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Gimp video tutorial : Electrify text effect

cba — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:30:23 +0000

Welcome to my website,

this a video tutorial to make a gimped electrify text effect.
The purpose is to make that :

Nice, isn’t it. I am sure you can find better tutorial but here is a based tutorial. For example, after done this picture you could work on thunder color to add more blue.

The main idea is to use wind filter into gimp to do this effect. We rotate picture by 90° to apply wind filter effect up and down.

Bye Bye…

(thanks to http://www.insideonlinevideo.com/2008/03/04/youtube-tests-hd/ to allowing a better video definition)

Gimp glow effect

cba — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:49:50 +0000

After a few tries I found how to make a glow effect with Gimp.

You must use two layers. One with the figure to glow filled in white and an other one a bit taller with glowing color. To make a tallest object just make a selection and grow it !

After applied some Gaussian blur to the second layer, that will make the glowing effect.

JabberTwitterBridge 0.2 is out !

cba — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:56:42 +0000

Hello,
The new JabberTwitterBridge is out ! What’s new ?

You can send tweets with your meeting status according Google calendar’s events
Change preferences ’s Gui
fixed a bug about proxy

According me it is a greet news ! Let’s check if users are interested in !

Downloadable Here !

Gimp is cool

cba — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:49:42 +0000

I was asking my self why we allways find a lot of Photoshop tutorial. After all gimp can do nice things too. Let have a look I do it in less than one hour :

Nice, isn’t it !

You can download picture in Gimp’s format by clicking here !

You can download Gimp on the official website by cliquing here !

New Java API implementing CSS

cba — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:39:26 +0000

Nice news, Tk-UI provide an implementation of CSS in Java for Swing and SWT. This is a nice news. It can make easiest for making great interfaces.

An example :

And you can find more information here.

Which future for Social Web?

cba — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:56:34 +0000

The real question it is to know how is going to involve all social’s websites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook or Digg’s like. In fact user lost a lot of times for going to one website to another one and can get overstress by this fact. Why going updating Twitters if I just updated MySpace? Why loosing my time with this entire websites?

In my humble opinion, I think the next version for Social Web will be an aggregator of this entire websites in just one. Just one website to update Twitters, Blog, MySpace and Facebook. I think the first starts of this future is shown by the website http://friendfeed.com/ which allow you aggregating updating from different social’s websites.

In fact, it is just my opinion… wait and see…

Swing Tips : JDialog with special icon and in taskbar

cba — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:45:16 +0000

The main problem with JDialog is that it is not appear by default in taskbar. (You know it is where application are at the bottom on your screen, near the Start menu.) Further more I like my JDialog also got a identified icon.

The first time I search for resolving this two problems, I found one solution for each problem but they don’t work together. After a few tries, I found the best way to do it.
This is my JDialog’s constructor :

public MasterPasswordForm() {
super(null,ModalityType.TOOLKIT_MODAL);
setIconImage(new ImageIcon( getClass().getResource("/images/icon.gif") ).getImage());
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
initialize();
jDialog = this;
}

The call to super’s contructor make application appear in taskbar.

The setIconImage’s function do for my icon !

The setLocationRelative to null it is for centering my Jdialog !

And this is a perfect integrated JDialog !

Swing Tips : How to center a JDialog

cba — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:15:09 +0000

This tips is easy to find nevermind I post it to have a note about it.

For example in a JDialog or JFrame constructor :

this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

Easy isn’it ?

A social updater

cba — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:56:25 +0000

Today, I was thinking about a software which allowing you to update every social website by only one used.

A simple form with a button and two texts inputs : One for a message and one for an URL.

The user enter it message and click on the button then Twitter, Gtalk status, MySpace status, Facebook are updated with this messages. And if user enter an URL then it is submited to del.icio.us or digg….

It seems a good idea, but I don’t know if a lot of people will be interested. My last experience with my jabber twitter bridge let me think that people doesn’t seem to like this sort of software.

So my question is how to get more people using my software. I think I must find the idea. The software which will be interesting for more than 4 persons.

Furthermore, if you got any idea let me a comment.

Jabber Twitter Bridge 0.1

cba — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:16:19 +0000

Koehn suggests a new feature for Twitter. You can check it is suggestion here.

He suggest to update Twitter’s status with one of a Jabber connection. I decided to develop a soft allowing to do it.

I finished last Friday, the first version 0.1. You can get a look here for having more information.

Main Features :
Update your Jabber or Google Talk status to publish a new post on a Twitter