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We all know more or less about CSS and of course the CSS compression. At this day in age we web designers/developers are finding more ways to get the site loaded as soon as possible or else the user dives to the other resource. While doing some CSS research I came across this site by Michael Leigeber called www.leigeber.com. The interesting bit was there was a CSS shorthand cheat, this one page PDF hanging on your desk top saves you lot of time. The link to the PDF file can be found on this thread.

Ok this has been long over dew. I came across this site while moderating my comments, http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/. Very nice collections, currently they have category named:

• Art Icons
• Application Icons
• Animal Icons
• Business icons
• Cartoon Icons
• Computer icons
• Food icons
• Funny Icons
• Holidays Icons
• People Icons
• Sport Icons
• System Icons
• Vector Icons
• Gif Icons
• Png Icons
• Web Icons

Some icon might have CC copyright but check the policy before use it.

Recently eBay has introduced MUST have PayPal as a payment option. You know what that means? Yes more money for PayPal an eBay company. But eBay claims that this makes the Australian market place more safer and by giving them safer market the user will spend more. I say what a joke and ask others too :-). I guess this time Oztion.com.au has the time to take place in this Auction WAR. I say everyone should turn to Oztion.com.au and give it a try.

I turned away from eBay ages ago when I saw after the insertion fee and the after sale fee with paypal fee i was is loss. Instantly I developed my own store and started to redirect the traffic from eBay to my site. Here are some idea how you can get traffic from eBay:

• First of all you need your own domain name and hosting :-), ask me if you are looking for some cheap and reliable hosting
• In your auction you are allowed have one external email address, so use your own domain name :-); eg: info@mydomain.com.au. In this way the user are wise to go to your site [or may think about it]
• Have a newsletter option to paid company and use that technology to spread your site name; eg when a user from eBay registers to your site newsletter send them confirmation email with your site URL and product info
• Keep the price low at your store so user tends to buy from your site
• Host your images to your site with copyright with your site name

There are more trick that you can do to make your own site running well as your eBay store. So what are you waiting for? go on………….

Yet another project at work required for me to put up an advert for intranet to show quote of the employees about a particular event. Now the challenge was that I had to use the advert that was already casting on intranet which was telling people about the event. Fortunately I had the advert layout with plenty on white space. So all I had to do was find the AS that feeds the quote to my desired placement :-).
This time around I used kirupa, I came across this site long time but never really got around using anything that suits my need.

So the goal is to show quote in a flash add:

ranQuote = new LoadVars();
ranQuote.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
RanNum = Math.ceil(Math.random()*5);
ran = this[”quote”+RanNum];
quote_txt.text = ran;
}
else {
quote_txt.text = “The text failed to load due to an error”;
}
}
ranQuote.load(”Quotes.txt”);

The original code can be found here. Basically you have to have three layers if you are using the button to generate the quote rather than the page load. Otherwise you should be good with two.

 I just found out that James [aka Nagar Baul] is visiting Australia may 2008. I decided to make wallpaper out of it. Comment welcome….

I recently was given a project, where I was required to develop an advertisement with 10 news paper article and 10 speeches by 10 employees in it. I am being honest here I am not big on AS [Action Script], but I though that should be easy to do.
I started to work on the base [eg: bg, colours, images etc]. Now the way I laid out the movie was like this:
1. Some starting statement
2. Then 10 different scene with their article and speech.
The second step was wrong, why? Because After I did the layout while I was searching for the AS on internet there was a lot of thread advising DO NOT USE SCENE FOR THESE TYPE OF AD. Yet I ignored the fact scene being randomized is harder and requires more advanced coding. I didn’t have enough time so I decided to search Random Scene Code. Then I found my answer from David Stiller’s blog. It was a very simple code and that did my job very easily.

function getRandomLabel():String {
  var labels:Array = new Array(”a”, “b”, “c”);
  var index:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * labels.length);
  return labels[index];
}
this.gotoAndStop(getRandomLabel());

Please visit this link to know a lot about how it works, but I’ll just continue writing how I implemented this AS to my AD.
As I was saying my movie was laid out in deferent scene I did a simple shortcut copied all the frames from Scene 2 onward to my Scene 1 and deleted the rest of the scene.
In nutshell my movie starts and when it goes to frame 30 [for example] the AS is telling it to go to a, b, or c frame [make sure you replace a, b, c with frame numbers] that’s it. This script should work with any number of frames as far as I am concern; my movie was 5000 frame long. Enjoy….

..in other word it posts your thread on the exact time you want it. This feature is for Worldpress user only [as far as I am aware]. You might want to use this feature for a special event or you may be away from the PC or you are going to travel some part of world where you cannot connect to your blog securely. What ever the reason might be when you the writing your draft next time on your WordPress Control Panel look the tab on right hand side bottom for “Post Timestamp” and choose your desired time to post your thread and you are done.

I was reading a article about Typography today and came across this rather unusual video by Premjit Ramachandran about this News Paper in Pakistan begin distributed hand written. Something for inspiration I guess…

Watch Video Click here

US got the hit on June 2007 and this is March 2008 Australia still hasn’t seen any sign of iPhone. After the release iPhone was sold record number, Apple still isn’t showing any interest to bring the device to Australia. I guess we all have to buy the alternative that is coming out by the look of it?

When are we going to see iPhone in Australia???

Thousand Spices was a project that I did back in 2005. A lot of things has changed since then. So I have decided I will redesign the site again with all the new things that I can use :-). So it’s going to be pure CSS and xHTML based site with some flash animation. Stay tuned to see the new design.