Posts under ‘Web & Tech’

No more blotchy notebooks and vivid colours for me. I felt like I’d lost myself in that notebook theme… it was too messy, too fancy. I like things clean, simple, white. Minimalistic stuff. So I found this theme which hovers somewhere in between all the previous white-based themes I had… and there. I’m back. My [...]

I’m a little uncertain about this one, although it’s a refreshing change (and I keep seeing blogs with my old theme popping up everywhere). The background certainly needs some spicing up.

Among all the websites I manage, my own blog’s the most outdated. Just never really did see a need to upgrade it to the latest WP version but since I’m presently in a webmonkeying mode, might as well.
So hang tight. Things may just go poof! any moment now.

WhatTheFont (website) - Provides a free font recognition service… surely one of the most nifty font sites around! Upload an image with a line of text, and let the site tell (show) you which fonts are the closest match.

Serif PagePlus (software) - So far, one of the best desktop publishing softwares I’ve tried. PagePlus [...]

Three weeks ago, I received a few suspicious messages from one of my friends in Sydney. They go:
“hey whats up? check this out !!!
http://cool.smy9.info
brb…”
And then I started getting these from a number of my Aussie friends. Looks like a bot would send a message from their account just before they went offline, and since [...]

My bandwidth went over the limit, due to file transfers (am migrating to a new host). I’d never thought it’d happen, but the site’s back up now. Bloglessness was hard to bear!

Never realised how useful these could be, until now, when I was presented with a challenge to mmm… do something tricky. Working on a couple of websites at the mo.
Then I realised I could use these for my location updates as well. I could replace words with images, but for aesthetic reasons I’ll stay [...]

Since I like to hop all over the place, I thought that it’ll be nice if there was a plugin that would link the IP to the country and display a little flag, just so that there was an icon showing where I made the post from. I found this, and other similar ones, but [...]