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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 Unique Album Covers

    Fantikerz 12:40 am on September 3, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply

    iTunes Album ArtThe art on the cover of an album reflects the style of the artist and what their music sounds like. I don’t know if it’s coin­ci­dence, but I find that a lot of really great songs are accom­pa­nied by some equally great album art. Per­haps that’s because I’m totally anal about my album art (I can’t stand hav­ing place­holder cov­ers in my library). Any­way, I just thought I’d share a few that always seem to pop out when­ever I’m scrub­bing through my library. Who knows, some of these might give you some ideas for a cre­ative project.

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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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  • 10 More Awesome Songs

    Fantikerz 7:23 pm on October 11, 2008 | 8 comments Permalink | Reply

    Since my last post about out­stand­ing songs, my col­lec­tion of the said genre has grown (almost dou­ble!). So, on this gloomy day, I thought I would take the time to share them with you. Unlike last time, let’s jump in right away, and I’ll explain why each song is great as we go.

    These songs are in no spe­cial order, and as always, I’ll try and make the selec­tion as diverse as pos­si­ble. If you don’t like one song, just keep going though the list and you’ll prob­a­bly find some­thing you can enjoy.

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  • 11 Catchy or Feel Good Songs

    Fantikerz 10:09 pm on August 24, 2008 | 7 comments Permalink | Reply

    All this post is about, is feel good , and catchy, songs. As a music junkie, I come across them quite often, and I even have a playlist of them on my iPod that’s 150-ish songs deep.

    What makes a song catchy? A nice beat, of course, with some­times clever lyrics. The same thing goes for the feel good songs, which will prob­a­bly have some more mean­ing­ful lyrics.

    I fig­ured some of you might enjoy some songs on this Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Here are some of the bet­ter ones, after the break…

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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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