Gettin’ Geek

Three ways to have perspective in Illustrator, this was performed on the CS3 version, but I don’t think it’s much different on CS2 ..

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I always wanted to know how many paths contains an illustration I make, just to have an idea about its complexity & brag about it, but couldn’t find that info in Illustrator. Actually it’s very simple, should have searched better ..

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Now that you made your theme translatable, let’s do the necessary to translate it.

For that you will have to use a translation software, in this guide we’ll use POEdit, so go ahead and download then install it.

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Just a quick thing about an article I read yesterday on Download.com Blog called Windows Starter Kit listing a lot of very useful freewares in various fields, I had already some installed & I have alternatives for others or just don’t need them. So from the list I only downloaded & installed two programs: Process Explorer & Launchy.

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As I said there’s not only one method to internationalize a software but Wordpress uses the GetText method & it’s the one we should use for the theme.

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I had really a hard time figuring out how to internationalize a Wordpress theme for a “multilingual” site I’m working on & then to “localize” it. All that because the guides I read are made by geeks, & geeks never explain things properly… seriously!

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I don’t know about you, but for me this shortcut is really frustrating, I never use it but I often hit it by mistake while typing something & lose everything I wrote.

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Hmmm, a lot of ideas but rare time to post here … anyways, back to to topic, RapidShare.com has an upload limit of 100 mb but often the uploaded files are much bigger, packing them in split archive files allows that .. the problem is when you want to download a file of a few gigabytes (split to 10s of files) & all the links are just textual which means you can’t just click on them to start your download, but you have to copy then paste them on your browser’s address bar one by one.

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I’ve just got new PC & using all my time setting it up & installing all the applications I had in the old computer, restoring my profiles etc. I noticed that the version of XP I have in this one is different from the old, except on Safari browser,there is no anti-aliasing in rendering fonts, if you don’t know what anti-alias is, there’s a page about it in Wikipedia: Read the rest of this entry »

W00t! Finally found out why!

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OK, two things I learned today totally unrelated:

How to make Wordpress multilingual, I need that for a new project that’s planned to be in three langauges, Arabic, English & French, it’s a Plug-in named Language Switcher: Read the rest of this entry »

Only one post this month & this is the second, it’s not a lake of ideas or that I’m learning nothing, I just had no time, too busy with other stuff, even now I should be … sleeping after a long day of work …

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I thought the word “Turing” was an adjective, but when I looked in the dictionary, I didn’t find it, this was some time ago but I didn’t care till today.

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OK, I had to invent this for an illustration I was making, & here I’m making a quick tutorial, I will give you the large lines, then you can experiment & have a final result that satisfy you

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OK, I already talked about my Vector application on iStockphoto then about the rejection of one of the samples required; well since then, I replaced the file rejected & got approved & now I’m officially an iStock illustrator yippeee!

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