Media, Tech & Reviews
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Free glamorous studio portrait
Ok there’s no such thing as ‘free’ studio photography, or getting into a studio for a portrait for free, but you certainly can create your own at home. Professionally done studio portraits can be quite complicated, and requires lots of touch ups in Photoshop, but I’m not interested in that, I’m interested to doing something really simple that anyone can do in a matter of minutes. Sometimes, we just like to create some fun glamorous portraits, well, for online profiles or whatever portfolio you may have. What you need: Digital camera for a digital photo, great lighting (the sun), nice smile and a PC with Photoshop running Great, first start,…
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Inserting CD Causes Blue Screen or Restart
For the past month, my office computer was acting up. After installing a new DVD Writer, and maybe because I had a really buggy Windows not formatted in a while, everytime I put in a CD or DVD, well, everytime the DVD Drive closes, the Computer would restart immediately within 2 seconds. I was unable to use the DVD drive for sometime, as I wait to bring my PC for service. However, the other day I had loads of CDs to burn, so I had to find a temporary solution. First thing I did, was to find out what was the exact problem, whether it was hardware or driver, or…
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New WordPress plugin upgrade
Yes! I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 from WordPress 2.2.2. Yeah I skipped all all the rest of the 2.3 plus plus upgrades while awaiting this major version. Immediately after upgrade, which went smoothly, I can see a huge difference, even to the layout of the whole Publisher dashboard. One major improvement which I just used, was upgrading plugins. It used to be quite a pain to upgrade newer versions of plugins when one upgrade their WordPress. I have to go to the original plugins site, download the plugin file, open up Filezilla, upload the plugin to the plugin folder, and reactive it. How many steps are those? Well, no…
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MySQL has gone away solution
Just over the last two days, I opened my website to find it’s layout messed up with scripts saying MySQL has gone away…what the heck? On my other blogs it was just the sidebar messed up, but on this blog, even the posts aren’t showing. This is bad news, especially since it happened today after the server migration, and today happened to be Malaysia’s public holiday, and on holidays, I don’t normally go online in the morning. So, I didn’t check my site until at nite. It was too late as I had already gotten the final warning email from advertisers that their adverts aren’t showing. Why do the spiders…
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