Computer Hardware We love you but we also hate you

RAM I need more, a lot of you techy guys out their will think I’m mad only having 512MB of RAM well I don’t blame you for thinking I’m mad I would love to have more I have some RAM on my desk right now but my motherboard uses Dual Memory meaning you have to have at least 2 of the same sizes e.g. 256mb + 256mb or 512mb + 512mb if you have something like I’ve got on my desk 256mb + 512mb it will not work.

Some of you might be thinking what a pain but in all fairness I would never buy a motherboard that doesn’t have dual memory, dual memory allows you to spread the load around allowing to use it faster for example rather than having a 512mb you could have 2 x 256mb allowing you to get much better speed of accessing the RAM this can go the same for using RAID on your hard drives like with dual memory I would never go without RAID basicly RAID allows you to connect up 2 hdd’s but windows or what ever OS you use sees it as one and splits your data across the two hard drives so your hard drive runs at 7200rpm normally now times that by two and you will find yourself quite happy.

Hard drive restrictions be gone.

Now as you might no using windows its easy to get around things using programs already made by them so today we shall explore drive restriction, do you ever get the message “You do not have permission to access this drive” well this is for you.

Now their can be many ways to get around this for starters using a third party application like FireFox Portable just type in C:\ in the address bar.
Or if you want to make yourself look better you can use CMD now if you open up CMD and type in subst /? This will give you more help on what subst exactly does, well it allows you to create a virtual drive taking the restrictions off.

So just type in subst Z: C:\ this will make a virtual drive called Z which will have C drives files in it.

Key Port Amazing Product

Darksat sent me a link the other day linking to “key Port” and it looks amazing at the moment I take it that the product is in the graphics stage but they do have a a form where you can sign up to news etc on their website.

The Key port will hold up to 6 keys in their current design, it also have thumb sliders allowing you to put your chosen key out using your thumb it really does look like a brilliant idea keeping your keys in one of these if you compare it to a key chain you will notice that it looks so much better!

My opinion on this is by looking at it I can imagine it being a bit chunky but then again having the keys on a chain would be even bigger, so it could be handy if you own 6 keys that are chunky then buy a key port, or just get some smaller keys, another thing that worries me is the cost on their blog you will read that it can cost $50 + which for a key holder seems a bit hight.

Theme Crazy This Week

Well this week if you visit my site daily you would of noticed all the blog designs I’ve come up with and I’m having loads of fun and I doubt I’m going to stop at this rate.

Why am I doing this though it’s a simple answer really trying to learn some more, its amazing what you can do if you set your mind to it now my current theme I think has been a massive improvement considering all the themes I’ve been through.

My secret is start from the base build a very basic theme no color no pictures nothing, and work you’re way up from that, draw it on paper what you want then get ready to rumble in the Photoshop ring.

If you’re interested in any themes or would like me to design one you can always contact me at Markie Designs.

Website Designing Fun or What!

Now if you’re like me you love to experiment with Photoshop, now I’ve done posters to website designing and one of my favorite is web designing, its not just seeing it in Photoshop its so much more first you have to plan it out either on paper or just a quick sketch in Photoshop then its making each individual part header, sidebar and footer.

Then you need to decide what’s best for the client for an example I’m going to use my personal site Typer Tappers now one of my designs uses a lot of transparency and what’s the best format to use for that PNG, but the biggest problem here is Internet Explorer 6 now I know for a fact it doesn’t support transparency which is a major bummer because its one of my favorite formats but I thought I should make it then check it out in IE.
So I did that and it doesn’t look that bad and considering the IE users don’t stay on my site very long I think I’m in the clear.
You also need to consider the fact that version 6 is outdated we now have version 7 of internet explorer which supports transparency in PNG files.