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This indite animation entitled "Fumiko's Confession" has won You Tube Video Awards Japan 2009 - Look at the following URL for more:
http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=uk&lp=zh_en&trurl=http://www.youtube.com/user/YTVawardsJP2009
She is asking the boy out but he says he wanted to focus on baseball! That breaks her heart, and as she runs away she tips over a trolley and encounters an adventurous fall!
IE7-js is a Java Script Library that is created to resolve the issues with previous versions of Internet Explorer, IE6 and IE 5. These versions have many issues handling HTML and CSS , which means developers have to write extra code, so that people who are still using these browsers can use their sites.
Despite the fact that previous versions of Internet Explorer should now be replaced with the newest up to date versions, but many users opted to keep their old browser due to lack of knowledge on how to update, or personal preferences.
The issue here with IE7-js is, although it helps the developers to write less code and worry less about the incompatibility with older versions of IE, it is written in Java Script and as the older versions of IE, and I am not confident about newer versions either, have serious security issues, most of users have actually disabled the Java Script on these browsere, which eventually means these JS library is no use fot this groups.
So developers eventually have to hack their CSS and HTML to handle the incompatibilities without using Java Script! Pity.
See more on IE7-js on http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
Colours created for web should be carefully selected to make sure users with older hardware /graphic card are able to see them correctly.
A few years ago, one should be vary careful and to be on the safe side, should design graphics for web using the 8-bit colour palette, which meant that just 216 colours were allowed in order to make sure 8-bit video cards were able to display all the colours in the graphics. These were known as Web-Safe colours.
Today, all the new video cards are 24-bit, which means each pixel can be displayed with 24.bits. 16.7 million colours can be represented when the True Colour setting is enabled.
In Windows XP, under the Settings tab in Display Properties, depending on the graphic card, the colour quality can be set also to Medium - 16 bit. 65536 colours can be displayed in this setting.
To have fun with picking any colour from your display and saving it for your web projects, have a look at http://www.filebird.com/the-color-picker/download/ to download The Colour Picker.
To see an lone colour schema creator for your web site design, visit http://www.colorspire.com/
D-Barcode is a Japanese barcode design company with the motto of "Big ideas are small!"
They have looked at the ever being the same look barcode and come up with the idea of D-Barcode.
These barcodes are fully functional, and can be designed like logos to go with the company's packaging in order to promote the product and increase the sales by making the customers remember something more than a few lines in a row!
The company though does not do this cheaply and as well as design costs, they ask for yearly licensing fees.
All together, I found the designs absolutely interesting.
You can visit the Japanese site at http://www.d-barcode.com/, if you can read Japanese of course. Otherwise, Google for the keywords d-barcode under Google images and be amazed!
Also see my post on QR-Codes on 29 October 2009 here: http://www.designmaze.co.uk/archive/2009/2009.php.
When selecting image resolution in Adobe Photoshop, you need to know the purpose for the image use. An image with a fixed number of pixels will show the same on the computer monitor no matter what resolution it is saved as. So on a web page an image with a 72 ppi displays the same as an image with 300 ppi. The difference is only visible when the image is used for printing. A 300 ppi image is the most suitable resolution for commercial printing, whereas for photo printing, a 200 ppi would do the job and on an inkjet printer you are better to use 150 ppi.
The measure we used here, i.e. ppi, is abbreviation for Pixel Per Inch! The more pixels in one inch, the more detailed a picture can be printed without showing rough edges! The reason is when a picture is printed, the number of pixels it has is a fixed number, and so with the lower number of pictures per inch, the pixels will be blown bigger, making the pixels in the images more visible and so reducing the quality of the printing.
The rule of thump is, always start with larger image sizes, i.e. images with more pixels. Because if later on you need to enlarge an image that you have started off with lower size, you would lose the quality as the pixels are now have to enlarge to show the same image as the number of pixels will not increase.
Computer monitor sizes determine how many pixels can be displayed on the screen, for example a 19 inch monitor, typically is set to 1152x864, which means 995328 pixels can be displayed. This is irrespective of the image resolution or ppi. In fact there is no visible difference between an image of 72 ppi and another image of the same size with 300 ppi.
It is only when the images are going to be printed that the one with 72 ppi, will print larger as for a fixed number of pixels, say 400x300, the 72 ppi picture size will be 5.5 inch x 4.2 inch, although the 300 ppi picture will print as 1.3 inch x 1 inch, as you can fit more pixels in one inch of paper in 300 ppi image!
http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/processing/fluid_fire/applet/index.html
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Recently HP has revealed the first Web Connected Home Printer with built in web apps such as Google Maps and Snapfish that allows the user to access the web via printer to print photos, maps and much more.
The Printer is called HP TouchSmart Web All in One and uses the HP TouchSmart Technology.
The print quality is the same as the latest non TouchSmart model, and not all of the web apps are really to use on everyday basis. It does not allow web access, but only access to applications that are supported and built in to the model.
I personally prefer a touch screen monitor with an application to control the printer, as my PC is always on!