If you’re keen enough to notice that my subscribers dramatically increased from 300 to 500 (498 to be exact, as of writing this post), then you’ll be very curious of HOW did my RSS readers rapidly augmented in a short span of time. For just one week, I have earned more or less 200 subscribers in this crappy blog. (more…)

“Some of your photos were not copied because they cannot be displayed on your iPod”. If you have encountered this kind of error, and you’re here looking for help, or a solution of how to fix it, thank Google, you’re in the right place.

I encountered this error while synchronizing some of my JPEG images from my laptop to my iPod. After iTunes optimized the images to my iPod Nano 3rd Gen, a sudden error prompted from iTunes, and it states that “Some of your photos, including the photo ___.jpg, were not copied to the iPod ____, because they cannot be displayed on your iPod. I tried to re-sync it again, but still encountered the same error. I googled about this error, hoping that there’s a fix, or someone out there encountered the same error as I did. Luckily, I found lots of forum threads regarding this Photo Sync error. I read the thread posts, and found out that there are JPEG images that are not compatible with iPod.

iTunes do not like a JPEG image with an embedded color profile, that’s what I found in one of the threads of Apple Support Forums. One of the users suggested to use Adobe Lightroom in exporting images, because it’s iTunes-compatible. I also found out that JPEG images saved from Photoshop are not compatible with iTunes, only some, but not all (Weird eh?). Try saving JPEG images from Photoshop, other images will not be synchronized properly. I also tried saving and resizing images on Microsoft Picture Manager, but still, I have no luck.

Finally, I tried opening JPEG images using Paintbrush, renamed it, and save it as JPEG. Opened iTunes, and tried to synchronize my photos again. Guess what? It was properly synchronized into my iPod! Hehehe… That’s how I fixed this Photo Sync error. If you encountered this error, and you have a much better way of how to fix it, kindly leave me a comment on this post. Thanks!

P.S.: For those who are looking for Nursing Board Exam Results update, you can check my post here! If you’re looking for a perfect Valentine Gift, check out this new Pink iPod Nano!

That’s all for now

Okey, Please don’t ask why I am blogging about this. If you want to ask why, it is because I want to! Hehe. Maybe there’s another reason why? This one is a pretty old problem that I’ve encountered using PHP5, after migrating from PHP4. I just wanna right this stuff because somebody encountered the same problem as I did. So that I can help if someone who’s newbie in creating PHP form processors uses phpformgen from SourceForge.

Just lately, somebody PMd me at chatango, (that small live chat box at the sidebar of my blog). He asked about phpformgen problems in PHP5. Then I answered it, because “alam ko eh, hehe”. My answer was easy, just remove that global.inc.php includes thing in your process.php that was generated by the phpformgen. Then, delete the pt_registers and edit the posting functions from ‘POST’ to $_POST, that’s how easy it is. You can make your own form processor by just applying that simple function, you can send email information from form starting from a scratch. You can view my very very simple PHP form processor here, just one data to be sent to a form recipient, so that you’ll have a basic idea. (for those newbie who really doesn’t have the basic concept, but for pro-programmers, I’m sure you will laugh at this post, hehe).

I have a screenshot of my basic form processor with one data sent to the recipeint’s email below, if you have some problems regarding that processor, you can contact me by any means, hehehe, here’s the screeny:

Source of the super duper newbie basic form processor here:
http://dostscholars.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=533

This was a very nice tutorial of how to erase the background with a very curly haired object (a living object) in the foreground. Hehe This thread was started by me in the Adobe Forums, under Photoshop Category. The tutorial was not made by me, I just posted the question.. wahehe.. Pero galing ng mga Photoshop Gurus, detailed talaga ang answer na binigay, with matching image. Like this one, by Chris J Birchall:

Sometimes you have to use a combination of tools. For this I took the Background eraser set to 40% tolerance and “wiped” it around the hair in one sweep. Ten I put the image into the “Extract” filter to extract the rest of the image from the background.

Then a little cleaning up with the normal eraser. Because the background eraser cannot completely eliminate the background between the whisps, due to the “gritty” texture of the background in this shot, you have to resort to some trickery: After inserting the new BG, I sampled the blue colour, then “Locked Transparency” on the image layer.

Using the brush tool at 50% I then “painted” any remaining bits of which(ish) colour finging the hair, with blue sampled from the background. Obviously, a much better job could be done when working on the full resolution file. Experiment with those tools, and always work on a copy so you can go back and try again if things go wrong.

For the rest of the tutorial, click here.

I hope this will give you some idea of how to deal with the curlies…

CSS Drop Down Menu is a hot trend for CSS Developers and Designers. Based on my research, this keyword was searched in Google since early 2007 up to now. I myself was also searching for the easiest way to build a drop down menu that is CSS based. The old drop down menus are known as DHTML or Dynamic HTML. With the help of Javascript, they can build an awesome drop down menu in seconds.

I have used a lot of programs to generate a cool drop down menu. One is the SoThink DHTML Menu Builder. This is one of the coolest and the hottest drop down menu builder for web newbies and web oldies. Web developers use these drop down menus to ease their work in creating astounding drop down navigation for their websites.

So? So much for the introduction. Let’s go to our main topic of how to create a Drop Down Menu based on CSS.

No.. I’m not going to make a tutorial of how to create a drop down menu. Because there’s a lot already in the web. What I’ll do is to list my favorite, easy-to-understand, and user friendly tutorials that I found in the world wide web. Here they are:

1. A CSS Only Drop Down Menu by Stu Nicholls
2. How to Create a CSS Drop Down Menu by Dynamic Drive
3. Drop Down Menus, Horizontal Style by A List Apart
4. Pure CSS Vertical Drop Down Menu by TJK Design
5. CSS and XHTML Drop Down Menu Tutorial by Alsacreations

That’s it. That’s my nifty list of How-tos in creating a CSS Drop Down Menu. Enjoy!