I decided to revert back to my old theme. I realize there are some glitches and I’m working on that. I also removed some posts I had, more personal focused post I decided I’ll post on a personal blog.
I also just found out my current taxes owed on my house. Somewhere around $3500.
Photoshop tutorials in the near future.
I’m considering doing Adobe Photoshop tutorials, is there anyone who may be interested in this? I figure my first couple tutorials will cover what I know about the basics. I like the idea of doing tutorials because of course I could teach you something but at the same time I could learn more about it myself.
Note: If I do tutorials they will be how I like to do things. With something like Photoshop you have an endless amount of methods to achieve anything.
I turned my computer on a little bit ago when I woke up to find Windows running chkdsk before Windows started. I turned my computer off last night with no problems and nothing seems to be wrong with it. I hope this isn’t a warning of things to come.
I’m using Windows 7 and I believe thats the first time I’ve seen chkdsk using Windows 7.
One problem I have had for awhile was I couldn’t figure out how to apply a theme to Pidgin using GTK+. I have yet to find a suitable guide for this so I decided to write one.
What you will need:
Step 1: Install Pidgin with GTK+
Step 2: Configure the options and plugins (Optional)
Step 3: Find and download a theme – (Here)
Note: Take note of the theme name, you may know of a different site. If you want, post the link in the comments.
Step 4: Extract the zip file to C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\share\themes\
Step 5: Open the start menu and navigate to All Programs\GTK+\Theme Selector
Step 6: In the new window that opened click the name of the theme you downloaded under the Current User List
Note: You can click the theme name under the Global list as well.
Step 7: Restart or open Pidgin and you should see your new theme.
If you want to customize the theme a bit further you can use a built in plugin to control more aspects of your theme. (Notably Text, Link and different colors across Pidgin)
Step 8: Open the Pidgin Buddy list.
Step 9: At the top menu click Tools\Plugins
Step 10: Scroll down to Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control and check it so it is active.
Step 11: Now with Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control selected click the button Configure Plugin along the bottom of the window.
I’m not going to go in to detail on how to configure the colors
Any feedback you have is 100% encouraged.
Also posted at: techjawa.com (direct Link)
I am nearing the end of work on my site in terms of full scale. I do realize I will always be looking for ways to improve the code and layout structure but as of now I am pretty happy with the outcome.
Notably this is probably my first actual post to the site in terms of having a blog with updates and content. The first couple of post were for testing and general placement.
Edit: 5/28/2010
I deleted the first couple test posts. Hopefully for now on I will be making actual posts.