About RocketDock The Blog of Scott Hansen » Overcoming Creative Block I do not know what to write. I am sitting here staring at the screen, running sentences in my head, and turning my music on and off. Earlier I went foraging for food (in hopes of sparking some magical words), but ended up getting distracted by Arrested Development for 20 minutes. This happens just about every time I sit down to do anything. I’ll probably go play the guitar between this paragraph and the next. Of course this is a familiar situation. Knowing this I decided to ask some of today’s most exciting artists and creators what they do when the ideas aren’t flowing. What follows are 25 strategies from these creatives to spark your inspiration; hopefully you’ll find something helpful in there. Nicolas Felton is a graphic designer based in New York City I think I rely on a few tactics to keep my creativity flowing. I try to alternate the tenor of my years, like crop rotations. My other strategy is to keep my plate as full as possible. Tom Muller is a Belgian graphic designer Michael C.
Janki Method | Jack Kinsella - Rails Developer London MUST READ: Major Update To JANKI Method For nearly two years after I wrote this post I continued to use flashcards for learning programming and made a number of large refinements. I wrote about Janki Method Refined on my company blog. Open it up in a new tab and read it next to get a complete picture. This is a guide to becoming a productive programmer quickly. Janki Method is an attempt to shorten the time needed to learn programming. Well-intentioned learners don’t always learn quickly, despite their smarts and enthusiasm. You’ve read that learning by doing is better than passive reading; that expressing ideas in writing forces understanding; that knowledge needs constant revision to stay fresh; that creativity comes from linking disparate ideas; and that your past mistakes are your best teachers. Janki Method is built on the assumption that Malcolm’s 10k to mastery can be hastened if you take a focused approach to learning. Problems With Learning Problem 1: We Forget Too Quickly
Windows 7 | dkszone.net Enable/Disable Recently Opened Items In Right-Click Explorer Icon On Taskbar For faster access of recently opened files, Windows 7 by default settings stores and displays recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar. If that intrudes your privacy, you can anytime disable it. Here is how you can make Windows 7 to display or not display recently opened items in the right-click menu of explorer on taskbar. How To Open Windows 7 Theme Pack Wallpapers On Windows Vista, XP, And Linux Windows 7 desktop themepacks (*.themapack) are very popular among Windows 7 users. Turn Your Windows 7 PC Into Wi-Fi Hotspot For Sharing Internet Windows 7 lets you create wireless hotspot by means of which you can instantly share any internet connection. How To Adjust Hard Disk Space Reserved For System Restore In Windows 7 System Restore feature in Windows is a useful feature and most of us use it when something goes wrong in our PC. How To Add Search Internet Link In Windows 7 Start Menu
Boot Windows 7 System Repair Disc from USB Using Grub4Dos How to Boot Windows 7 System Repair Disc from USB Pen Drive/Hard Disk Using Grub4Dos Requirements: 1. Lets Start Step 1: Follow this tutorial to create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc. Step 2: Convert the Repair Disc into an ISO file. Step 3: Run MultibootISO, install MultibootISO into your USB Storage Device(ie.pendrive, External Hard Disk). Step 4: Copy w7repairdisc.iso into your USB Storage. Step 5: Look for the file menu.lst in your pendrive/External Hard Disk, edit it with Notepad++. Code: title Windows 7 System Repair Disc find --set-root /w7repairdisc.iso map /w7repairdisc.iso (hd32) map --hook root (hd32) chainloader (hd32) If you have no idea where to insert the above command line, just insert it at the end of the file. Done. If you are confused and don't know how to edit menu.lst, then, open it with Notepad++, delete all the command lines and replace by the following command lines. Note There are 2 types of Windows 7 Repair Disc - 32 bit & 64 bit. 1.
Security Headlines You'll Never Read | PCWorld Business Center Whenever I read another article about how Company X or University Y or Governmental Organization Z was "recently" hacked -- usually "by the Chinese" -- I can't help but chuckle. Those headlines -- the most recent about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- shouldn't read, "Company X was hacked!" They should read, "Company X has been hacked for years but just now noticed!" Headlines that, to me, would truly be newsworthy include: "Company fully patches Java and Adobe products""Organization trains end-users to recognize basic social engineering attacks""IT department reviews all its event logs""Company runs SQL database app without SQL injection exploits""Prominent corporate website not subject to XSS exploits""Company knows where all of its data is" [ Also on InfoWorld.com: "Chinese hack on U.S. Stories about successful attacks are old news because everyone's already been hacked. How do these "uber" hackers pull off the types of attacks that make headlines?
the free encyclopedia London Underground: which are the top tracks about the tube? The London Underground is 150 years old this week. On 9 January 1863 the first tube train embarked from Paddington station – and now the system transports 1,107 million passengers each year, employs 19,000 staff, and serves 270 stations with a total of 426 escalators (see the TFL key facts page for more of these exciting stats). The Guardian celebrates this anniversary today with a special edition of G2, featuring the best tube stops, the finest underground movies and – oh yes – Stephen Moss traveling along the Central line. We'd also like your help compiling a list of songs about the London Underground. Add your recommendations to the comment thread below, or to this Spotify playlist. Ideally, we'd like to get a list that includes songs mentioning each of London's 270 underground stations – but there probably aren't many tunes written about Totteridge and Whetstone, Mudchute or Ickenham.
The Windows Blog Executing Control Panel Items There are two ways to open a Control Panel item: The user can open Control Panel and then open an item by clicking or double-clicking the item's icon.The user or an application can start a Control Panel item by executing it directly from the command line prompt. WinExec("c:\windows\system32\control.exe", SW_NORMAL); WinExec("c:\windows\system32\control.exe MyCpl.cpl", SW_NORMAL); When a Control Panel item is opened through a command line, you can instruct it to open to a particular tab in the item. This topic discusses the following: Windows Vista Canonical Names In Windows Vista and later, the preferred method of launching a Control Panel item from a command line is to use the Control Panel item's canonical name. By convention, the canonical name is formed as "CorporationName.ControlPanelItemName". WinExec("%systemroot%\system32\control.exe /name Microsoft.WindowsUpdate", SW_NORMAL); New Commands for Windows Vista Personalization System Programs and Features Regional and Language Options
Creating A Professional Magazine Web Layout » LoonDesign This is a tutorial to show you how to create a magazine web layout. We also discuss about what we need to pay attention and what we have to ignore. There are a few things we need to pay attention when designing a magazine web layout. Font (sizes, colors, type and style)White space ( spaces, padding and line height )Arrangement ( structure each sections organized ) The main goal of a magazine site is to present useful information to the readers. Result Before we get started, let’s check out what we are aiming for in this tutorial. Step 1 Open new document (CTRL + N) with 1024px width and 960px height, RGB color. Step 2 Create a new folder and name it as “header”. Step 3 Create a new folder and name it as “nav”. Step 4 Subscriber number (readers) is very important for a magazine site. Step 5 Create a new folder, rename as “feature”. Step 6 We can now create all the sections by using the same technique in Step 3. Step 7 For the icon we created for the author, refer to the image above. Step 8 Step 9
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine even smarter. This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one. The decisions made at the weekly Search Quality Launch Meeting will wind up affecting the results you get when you use Google’s search engine to look for anything — “Samsung SF-755p printer,” “Ed Hardy MySpace layouts,” or maybe even “capital Burkina Faso,” which just happens to share its name with this conference room. You might think that after a solid decade of search-market dominance, Google could relax. Still, the biggest threat to Google can be found 850 miles to the north: Bing.
The London underground at 150 - a birthday journey | UK news Twenty years ago there would have been only one possible headline for this odyssey along the entire length of the Central line – "Look back in Ongar". Or perhaps "Look forward in Ongar", since, as the eastern terminus of the line, that sleepy corner of Essex would have been the obvious place to start. But in 1994 Ongar station, underused and loss-making, was closed. "Look back in Epping" just doesn't sound the same, so dammit, I'm starting in Ongar anyway. Ongar's tube history has been largely written out. When Ongar lost its tube, the locals were devastated. I take the steam train from Ongar's pretty station, with its real coal fire, to North Weald, which was also axed in 1994, passing the remnants of Blake Hall, which was closed in 1981 when it had the distinction of being the least used station on the London underground, with just six passengers a day. From Epping I go just one stop – to Theydon Bois. Those elderly locals have good reason to obsess.