Courtesy of Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin. It sure saved me from any problem. I was able to upgrade in about 3 clicks, without even thinking! Yes I do think.
The back end went through quite a refresh. Everything is brighter and more white. Although I’m quite indifferent about it. But as always I welcome a new design with open arms. As always is pretty slick and clean. There’s less blue and more white with a touch of gray. We’ll see how this new baby runs. For some reason, the really light baby blue color (Ex. the one on the header) doesn’t seem to show on my monitor. I had to re-calibrate my monitor and lower the contrast for it to appear. It looks much better with the baby blue, or else it is too white for me. But that’s just my preference. (more…)
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After a long hiatus, Avalonstar finally returns. Fellow designers rejoice! Or at least I did. The new design is simply great and is filled with eye candy. Talk about sensory overload. So much attention to detail! I hope one day I can be as good as Bryan. Well enough about my ranting, check it out 
It’s been 7 years, 5 months and 23 days. Never have I felt so drained after preparing a website for this domain before, but this really brings light to the phrase, “you get what you put in.” I’ve had long hiatuses before. However, none have seemed as long or drawn out as this one, and with this post and this new design I am proud to put an end to it. So, let’s start at the top shall we? I’m sure you’d like to know a little more about the 25th version of Avalonstar I call Distortion.
Project Distortion’s formation was fueled sheer anger I had towards the last version of the namesake, which ironically, has found its way off the internet. You’ll hear it straight from the Filipino’s mouth—that version was a copout…
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A couple day ago, I finished creating my 2nd tutorial for PSDTUTS, my first being “How To Create An Old-World Map In Photoshop“. So what’s the result? Well it’s the post’s header image. Well it’s not up yet, but just a heads up. (more…)
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While in the search for the best IM client out there, I was tipped off on this new one, Imo. So new it is still in its alpha stage. But don’t let the blatant alpha tag fool you, this thing got potential. By the way you multi-service user will be happy to know this thing includes, yahoo, msn, and google talk. It also allows yahoo partners service (I.E SBCGlobal) unlike some client. Did I mention this web-app has video chatting??
The Interface
Starting off, they have a pretty clean interface. I would say it look very much like a Google product. Its baby bluish theme, rounded corners just reminds me of Google. It even has the Google styled “loading…” in the top corner when it’s loading, albeit this one is red. Which puzzles me because it’s the only red thing. And in my opinion doesn’t fit the color scheme. I’m not saying its bad by any means. Not my favorite, but it can be work on.
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The header says it all. I just signed up for the beta test. Looking forward to testing this baby out. It seems pretty straight forward and dark. Although you do have to wait for their approval on the website you’re tracking. The website says that Woopra
- Can track live
- Can tag visitors
- Has its own IM
- Analyze in real time
- Will let you have custom alerts
- Has a specialized Wordpress plugin for easy install!
- And maybe develop your own tools
Seems pretty robust and interesting. But I won’t judge a book by its cover. Who knows if it will be better or worse than Google Analytic or Mint. Stay tuned for the review (assuming I have a chance too).
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Welcome to spring baby. Well maybe we’re a bit late. How about Happy Daylight Saving Time! (Did you forget to change your clock?) Anyway now that the day is getting brighter, I thought I should make the blog a bit brighter and cleaner (spring cleaning anybody?) too. Along with the changes comes good stuff. The blog no longer takes as much bandwidth as before because it doesn’t use that awesome but humongous background. Yes all this wood uses a small pattern. Also I made minor changes for our ie6 brethren. So how do you like the new theme? If you’re new, you can check out the previous background here. By the way did you know that in the U.S, DST actually starts at 2 a.m? Americans are always the oddball. Want to learn more about DST? Here’s a cool site that uses nodes/clouds to explain it.
Like the trees where wood comes from, let us grow as well. Cheese are cool stuff.
Thanks to Henri Liriani.
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Hey all (xx,xxx unique IP addresses as of right now)! I’m the new kid/man on the block. Working as an unpaid writer on Jon’s site, I feel like a sweatshop worker, but now I know never to trust gits with cameras and sexy hair. Then again, I volunteered so it ain’t really his fault. Being new here, I don’t really know what to do, but I do have some
basic guidelines given to me by my slave driver. Rule 1: No pr0n. Rule 2: No pr0n. Rule 3: No pr0n. Sorry, I can’t really remember much else besides those.
Other notes, I’m pretty sure I’m not your “mate”, Jonny-boi. and I am not just your “average computer geek with a side of airsoft”. That’s about as b0r1ng as a plate of dead rats served up with a side of bird feces. [on second thought, that's quite interesting...] Point is, there’s many other things to do in my life ’sides those two main hobbies. 53m1 ftw. now go enjoy life. We’ll be back with extreme underwater basketweaving (and some writing), right after these commercials!!!!!!!!
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No I am not going to change our name to 53m2. After all if anyone still remembered, the reason for 53m1 was to substitute for sEmi. Those were the days. Soon it got confusing so I just dropped it. Alas I digress. So what’s all this about growing? Well I decided to abduct Jeff Xiao to write on the blog.
Who is this Jeff Xiao mate? He’s an ordinary guy just like you and me. If you think anyone is ordinary that is. But honestly, he’s your average computer hardware geek with a side of airsoft (H&K MP7A1 and a Silver Taurus Raging Bull 8.375 if you’re interested). You may ask what’s he going to write about. No? well I’m going to tell you anyway.
Your guess is as good as mine. You see, he held his guns up to my head and told me to give him access to my blog. Really? No. But I got you going right? Now for a taste of Jeff
” You’re about to get PWN<3D”
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