So take a look! You can get a copy of the CD by emailing them using the contact information on their site.
After watching the trailer for The Boys are Back, I became pretty excited to see it. It was pretty obvious that it wasn’t a huge production movie but I thought for sure that I’d be able to see it once it came out in theaters. However, the weekend that the film was set to hit the box office I was very disappointed to find that it wasn’t showing anywhere around me. I don’t recall ever seeing the trailer on TV and anyone with whom I talked about the film with had never heard of it.
A few weeks ago, I was browsing through the upcoming DVD releases on Now Playing, a free iPhone app that I’m constantly on, and I noticed that The Boys are Back was set to release for purchase on January 26, which was yesterday. I immediately hopped onto Amazon to see what the price was for a Blu-Ray copy of the film. I did find the page on Amazon for the film, but it didn’t show a photo of the product or give me a price whatsoever. However, the DVD copy of the film was available to pre-order. I think that we can all agree that Blu-Ray is the latest generation of purchasing movies. If I’m going to purchase a movie, why would I want to buy it on semi-dated technology?
The weekend before the films release for purchase, I did a little bit of research to see if the film was going to be released on Blu-Ray. With disappointment I learned that since the film didn’t do well, it was only going to be released on DVD. With that I was a little torn as to whether or not I should go and buy it. With Blu-Ray being the current generation, what will be in the future? Will the next system still play DVDs like Blu-Ray players currently do? So I continued to check out how the film did in its initial release in theaters. What I found was that the film only brought in $783,013 in its entirety while it was in theaters. In fact, the film was only released its opening weekend in 6 theaters! At its max, The Boys are Back only played in 108 locations at its peak in theaters and only played for 6 weeks. Compare that to Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel bringing in almost $49 million in its opening weekend alone (To be fair, I know that comparing The Chipmunks and The Boys are Back is kinda kicking below the belt)!
But my complaint is this: Why can I buy a Blu-Ray copy of All About Steve which has a whopping 6% review rating on Rotten Tomatoes, or better yet, I can buy Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (thanks to GGX for finding this one), but I can’t purchase a copy of The Boys are Back on Blu-Ray. For that matter, why can’t I get a copy of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas on Blu-Ray either? That is also a Miramax film; however, this film brought in $9,030,581 while showing in at max 679 locations over its 11 weeks in theaters. That film obviously made more money than The Boys are Back, so why is there no Blu-Ray release?
I don’t think there is a great solution to my complaint, but I just wanted to get it out there. I can understand the money side of things. Miramax needs to make money on its movie and pressing millions of Blu-Ray copies of films like The Boys are Back & The Boy in the Striped Pajamas may not bring them back money on their investment. But why can’t Miramax just press 10,000 copies and just sell them online? Why can’t they just see how it does there and keep pressing them as necessary. I’d be right in line to purchase a Blu-Ray copy of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and also purchase The Boys Are Back for a second time!
I wanted something super simple, almost like writing things down on a sheet of paper, then crossing them off my list as I completed them. That’s where Anxiety fit perfectly. After my friend showed me Anxiety I was pretty hooked. It’s super simple to use, it works with iCal and if you’re using MobileMe it will sync across your Apple computers with ease! It does so by working off of Apples built in To Do list and you can categorize them as you want to. So for me, I have the following categories: Invoices (money that is waiting to come in), To Be Invoiced (clients that need to be sent an invoice), Work (things that need to be taken care of), Proposals (prospective clients who have received them so I can stay in touch), Phone Calls (any necessary calls that need to be made), etc.
My only complaint is that I haven’t found a way to be able to look at my list on my iPhone. I’ve read some things saying that the To Do lists are supposed to show up in your email under a certain folder but I haven’t had any luck with that. Both OmniFocus and Things have iPhone applications that you can purchase to coordinate your app together. However, since Anxiety utilizes the To Do list that Apple provides, I’m assuming that they should have the lists available on the iPhone!
Regardless of the iPhone issue, Anxiety is a great little app to help keep you organized.
Please note that your site must be on PHP friendly hosting as well as the following code must be in a PHP file or template rather than an HTML file as it will not work!
Copyright © <?php ini_set(‘date.timezone’, ‘America/New_York’); echo date(‘Y’); ?>
Since today is December 31, 2009, the following would render: Copyright © 2009
However, if you were to visit the same page tomorrow it would render: Copyright © 2010
Being that we (meaning us physically) are located in the New York timezone, we popped in the correct code for PHP to recognize the appropriate year for our timezone. All you would need to do is replace that spot with the appropriate timezone and you’re all set! A link is provided below to find your timezone.
Now this is a very simple approach to using PHP to update the year for you. With further research you can look into taking this to the next step.
Happy New Year, and have fun!
So take a look! You can get a copy of the CD by emailing them using the contact information on their site.
Anyway, I’ll step off the soapbox now to get back to the point at hand. Being that we need to test our projects on multiple browsers, we need a way to do it! Rather than buying a PC that I don’t want, I simply run VMware Fusion on my Mac with Windows XP installed on it. Windows XP natively had IE6 installed on it which was perfect for me. If I had to choose one of the versions of IE to be able to test on, I would choose IE6 as the majority of the issues are found there. However, IE7 and IE8 both have their issues as well. And you can’t simply download all the versions and run them without some special programming. So that’s where this little trick comes into play. Thanks to the guys at Edskes, they’ve developed a great way to be able to run any version (all the way down to IE1) at the same time! All you need to do is get VMware Fusion running with Windows on it, go to the following address (you have to install it while in a browser in Window, you can’t install it straight onto your Mac), and download (it’s the link right below where it says Internet Explorer Collection with the light blue background) and install and you’re good to go! It’s the perfect solution!
The trick comes into play if you decide that you only want WordPress to output the parent navigation, ignoring any child pages that may be in WordPress. So here is the code that calls in the navigation dynamically as is:
<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>
So all we need to do if we decide that we only want to show the parent navigation is add a small piece of code in between the brackets.
<?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1’); ?>
What we’re telling WordPress to do here is to create a list of the pages that we have in the backend of WordPress and only show the top level navigation. If we were to change that 1 to a 2, WordPress would output the top level and second level navigation, ignoring anything beyond that! For more information on the wp_list_pages tag check out the following link:
In addition to Mac keyboard shortcuts we use tons of application shortcuts. We work with Adobe applications so fortunately some of the shortcuts overlap, and some of the shortcuts work the same as the list above. Below you can find a short list of some links to Adobe’s website to look at keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop, Fireworks and Illustrator; as well as, a couple links to some standout shortcuts put together by some fellow bloggers!
So what we did was just take a screenshot of one of the words in the logo (where there was no illustrated figure behind the text). Next we took that screenshot to www.whatthefont.com and follow the few simple directions. After running through the system it popped up a bunch of possibilities and the font we were looking for was the first option! So all we had to do was redraw the simple illustration and the logo was basically finished!
A few weeks later we had to consult WhatTheFont again. This time WhatTheFont couldn’t find what we were looking for in a regular search. So we logged into our free WhatTheFont account and posted the sample JPG to the forum. Not too long after we posted the JPG we got an answer for the font. The reason that the automated system didn’t find the correct font is due to the logo uses a font that the original designer has compressed. So all we had to do then was the same thing as before. Redraw the illustration part then pop in the text and compress it! Thank you WhatTheFont!
]]>This fun test only takes a few seconds and it comes from an orthopedic surgeon. This will confuse your mind and you may try it again and again to see if you can outsmart your foot! Something is preprogrammed in your brain which causes the outcome.
1. While sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2. Now while doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.
Did you try it? What happened?
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]]>They have recently added a small ‘Show Options…’ link right below the Google logo after you have searched a term. Clicking there you are able to filter your searches even further in order to help you find what it is that you’re looking for. Take a look at the video below for a short demonstration.
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