Drawing notebook.

"Rilakkuma" Series Ruled Notebook"

Photo Travel Notebook Set

Iconic Sticky Note

"Momoi" Diary

Photo Diary

Set: Envelope + Gift Voucher Envelope

Expense Record Notebook

"One Hundred Reasons" Diary

Set: Illustration Letter + Envelope

I admit I won’t get to use all of these at once but aren’t these just adorable?

CREDITS: Products were found from YesStyle.

I almost screamed awhile ago.

I checked on my personal blog for almost 6 years and all my posts and pages were gone!

ALL of it. Each little tidbit of my life, interests, observations, evolution of everything about me, was gone in a blink of an eye. I was pretty sure I didn’t do anything with my blog’s theme, settings and database. I would not even touch the database for crying out loud. I’m scared of all back-end stuff.

So after sending an hurried message to site5 I made a quick research and found a quick solution to the predicament. *whew!*

For those having similar problem as mine, here was what I did to rectify the situation.

1. Login to Your Cpanel
2. Click on your blog’s database.
3. Check all tables related to your blog or a specific area you want to concentrate on (that is, if you understand database structure)
4. Click the Repair Database
5. See all your pages and posts come back to life!

All done!

If that didn’t work, you might have to ask help from a professional developer or from your host’s support.

Thus, I searched and discovered Gramfeed. Gramfeed is web interface for Instagram Mobile Photo sharing service, you can view popular Instagram photos, view your Instagram photo feed, view your followers, etc.

So go to Gramfeed and create your gallery for easier viewing. You can make your gallery private or public and view other Instagram galleries to Like and follow.

Have fun!

As you may observe from the creases, this magazine has weathered a lot of folds, handling, page turns etc. This magazine was given for free from an anime convention in our area around 2002, I think. Yes, almost a decade ago. Imagine that. Amidst all the publications I purchased my whole life, this was the only magazine I thought of preserving as long as I can. It did enter my mind to cover with plastic but I felt it would demean the authenticity of the magazine, using non-glossy type of paper and deleting the smell of ink I grew to love when availing such a magazine.

For years, I kept an open eye to hopefully avail of another issue. The chance never came. Either distribution settled itself in its origin, in Singapore, or the production stopped altogether.

So what made me garner this publication like a shrine item?

It’s style was so unique, graphically stimulating yet informative, it lives well to its tagline, “Style in Print”. It caters well to the beginnings of “MTV-generation”, offering bits of fashion, music, games, and other avenues of creativity. I personally give it a description of “street punk” with classy style.

A fashion spread offering bits of unique accessories and miscellaneous items. During geocities days, when I started learning HTML on my own, I remember creating a page similar to the look and feel of this spread. I loved the ingenuity and flow of all elements despite cutting lines and edges.

A list of musical descriptions depicting albums never heard of. This page was an avenue for me to discover other music genres other than pop.

A spread featuring an artist from London.

If you look closely, these spread showcases food tidbits and recipe. The background features fashion. Two very different subjects but coincide well in this spread.

This area features a book. When you look at it, the background shapes had nothing to do with content. Yet, to someone like me, who wouldn’t care about the book (or author), I liked reading the article. The graphic helped with garnering interest.

A film review on “The Man in the White Suit”.

A unique simulation game of way past. It talked about playing God, taking care of unknown species within an aquarium. The goal was to make sure they were well fed, tickled and the water kept at constant temperature for their survival. A quirky part of the game is your pet species will eat each other for survival as they grow older. 0_0 We can say the game brings out your parental instincts… even for a brood with cannibalistic tendencies. *cough*

A pop art feature featuring food, *cough* boobs and naked women. It strongly insinuates there is nothing to be ashamed of talking about sensuality or sex since it is part of human necessity, in parallel to our need for food.

Till now, I’m still distressing over the fact I couldn’t avail of any back-issue of this publication. Have they gone online somewhere? Are they still in production? If they are, can I avail of Trigger in some way?

If anyone knows the answer, please tell me! This person will greatly appreciate your help! Save her sanity! XD

Before leaving work, I saw this magnetic tarsier souvenir stuck on my CPU. Amused by its cuteness, I took a picture and this came out. Thank you to my officemates, who got this for me, from their recent trip in Bohol.

You could never go wrong with a tarsier souvenir. The eyes draw you in. LOL.

So I was really happy to find this link or page providing a graphical representation on what goes about driving Social Media Success. Standard, sweet and pleasing to the eye. :3

Click image to open interactive version (via Simply Business).

I think I have to take those writing lessons I’ve been wanting for months. Oh joys to learning. XD

An awesome feature I personally applaud on is the power to save your settings on different machines. It will make the upgrade to the next version much easier.

They also introduced the ability to duplicate several layers at one time, and also add color labels for multiple layers at once. Cool feature for ‘tons-of-layer’ workers like me.

What do you think of these enhancements, do they add additional reason to upgrade soon?

A hype is going around the web design industry regarding new features for an upcoming Photoshop CS6. Obviously intrigued by what possibly new features Adobe could come up with, I am astounded by sneak peak videos already going viral via Youtube.

If not expecting for but a few additional features added, I get this feeling of major overhaul is being done over the said software.

Below is a list of features I found for upcoming Photoshop CS6

* Photoshop will include a darker interface. This will help showcase an artwork better and to make it more consistent with other Adobe apps.

* Adobe had to create 1800 new icons and 250 new cursors. As to where they integrated these is beyond my imagination.

* Photoshop will include several performance enhancements that will reduce tiling and lag while working with large images. Now that would be totally awesome. Edits in a fly!

* For correcting blurry photographs, Adobe uses a sophisticated algorithm that analyzes a photograph and then generates a “blur kernel.” The kernel contains information on the motion trajectory of the camera during the shot that created the blur. With a selection of the “Restore Sharp Image” tool, Photoshop uses the blur kernel data to restore the image with more clarity:

* Liquify brush now expands to 15,000 pixels. 15,000 pixels. Wow. I believe this would benefit those working on very large graphics. For web designers like me, this would hardly make a difference.

* The new version of Photoshop will also include crash recovery. Seriously? I would like to see a demonstration of this first but I haven’t seen one yet.

* Dashed and dotted lines is an added feature. In previous versions it could take you 20 minutes to produce this effect. It can now be done in seconds. Cool!

* Content Aware Move function. This new feature will allow you to make a selection and then move those pixels to another part of your image without having to use multiple layers. No need to do additional edits to a previously “edited” layer.

* Adaptive Wide Angle, a feature that will allow you to quickly correct for lens distortion.

* New 3D features. A new “3D Material Drop” tool has been added to the Paint Bucket, according to people familiar with the software. Similarly, Adobe has also added a “3D Material Eyedropper Tool” to Photoshop’s Eyedropper. There’s also a new “3D Text” option for text input, rounding out a trio of 3D-centric additions to the Tools palette.

* Additional 3D options are reportedly evident in the Preferences pane, where testers can presently enable or disable “Allow Direct to Screen” and “Auto-Hide Layers” options for “Interactive Rendering.” There are also new “Rich Cursor” options: “Show on Hover” and “Show on Interaction.”

* Within the 3D preferences, testers can also modify “Axis Control,” where options allow for “Invert Camera Axis” and “Separate Axis controls.” Finally, a new “interactive Shadows Quality” section allows testers to choose from a range of quality options when generating shadows.

* CS6 also introduced a “Remix Tool” to the healing brushes palette, joining tools such as “Spot Healing Brush,” “Healing Brush,” “Patch” and “Red Eye” tools. For cropping, Adobe has also added a new “Perspective Crop Tool.” As to what these are for, I have not found any articles or documents yet.

* There are also a handful of other changes to the Preferences pane in the new Photoshop. In “General,” users can select or deselect “HUD Vertical Movement varies Round Brush Hardness” and “Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid.”

* Also, under the “Interface” section, new options include “Show Transformation Values” and “Enable Text Drop Shadows.”

* Users can also access new preferences in the “File Handling” section, where “Save in Background” has been added, along with “Automatically save Recovery Information Every:” with a choice of time intervals. New “File Compatibility” preferences include “Ignore Rotation Metadata” and “Disable Compressions of PSD and PSB Files.”

* Adobe will also be offering a Creative Cloud alternative (where access to the software is rented monthly by paid membership) but — and there’s a lot of misunderstanding here — the cloud will be completely optional and not required by any customer (either existing or new) to buy or use it… In other words, it is an addition – not a replacement.

So what do you think of these sneak peeks? My main concern for this update is the possible hardware upgrade some might ‘need’ to do to avail all features.

Release date? No news whatsoever.