Don't Ever Get Comfortable

Just because you have moved from square one to square two doesn’t mean that you should feel satisfied with your achievement, you should instead try to not only get past all the squares but do the impossible,  at least  that is what I think, I could be mistaken.

Right now I am going to take the time and wish everyone a Happy Easter, and please don’t get into trouble, I think these quotes should guide your  behavior, respect yourself and others  and you will be respected

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Quote: Don’t Ever Get Comfortable

doesn’t mean that you should feel satisfied with your achievement, you should instead try to not only get past all the squares but do the impossible, at least that is what I think, I could be mistaken.

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Programming

Programming Tutorials – March 22nd 2013

Visual Basic Tutorials

These tutorials were done by TheNewBoston on YouTube so a special thank you, and well watch them to your hearts content!

 

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Computing Tips and Tricks

Computing Tutorials – March 21st 2013

Newegg TV: Water Cooling DOs and DON’Ts with Lee from PCJunkieMods.com

How To Build a Kick-Ass Gaming PC (2013)

Newegg Tutorial: PC Tune-Up – Cleaning and Basic Upgrades

Newegg TV: Motherboard Handling, Installation and Shipping Guide

Newegg Tutorial: HDTV Technology Guide

Again sorry for the lateness of my posts…. I wanted to do a little something for those gamers out there who know nothing about building a custom gaming rig, and these are little tips that should keep you from making costly mistakes, and the last one just seemed catchy.

 

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Photography

Photography Tutorials – March 14th 2013

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals

Basic Theory and Technical Info

10 Top Photography Composition Rules

“There are many composition guidelines which can be applied in almost any situation, to enhance the impact of a scene. Below are ten of the most popular and most widely respected composition rules.”

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals

RAW vs. JPEG – the real story

“Graphic illustrations [and explanations] of the difference between RAW and JPEG (also called JPG). Understanding this will help with an understanding of why correct exposure and white balance in the camera are important.”

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals

Understanding White Balance

A basic discussion of white balance and how to respond to different lighting situations.

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals

White Balance

“Use a simple device to get perfect color in all of your shots”

100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals

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Design

Design Tutorials – March 12th 2013

How to use texture effects to create beautiful compositions in Photoshop CS5

How to use texture effects to create beautiful compositions in Photoshop CS5

Video tutorial: Complete the vintage toy camera aesthetic

 Video tutorial: Complete the vintage toy camera aesthetic

Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation by Mixing Ice and Fire Textures

Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation by Mixing Ice and Fire Textures

Alone – Surreal Manipulation Tutorial

Create an Emotional, Molten, Shattered Statue in Photoshop

Create an Emotional, Molten, Shattered Statue in Photoshop

There is your weekly dosage of design tutorials for you to go crazy with, the alone tutorial is a video and the assets and files are available on the source site, which is in the header, as for the shattered statue tutorial, it is a premium tutorial, I loved it, but couldn’t find any tutorials that allowed you to create anything close to it, if you find a tutorial that does allow you to recreate the image let me know, if you can’t just buy it or create your own and send it to me.

 

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Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

This is probably the best description that anyone can use to define me, you can tell the mood I am in by the music I listen to, and it is also why I am a music addict. But seriously you know when, you listen to a song and the lyrics basically describe everything that you are currently going through, it could be relationship problems, your finances or just random stress, for that 3-4 minutes all of it just disappears into the music, and you suddenly feel better.

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Quote: Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

This is probably the best description that anyone can use to define me

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Web Design and Coding

Web Design and Coding Tutorials – March 8th 2013

Codecademy

Codecademy (Photo credit: Gustavo da Cunha Pimenta)

 

 

This isn’t really a tutorial, I will call it a recommendation. If you are going to be doing web design and coding, first you have to learn the languages, and since I don’t recommend anything I haven’t used I think this can help you out. For my learning of HTML / CSS / JavaScript and a few other languages, I use CodeCademy, they have a lot of courses available to persons and the best thing about it is that they are free. There are also a lot of tutorials on YouTube that will teach you the basics as well as some advanced stuff, so take a break from the weird part of YouTube and actually use it for something good.

 

 

 

 

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Quote #141 Good Things Happen

Middle of the week, and I am reminded that tomorrow is Valentines, and for me, a single person, it isn’t one of my most favorite days. I had school today and of course I got ready and arrived on time. My only class for the day was Renewable Energy Technology and despite me hating the timing of the subject, the class was great and it ended early, another plus.

I got home for a little after 1, and lucky for me my mom had just finished cooking, so I ate lunch, before I got down to blogging. I had been a couple of days behind in my blogging and had a couple of journal posts to do as well as some tutorials. I decided to take care of the tutorials first as they take very little time to do when compared with journal posts.

I never finished my blogging until 7pm, and I had quickly start an assignment, I had to do (hand written), after I searched high and low, I got what I was looking for and finished for close to 9. I had been chatting with a friend, and we were talking about books, when the book Fifty Shades Of Grey, came up (mentioned by me). I asked her to send me a copy, because I am a sucker for a good romance / erotic novel.

I took to twitter shortly after, and thanked her, and then tweeted for a bit, before I cuddled up with my pillow and started reading. I finished the first two chapters before I called it a night, as I had school at 8 tomorrow and it was already 1 am. I forgot I had some music downloading and I was waiting on the final one to finish, when I passed out and woke up for close to 3am and turned off the computer and went back to sleep.

 

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Quote #141 Good Things Happen | February 13th 2013

Middle of the week, and I am reminded that tomorrow is Valentines, and for me, a single person, it isn’t one of my most favorite days. I had school today and of course I got ready and arrived on time.

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Quote #140 Better Things Are Coming

Tuesday, (Friday will soon come), I had class at 8 and my body was in no mood for it, but I left bed and washed my face and soon I was up and about. I got down to doing my usual preparations of lunch and breakfast, when I realized that I hadn’t taken out a bread from the freezer. The same time my mother came out and started talking about me being lazy which made me turn on the stereo very loud to drown her out, because she was getting me angry, and I was already upset as it was.

I toasted the bread and continued my preparations and I was making good time, I jumped in the shower, dressed and made sure I looked at least passable, when I realized it was already late. I rushed out of the house as quickly as I could, and as soon as I left my gate, I got a van. In no time at all I was at school, even though traffic was about walking pace.

When I arrived, the lecturer hadn’t arrived as yet and I remembered that he normally would arrive for 9 so I relaxed with my friends and classmates until he arrived. As soon as 9 came he came and after he couldn’t find the key, the class was moved to an empty classroom. We stayed there, until 10 and then moved to the computer lab, up until 12.

The exercise was a group work on what he had thought the day before which was Ascii and binary and also pixel theory as well as sound theory. I knew Ascii and binary back and front because I had done it for close to 6 years. The other two I knew a bit about, but not a lot. I helped out as much as I could and soon it was 12.

We did the corrections in class and my group got a few incorrect but it wasn’t all that bad. I went for lunch and hung out with my classmates up until class time. I arrived at class and a couple of minutes later the lecturer came and informed us that class would be canceled as she had a meeting about the new result system.

It was just a little after 1 and it was too early to go home, so I hung out with my friends up until 3, after which I went home. Got home for close to 5 and instead of jumping online, I decided to do the chores I had been neglecting. I finished everything for close to 7 after which I went online. I was too tired to blog so I browsed the net for a bit and checked out YouTube.

I then downloading some music and chat with a couple of friends, before I called it quits for midnight

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February 12th 2013 / Quote #140 Better Things Are Coming

Tuesday, (Friday will soon come), I had class at 8 and my body was in no mood for it, but I left bed and washed my face and soon I was up and about. I got down to doing my usual preparations of lunch and breakfast, when I realized that I hadn’t taken out a bread from the freezer.

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Quote #138 Faith

It’s the end or beginning of a new week (depending on how you view it), life just seems to fly past these days. It’s a Sunday today, and I am in a good mood, woke up late because the dream had just started getting good (If you know what I mean), but my mother called me and it was all gone. I was back to full strength, and so I had church, my mom was just starting to cook, and had already made breakfast for everyone. I ate and then went on doing my chores before I started getting ready for church.

I knew I was going to be late, as I left home for a bit after 10. I got to church and I found out that I had to work the projector, and I didn’t go to practice yesterday. I waited until the song had finished and then got down to doing my job. I have to say, it was probably the best I had ever operated the projector, as I was on point for almost all of the songs, and it was because I couldn’t hear what they were saying so I was having a hard time. I didn’t give up and was only off by a few seconds in that song but for the other songs, I was on point.

Before, I knew it, the morning worship was over, and I had just started enjoying myself (guess that’s what happens when you’re having fun), I got back to my seat, and prepared for the message today, (even though I can’t remember much of what was said) it was a good message, and I was awake the whole time. The clock moved rather slowly during this hour, but church eventually ended, and after a short meeting with the youths about next week’s activity, I headed home.

I got home and instantly I was online, I had the movie: The Bachelorette, but I didn’t feel like watching another chick flick, so I opened up Halo 1, and started on that. A little after I had started, my mom called informing me that my food was ready, so I came out and took it back to my room and continued my gaming. I had completed Halo in the regular mode already, but I decided to attempt it at the level just below Legendary. The first part of the game, I was like a regular Chuck Norris, the second part however, I got my but handed to me and so I decided to try my hand at multiplayer.

I searched for a bit and found a slayer type game, but it was teams and after I got accustomed to the mouse and the players, I started owning and killing regularly, so much so that everyone left and I eventually left because one person in a multiplayer server is pretty boring. I went back to single player mode and tried again and again but, I eventually gave up and decided to take a nap.

When I got up from my nap, I was feeling a lot more energized and decided to take a crack at blogging, when I had the idea about expanding my tutorial section, so as to accommodate a lot more people and also help me learn a lot more things as well. I wrapped that up for close to 8 and jumped onto twitter. I tweeted for a bit, the I jumped back into my gaming, but midway through, I had to exit as someone had spammed me on Skype and the game crashed because of it and I was angry.

I decided to cool off and went back onto twitter for around 10, which is when I remembered that the Grammys were showing tonight. Unfortunately, I missed it and I decided to go on YouTube for a bit and watch my favorite cartoon show on Mondo, then I started watching some tutorials on text before I called it a night and went to bed for 1 am.

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February 10th 2013 / Quote #138 Faith

It’s the end or beginning of a new week (depending on how you view it), life just seems to fly past these days. It’s a Sunday today, and I am in a good mood, woke up late because the dream had just started getting good (If you know what I mean), but my mother called me and it was all gone.

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