Monthly Archives: July 2006

Photo Effects: Green Food

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You can make plenty of awesome effects with Photodraw V2 by Microsoft. Here is one I made that I will show you how to do. The photo appears on the left. Now of course you know how I made it, right?

First of all, you need Microsoft Photodraw V2. If you have an older version or a newer one I won’t be sure it will work. Begin by going to the Insert menu and clicking on “Photodraw Content…”

You will be presented with a dialog box. Navigate to “Food And Dining” folder and insert BK0701.MIX. It looks like the one on the right.

Now drag it and resize it so it takes up all of the space on the “Default Picture” sized blank white area. Go to the “effects” tab and click on “Color Effects.” On the “Correct selection” panel, choose “Color Balance” from the only dropdown menu.

Select:

  • 29 in Cyan / Red
  • 38 in Magenta / Green
  • 59 in Yellow / Blue

When you are done, it should look somewhat like this on the right. Now go to the dropdown menu and choose “Colorize”. Click on bright green and drag it all the way to the right, or until the number is 100.


Effecto!


Note: It may not look exactly alike, because I did another version of it again.

Illusion

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You may want to try this.

If you take the text I supply and paste it into Word; then move it up and down in “Print Layout” view, the effect is truely awesome. It creates two layers of “codelike” text if you take the scroll bar and move it up and down rapidly.

Use “Century Gothic” as the font on “12 pt.” Copy this text until it takes up precisly 2 pages, with the last line all the way to the end. Type zeros and ones in a random. Once you think it’s enough, copy and paste it.
It may not always work.

Double Moniters Beat One

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A new technology has been released. Well, it was new in 2000. But now, it’s not. Why isn’t everybody using it then? Two moniters? Awesome. Well, the truth is that most people don’t know the feature, and some graphic cards don’t support it.

I, very fortunely, have two moniters and it is totally awesome. Some people don’t know about it.

It is really quite easy to install two moniters. However, you do need a graphics card supporting it. Once you plug it in, Windows should and will reconize it as a secondary display. You will find in the “display” properties, the settings tab will appear differently, allowing you to drag the visual view of desktops to match thier physical order.

Don’t Be Mistaken…

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Readers, today I must confess a fact that I know. I have tried to keep it away from you people for a long time, but today it must be said. Get ready:

Mosquito’s can hang out in toilets. They hover over the surface of the water. Sometimes they drown. Mostly they drown. But sometimes they don’t. And they keep their appetite when they hang out in toilet bowls.

I know all of this data from amazingly true experience. One bit me on the posterior (or rear end; just trying to hide the truth) and it hurt.

One last thing: it was hard to get my itch eraser to it.

Switch to Firefox, IE Users

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This post is intended for Internet Explorer users, who without doubt have made a wrong choice about their browser. I’m not intending to offend you people out there, but you really should switch to Firefox.

You see, in a recent study, Firefox’s usage took up 7% while Internet Explorer took up 89% of usage in US. That means that since more people use Internet Explorer, more viruses and worms will be targeted at them.

However, take time to switch. The new IE7 Beta2 is turning out pretty good (available now, for WinVista).

QWERTY: Can’t Live Without It

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I’m one of those people who love keyboards. Especially QWERTY. I think DVORAK is much too old and it’s not good enough for my delicate hands. :)

A few days ago, I was using a cell phone when I remembered I needed to enter in my friend’s number into the phone book. So I popped it up and it asked me to enter his name. I believe that was the most neck-straining thing I have ever experienced.

I bent my head down for three minutes! First, pressing a numerical key three times to get to the letter but accidentally pressing it once extra getting me “Bo(” instead of “Bob”. And if that wasn’t all, it asked me for the address.

I’m the kind of person that likes everything complete. But did I like doing it this time? Nope. But my brain kept on tempting me. That was the kind of thing that made me mad.

Either way, it’s pretty obvious for now. QWERTY keyboards rule out the numerical press-three-times-or-less for now. Those Treo things are getting quite useful now.