I finally decided to buy a flat monitor for myself as a reward for working hard enough. It's 19" ViewSonic VA1912wb with 5 ms response time, one VGA port and one DVI port. The quality is pretty good. At the same time I also bought an apple keyboard too. I'm happy with my workspace now.
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[Update: I've moved to a space now (http://phalkunz.com/). Please post your comment on my new blog. This post on my new blog is at http://phalkunz.com/2006/10/30/disable-annoying-firefox-tooltips/]
Drag-and-Drop is the beauty of the GUI but sometimes other thing gets in the way that makes it useless. The most annoying drag-and-drop I have ever come across is when I try to drag the address of a website (by dragging the icon) from the firefox address box and place it on the bookmark toolbar folder but before I drop it in the folder a tooltip with a message "drag and drop this icon to create a link to this page". It sounds good, right? The folder I wanna place a bookmark is under that tooltip. After I drop the link and I check the folder the link it's not even there because that tooltip block it from going in. I was like grrrrrrr. I think this happens to mac version only. But lucky enough, firefox provides a way to turn it off. Go type "about:config" in the address box and hit the enter. It shows a list of configurable feature, find "browser.chrome.toolbar_tips" item and double-click to turn it value to false. That's set.
[Update: I've moved to a space now (http://phalkunz.com/). Please post your comment on my new blog. This post on my new blog is at http://phalkunz.com/2006/10/30/disable-annoying-firefox-tooltips/]
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This is my first Hello World application written in Cocoa framework. It was kinda complicated to get started with Cocoa framework because it has to follow MVC design pattern, which separate the presentation, controller, and the logic apart. It took me half an hour to write while other languages/frameworks take take me at most less than a minute but I guess it is good for developing large applications.
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Even though it's spring now, the weather was so gloomy for the last few days. It was raining and I missed the sunshine a lot. Auckland weather sucks aye... However today is such a beautiful day... This afternoon while I was waiting for a shuttle to get home, I was standing in the shade of some trees and when I looked up, the sky was blue and the tree leaves were shined through by the sunlight. "What a beautiful day!" I said.
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I've been away for so long enough till I don't really where to start (bloggin') again hehe. The thing is I've been so busy lately. Anyways, just before this I was playing around with SketchUp for the second time and I ended up drawing a face figure that I had sketched a long time ago. By the way, it's such a nice tool to try and comparing to 3D modeling tools SketchUp's approach is very different. Most of time, I used lines (or rectangles) to cut the faces of objects and then push/pull tool and believe it's very intuitive. You don't need knowledge in 3D modeling to start with it.
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