Tools - IrfanView

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IrfanView is a free image viewer. It's pretty lightweight and very customizable with the number of plugins available for it. With the proper plugins, it can play mp3s or even movies, become an image editor or open a pdf file. I don't use those features, though since I have other programs doing that already.

But one thing that IrfanView has that I like very much is that it can perform batch editing. You can rename/convert/resize several items at once. Pretty useful to keep your images (or other files) properly organized.

Guard Dog - Classless Update Day #2!

Another update for the Guard Dog mock Team Fortress Update. Complete with new hats and maps (oh my god, he added ctf_convoy! :))).

Team Fortress 2 Guard Dog Update - Day #2

Valve and the Community

Valve Software, the creators of Team Fortress 2, Left4Dead, Portal, and the Half-Life series. They have a knack for not taking things seriously in a serious way. They even play along with some of the eccentricities in the community. Which makes it pretty fun.

This is especially true in the Team Fortress 2 community. The game itself is over-the-top and humorous. Add to that the frequent replies of Mann Co., the fictional company that provides the Team Fortress 2 classes their equipment, and their CEO Saxton Hale just completes the picture (and I have to say, I am a HUGE fan of Team Fortress 2).

Here's a few compilations of their interactions with the community.

Giving sound advice on forum posting.

Blog Updates - Sidebar at the bottom of the page fix

I've managed to fix the problem of the blog's sidebar being placed at the bottom of the page. Apparently, it's caused by the Jump Break in Blogger's new layout.

The Jump Break button inserts a

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tag to indicate that the rest of the post is hidden and can be expanded to view the rest.

The problem happens when the tag is inserted between a <div..> and </div> tag pair. It causes the sidebar to be thrown at the bottom.

Also, I managed to add a third sidebar on the left for my profile and the Labels. Which I think is pretty cool. It also leaves me more space to put my more frequently used links on the right.

Tools Archive

Compiled links of useful tools I currently use.

Image

GIMP - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Inkscape - An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

I will try to update regularly this time

Well, after two years, I remembered that I still had this blog.
I'm also starting to like the changes they made with it, like having a "jump break" button so that I don't have to code it in manually.

I plan to do some spring cleaning with this blog and make some changes to make it better to read.

Like for starters, all these links to game sites (after the jump :) )

Crayon Shin-chan Creator Passed Away

Ang told me yesterday about the death of Yoshito Usui, creator of Crayon Shin-chan. He was missing when he went hiking on his own on a mountain in Gunma. His body was found on Sunday (20th). My condolenses to the family.