Creating an iPhone App style icon in Fireworks

You gotta love Apple and its inspiring designs. One of which is the style used for the iPhone apps. It is simple yet elegant and can easily blend into web 2.0 sites.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create such icons in Fireworks. Just a couple of design guidelines to help you out first:

Choose vivid [...]

Fast and Furious 4, bringing back the good ol’ days

Back in 2001, The Fast and the Furious was a big hit with its gorgeous cars and amazing stunts. It was spearheaded by Vin Diesel as Dominic Torreto for the male audience and Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner for the ladies.
In 2003, 2 Fast 2 Furious came but this time only Paul Walker remained. The [...]

5 Gift Ideas for Babies or Toddlers

If you’re looking for ideas on what to give a baby or a toddler, here are five that I got from Cracked.com. Oh yeah, our friend’s kid is going to turn one this September so let’s see if some of these would make a good gift.
Their writeup is hilarious so I’m just gonna post them [...]

How long it took for Google to crawl my new domain

I recently bought my own domain name (calvinshub.com) more than a week ago. I thought that staying with Wordpress.com will not greatly affect my blog juice since Wordpress will simply redirect all visitors to my new domain. How wrong I was.
The day after I switched to my new domain, Google stopped indexing my site. This [...]

Growing mushrooms in a plastic bag

My sister has two hamster / guinea pig type of pets in her room. Before she left for a trip to Singapore, she cleaned their cage and replaced their wood shavings. She placed the old shavings in a plastic bag but forgot to put it outside for disposal.
Anyway after she left, while I was feeding [...]

The Banana Test

I got this post from one of my Blogger friends, Berryblitz, and I just want my readers to have a break and take this test. I answered giraffe by the way.
There is a very, very tall coconut tree and there are 4 animals,

Lion
A Chimpanzee
A Giraffe
A Squirrel

who pass by. They decide to compete to see [...]

How I Removed the Windows XP SP3 Activation

My Windows XP Home just finished downloading and installing the SP3 file. After I restarted my PC, I was greeted by the following icon:

Uh oh. If I can’t activate or crack this WPA in 30 days, I would not be able to log in to my machine anymore. I tried the crack I used for [...]

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