Someone asked me how to take a screenshot of the iPhone desktop. It is very easy to do although a bit of a hidden feature of the iPhone.
Open up the application or web page you wish to take a snapshot of.
Press and hold down the Home Button at the bottom center of the iPhone. Then press the On/Off Button at the top of the iPhone while still holding the Home Button. The screen will flash and you will hear the camera shutter.
The image will now be with your photos in the Camera Roll section.
Tags: IPhone, screenshot
Posted in IPhone by Jan on June 17, 2009 at 10:09 pm | 6 Comments »
Most people are more familiar with Microsoft Office Word than they are with WordPress. Therefore the option to post directly from Word to WordPress is a bonus for many. However, it can be a bit tricky to set up the options so that Word can communicate with WordPress on your server. I hope to make things easier in this guide.
First, you will need to write your blog post. Do this by clicking on the big button in the top left of the Word window and choosing New.
Select Blog Post and click the Create button.
Enter your post title, compose your post and save it.
Now you need to set up your WordPress account details. Click on the Manage Accounts icon.
Click on New and select WordPress from the Blog drop down box. Click on the Next button.
In the Blog Post URL type in the URL of your blog. Add /xmlrpc.php to the end of your URL. For example, http://www.myblog.com/xmlrpc.php
In the User Name and Password boxes, type the name and password you use to sign in to your blog. Check the Remember Password box if you would like your password to be remembered on the computer you are using.
Now you need to set up your Picture Options so click on the Picture Options button. I am assuming you wish to use your own website to store your images so select My Own Server from the Picture Provider dropdown list.
In the Upload URL box, type in the ftp address of the directory you are going to upload the images to. You may have to create this directory if it does not already exist. The URL should look something like – ftp://myblog.com/public_html/images/uploads.
In the Source URL, type the URL of the web address of your image. For example, http://myblog.com/images/uploads. Click the OK button.
You are now ready to publish your post so click on the Publish button. You will then be asked to add your FTP details. Once you have entered your FTP details your account is set up and Microsoft Word should be able to connect to your server. If it cannot, make sure you have entered all the account details correctly.
Happy blogging!
Tags: microsoft office, publishing, word, Wordpress
Posted in Wordpress by Jan on June 12, 2009 at 12:19 pm | 14 Comments »
12 seamless patterns I created with my Patterned Carpet filter. They are 600 x 600 and in PNG format. They would be suitable for carpet patterns but could be used for any texturing work.
They can be used in commercial or personal texturing projects but do not redistribute these seamless tiles as a merchant resource. Thank you.
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Tags: seamless, textures
Posted in Freebies by Jan on June 11, 2009 at 7:37 pm | 2 Comments »
Need a seamless pattern quickly for a project? Check out these pattern generators which allow you to create your own patterns:
1. Colourlovers – choose a pattern and five colours to be included in the pattern and a seamless pattern is created.
2. Tartan Maker – Choose band size, three colours, orientation and yarn size. This is fun to use and creates great looking tartan.
3. Stripe Generator – decide on stripe size, spacing, stripe colours, background style, shadow, background colour and stripe orientation.
4. Stripemania – Similar options to Stripe Generator but for some reason I find it more difficult to set the colours in this one. Maybe it is a Firefox browser issue. It also has the option to set gradient stripes which may be a useful feature.
5. BgPatterns – Set the foreground and background colours, the canvas texture, image, image scale and rotation. This is a useful generator but I would like to see more patterns than there are at the moment.
The patterns created by these generators have many uses. They would also make great elements in scrapbooking projects. Check the terms of use of each one before use.
Tags: free, textures
Posted in Scrapbooking, Web Design by Jan on June 4, 2009 at 9:13 pm | 2 Comments »
These are my 12 favourite free script fonts in no particular order. As far as I know all of these fonts can be used for commercial projects. Click on the name of the font to go to the download page.
Journal
Amaze
Marketing Script
Daniel
Angelina
BlackJack
Scriptina
Saginaw
Quill Script
Jacoba
English
Miama
These are my favourite script fonts. What are yours?
Tags: Fonts, free
Posted in Fonts, Scrapbooking, Web Design by Jan on June 2, 2009 at 4:06 pm | 1 Comment »
