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Truglaze Web Design Web Application built with Ruby on Rails

Darren Terhune — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:37:50 +0000

Truglaze.com is a website design I recently did for a client. Built with Ruby on Rails, it consists of a full custom CMS with a Flash Application to showcase all his selected photos from a portfolio component.

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The Real Canadian Joes Season 1 Trailer

Darren Terhune — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:34:36 +0000

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This video is a trailer for a hunting show from Alberta that will be featured on WildTV. I got the contract to do all the post production work. There are animals being killed in this video so if you don’t like that kind of thing don’t watch. I’ve been getting a lot of comments on [...]

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Completely remove a file or directory from all revisions in a git repository

Darren Terhune — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:11:41 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

I’ve accidentally added files and directories into my git repository before and forgot that I did. Then a few days later was swearing and cursing. After a pile of google searching I’ve found a couple resolutions for these problems that have and are working perfect for me. First I take no responsibility for your actions [...]

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Tips for starting a website using WordPress blogging software

Darren Terhune — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:32:15 +0000

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With over 5 years of experience with WordPress, the powerful blogging / CMS application used to create millions of websites and blogs around the world, I have seen many, ups, downs, bumps, car jackings, fistacuffs, thrown computers, head bang on walls etc. After just updating my site for, hmm… the 8th time?, I’ve decided to [...]

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Replace Parallels ugly (Red Slash) Desktop icons

Darren Terhune — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:35:38 +0000

Posted in general,tutorials

Recently I upgraded to Parallels version 4 then noticed that the icons were ugly! Other people were talking about it too. So I decided to re-create my own that were easy on the eyes. First I downloaded IconBuilder plugin for photoshop or fireworks. Then I grabbed some images to work with in Photoshop (new iMac [...]

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Better alias for Ruby on Rails script/server and TextMate mate app

Darren Terhune — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:35:26 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

Just the other day I was browsing through some railscasts from Ryan Bates and noticed he was starting his server with “ss”. It made me pissed that I hadn’t thought of doing that before, I guess because I was so comfortable cd ~/Sites/appname and script/server. So I first wrote some aliases like Ryan’s “ss”, but [...]

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I’m taking a stand against IE 6 – cause it can go F*CK itself

Darren Terhune — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:14:41 +0000

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After a long past few days fixing someone’s code for an un-named website to look good across all browsers, I decided I hate IE 6 more than ever. Even though I will still continue to support IE 6 in clients websites (for now), I’ve decided to f*cking phase them out permanently on my sites. It’s [...]

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Display different styles for flash messages in Ruby on Rails

Darren Terhune — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:51:44 +0000

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I saw this in a Rails video on Bala Paranj’s website http://rubyplus.org and thought is was a pretty cool way to display different flash messages throughout your app. <% flash.each do |key, value| -%> <div id="notice_<%= key %>"><%= value %></div> <% end -%> Then you can do different flash objects like this: flash[:success] = [...]

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Floasis Hair Salon website launched

Darren Terhune — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:51:19 +0000

Posted in general,marketing,programming,web design

I just launched my girlfriends hair salon website Floasis Hair Salon. Looks preeetty good so far even in all browsers. It’s a Ruby on Rails site of course. Nothing too crazy, just a simple interface that is easy to find what your looking for. How all sites should be.

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My New Portfolio Website

Darren Terhune — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:18:21 +0000

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I just put up a quick website to showcase my talent in all fields of web. It’s built on wordpress, it’s all my portfolio stuff and I made it in about 3 hours. I plan on making it a ton better, with more eyecandy user interactive stuff soon. Check it out! http://graphikastudioz.com

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Screen Reader Users Usability And Accessibility Survey Results

Darren Terhune — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:53:13 +0000

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Webaim has posted a very interesting and very full of information article with results on how disabled people with screen readers view web pages. I was shocked at alot of the results and will be bookmarking the page for future reference forsure.

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This is the coolest flash application I’ve ever seen!

Darren Terhune — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:12:12 +0000

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I’ve seen a lot of cool websites out there, but this one takes the cake and eats it too.

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Dreamhost web hosting promo codes

Darren Terhune — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:32:27 +0000

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I just got an email from Dreamhost web hosting that had 5 promo codes so some lucky ducks can get a really good deal on a some hosting goodyness. If you use one of these codes and it doesn’t work, try the next one. Here’s what you get with one of these codes: They will [...]

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Handling Validation Errors using Ajax Requests in Rails

Darren Terhune — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:24:52 +0000

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After spending about 6 hours reserching how to handle errors when using ajax requests to create, update and do other actions in Ruby on Rails I got fed up and started doing it on my own, with a little help from Agile Web Development with Rails. I spent countless hours looking through google and found [...]

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Safari renders blank page with Ruby on Rails 2.3 >

Darren Terhune — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:13:13 +0000

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If you have upgraded your Rails to version 2.3 you might notice Safari renders a blank page when you access your localhost to view your app. Apparently it’s because the newer versions of Rails don’t work well with older versions of Mongrel. The fix is simple: sudo gem update mongrel

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Prototype and Scriptaculous Drop Down Menu

Darren Terhune — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:35:04 +0000

Posted in programming,tutorials,web design

I’ve made a cool drop down menu system using Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries that utilizes some of the cool effects to create an animated menu system. Anyway here is droplicious v.2.1 I won’t be putting up new versions here anymore. It will now be at github (see link below… right below) Droplicious at github: [...]

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Web 2 point 0 website or business name generator

Darren Terhune — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:21:38 +0000

Posted in general,marketing

Can’t figure out what to call your sweet new web company? Here’s a cool application that helps you pick out cool web 2.0 company names that you can add to a domain availability checker to see if anyone has beat you to the punch… errrupt! I used it for a recent app I’m developing!

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Email to SMS with Rogers – iCal Event Alarm SMS text to Mobile Phone

Darren Terhune — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:19:43 +0000

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Here’s how to setup your mobile phone if you don’t have a iPhone to send an SMS text to your phone from iCal Event Alarms using Rogers wireless Canada. First you need to activate this subscription service with Rogers, it’s free so no worries. So here we go: Text "subscribe" to 0000000000 (that's 10 ceros [...]

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Installing ImageMagick on Mac OS X Leopard

Darren Terhune — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:13:09 +0000

Posted in programming,tutorials

I recently just got the 24inch iMac and had to undergo the massive task of porting over everything from my MacBookPro. This included installing all the needed custom installs of Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick, RMagick, MySQL and configuring everything to work properly. I had the most trouble with ImageMagick, although it wasn’t that hard It still [...]

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Advanced Rails Recipes – Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible – Plugin

Darren Terhune — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:09:11 +0000

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I’ve updated the previous patch of ElevatedFormBuilder to a Ruby on Rails plugin. You can now install it as a plugin from my github: script/plugin install git://github.com/darrenterhune/elevated_form_builder.git If anyone has any problems just add comments below. Formtastic is far superior than this plugin so you should check that out instead.

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New, Edit, Delete Icons for CMS systems

Darren Terhune — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:16:36 +0000

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I just made 3 icons in Illustrator for a current client and thought, what the heck, I might as well share them? Here they are: I think I’ll include the AI file as well, just so you all can see how ghetto a Rails coder creates layers and such in Illustrator. ;) graphika-icons.zip

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Advanced Rails Recipes – Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible Patch

Darren Terhune — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:49:48 +0000

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Update: This patch can now be installed as a rails plugin from my github. I recently committed a patch for the “Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible” recipe found in Advanced Rails Recipes Book. The original recipe was written by Mike Mangino of Elevated Rails. The first time I used the recipe found in the book, [...]

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RubyProf error “can’t convert Fixnum into String”

Darren Terhune — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:33:47 +0000

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I recently maxxxxed out my memory limit on my regular dreamhost account at work causing 500 errors all over the place. This is now forcing me to start learning how to cache, and trace my apps for memory and performance. I also switched to PS with 300mb burstable to around 700mb. That should help out [...]

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iPhone 3g and WordPress rule the blogging world

Darren Terhune — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:32:58 +0000

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I picked up an iPhone the first day they came out in Canada and I’m pretty stoked on it! I used to take my computer home from work everyday just to go on the net and check mail, but now I just use my phone. It’s fast and really has some cool apps like the [...]

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How addicted are you to Apple?

Darren Terhune — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:11:24 +0000

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82%

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Watch youtube videos in high resolution

Darren Terhune — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:58:33 +0000

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I just learned that if you ad “&fmt=18″ to the url of any youtube video like this => http://youtube.com/watch?v=EzWPAGvPuSU&fmt=18 you can view that video if it was uploaded with a better resolution than the default youtube res in higher quality! I tried it on a bunch and it works sweet! Now I wonder if everyone [...]

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Internet body approves domain name big bang

Darren Terhune — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:01:49 +0000

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ICANN just passed a regulation saying what domains on the internet can be used. What does this mean? Well, it means were going to be able to have our domain extensions whatever we like by the sounds of it. This will open up huge doors for the world. WOOOAH! Holy snapping turtles! This is cool! [...]

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My Top Five Favorite Plugins For Rails

Darren Terhune — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:45:39 +0000

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There are some pretty sweet plugins out there for Ruby on Rails, but being a beginer with this frame work I’ve found and used these five the most. In no particular order: 1) ATTACHMENT_FU: Hmmmm, how do you say? Image, photo, graphic management with only writing about 10 lines of code? How bout, BOO YA [...]

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Ruby On Rails Pluralize Tester For Controller-Model-Database Configurations

Darren Terhune — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:11:09 +0000

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The Pluralizer is the sweetest online tool for finding out how to name and configure Ruby on Rails model, controller and databases names and classes.

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Web Two Point OH Website Directory

Darren Terhune — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:59:37 +0000

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I’ve always wondered if there was a website that listed a bunch of web 2.0 websites all in one place, but never really ever ( for some weird reason ) searched it. Well today I did ( for some weird reason ) and found Go To WEB 2.0. I was pretty impressed with the RIA [...]

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Create Mac OS X Dock Magnification using Mootools

Darren Terhune — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:35:16 +0000

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Fabio Zendhi Nagao is an applied mathematician from IMA who works in web application development. He’s developed some really cool effects using the Mootools Javascript library to mimic the Mac OS X Dock Magnification effects using standards compliant practices. When I first saw his examples I was pretty amazed. Best of all It’s free, open [...]

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Jeep Model, Lighting, Render using Maya and Mental Ray

Darren Terhune — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:50:31 +0000

Posted in general,vfx and video

I’ve been trying to find these images for a long time. I thought I lost them, but I found them and now they are not lost anymore? Haha. They are a couple of Mental Ray renders I did in Maya last year. One of my first real attempts at creating a realistic model. I eventually [...]

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Another really good photoshop brush resource

Darren Terhune — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:07:22 +0000

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Found another good resource for sweet FREE photoshop brushes and more! It’s called Brusheezy

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Modifying Textmate drawer font size

Darren Terhune — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:49:15 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

If you are like me and hate how small the font’s are in Textmates drawer, don’t get mad get modificlisious. You must have Xcode installed. Don’t worry about messing around with Interface builder files for apps because when you save the nibs they save a backup. Here’s how to modify the font size in Textmates [...]

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Pimp my text mate or other mac apps UI

Darren Terhune — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:13:15 +0000

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Subtle Gradient has a post about pimping out your favorite mac os apps ui’s. Think I’ll be hitting up the hack for my Text Mate ui. I hate that the fonts and colors in the drawer don’t match my editing area and I also hate how small the fonts are. I have my fonts jacked [...]

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Compiling a custom php5 install with ming on dreamhost

Darren Terhune — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:11:11 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

Due to recent developing using php Ming library for creating Flash, I was forced to figure out how to do a custom php5 install on my Dreamhost account. It actually wasn’t hard at all considering they have well written instructions on the Dreamhost wiki. However this custom install described there doesn’t include the Ming component [...]

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Best prank ever in grand central station new york city

Darren Terhune — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:57:47 +0000

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I found an awsome video on youtube tonight where 207 people pull off a hilarious and genious prank in one of the worlds busiest train stations, Grand Central Station in New York City. Freeze! Hahaha!

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Securing your email forms using css or php’s ming library

Darren Terhune — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:09:14 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

I recently had a coverstation with my teacher from last year Jim Rutherford from Digital Media Minute about securing web forms that have email fields where the email address ends up going to an mail script. I’ve always busted my brain on how to do this. I’ve used math equations, but a bot could just [...]

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Php error URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

Darren Terhune — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:21:16 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

If your have ever got this error: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration Using php functions like fopen, getimagesize it’s because your using a absolute path. It’s a security thing so that people can’t run scripts to open files on other servers other than there own. You can change this by configuring the [...]

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Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about

Darren Terhune — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:30:59 +0000

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Found a site that has some cool terminal commands. The sites called OS X Daily. My favorite command was “top” which will show you in your terminal window all your computers cpu usages and more.

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Run ie 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 without parallels or boot camp on os x

Darren Terhune — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:49:46 +0000

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Mike has a cool application to allow you to run a number of ie’s in os x with a simple install, without having to boot up in windows operating system like parallels or boot camp. Now I haven’t read up too much about this project or tested it, but it seems pretty sweet! Booting in [...]

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Top 5 best musical performances on youtube

Darren Terhune — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:23:32 +0000

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I just started playing the guitar in the last month, because I’ve always wanted to learn how to play music. So I had a jam last night with some friends and it was unreal. So fun! I found a new love. Two of my friends were showing me all this cool stuff on youtube, which [...]

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Ultimate Widgit Resource

Darren Terhune — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:28:48 +0000

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Widgipedia is a site that is just plain sweet! I wish I hadn’t found it at work though! They seem to have just about everything on there. You can also submit your own widgets.

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Unobtrusive javascript textarea counter using Mootools Event Class and domready Event

Darren Terhune — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:11:36 +0000

Posted in general,programming,tutorials

Here’s a cool script for using with your applications if you would like to limit the number of characters in a textarea as well as show a user how many characters they have left. I wrote this using Mootools event and domready Event classes. For this to work you’ll need to have Mootools Event and [...]

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Work: Tigh-Na-Mara Flash Header

Darren Terhune — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:31:43 +0000

Posted in general,web design

I forgot but I did a Flash header that dynamically loads images from a folder into the Flash application. I also did a cool thing where the Tigh-Na-Mara logo randomly scatters across the swf when you move your mouse over it. It’s kinda cool and fun. There were some dynamic gradient fades between the images [...]

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The best page in the universe

Darren Terhune — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:59:37 +0000

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Ok so my roomate found this site tonight that… well… ummm…. damn I don’t know what to say. It’s hilarious, in my mind atleast because I’m open to peoples opinions and don’t get offended by what people have to say that easy. Maddox, a writer from Utah is a genius and has been getting over [...]

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Facebooks personal privacy and security issues

Darren Terhune — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:25:04 +0000

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Tonight I got borred and decided to do some messing about with Facebook to see what cookies Facebook was storing on my computer. I first opened my preferences pane in Firefox and went to security then clicked show cookies to bring up the cookies window. Cookies that get set on you computer are displayed in [...]

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Maya mental ray photorealistic scene project

Darren Terhune — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:34:13 +0000

Posted in general,vfx and video

During the last few weeks I’ve been working on a site for the company I work for right now. I’ve created a realistic room scene in Maya that I render using Mental Ray exporting as tif files, then import into combustion, add some cool effects, then export as quicktime, then import to AE CS3 then [...]

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Pearls vs Swine

Darren Terhune — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:02:25 +0000

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Transience has a flash based series of games that are really really fun and really really difficult to beat at the same time. It’s the old comupter is smarter that the human type game and it’s driving me crazy so I thought I’d pass it along! Go to the games lounge section and play “Pearls [...]

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No more tables in google ads!

Darren Terhune — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:01:59 +0000

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Woohoo! Just saw that Google isn’t using tables within their iframes for their ads anymore. It’s a beautiful thing!

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