Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Creating a colour theme with Color Hunter

Have you ever wanted a colour theme for your site that goes with your banner image . Well just go over to Color Hunter. All you have to do is upload your image and the site will create and find color palettes made from it.

You can then use those colours for various elements in your site.

Got this via Elizabeth's 'Getting my Blog on'.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Yet another Firefox update

Mozilla recently release another update of Firefox - version 2.0.0.14 on April 16, 2008. That's just a few days after the last update.

I don't think that bad. Apparently the latest update fixes a critical issue - MFSA 2008-20 Crash in JavaScript garbage collector. I have no idea what that means and I don't really care.

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Create huge panoramas with Hugin

As an amateur photographer, I absolutely love this program.

I am sure you have come across the situation whereby you wanted to take the picture of a beautiful landscape or building but it just didn't fit in. Well just take loads of pictures and use "hugin" - the Free downloadable Panorama photo sticker to join up all your photographs into one whole complete panorama.

The latest version is version 0.7 beta 4 and is available for Linux, OS X and Windows.

Download Hugin here.



Here is a screenshot of the software in action from the Hugin site.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

In the top 50 list

Just found out that this blog has been listed on "The Freeloader’s Toolbelt: 50 Tools to Help You Get Anything Free Online".

The article by Christina Laun puts my blog under the "websites" category.

Thanks Christina.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Firefox 2.0.0.13 released

A new version of my favourite open source browser, Firefox has been released. No! It's not the eagerly awaited version 3 but ver 2.0.0.13

It was released on the 25 of this month.

A few security issues were fixed.

Firefox 2

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Watch free movies online on 66Stage

Sometime back I wrote about allfg.org where you could watch movies and TV shows for free.Well, I found another similar site called 66Stage. They have loads of movies, TV shows, documentaries, cartoons, etc.

Like allfg.org. they don't store the movies on their server but provide link to others sites such as Veoh, DivX, Google, Youku, etc.

The quality of some of the movies I have seen are quite good. That is if you don't mind the small screen and the awfully long buffering.

In fact as I write this, I am waiting for "Resident Evil: Extinction" to load

Saturday, February 16, 2008

VoipStunt - a great alternative to Skype



I am quite satisfied with Skype and use Skypeout to makes calls internationally all the time.

One day, I suddenly found that my wife had installed a new software called VoipStunt. She told me that it was a better alternative to Skype. Better in the sense that it was free to make calls to land lines in Malaysia and several other countries. Check out the rates here.

Like Skype, you can also chat with friends who have the software installed.

It also has a feature called "Phone-to-Phone" which enables you to make VoipStunt calls with your regular phone. We only pay 50p to make calls to Malaysia.

Try it out and tell me what you think.

modified from the design by Dwayne Hunter