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Updates from September, 2009

  • How to do a Letterpress Effect, the Easy Way

    Fantikerz 6:24 pm on September 5, 2009 | 10 comments Permalink | Reply

    LetterpressMany peo­ple are adopt­ing a new design trend where the let­ters are seem­ingly pressed into the back­ground, bet­ter known as a let­ter­press effect. In this short tuto­r­ial, I’ll show you a quick, easy, and non-destructive way to achieve this effect. I’ll be using Pho­to­shop here, but you may be able to adapt the tech­niques for use in any other image manip­u­la­tor once you under­stand the two things that are required for a let­ter­press effect.

    There are a few ways of doing this, but this way is by far my favourite because it’s so easy to mod­ify the effect later on if needed.

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  • 10 Shows You Should Have Seen

    Fantikerz 11:40 am on August 23, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply

    Kings CastPrime time tele­vi­sion is a cruel place. If a show scores below two mil­lion views con­sis­tently, you can expect it to be cut by the exec­u­tives. Some­times that hap­pens to truly great shows that just hap­pen to be com­pet­ing with other already pop­u­lar pro­grams like Amer­i­can Idol or even the Super­bowl. Nonethe­less, while every­one else is watch­ing Simon Cow­ell in his ill-fitting shirts, there are still those one mil­lion loyal view­ers wait­ing to see what hap­pens in their favourite (albeit unpop­u­lar) series.

    Today, I’ll be shar­ing some of those shows that had great poten­tial, but a bad time slot. With all the garbage on TV these days, it might be good to shed some light on some shows that were unique, well pro­duced, or ahead of their time.

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  • Redirect WordPress Posts from an Old Domain

    Fantikerz 9:13 am on August 21, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

    Simple Code

    Recently I had a prob­lem when I moved my blog from blog.fantikerz.com to fantikerz.com. I had far too many links on other sites that still looked like http://blog.fantikerz.com/?p=261, and wouldn’t redi­rect to the new blog’s loca­tion. I wouldn’t even know where to start if I had to change all of those.

    Instead, I threw together a sim­ple redi­rec­tion script that I thought I’d just share in case any­one needed it. It’s noth­ing fancy at all, and stu­pid easy to set up. There are many ways of doing this, and in my opin­ion, this is the easiest.

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  • Version 13

    Fantikerz 4:24 pm on August 4, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply

    Woop, new site design. How excit­ing. The only rea­son why I’m writ­ing this is so that I can test the said design to the fullest extent. I might as well Very Important Codeelab­o­rate on some things in the process. As you may know, this is based upon the won­der­ful Word­Press appli­ca­tion and a heav­ily mod­i­fied P2 theme. I was reluc­tant to move over to Word­Press, but I’m now way over that and am itch­ing to make some of my own plu­g­ins and other exten­sions like that.

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  • Why EvilChicken Failed

    Fantikerz 3:44 pm on June 3, 2009 | 12 comments Permalink | Reply

    evilchickenIt began as a good idea, and a month later the ball was rolling. Max, Alec, Cameron, and I were going to col­lab­o­rate on com­bin­ing their majorly active sites into one large one. Sev­eral hun­dred thou­sands of vis­its a month was the plan, and we actu­ally reached those num­bers it in the month of  May. This would be a big ven­ture for all of us, but soon things went sour and 3 months later the site was announced to be clos­ing until fur­ther notice. Why, you ask?…

    If you’re not aware of what EvilChicken is, you should go ahead and skip this entry. Things are going to get in-depth and it’ll be hard to under­stand at points if you weren’t there from the beginning.

    Before I go on, I’d just like to pref­ace this by say­ing that I’m not try­ing to shift any blame around, but instead out­line the short­com­ings and faults that led to the site’s demise. This should also serve as good ref­er­ence mate­r­ial for any­one that wishes to start a large, com­mu­nity ori­ented site.

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  • Free, Open Source Alternatives to Expensive Programs

    Fantikerz 8:40 pm on May 4, 2008 | 10 comments Permalink | Reply

    Wish you could cre­ate vec­tor art in Adobe Illus­tra­tor, edit videos in Sony Vegas, or just play a game of Halo 2 on your PC, but can’t afford the pro­grams? We’ve all been there, and it sucks, honestly.

    Thank­fully, there’s a whole genre of soft­ware com­prised of free solu­tions to the oth­er­wise costly main­stream alter­na­tives. This mag­i­cal genre is called Open Source.

    After the break are a few pro­grams that you may find use­ful, with often just as many fea­tures as the costly alternative.

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  • RuneScape Gathering 2008: Aftermath

    Fantikerz 6:56 pm on April 22, 2008 | 3 comments Permalink | Reply

    It’s over… and appar­ently it was a suc­cess. Bil­lions (not really) of peo­ple showed up, and enjoyed Ice Mountainthem­selves… for the most part. Worlds 126 and 127 filled up com­pletely, hours before the event even started.

    I per­son­ally hung out with Regicidal1 for a while, and we went over to Clan Wars and lost mul­ti­ple times. I pwned with my Mith stuff… But hey, who cares about me?

    Videos and pic­tures after the break.

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  • Ehh

    Fantikerz 10:07 pm on October 24, 2007 | 2 comments Permalink | Reply

    No videos for over a week now.. What is wrong with me!?@! Mehh, I just have no ideas.. and if you read this, please com­ment. I’m not sure if any­one actu­ally reads these things..

     
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