I watched "Knowing (2009)" last week, starting Nicholas Cage and Rose Byrne, which is kinda crap, meaningless at the end. And i got this snap from the movie , that made me lmao.... if there's no signal how come the signal bar is full ? Small errors make big ones ;)
After some digging around the net, found out some interesting stuff about the oncoming 24 season 8 which will premiers on 17th of January 2010.According to some article i found in Tvbynumbers Website, Fox broadcasting Organization has unveiled the new primetime schedule for the 2009-2010 years at their annual programme.
The report follows that new 24 season 8 will reveals, the shadows of United nations.
According to the 24 official site and some other sites there ll be new fresh faces will be casting on this new season. Jennifer Westfeldt playing a role of a journalist, Meredith Reed, accompanied a Middle East leader, Hashemi, who is recently in U.S for peacemission which will be cast by Anil Kapoor.(Slumdog Millionaire)
After suspend of the president daughter from chief of staff, newly assigned Rob Weiss, Chris Diamantopoulos will take part that position.
The 'Notorious Bettie Page' star, John Boyd will be taking the role of Jonah Schwartz and Freddie Prinze Jr. will be the team head of the CTU special-Ops. Mykelti Williamson will be running the CTU as Brian Hastings.
And like in all other previous seasons, Jack Bauer will be help from Katee Sackhoff, best known as, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from 'Battlestar Galactica' TV series. Sackhoff plays as Dana Walsh, in 24, as an expert data analysis in CTU, will be helping out Jack, to save day from the terror.
As you can remember, recent news alerts told that Kiefer Sutherland ready to come up with 48 hours, which will be two today’s. And the season 8 will be closest one to be for that, by starting the one week or month after the finale of season 7.
Some rumors say that Jack Bauer will die in this upcoming season. I know lot of people doesn’t want to end 24 series and continue with it.
But my call, this 24 has end from season 8. If the main characters are a bunch of team its ok. But other that every day we see is jack bauer, starting with a some attack, and ends in heretic day and vanishes, which was same in every other seasons.
And most of the viewers know that jack will pop out from somewhere and somehow save the day same scenario all the time.
So I think it’s time to punch the full stop for 24 series or dragging into something else. :)
As i work in web career, i have worked in different kinds of coding platforms, mainly HTML/CSS, ASP.NET, Open Source Content management systems and so forth. So as worked alone different kinds of bug came in different platforms, sometimes different to each other. Hopefully Firefox add-ons has helped me to fix these bugs and continue with my work. So in this post, i have listed some of the great add-ons which i have been used so far.
1. Web Developer
One of developers most wanted tool bar. It hasn’t boxed in to a one feature and it almost got every tool that a web developer wants. You can edit the CSS while you are online and check the changes, view all images and its details, validate CSS and html and other web standards, highlight html elements like tables divs and other miscellaneous stuff you ll be need while converting to HTML.
Most of the time i have used the Ruler, Image information and the Validation options from this toolbar.
This has a great feature like when you inspect an element using this tool, it will show the HTML and the CSS which you have used for that. Also u can add or remove any style temporally to see what will happen. It also support with JavaScript with the DOM inspector. Actually i stick to this add-on most of the times, so that i can simply hover the element that i want and change the values to see what happens
3.IE tab
Many developers suffers when they convert a site into HTML because of older browsers like IE6 , which still have the old framework, that haven’t updated in years. But sadly still some user’s uses this browsers and developer has to do the coding compatible to IE6, so he has to switch between browsers all the time. IE tab has a great feature that u can straightly open an IE tab, without leaving firefox, and will be able to finish the development quickly.
There are some other browser compatible add-ons like, Safari View, Opera View, Google Chrome View, that will open in a specified blank window. Note that you have to install the browsers to your pc in order to preview on them.
Let’s say you saw a nice attractive color in an image and u wants it somewhere else. What you have to do is save it and import into your favorite photo and eyedrop the color. But with this you can quickly take the code of the color ,rgb, hex code and put in the place you want in your web page.
When you go to a website and you don’t want any unnecessary flash advertisements to load and any other dangerous script to be loaded. So with No flash and No Script add-ons, you can easily skip the load of scripts and flash u don’t want. In this i have used the No script tool, so that i can see what other website have used Javascripts.
You can simply highlight some nice font and check what kind of fonts has been used and get an idea of it. I use this all the time :)
If you are developing a large site which has lot of links, you have to check all of them one by one to make sure whether they work. (suffering) With this tool, it will show the links that redirected to the 403 error page and highlighted with a warning color.
Pinger so does the same thing but its kind of fast than the link cheacker. And at the end it will shows 2 list of links that working ones and not. Not that the add-on is still under experimental.
A use friendly add-on that u can do almost anything to the HTML, even remove items, temporily. With this u can hover the element u want and check its properties or do changes for it. For a example, after u have done completing html part , and still you have some bugs in it, you can remove the elements you think what causing the error, and see.
With this you can just hover on the HTML elements and check its style under aa nicely order list. This may be useful for the old pc because some browsers and not supported with firebug, and it will crash the browser.
This will simply block all the unnecessary flashy stuff from from a site , saving resources, loading time and all. And it will allow you to play only the flash stuff you wanted. It also a handy tool to check which parts of a site that have been done with flash.
This not actually a tool bar that helps only for the developers. With this you can avoid unwanted and dangerous site that may harm your pc. Its like a rating system so if some goes to the site and rated as BAD, the other users will be warned about this.
A great tool for Search engine optimization purpose. You can check the page rank, google and alexa ranks in of a desired web page and see the techniques they have been used to get their rank
As the small introduction of a movie, L.A., fugitive ex-con, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) teams up with Agent Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) to take down a shared enemy, who both of them owe something they really wanted. But for that they have to gain the respect to infiltrate gang to by street racing and transporting stuff across the border and all. And these 2 men are ready to do what ever it take to take their revenge and take this psychotic drug kinpin to justice.
The movie was really awesome. Unlike the other fast and the furious episodes, the 4th was really superb from the writing. The story was continued from the first episode where Brian let go Dom and meet up when they wanted. So they have team in this 4th episode to carry on with the normal story. But Brain also stared in the second installment but it has nothing to do with the first one and Fast and the furious - tokyo drift has nothing to do with any of these. And in the forth , it all came back on track.
Another thing about this movie is some of the stunts have performed by the actors without using any fake visual effects. There was a scene where Dom and the clan taking of the oil tanks one by one, which you must have already seen in the trailers. There, most of the stunts by professionals , without adding any effects.
The script was also done nicely.. I don't about others, but for me, its posiible to understand what are they telling every single word.
The favorite scene of mine is the cave scene. When they cross the border with the illegal stuff, they were using some underground cave system to cross over. And inside the cave movie was shot perfectly and really awesome. And evey scene which was done it inside the cave is MAX. ( Now thats u call special effects :D )
And is this about new modified rides with some new stunts, gadgets and technology ? or its about the girls ? its up to you to deside :D
Well it is worth of watching this movie @ cinema other than watching at home. And if u are a fan of Fast and the furious series, specially the 1st one, you definatly gotta see this.;)
As everyone was waiting , Fast and the furious 4 is now officaillay show in Majestic Cinema - Bambalapitiya, starting from yesterday(16th of may). After the 3rd installment , Fast and the furious 4 - Tokyo Drift, the director,Justin Lin carried on with the forth installment with the old team Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez.
CastPortable Network Graphics (ping), shortly known as PNG is an image type like every other image types. Mainly it was found and developed as a replacement for GIF format, which had some designing issue and for some other legal stuff, which is kind of complicated.
With this great tool designers can almost able to create new unique designs for their website, other that sitting inside the boring looking layout, with a big banner and a menu underneath and so on. Its like breaking the ground rules of the web designing industry with by introducing the PNG file, until getting into misconception because the old technology.
This PNG tool gives us a wide range of features than the old formats.
It is also Ideal file to create logos, vectors with PNG so it be more quality and clear.
If we look closely the transparent compatibility of a PNG is more effective than the old GIF formats. For an example, if we take a box with a shadow, slice it and preview in Mozilla Firefox, GIF formats wont show them the way it was. But in PNG every detail you saw in the scratch can be seen in your site.
Everything went well, but not quiet. There are limitations in these PNG working with older browsers like IE 6 and Netscape because they are not up to date as the web industry get more complex. So is there any special superpower in these PNGs ?
PNG file type contains a filter called Alpha-channel transparency which contains all the unique details like transparency and opaque. Since the older browsers haven’t updated recently, they don’t recognize what all this PNGs and it features all about. Even though some browsers like IE6 has a filter that overcome with this problem, called AlphaImageLoader, but it wont support the PNGs images at all. So the browsers just show them as normal image and convert the transparency area with a blueish looking green color.
And this is where all starts. Since most of the developing countries people still uses Windows XP , where the default browser will be IE6. And developers has no time to go through this problem or they will end up with nothing at the end and they still stick with their old way, using GIF images, even if they gets more heavier as they get more quality. And that’s why the GIFs are still keeping running on.
But thanks to some of the brave developers, they have came with some solutions, which can solve this headache. Some of them developed JavaScript’s and attached to the file which includes the PNG files. Or add some special styles and put them between conditional comments so they will be only detect by the IE6.
As a result, Microsoft came up with a solution. By defining AlphaImageLoader filter from CSS to solve the problem.
ExampleBut the good news is some of the other developers also came with some great way to dodge this bullet, with some minor pitfalls of it.
Faux Transparency on the Web
In this way, the developer hasn’t involved the transparency option in this. The main thing that they have done is, to use a solid, normal JPG image and place it where you wanted. For a example, if a nice logo overflow on top the navigation bar, the developer slice it with the navigation part and place where u wanted.
As a disadvantage, the same images take the same time to load and it will take a lot of time to load the whole website if you have used it along the page. And if u want to change the navigation bar position or remove the navigation bar, you have to go all the way back to scratch so slice the images again.
The example you going to see is a menu on a css background image. And move a little and see what will happen
Using SuperSleight JavaScript
This also a great way to overcome this crisis. The only thing u have to do is to attach the javascript within conditional comments, to the page you are working on, , only to effect on IE6 browser. The script will detect and re-lay the PNG transparency with the existing 1 by 1 GIF file by using AlphaImageLoaded.
The only pitfall this has is that if the user who doesn’t have javascript or javascript disabled, he has to face into some ugly design errors.
The above example done by PNG before adding the script.It may display with errors in IE6
Example | DownloadIE PNG Alpha Fix
The Twinhelix developers came up with a solution, by using a file type called .htc , replacing the transparency with the 1 x1 pixel GIF image.
But as you know the behavior is not a valid CSS declaration. Even though its commented inside conditional comments so it will be only read by IE6.
PNG is break through for the web design industry. It has just given the chance to designers and developers to create more creative and unique design than before. Sadly some old browsers are not compatible of supporting this tool. But still ,it’s a great challenge for the developer to find solution for this headache that will be helpful in the future development.
