New Mac keyboards on PC

I broke my keyboard yesterday night. it's the third keyboard I broke since jun 2006. (stupid frets on fire fault)

but the post must go on therefore I spent 2 hours cracking my keyboard up to see what happened to it. thank god it's working now and I no longer have a reason to get the Optimus Maximus keyboard.

On Wednesday I'll give you this super duper awesome wonderfulicious free site that produces video tutorials for beginner designers not like me, but like you....... yes you.

Today it's about keyboards.

One main problem which I always always have with my keyboards are dust and particles (Food) that gets into the keyboard between the keys.

an Idea hit my head yesterday just as I was cleaning up my keyboard from the ancient dust and particles that could be radioactive, forming a new breed of mutated creatures that could jump up and eat my fingers.

the idea that hit my head gave me an idea................. and made a red bump too. Why not I use the Mac's Keyboard and use it for my PC? I always love the Macs keyboard. it's so thin and small and the keys are wide and there are no "cleavage" that stores those ancient dust. Brilliant! I said.

But how?..... can it be done? is it even possible?



I don't know yet. I'm now researching on it and will tell you tomorrow. that is if my keyboard is still working.

Ps: those who disagree with eating while on your computer..... It's Called Multi Tasking!! you obsolete single core Human beings. no insult intended to those obsolete people.




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Elephant painting

Here's one thing I Lovae so much about painting. Everyone can do it; every single human being can paint a picture. Although It's disappointing to hear humans keep on denying that fact. and let an elephant beat them to it.
an elephant can paint and so can you little right brainers who doesn't really uses the brain that much.

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ARRGH The Frets Are On Fire!!!

Here's the situation.
you can't play the guitar and you always wanted to be rock star so you play the air guitar and starts fantasizing yourself on the stage slamming and jamming away to the loud crowd, yelling at the microphone like some maniac who's dying to loose their voice in the morning, thinking on your mind if the crowd will catch you if you jump off the stage or if they will move away due to your smelly armpit.

while you can ridiculously use your power of imagination, you can ridiculously use your keyboard and play it like a guitar.
Frets on fire http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

yes it's one of those computer games that makes you look geeky.

it's a game that you can play songs on your keyboard by pressing the correct keys at the given time. while strumming with your "enter" key.

you can edit and make your song although it takes some patiences.
it also has a decent (not amazing) supporting community behind this great but not really original open source software.
because it's open sourced it's worth a try. no virus no those freeware scams that claims it's a anti spyware.





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jaziel

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1000 words of the day

Blogger's picture widget suck needs improvement. well most of their stuff suck
needs improvement. Particularly the user experience for the readers.
anyways because blogspot pic widget really really suck
needs improvement. I'm posting my 1000 words a day as posts. sorry.

Earth Hour

it's a movement to save on resource and energy consumption by WWF (not world wrestling federation). on march 29th.




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supermus Awsomus Optimus Maximus moneyless.

I wanted to do a post about "frets on fire" and how geeky can it be.
but I have delayed this optimus maximus topic long enough so I'm doing it now.

today I'm doing about keyboards. in fact it's not just any keyboard, but probably the most sophisticated keyboard of all. not to mention expensive.


This is a keyboard that allows you to configure any keys to be anything. from the layouts (the way the keys are placed) to the functionality. and there's more.

every single key in the keyboard has a small 48 x48 pixel sized display on it. (imagine a small monitor in every single keys on your keyboard)




it comes with a software that lets you change how each key looks and from the colors to, the font even put a picture in it or even make it blink. it changes what each key does. that means you can move your "q" to the place where the "O" key is placed. get it?

The creator claims that you can play minesweeper with the keyboard. o.O
I find this creation to be very creative. although I have no idea why there are geeks (people) that go crazy about it. to me it's just a very fancy keyboard.

For the price of more than RM2000. I don't know why I would ever pay that much for some fancy "creatively made" keyboard. but it still better than buying.... I mean Burning your money away. with windows Vista.


Don't buy vista
Jaziel


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guitar on the web

for those who plays guitars.

This few days we are probably going to explore the world of playing guitar, or at least pretending to play guitar and the web.

here's something worth sharing.
there's no need to buy those tunning forks and electronic tuners when you need to tune your guitar.

8notes http://www.8notes.com/guitar_tuner/default.asp?sstring=e2

A site where I have been visiting for years whenever I need to have my guitar tuned.
They got loads of stuff available although I never really explore them. As long as it gives me what I want with simple user friendly GUI, Jaziel lives a much happier life.

as for you poor fellas who already own a tunning fork, you can just eat spaghetti with it.
I like mushroom and cheese.





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tagged.

Although i don't usually entertain this kind of Internet behaviour I thought I'd show you all how people entertain themselves on the Internet. Yes they play tag. sad right?

Here it goes

List out Top 5 present you wish for :-

5. Nvidia GeForce 88000GT (a super fast super speed video adapter)
4. a 17inch monitor
3. a bag of "lays potato chips" all the way from US. (Yes, I'm talking to you Marcus).
2.A Macbook Pro
1. A Macbook Pro
0. A Macbook Pro

The person who tagged me is : Marcus

Your 5 impressions of him/her:

1. short enough that he has to look up to his future girl friend in Georgia

2. best stage ast ever.

3. something that brings wealth on the top of his head

4. can't paint a 20 feet castle.

5. still single and available. that's cause he wants to.

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS GIVE/DONE FOR YOU

"He tagged me"

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE SAID TO YOU

"I tell you dude, this will never be stable"

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER, YOU WILL

WAIT A MINUTE! what does "HE/SHE" refers to? What kind of question is this? I'm homophobic you know?

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR ENEMY, THE REASON WILL BE

he's Germany and I'm British and the year is 1942.

PASS THE QUIZ TO 5 PEOPLE THAT YOU WISH TO KNOW HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT YOU

1. Rajeevan

2. Gadiy Lim

3. Michelle Tan

4. Amirul Bin Roslan

5. Micheal Jackson

1. WHO IS NO.3 HAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH?

some cool guy named song sern

2. WHO IS NO.5 HAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH?

his dog. probably divorce in a few months.

(if this blog goes down I may have been sued for defamation)

3. IF NO.3 AND NO.2 ARE TOGETHER, WILL IT BE A GOOD THING?

maybe. but it will never happen.

4. WHAT ABOUT NO.4 AND NO.5?

nope

6. WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU CHATTED WIT NO.5?

some time back.

7. DOES NO.4 WORK?

his currently a chairperson of a big organizing committee of an important event that may just change the face of S.A.D.

8. DO YOU HAVE ANY COUSIN IN HIS/HER OWN SCHOOL?

WHO IS "HIS?HER"? please no stupid questions! No!

9. WILL U BE WITH NO.1?

Are you kidding me?

10. HOW ABOUT NO.5?

I think I got the questions miss understood. am I?

11. DOES NO.2 HAVE ANY SIBLINGS?

yes.

12. HOW DID U GET TO KNOW ABOUT NO.2 AND NO.4?

we talked?

13. WHERE DOES NO.1 LIVE AT?

PJ.

14. HOW DID U GET TO KNOW NO.2?

once upon a time........ I knew Gadiy in college.... great guy..... the end. fin.

15. IS NO.5 THE SEXIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD?

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!




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Firefox extentions

It used to be a time where all Internet users uses only one "brand" of Internet browser Internet browser = (the thing you use to surf the Internet) today as the generation become more familiar and attached to the technological world, we may come to know other alternatives besides the ever indescribably horrible Internet explorer. I'm not going to write a long essay on why Internet explorer isn't worth it's price even though it's free. I'm suppose to recommend some of my favourite firefox extensions. (things you can add to your browser to add functionality and extent what it can do) what is firefox you ask? it's another brand of Internet browser that is very popular. among other free downloadable browsers such as Oprea, Safari, and many, many, many more.
speed dial https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810
it's my top choice here. as an Internet surfer I like to have simple shortcuts to view my most visited sites rather that cluttering my "bookmarks" and searching for the address in the address bar. what it does is it lets you record down the sites you like to put on speed dial to a combination of two keys. just press your ctrl key along with the number (1-0) and go to the site specifed in the number directly. although it takes time and getting used to. it's certainly a great tool to use. it saves me at least 5 seconds each time I use it

thumb strips https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5045
have you ever searched the history of the sites you visited and wondering which site was it? you forgotten the name and you visited so many pages in that particular site you don't even know which one. well thumb strips helps you with that by making thumbnails of the sites you visited be it for research of whatever you want to do with it.

piclens https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579
it's to me that coolest extensions I have ever used. it's brings a 3d environment if pictures throughout the web to your browser. it's cool looking and as someone who desires for stylish way to surf the Internet. I'm lovin it. it's so cool I don't know how to explain it. it's a revolutionary way of browsing pictures on the Internet. Imagine this. you want to search for a rare and particular image to use. you go to Google, type the described picture and start browsing the little thumbnails. it's too small so you click on the pic and go into the page to get a better view. Nope it's 1st page doesn't have what you want. you then click the small number 2. it's doesn't have it either. so you move on. Until Page 10 you gave up. You go to another site, "photobucket.com" and do the same thing. piclens removed all the hassle of browsing page by page, and replace it all with this 3d scrollable zoomable, and flexible window. you owe it to yourself for not trying it.

stumble upon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
this is an interesting tool that learns the way you surf the net and brings in new sites related to your interest on a click of a button. It may not be as attractive but it's a good way to find those hard to find information. after all the art of surfing the Internet is finding your way in this humongous pool of streaming data with time in mind. it's not the most relevant tool for the average user but in the long run it makes browsing session a special one.

I just don't like the fact that it has a "friendster mini clone" some may disagree, but I just want to use the tool for what it is and nothing more. friendster is Internet social site where people connect and make friends with online which I have yet to understand until today. you can't always take online friends as real friends.
why do I even own a friendster account you ask? so that gadiy lim won't stop bothering me with a friendster account. unfortunately he's bothering me with facebook.


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Design the UMPH!

to all who are staying up the whole night trying to finish up a design with an UMPH! while the deadline is coming in 3 days.
after hours of Photoshop and dealing with illustrator and you still can't find the UMPH! in your work.
here are some helpful sites for great vector images and Photoshop brushes.that puts the UMPH! in your work.

vector images for Ai vecteezy-www.vecteezy.com
brushes for Ps brusheezy- www.brusheezy.com
lot's of stuff-http://www.biorust.com

Don't use these for commercial purposes only your assignments or for a friend's blog or whatever you want to do for)
(commercial purposes means any business deals that brings the money to you and not the real owner whom spent so many hours doing it and generously giving it out for free to the public even though they know some of you little cheeky pigs will just copy it and sell it off as a graphic package to other people and enjoy the money for yourself while the owner spends his talented skills helping other people out of his/her kind heart)


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Design your dream home

When I was "young", and I am still young. I used to love taking out my math exercise book and drew my very own dream home.

Being 8 and having not know any of the architecture rules at all, I explored creativity that defies the laws of physics. (the upper floor was 2x bigger than than living room cause I always wanted a bigger bedroom)

even today I still crave to draw my dream home and hope so badly that it will come true.

but that's another story.

I was surfing the net and bumped into this very cool open source freeware. (a free software that anyone can take and resell it or do whatever they want with the software)
it lets you design your dream home on the computer in 3d.
it's easy to use and admittedly fun as well


There are some flaws in the interface I would say. for one it lacks power to adjust your views in the 3d window and you can't edit your objects in the 3d window.
Also, the end result, isn't all that beautiful and atmospheric but it's still great for simple drafting.

Here's basically what I did. I started imagining me staying high in the alps, like Adolf Hitler.

Since I'm probably going to be single and unwanted my whole life I'll just have 1 room along with a living room. I don't need a kitchen because bachelors never cooks.

I Always liked houses with big windows. To sit and enjoy the mountain view of the alps., and what's a dream house without a big double sided door right? unfortunately they only have a garage door model available,


I put my furnitures in. it's as easy as clicking and dragging your mouse.
here's what I have
Living room
I have a conner sofa overlooking the big French window, with a fireplace by the side. beside it is a bookshelf for me to read and a piano to replace the kitchen that I considered to built. there's an aquarium behind the sofa, my workstation

Bedroom
increased the size, a queen sized bed overlooking a big window. with an arm chair in front of it, a bookshelf and a TV beside it.

I chose the floor pattern I wanted. and viewed in "3d visit" mode


after 25 mins I was glad and awed at the results. only then I realized I forgotten to place the bathroom.













eteks sweet home 3d is a great and simple software that anyone can learn.
It doesn't require a light speed computer and it also runs on your web browser (Internet explorer or firefox) that means you don't have to download it to use it.
It's not very shining and polishing but it does the execution right. that is the "user experience"
and since that these people are so kind enough to make it open sourced it's always worth a try.
Get it here
http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/



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Jaziel
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Kuler is Cooler

a typical human being name colors like red blue and green. an artist names colors as apple red, ocean blue and lime green. a mathematician just don't even know what colour is.

It helps lot's when you are having trouble choosing colours and matching them together, or you just want to get some inspiration to paint your room, or design a website or Blog. Here's a great site that would help you with anything about color.

Kuler (not Kuller!) is a site by adobe that let's the community of designers to browse, search, and submits different color matches or sets. it is made with flash so you'll have to update your flash if you have a prehistoric aged computer.

Kuler ----------http://kuler.adobe.com/

Create your own color sets or swatches or whatever you want to call it.

Browse through the swatches that the community created. There are some very good stuff there.

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Jaziel


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Painting With the Heart

When the lights darkened in his life. John Bramblitt did something others never thought of doing. story by"Texas Country Reporter" nominated for the 2007 Youtube video awards. Great video.

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