Step 1:
Open Silverback.
Step 2:
Resize slowly your browser window (Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE7 are all ОК) and…
Step 3:
…watch the effect. Cool!
There’s a discussion on how the quasi-3D effect was achieved using CSS + half-transparent PNG graphics — to me it reminds me the old video games; and looking at Steve, I instantly think of Nintendo’s Donkey Kong!
CSS rullz! ;-)
Smart tools as xScope 2 make me feel sorry sometimes, that I don’t own an Apple Mac! ;-)
If you work on a Mac and do (web)design, I recommend you to drop a look at Doug Bowman’s blog, where he wrote a detailed explanation about xScope (in short, this is something like Screen Calipers, multiplied by 10… or even 100!).
Argh! This is called Win-discrimination! :-D
If you still didn’t send your Fireworks tutorial — now’s the moment, as the contest is extended ’till end of March!
I avow, that I didn’t yet send anything, because I started writing my tutorial in the evening of February 28th, and after approx. 2 hours of writing and taking screenshots I got at a dead end and… went to bed:)
Now I have the chance to make a revanche and finally create my first tutorial about my favourite graphics program ;-)
Do you use Macromedia Adobe Fireworks?
Do you love graphic design?
Did you ever tried to write a tutorial?
If the answers to at least the first two questions is ‘yes’, then the following info might be intersting to you:
Fireworks Zone is holding a contest for best Fireworks tutorial.
Here you can find detailed info about the contest.
The contest is sponsored by GenoPal (color selection software).
Here follow the contest’s regulations, in short:
Good luck, if you’ll participate! (I might participate, too, if I find a couple of free hours this week…) :-)
PS FZ is a good resource for Fireworks users. It is created and supported by Thierry Lorey (who wrote, for example, the tutorial How to create 3D crystals with Fireworks — on this tutorial even I tried my humble Fw skills;-) — if you have any questions regarding the contest, don’t hesitate to write to Thierry! :-)
Dan Cederholm recently returned from New Zealand, where he spoke at the Webstock conference.
From his short posting, written with a lot of humour, I jumped to his photos from the conference. And this particular photo:
[(CC)2008 by Dan Cederholm]
…made me laugh a lot:)
I want one of these T-shirts, too! :-D
Sometimes you might accidentally delete the Show Desktop icon on the quick launch toolbar.
It’s fairly easy to restore it.
My preferred method is to just copy the icon from computer to computer, but there’s another way, too. Also, mind that the Show Desktop icon is not an ordinary program shortcut — but if the icon is deleted, you can re-create it easily, by following these steps (info copied from Microsoft kb #190355):
Not that I didn’t write on the subject before, but it’s kinda nice to read about the same thing elsewhere, isn’t it? :-)
Top money saving tip #1: Get rid of your car + ride a bike instead.
Seriously, a car is a money suck, it ruins the environment and it makes you lazy. Having a bike is fun. It makes your quality of life go way up… you get exercise, you smile more and it’s kinda fast.
A great cover of White Christmas, performed by Enrico Trevisan:
Enrico doesn’t sing professionally, but this performance of his is touching the heart, and this is the most important thing, I believe!
Merry Christmas to everyone! :-)
(found via molif)
Although I am no big fan of Steve Jobs from Apple, I do like Pixar a lot (Apple, too, but to a lesser degree;-), and the stories he tells us, are certainly worth watching …and understanding.
University of North Texas (UNT) student John Bramblitt paints beautiful works of art in vivid colors, despite the fact that he’s been blind for years.
See the videoreport, dedicated to John Bramblitt (flash youtube video):
Amazing man, amazing spirit! :-)
Note: The video is uploaded to Youtube by the Texas Country Reporter.
