http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog The unofficial offical comaLABS blog. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:24:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i'm currently in the middle of creating a theme for PC based docks (Rocketdock, Objectdock, etc...). i just finished an icon set for Adobe as their shortcut icons are somewhat "lacking". so today I'll show you how i did it. here's what the final product looks like (i put in ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/general-rubbish/playing-with-pc-program-docks-icons-i/ i have heard this method called everything from “Technocoloring” to “Retro-Coloring” to “Old Skool (with a K mind you) Colors”… i call it color matching. why? because that’s what the primary tool used is called “match color” and i’m sooooo not trendy. so what’s the point of doing this? the list ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/graphics/wait-photoshop-really-yeah-i-went-there/ i've been a bad bad person. after the whole database epic fail i sorta went into a rut about this space. then i was working on stuff i couldn't really talk about (damn you NDA's!!!). and then (insert excuse here). so anyways, i've decided to give it another go as they say. ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/general-rubbish/okay-its-been-too-long/ i have been trying to recover the database and it's not looking good. so far i haven't been able to recover much of anything so it seems a lot of information may have been lost. time to go digging through my txt and project files. until then, i'm going to ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/general-rubbish/and-the-database-goes-boom-update-4/ some browsers are currently supporting the CSS text-shadow property, although the others are slowly coming around. even though this property is technically part of the CSS level 3 library, more and more people are using it (and even more abusing it) everyday. here's something that i find interesting that doesn't ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/code/using-not-abusing-the-css-text-shadow-property/ this script is pretty straight forward. some people may have uses for it, others may not. i created this for a specific request and i'm still making improvements to it. so here it is. a news scroll for your site! w00t! this is straight up JavaScript, so no plug-in's or ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/code/finally-i-actually-deliver-what-i-said-i-would/ i've been out trying to get a regular office job again. i like the freedom of freelancing, but i miss working in a team environment. i like bouncing ideas off of other people i guess. i just don't get this with freelancing. i've been out on a couple of interviews and ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/general-rubbish/yes-its-been-a-while/ Seeing as I tout myself as a UI Web Designer/Developer I decided to actually post something that is relevant to my "field". I don't really use this script that much myself, not because it's not functional, just that I haven't really had any projects that could benefit from it. So ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/code/a-little-web-20-on-this-chilly-monday/ So I spent most of today in the breadline, looking for a job. Apparently in this market there is no room for Front End UI Developers/Designers. Go USA! So I'm working on a script that takes advantage of the (that sounds so very, very wrong) MooTools JavaScript framework to create an ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/code/in-the-works/ As a freelancer I get all kinds of requests for all kinds of scripts, most involving security of some sort, but what amazes me is that most of these people never ask for a password strength script. Maybe they have their own solution, maybe they're just not thinking about it ... http://labs.elektrikcoma.com/blog/code/password-strength-script-yet-another-one/