Posted by paramita on Aug 11, 2009 in
techie So, I’m currently trying to redesign my blog again. Nothing too fancy on the design (so far) but still, it means I have to do some more work with Photoshop.
Now I got this bug again and again several time. No matter what tool I chose on Photoshop, it only shows the hand tool [will post a screenshot when it happens again]. At first I thought: “Okay, I have a bajillion thing on my memory it must screw it up. And I haven’t restart for a couple of days so let’s do that.” But after it happens more than once in a day. I start to pull out my hair a little bit.
One google search came up with this:
http://www.davidbisset.com/2007/12/15/photoshop-stuck-on-hand-toolicon/
*relieved that I’m not the only one*
I summarized a couple of things you can do to solve it from there:
- Restart the computer (a pain, but take it as a reminder if you haven’t restart for weeks
)
- Pretend nothing happened, go procrastinate for a couple of mins and see if something had changed.
- Go to Edit > Preferences > General (or Ctrl-K) and then click Reset all Warning Dialogs
- CTRL + ALT + SHIFT at startup and delete preferences
- Press the space bar or caps lock
Posted by paramita on Oct 3, 2008 in
techie I have done both. Microsoft Word for writing my Bachelor thesis and LaTeX for my Master thesis. I learned that both has its better and worse features and neither is superior in all aspects. It all depends on your needs.
I’m going to post my experiences using Microsoft Word 2007 and LaTeX under Windows XP in several parts. Here comes part 1, which is about the installation and document structures.
Read more…
Tags: review, software
Posted by paramita on Apr 9, 2007 in
techie I am in love with Mac interface but I am a PC user because I can’t afford a MacBook Pro. Why don’t I buy a MacBook instead? Because I need the processing power of a graphic designer. Well anyways, being a programmer and a designer, I think I would be better off with a PC for compatibleness issues.
So, my solution to this problem is: I NEED a cool Mac interface for my PC. I searched around for tips and hints on how to do this. Found some great article (http://features.engadget.com/2004/06/09/turn-your-pc-into-a-mac/) and software that made my desktop looked like this:
Pretty neat, eh?
One thing was still missing for turning my PC to a Mac … it’s the feel of anti-aliased fonts. Well, I just found out (I know, stupid me 
) that actually Microsoft released an XP PowerToys called ClearType a couple of years ago which made my screen fonts looked awesome!!! It made almost everything (well, actually everything I tried so far) had anti aliased fonts. Firefox, Trillian, even the post-its I had on screen 
.
Other things I did to tweak my desktop:
And the nice desktop background, it’s from VladStudio (http://www.vladstudio.com)
