelio told me about the open source media player Songbird which is powered by Mozilla. Then I installed the application at my Ubuntu Desktop, since this player consumes a lot on the memory, my Windows would be crying with that. But in Ubuntu which I have no heavy applications running, my 2GB RAM maybe put to good use.

I had a lot of troubles on installing the application since I’m not that familiar with Ubuntu or any other Linux platforms; I was forced to use Ubuntu due to my thesis: WIO. But, I can say that Ubuntu ain’t bad. I quite like it myself, if I ever buy a laptop, my first choice for my operating system is Ubuntu.

I followed the tutorial here on how to install Songbird, but I had a lot of troubles on how to get eveything working, due to some small differences. But it really is a great tutorial, I have everything working now and happily listening to music. I’m currently in listening to a station in Shoutcast to for something new than the music in my hard drives.

My first opinion about Songbird after I saw the screenshot is that the its look and feel is similar to iTunes. But, I find Songbird easier to use rather than iTunes, which made me very happy. In iTunes when you place music into the library, it copies the whole MP3 to the app’s music folder, duplicating your music file to that music folder. Sure it may be useful sometimes, but I prefer to be the one organizing where my music go, which Songbird allows me to do. It just copies the information from the files and poof! The library is full. No duplicated files or anything.

The application’s user interface is great and it is really looking good. I was just frustrated that there is no option to minimize the application to the system tray; I hope that feature would be included someday. And the application will be better if they further lessen the memory usage of the application.

Oh yeah, Happy New Year to all of you!