While tinkering with my Blogger blog’s template, and consulting with the experts online regarding the latest webpage design standards, I began to wonder myself how adaptable my designs were. At times, I’m looking at my handiwork stretched to fill these 16:9 or 16:10 monitors and am satisfied it takes advantage of all that space. However, then I remember back to my 4:3 CRT monitors and how I was able to design to best utilize its space. So whatever was designed for 4:3 in mind now looks constrained for 16:9 because of the extra space on the sides. So what is the right way to design? (more…)
Originally published on May 29, 2011 at Facebook, the lucky bastards.
1. Acquire USD$200
2. Acquire a quality camcorder that costs less than $200
3. Write a script
4. Distribute the script to prospective collaborators (more…)
As technology advances, those of us who have utilized older technologies are left questioning whether we continue using our tools until it becomes obsolete or replace it. Here, I compare the quality of two images from my film SLR camera and one provided by Nikon from their D5100 DSLR. (more…)
Sigh. It’s so hard to start up a project from nothing. It’s one thing to make a personal website which caters mainly to stroke one’s own ego, it’s another to create a product to draw others in. And the hope is that the product is good enough that strangers become customers and keep coming back. If the small niche that I’ve discovered on the Internet is thriving enough, I hope I can tap into it to make some revenue. (more…)
Ancient in digital trend years, but still VERY functional in Windows XP and Vista. By adding a few more lines of code to the drawing engine, SGDK games will display correctly on widescreen monitors. (more…)
