Wednesday, March 31, 2010

MS Word - Different Header and Footer

I've made some images for the page numbering that I'd like to use for my print design. But just so I don't need to be the only person doing all the art work, I've also used MS Word for consolidation instead of producing the pages in Photoshop or Magiq. Now, don't get me wrong, MS word is my defacto word processor. However, I've never used it to produce any of my print work, so to speak.

So I have a problem, I want to use the page numbering images I've made for the pages. Here's how:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5018106_create-different-headers-word.html

However, at step 13, I've used "Next Page" instead of "Continuous".

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Bibtex

As I am having problem with Memento that Robot Girl gave me, I have to look for alternative for my citations.

So I've found Bibshare via http://www.bibtex.org/Format/, but I have no idea how to use it in the document. I've added the bibtex successfully... now what?

Photoshop - Free downloads

As I am searching for photoshop templates for print work, I came across this site: http://pewterz.blogspot.com/.

An absolute delight! I can't wait to use some of these beautiful templates!!!

So much templates' out there. Way cool!

What I need is to torn an image. This is the method I will use: http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/tornedge.asp

And then the part where I need to hide, I will pixelate it: http://photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/fade-pixels/


Or should I crumple it: http://www.tutorialhero.com/click-4374-crumpled_paper.php






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I love this pop art background. Lovely!
http://psdesignzone.com/half-tone-pop-dots-effect

Seriously love the polaroid borders!!!
http://www.tutorialallstar.com/photoshop/drawing/recreating-a-polaroid-photograph-in-photoshop/

Skew the image to look polaroid-ish.
http://www.gfxwiz.com/content/how-create-a-polaroid-photo-effect

Nice but unrelated photoshop tutorials on everything and nothing:
http://photoshop-pack.com/category/featured-tutorials/

Monday, March 29, 2010

Creative Resume

http://resources.savedelete.com/70-most-artistic-and-creative-resumes-of-all-time.html


Some really interesting and creative CVs. I need to revisit them and steal their ideas!

Friday, March 26, 2010

Making life easier when writing engineering paper

To self:

1. Always write the equations, no matter if it's only the alpha sign in Math Equation (Latex equivalent) so as to save you from more grief later when copying the text for full dissertation.

2. Always keep a good citation method. EndNote doesn't install at all for me, Memento does not work on Word 2003. Need to find an alternative.

3. Write summary at the same time when reading the paper for the 2nd time. First time is for understanding and scribbling.

4. IEEE: Mark equation with (x) right justified. Refer to equation later with "Therefore, (x)..." without using Equation (x) or Eq (x). However, to begin a sentence, we should "Equation x..."

5. IEEE: Annotate tables and figures with "Figure x: bla bla" and "Table x: bla bla". Refer to figure and table with abbreviation "Fig" and "Table". Tables are numbered with Roman numerals.

Infinite: Start early... Who am I kidding? I kick myself every sem. I thought I'd be wiser by now.

Sanyo Xacti

I've thought about it and I am really liking the Sanyo Xacti.
Especially this model:
http://sanyo.com/xacti/english/products/vpc_cs1/index.html

Then I can do my silly video processing and perhaps play with this method:

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Left/Right Brain

I was reading this article and felt I'm more of a right-brain prone than left-brain. Which I think... Is not a bad thing but I need to improve and be a better person with more left-brain characteristics.

http://painting.about.com/library/blpaint/blrightbraintable.htm

Sunday, March 21, 2010

VTK -helpful sites

I've finished my dreaded vtk medical visualization (geez... I hate it when I start to type american).
Anyways, I've used these sites to help me understand vtk and how to write the report.

http://www.sapne.net/526/proj2.html

http://vis.lbl.gov/Research/ChomboVis99/vtk-initial.html

Tutorial:

http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/vtk/slide1.html

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~disz/cs-341/colorvis/index.htm

http://www.evl.uic.edu/aspale/cs526/final/index.htm

This is my protein which someone says looks like te_t_cles.

Strange Feelings

I found Yuki Isoya again on youtube and felt strange listening to this particular song, Seed Of Happiness.



So I went through this blog and found that I used to listen to this song on repeat during Y1S1 assignments. Strangely that was only 2 years ago and yet I felt that I was really young then. I've aged exponentially.