90% of Projects goes like this….
By ryan | May 3, 2009
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So you want make your photos look better without learning Photoshop?
By ryan | April 28, 2009
disclaimer: I am an armature photographer. And by that, I mean I never had any professional training, and I never owned an SLR.
You brought a new 15 MegaPixel compact digital camera for your trip to the Grand Canyon. It was 10 minutes before the sunset and you are amazed by the brilliant color and striking features of the red rocks. You take a whole lot of pictures to take home to gloat in front of your friends and family about your wonderful trip and what they have missed out. But after you loaded them into your laptop, they just don’t look like what you have seem. The colors look dull, the sky look bright enough but its completely white, and the canyon doesn’t really look that impressive at all. You started wondering if you should have spend that $1000 more to get that bulky SLR that your friend is raving about. Maybe if you had brought the SLR, everything will come out just as you see it. Well, there is always a next trip….
Flip that photo
Not to worry, you don’t need to take another trip to the Canyon just to get better pictures, though it is definitely worth visiting again. I can show you how you can quickly turn those dull pictures into something that will make your family and friends go “wow”, with no money down, and you can start making thousands of dollar right now! Ok, maybe not the last part.
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Sabah
By ryan | April 28, 2009
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Grand Canyon
By ryan | April 27, 2009
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Personalized Wordpress Theme Wanted – $500
By ryan | April 23, 2009
About Me
In my previous life, I was a Java/PHP programmer and I built stuff for people. Currently I am self-employee in field that is not related to technology what so ever, though I do occasionally get request to fix someone’s computer or build a blog/e-commerce site. I have turned most of these down because 1) i simply do have the time 2) i am not a good graphic designer and too lazy to learn. So if you are good at what you do and wants more work, I have them.
What I want:
Personalized Wordpress theme for my blog, www.rainydayinn.com. It will be used mostly to post up travel photos, travel stories and some general rants. The site uses the build-in gallery for WP to display photos. The theme design should incorporate this feature to display gallery, and should include navigation for gallery and comment field for individual photos. Overall I am looking for a wide screen layout without columns, so photos can be displayed without much scrolling. I prefer a horizontal menu, which display the post categories (5-6), achieve, calendar are optional. Simple but eye catching.
Requirement (important): I am looking for a complete theme, not just a graphic design. I could of course convert your design myself but I won’t because 1) I don’t have the time 2) or I am to lazy.
How to get paid
You show me your design on a WP site, we chat about it, tweak it a bit. If I like it, you send me the theme, I pay you either by check or PayPal.
If interested, please email me at ryanliu@rainydayinn.com
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Why I !♥ AT&T, and by extension Apple…
By ryan | August 25, 2008
My Glofiish (yes, that’s the correct spelling that ETen choose to call their new phones) X500 went into retirement early and I had to get my hands on a new phone pronto. As iPhone is all the rage these days, I naturally drove down to my local Apple store, thinking I could get my hands on a the 3G. Though I am aware of its many deficiencies, such as the contractually crippled GPS, capped 3G connection speed, deliberately castrated bluetooth, and poor battery life, I was still hopeful. Until I was told by the coolest geeky-looking apple guy that I am ineligible for the subsidized iphone for $199, since I am already a AT&T customer, which I already expect. But what really sets me off is that even if I spend $325 more for the unsubsidized iphone, which I was fully prepared to pay for, that the phone will still be locked to the AT&T network.
AT&T Sucks
So why the fuck should AT&T have any say over a piece of technology which I purchased and own fully? It is the same perverse indistrual logic which tries to tied the operating system (Windows) with PCs. The goal is to hope that customers will be blindsighted by the glorious iPhone and dumb enough not to consider the total cost of ownership, whichforces customer loyalty, and pedding up the bottomline and long-term financial guidance. Good for the company, and bad for everyone else.
People would argue that they are getting the wonderful tech toy that has “twice the speed at half the price”, and locking phone is a industrial norm. Looking at most of Europe and Asia, where customers fully own their phone and are capable of switch their carriers without the intimidation of contracts, cancellation fees, and cost of purchasing new equipment, our cellphone system sucks. The only way for phone makers to distribute their product is through phone companies, which decouples the competitive attention with the need of the consumer. It is such perverse system which stop technology advancement, and kept the real price of owning a cellphone surprisingly high in this country.
Therefore my main beef is with AT&T, but also shame on Apple, since they wasted their unique position of having a product that basically markets itself.
Rock on, the iPhone dev team!!!
Update: PwnageTool 2.0.3 Released!
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