Changed the CSS of a webpage and uploaded both the original and changed ones here.
Thu, 29Mar07
firefox 2: developer tool bar
I installed the developer tool bar to my firefox, found that quite useful. Working on CSS also changed my perception on this technology and I realise it’s more powerful then I thought. I like to see results rather than digging deep in technology the whole day without achieving anything, CSS can achieve what it intends to do quickly, just the way I like it 
Wed, 28Mar07
Joost iTV
The new Joost interface looks excellent, hope I get a beta invitation soon. If any one out there already got it, invite me too
(Info for those who are new to Joost: This is the iTV that will make the current interactive TV look like… not interactive at all
Tue, 27Mar07
Mon, 26Mar07
National Toilet
Have you got your “My Toilet Map” yet?
Did you say “What the” before you read this:
Apparently, our government is asking everyone visiting or living in Australia to build their own… “My Toilet Map”.
According to the federal government’s national toilet site, if you are not happy with the existing ones, you can “suggest a toilet”. You can even subscribe to the toilet newsletter if you are like…a very organised person.
I guess it won’t hurt to bookmark it. One day you may thank me or our government for this
Motion Picture
You may already know that many movies made in Sydney often have a scene or two set up at Martin Place. The Matrix, Mission Impossible, The Son of the Mask, just to name a few. But this one is a little different…
First I saw a few actors in uniform.
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Then I found out who was the major character. It was someone larger than life. People in uniform were not going to appear in the movie at all.
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This is another shot showing how things work in the movie production.
I was actually on my way to a concert when I saw this production in progress at Martin Place. Didn’t quite have enough time to find out what the movie was. Let me know if you have any thought or know anything about it
IM: Design
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IM: Still
Digital Graphics and the Still Image (DGS). Topics related to the production of screen-based graphics and visual literacy in the context of the online environment. You may find critical visual awareness in the posting or comments in this category. Visiting or commenting here regularly can motivate you to develop an appreciation of graphic design, typographic principles, audience awareness, visual research methods and processes particularly for web-based visual communication.
IM: Motion
Digital Sound and the Moving Image (DSM). Topics related to the uses of sound and the moving image in interactive media. Together, we can examine the role of sound and the moving image in interactive media and refine the ability to make informed choices about using animation, audio and visual technologies in interactive contexts. Visiting and commenting regularly may help participants to gain improved skills in creating and applying sound and moving image for online products, together with an understanding of the possibilities and limitations of compression and delivery formats.
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Digital Media Development Process (DMP). Topics related to the nature of the interactive multimedia development process. Visiting or commenting here regularly may help participants to improve their understanding on job specifications, multimedia development teams and roles, interactive media project methods, costs associated with development, and significant environmental issues affecting digital media production such as government policies and legislation, including copyright, intellectual property and other new issues as appropriate.
Sat, 24Mar07
Project Draft
There are some uncertainties that need to be addressed before a sensible project proposal can be finalized.
One uncertainty is obviously “you don’t know what you don’t know.” It doesn’t seem to be wise to set the bar too high as you may end up with a monster project that you can never finished. But on the other hand, we are here to learn something new, we still need to stretch ourselves a little and move outside our comfort zone a bit.
I am looking forward to learning a bit more on php from the up coming lectures so I can make an educated estimation on what’s is achievable. Meanwhile, I would hold on to my draft and update it as the subject progresses.
This weekend
There are a couple of events in Sydney that may be worth seeing, particularly if you are from overseas.
The 1st one is the New South Wales state election today. It happens once every 4 years and involves a lot of people. You also get to see all the major political parties and what they are doing in Australia. Forget about politics, it could be quite an eye opening experience if you haven’t seen it before. The Sydney Town Hall is a good place to see this. (That’s also where I go to vote today:)
Another one is the Greek festival at Darling Harbour. You heard about the ancient civilization, the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and all that. This is a good opportunity to check out what the Greek community is doing in Australia. I think you can find entertainment today and tomorrow (Sunday) at Darling Harbour.
Fri, 23Mar07
Flash Movie
The “Sound+Motion” movie is now released. View it here. (Music included)
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10:54 AM 26/03/2007, Thanks Seema, I combined a few software to do it fast, selected and edited the music myself, sketches were actually done in class (helps me to concentrate by visualising what I was learning .
BTW: I just made a note on my palm, will bring the complete guide in tomorrow.
Thu, 22Mar07
Flash: Good one
This is one of the best use of flash I’ve seen. The initiate download is very fast and it gives you the option to see what interests you.
You can also switch sound on and off any time. The option to skip the whole flash thing leaves me almost no excuse to dislike them.
The first time I heard of the product was when I saw this flash. Its features and benefits are very well presented by an effective visual presentation in the flash. It also gives you the feel of being contemporary and trendy. Not too flashy not too boring. Just spot on.
Wed, 21Mar07
Firefox
We are recommended to use firefox instead of other browsers for the purpose of learning proper technology in the right way. So here is my firefox story.
I love firefox. But I haven’t actually been using it for long. Less than a year perhaps.
As many people are still doing, I used to use internet explorer only. I used Netscape too, but that was quite a while ago. Internet explorer was available everywhere and it worked fine for me. When I first heard about firefox and Opera all that, I thought like everyone else, I was doing fine browsing the net, why would I waste time to try out another browser? it’s just another browser with possibly less features, right?
I changed my perception completely after trying out firefox. I don’t like waiting on the net, so I always do a bit of multi-tasking when I browse the net. Firefox’s tag approach allows me to open many pages without having to open many browser windows. It’s much convenient and it doesn’t make my screen look too crowded.
You can also install plugins quite easily in firefox. The latest plugin I installed was for blogging. With this plugin, I don’t even have to open the blog host’s page to do posting. I can post notes and photos to many blogs within the browser. Firefox is like a work station with a large number of expandable tools ready to help you to do whatever you want to do online easily. The plugins always work so well and so easy to install and unstall.
Anyone ever install anything in windows would notice that there isn’t such thing as clean installation. You always ended up with some junks in your system even after you unstall them. Quite often you don’t even know what and where they are. You just notice your computer gets slower and slower. Fortunately, trying out firefox plugins are a completely different experience. You can uninstall them without leaving a trace. It’s an risk free experience.
Firefox is also highly customisable. I make the viewing area of my browser very large without scarifying any features I want. The result is a much more pleasant browsing experience.
I had this good experience with firefox before knowing the reason behind it. I was convinced there were smart people doing an excellent job on it. I made a decision to switch from internet explorer to firefox.
This technology subject helps me understand the reasons behind the convincing advantages of firefox. They develop internet standard and conform to it to produce this work of excellence.
I haven’t given up internet explorer completely mainly because it has higher compatibility with other Microsoft products, which I do use from time to time. Try to copy a table from a page to excel with firefox and internet explorer, you will see the differences.
Today, over 90% of my browsing is done with firefox
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Subject progress reflection
I’ve done 4 weeks Digital Media Technology so far. After the first week of lecture, I knew it’s something I really want to learn, I particularly look forward to starting the website project. I like Tim’s idea of submitting our work electronically only. It makes sense.
The second week was a lot more technical and fundamental. We looked into the mechanism of network and how it functions. I thought that was a bit too technical for me. But it would be good to know I supposed.
Week 3 was a little more interesting. We looked into client side technology and started to connect to the MIM host server via ftp. After class, a few of us stay back to help each other out which was great. I learnt to validate websites according to internet standard, which was quite useful.
We just moved on to server side technology this week, which is absolutely essential. We can’t have a website without a server, so it’s good to know how things on the server side work.
iTV-AIO
iTV All-in-one
- 00-Altavista Video
- 00-AOL video sharing
- 00-Apple TV
- 00-Google Video
- 00-Joost
- 00-MSN Soapbox
- 00-Netscape Video
- 00-Yahoo Video
- 00-YouTube
- 01 Search Video
- 02 Fagan Finder
- 03 Blinkx
- 04 VidMeter
- 05 Pod Zinger
- 06 VideoSift -community video aggregator
- 07 Break -community video aggregator
- 08 Liveleak -video mature but not porn
- 09 Dabble -share videos and create playlists
- 10 viewmy.tv global internet tv -jackson
- viewmy.tv access to global internet TV allowing users to watch, save and share streaming TV channels by region, country, genre or what’s on directory listing
- 11 Videobomb
- 12 Pure Video
- 13 Getfireant -video blog
- 14 Apple video podcast
- 15 Dog Pile
- 16 Flurl
- 17 Clipblast
- 18 All the web video
- 19 Gotuit -tagging Youtube videos, portal 4 Ad driven commercial content
- All of TV
- Alluc
- Archive Community Video
- Bitscast
- Bittorrent
- Blip TV -Open Source TV
- BlueDot
- Brightcove iTV
- Canadia Video Sharing
- Channelchooser -portal for several streaming and on demand content
- Clip Roller
- CNN video blog
- Collegehumor Video
- Community driven video aggregator
- CompFused
- Daily Swf
- Dailymotion Video
- Dappit
- Democracy Player – with a touch of joost
- Deviducky -tagged and voted video
- Digg
- Divx Video
- Excite Video UK
- Fark TV
- Filecabi Video
- Find it all video search
- FireAnt TV
- Free Tube
- Google -Search video at your own website
- Guzer Video
- IBM Research MARVEL (Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System)
- iFilm -good even for slower connections.
- iTricks Magic TV
- Joecartoon
- Juicereceiver -cross-platform podcast receiver
- Jump Cut
- Liberated Films
- Linkit24
- Live Video
- Mamma
- Mamma -Search with video focus
- Media Channel
- Mefeedia
- MeroTube
- Metacafe video search
- MidaMill -semantic video search
- Mightyvid
- Movie and Show
- My Clip World
- Nothing Toxic Video
- object Search Video
- OneDawg – online video conversion and archive utility
- Online Video Guide
- Only Great Stuff TV
- PBS video search
- Peekvid
- Peekvid TV
- Pixsy
- Pluggd
- Pluoto
- Podscope -find video through spoken word
- PutFile
- Revver -Eearn money through video sharing
- Scoopvid
- Search 4 Video
- Sevenload
- ShareTV
- Shufuni
- Six Room -community video aggregator
- Spike Humor Video
- Spivo Video
- Splashcastmedia
- Stumble Upon
- Swissclips -the swiss alternative to youtube
- Talkpedia -Searches the eight biggest video hosting sites
- To Try For -videos from youtube, yahoo, aol, google, and more
- Torrent Scan Video
- Tube Surf
- TV eyes
- TV Tonic -free 300 Channel Internet Video On Demand
- TV-links UK video aggregator
- Undo TV
- vdiddy
- Vdoogle
- Veoh
- Vibiv -cool video sharing
- VidewDo
- Vidfiniti
- Vimeo
- VLC -cross-platform media player + streaming server
- Vongo
- Wiitoob
- Winamp -ShortCast TV and Podcasts
- Zudeo
- Angry Alien
- Blennus
- Blip.tv
- Break.com
- Dailymotion
- Double Agent
- eVideoShare
- Free Video Blog
- Google Video
- Grinvi
- iFilm
- Keiichi Anime Forever
- Metacafe
- MySpace
- MySpace Video Code
- Putfile
- Totally Crap
- vidiLife
- vSocial
- AnimeEpisodes.Net
- Badjojo
- Blastro
- Bofunk
- Bolt
- Castpost
- CollegeHumor
- Current TV
- Dachix
- Danerd
- DailySixer.com
- DevilDucky
- Double Agent
- EVTV1
- FindVideos
- Hiphopdeal
- Kontraband
- Lulu TV
- Midis.biz
- Music.com
- MusicVideoCodes.info
- Newgrounds
- NothingToxic
- PcPlanets
- Pixparty
- PlsThx
- Revver
- Sharkle
- SmitHappens
- StreetFire
- That Video Site
- VideoCodes4U
- VideoCodesWorld
- VideoCodeZone
- Vimeo
- Yikers
- YouTube
- ZippyVideos
iTV-firefox-downloadable
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11:18 AM 26/03/2007, Just visited the iTV site Jackson recommended, it’s incredible, you would never run out of cool program to watch any more check it out.
Tue, 20Mar07
Tech: Previous DMT category
Previous Tech posting was in the DMT category. Click here to go there.
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IM: Tech
Digital Media Technologies (DMT). “IM:Tech” is the category formerly known as “DMT: ideas+resources”. Topics related to the software and hardware technologies utilised in the development and maintenance of moderately complex websites exhibiting sophisticated interactivity and which require a more systematic approach to management. Visiting or commenting regularly may help participants to improved skills and understanding on issues relevant to the creation and management of websites of moderate complexity. These skills may include simple HTML authoring, XHTML, cascading style sheets (CSS), browser scripting with Javascript, interaction with back-end database environments using scripting engines such as ColdFusion, PHP and WebObjects, and other newly available skills and technologies as appropriate.
Sun, 18Mar07
National Trust Certificate
I have been working very hard (or not) today to earn a certificate from the National Trust. Before showing my certificate, I want to show you what other people had to do to earn the same certificate.
Some people were holding a bridge on their head for over an hour.
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Ok, that wasn’t a real bridge. But the one this girl trying to hold was real. And she did it just the way it should be in downunder Australia.
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Those annoying aircrafts were crazy. (I witnessed war time aircrafts flying over the bridge today). Someone had to get up there to do the King Kong thing. Lucky it wasn’t me.
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It takes a lot of guts to put on Australian fashion in Japaness way.
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She had evidence to prove New South Wales drinks more beer than other states.
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There were more. Her dad had a coat hanger sticked on his chest. Beer is not always good for you.
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Al Gore made people put on their green hats and think about global warming seriously.
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This man worked so hard that he was too busy to turn off his infected TV.
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Ice cream was heavily guarded by police to make sure some were left when they knock off.
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Gosh! photos still look black and white in 2007.
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She just knew that all the hours she spent on her new hair was worth more than one muffin.
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I am sick of being a softie.
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Hope you had a bit of fun seeing what I saw today.
National Trust Certificate
Here is my certificate. It comes with a souvenir cap. A surprisingly rewarding experience considering that I almost didn’t make it:)
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11:59 AM 30/04/2007 Great to hear from Tel and Helloworld.
See the bridge walk logo here.
Sat, 17Mar07
MIM Machine Access
Since some of us are interested in how to access to the MIM host machine, I put together a quick post here for you
Download filezilla here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
(or use any other ftp software you are already familiar with.)
Install, open it, go File>Site Manager>, put in all the info like this
Click connect, figures cross, if everything goes according to plan, you would be connected to MIM almost instantly:)
Motion-AIO
01 flash good&bad
- Effective use of vector graphics or not -Kaylene
- Flash – SEO search engine optimization -James
- Isn’t Flash SEO Suicide? Not if you use this coding method.
- Flash 99 percent bad -Lendra
- Flash 99 percent good -Lendra Linda
- Flash Design -good and bad -James
- Flash design article from Bristol’s Clear Design UK. Read about the advantages and disadvantages of using Flash on your website
- Flash for Google -Kathryn
- Flash Game Limit -Si
- Flash Good & Bad -James
- University of Aberdeen
- Flash good and bad Yahoo answer -James
- “Can someone tell me 5 Advantages and 5 Disadvantages of macromedia flash?” – Yahoo!7 Answers.
- Flash one source, multi-use -Si
- Flash reuseability function -Si
- Flash Rocks -Kathryn
- Flash Sucks Ego -Kathryn
- Flash Sucks official -Kathryn
- Flash Sucks Splash -Kathryn
- Flash Usability -James
- Flash Usability Report b4 F8 -Lendra
- Flash Web Design good and bad -James
- Flash, Advantages and Disadvantages of Flash Web Design
- Frash criticism popular -David
- good & bad -Michael
- good and bad -Napaporn, James
- A detailed article that discusses advantages and disadvantages of using Flash intros on web sites.
- good -david
- good flash 8 -Napaporn
- incredibly diverse collection of Flash tutorials broken into comprehensive and easy to browse categories
- Good -Si
- Great -Lendra
- Problem solved -Lendra
- Pros & Cons by Rahul Goyal -Catherine
- Pros and Cons of Flash -James
- Search Engine & Flash -Kathryn
02 flash examples
- annoying, and poorly done -David
- bad -Napaporn
- bad quality image and layout -James
- can be done mostly without flash -James
- flash alternative Swish -Kathryn
- Foxtel TV program -Kathryn
- good but no option for sound -James
- good flash – you choose sound or not -James
- Great design, a little annoying but acceptable -James
- irritating music -James
- nice -Napaporn
- slow -Napaporn
- This site works great on my machine, but may be too heavy for slower internet connection. -J
- slow, very very slow -James
- subtle, and professionally done -David
- The Beatles: I Feel Fine, a good flash -James
- The Beatles – I Feel Fine. Flash Movie Animation.
03 flash resources
- Flash Kit -Caroline
- Flash Kit – an online resource for Macromedia Flash development. Join in our message board discussions, read the latest Flash news and tutorials, and download our free FLAs, SWFs, and sound loops.
- Flash Professional 8 Tutorial
- Click here to download Flash free. Then take our Flash tutorial. Our Flash tutorial covers creating graphics, working with layers, and adding motion, sound, and text to your Flash 8 movie.
- Flash Tutorial EchoEcho
- Flash tutorial
- Flash Tutorial w3school
- Free HTML XHTML CSS JavaScript DHTML XML DOM XSL XSLT RSS AJAX ASP ADO PHP SQL tutorials, references, examples for web building.
- FlashGuru Consulting -Caroline
- Making Designers better Developers! -Caroline
- A technical resource that provides easy-to-understand, comprehensive tutorials for Flash, ActionScript, PHP/XML, Photoshop, and more.
04 flash softwae
Wed, 14Mar07
Bridge Walk -coming Sunday
This is a rare opportunity to walk on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is usually open to cars and you can‘t walk in the middle of the street to take a picture. But you can on the coming Sunday. It would be its 75 birthday, you are in Sydney at the right time:)
Get your free ticket here,
The website was quite busy, if you have trouble registering, let me know, I’ll work something out for you. sydneyspeaking@gmail.com
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Sat, 24 Mar 07, Hi Madhu, I am adding two images to this post for you.
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5:07 PM 28/03/2007 Thanks for the reminder Madhu, glad you had it last night
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6:45 PM 15/04/2007 Here comes more, the Road and Traffic Authority (RTA) is selling 100 car number plates on Bridge Walk 2007. You can bid and buy one on ebay.
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9:12 PM 15/04/2007 Almost forgot this, an art work on the Bridget Walk was exhibited in this year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show. I might put up a post on the easter show later, come back to check it out.
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From bikinis to couture
Some of us may be interested in this fashion photograph exhibition held at the MLC Centre, Martin Place,
Mon, 12Mar07
Australia Food
I went with a couple of classmates to have lunch at Broadway on Saturday. Enjoy it thoroughly! (Thanks for the recommendation if you are reading this post.)
The food was great and half way through a few new friends joined in, it was great fun.
It reminds me that I can share some of my understanding on Australian food with you here.
At Broadway, I had king prawn fried rice for lunch. Saturday night, I had steak in mushroom sauce with baked potatoes and salad for dinner at home. Had mangos and water melon after dinner.
On Sunday, I had just a sandwich for lunch as I was out and I didn’t want to be too full before dinner, which was already planned. In the evening, I went to a restaurant to have green curry chicken and pad tai for dinner. It’s was superb.
I’d better declare that I don’t always eat out that much at the weekends. I do that every now and then. This weekend turned out to be quite a good example for showcasing what Australian food has become. Wouldn’t life be a bit monotone if we limit ourselves to certain type of food just because that is what our parents prepared for us in our childhood? I am so glad that the so called Australian food has today included such a great variety.
So what’s Australian food? I don’t know the academic definition. For me, Australian food is clearly everything yummy you can find in the world
I recommend everyone I know from overseas to try out the variety of gourmet food in Sydney. It makes study, working or whatevery you wants to do here a more rewarding experience:)
There are only a few things that are served in Australian restaurants which I haven’t tried yet. If no one posts any message against it in the next few days, I’ll tell you about them.
