Archive for October, 2007

New Login Design

I redesigned my login to go with my new website design. Please can you tell me what you think by leaving a comment. Thanks.

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Core of “Windows 7″ taking shape: meet the “MinWin” kernel

Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-core-of-windows-7-taking-shape-meet-the-minwin-kernel.html

Eric Traut, one of Microsoft’s chief operating system design engineers, gave a fascinating demo (WMV) recently at the University of Illinois, where he talked about where the Windows core is going and ended with a sneak peek at the kernel of the next version of Windows, known by the exciting codename of “Windows 7.” The demo showed what Windows would look like if it was literally stripped down to the core, showing the kind of work that is going on to optimize the aging NT kernel.

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New Form Plugin

Added a new form plugin to replace the previous contact form. It’s been tested and works fine. I have also allowed people to send me files upto 4.8mb if they wish that they think would be great to add to my blog.

WordTube Plugin Added!

I have added the wordtube plugin so that videos are no longer removed from third parties so that any video files I post will be on my server in future. This plugin will also be added on my portfolio to display my video work.

Portfolio Preview

Portfolio Preview

Finally I have finished the design for my new website design. It is also my first wordpress theme which will also be available for others to use. I just wanted to show you a small preview of whats coming.

My Videos

YouTube - Videos

I have uploaded 2 of my videos on YouTube to be able to start collecting comments on my work. I will be uploading higher quality versions on my portfolio site once it is finished but for the moment you can watch the low quality versions on my YouTube profile here.

Enjoy!

Funny or Die

Funny and Die is a new website to interact with top comedians and others that are passionate about comedy. I came across this website by acident and I think its a great website and thought I share it with you guys if you haven’t heard of it before.

I have placed a link to one of my favourite clips below. It was done by Will Farell and he is acting with his baby daugther who is the landlord. So check it out.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74

Wordpress 2.3 Installed

I have finally updated my blog with the latest release of Wordpress 2.3.

Minor Adjustments

I have made a few minor adjustments to my blog. Now all long post’s are shortened on the frontpage. You now have to click read more to read the rest of the post. If you have seen the blog theme design changing from to the other when on my blog its because I am trying out new wordpress themes that work with the new updated version. Removed some plugins that I no longer need as well. Most of them you don’t even see any way. Still designing the theme for my main portfolio. Added and updated content on my deviantart profile and thats it for the moment.

Deviantart Film

Deviantart the worlds most huge art website has released a new feature to there site that allow artist’s to add there home made films. According to the website when viewing a video on the site it will play in a standard flash as the default viewing format for watching it within the deviation film page, or in other words, web viewing for those with slower connections. The films will be encoded at 400 pixels wide in Flash and 640 wide for DivX video and h.264, both are able DivX video and h.264 will offer full screen viewing options.

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