August 2008 Archives

2008 Aug 30

I always forget this basic image hover. Im posting it here in my blog for future referrence and for you my readers as well. Making hover images is fairly simple and very straight forward. It only needs a couple of css lines using the anchor element and its hover by manipulating the background image. Hover your mouse pointer to the image below and see a working sample of the image hover using CSS.

Home

 Download image hover resources if you want to try it on your own.

hover1.gif

hover2.gif

 

 

Below is a simple HTML code used to display the image hover.

<a id="nav-home" href="#"><span class="nav-hide">Home</span></a>

The span tag allows us to hide its content using the display:hide; command in CSS. The nav-home value will define how our image will then be displayed. See below for the CSS code.

a#nav-home {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
width: 120px;
height: 20px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-image:url(images/hover1.gif);
}

a#nav-home:hover {
background-image:url(images/hover2.gif);
}

.nav-hide {
display: none;
}

#nav-home img {
border: 0;
}

2008 Aug 27
spacecube-b03.jpgI have seen tiny sized pc but the Space Cube tops them all. Its dimension is 52mm x 52mm x 55mm, very close to the size of a rubik's cube, smaller than the size of my palm. Its Compact Flash Card allows the installation of the Redhat Linux as its operating system aside from its builtin 16MB internal space. Processor speed is clocked at 300MHz maximum with an 16MB DDRSDRAM memory. The space cube include a USB port which maybe used to attach a hub for keyboard and mouse installation and other USB 1.1 enabled devices. A DB15 port for display, a RS232 port and an ethernet port for network access. It also has a builtin phone jack, Speaker out and Mic in for audio. This is obviously a desktop pc that could be used mobile aside from a laptop. Its price is around $300, not bad for a portable computer. This pc is very good for my interfacing expirements which would allow me to do testing outdoors. More info about the space cube on their website at the maker homepage Shimafuji Electric Incorporated.
2008 Aug 20
While looking unto my blogs categories, i have noticed the browser based category to be empty. I guess, i just can't update my blog about the event on the games i play. When i play, i usually spend all of my time on it, that's also the reason i may not be able to blog often.  There are a couple of browser based games i have enjoyed playing, in fact i prefer them to those installed versions whereby we could check my mails, chat, and at the same time surf the web while playing.

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Blogshares - I played blogs shares for more than a year, got myself into the top 50 rich players but stopped then they changed some rules in the game which i think they made it to gain more money than by making the players enjoy. there was also a bug on the game which made a major roll back. that was enough to convince to stop playing. i still have my account though i think my chips are gone, i lost the interest in playing so every blog i moderated is approved.

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Neopets - I still play neopets from time to time. I dont find it boring, even if the target audience are supposed to be elementary kids but i think alot are adult players. Lots of built in games to choose from not to mention the battle dome wherein you could challenge neopets players to fight against your neopet.

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Adventure Quest - Its been almost 3 years since i last played Adventure Quest. I only played this game in about 4 months. the free version is very hard to login. it made me decide not to continue playing. My character just reached level 40 when i stopped playing.  

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Tribal Wars - I was addicted to this game. it made me stop working, blogging, even skip meals, and other online activities. it was almost a year when i realised how i became and eventually stopped. i missed playing TW. I cant go back anymore probably because my villages may already be overruned. I managed to raise my points to 400k when i stopped playing. If i were to recommend which game i like the most, my answer would be tribal wars.

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Unification Wars - Its a game similar to tribal wars but its setting is in space. The reason i stopped playing unification wars is that its too hard to comprehend and is very hard to manage. I mean we could read the documentation but i cant bear its complexity as i could compare it to tribal wars.





2008 Aug 14
recaptcha.gifWhen i disabled the anonymous comment on my blog, people also stopped placing their comments. It might be because the people who commented were actually bots? Maybe or maybe not. Now, i got freaked because people really stopped commenting, as in zero comments. So, i started to look for ways to make post some comments again. I tried installing some plugin that allow users from other blogs like WordPress or other sites to use their login to comment on my blog using the OpenID technology.

Here's the list of plugin that i have installed in addition to the builtin options:
AOL/AIM
Yahoo
WordPress

But still, only a few commented. Now, I'm trying to enable reCaptcha hopefully people might come back and start to comment. If you are using MT4.1, you might need this. Otherwise, if you are using an older version then visit josh carter's blog for a workaround.

Enable reCaptcha on your Movable Type 4.1 blog
  1. Get a public and a private key from the reCaptcha website
  2. Get copy of the reCaptcha plugin from your mt4 installation folder. Its located at /extras/examples/plugins/reCaptcha from your mt4 folder
  3. Paste them to the plugins folder at /plugins/reCaptcha inside your mt4 folder
  4. There is a README file read it for instructions. 
  5. On your blog go to Preferences > Plugins
  6. Click on the the reCaptcha and enter your Public and Private keys you had when you registered at their website
  7. Click on Save Changes
  8. Go to your blog Preferences > Blog Settings > Comment 
  9. Scroll dow below to the Comment Display Options
  10. Change the Captcha Provider from None to reCaptcha
  11. Save Settings
  12. Go to your blog Preferences > Blog Settings > Spam
  13. Check if the spam slider is at zero. If its not return it to zero, otherwise you will have to moderate all the comments again.
  14. Go to Design > Templates
  15. Click on Template Modules
  16. From the README file: Edit Comment Form template, so it renders MTCaptchaFields unconditionally.  In practice, this means replacing these lines
        <MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTCaptchaFields">
        <MTIfCommentsAccepted><MTIfRegistrationAllowed><MTElse><$MTCaptchaFields$></MTIfRegistrationAllowed></MTIfCommentsAccepted>
        <div id="comments-open-captcha">
        </div>
        </MTIfNonEmpty>
    to these lines:
        <MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTCaptchaFields">
        <div id="comments-open-captcha">
        <$MTCaptchaFields$>
        </div>
        </MTIfNonEmpty>
  17. Click on Index Templates
  18. From the README file, Edit Javascipt index template, to remove these lines of code which calls delayShowCaptcha:
        <MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTCaptchaFields">
        captcha_timer = setInterval('delayShowCaptcha()', 1000);
        </MTIfNonEmpty>
  19. Save and Rebuild you blog.
Thats it you have enabled reCaptcha on your blog.

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