Ben Hovinga

I just finished making a stop motion animation using play-doh. I used “AnimatorDV Simple+“. Very easy to make but takes forever.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=164793525426

I have been listening to Daft Punk for some time now and I really like their music. Just resently I came across a movie that seems to be based on the music of daft punk. Have a look at it. (You may need to click through to see the video if you are in a reader or seeing this on facebook)

Here is the playlist that I made for it on youtube.

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Playlist Link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0B498755B2C5C200

I just went on facebook for two seconds before seeing a link posted by a page that I am a fan of. The link was pointed to another page that the person likes. The thing about this link is that it contained two links in one. Link one is the page that the link is ment to be, link two is a photo that the user was looking at before browsing to the page that he wanted to link. To activate that link you just have to remove that last part of the link, everything after the # symbol and including the # symbol.

To fix this. before linking to anything on facebook, press Ctrl+R or the Reload button on your browser, this will get rid of what you were looking at before, now you are able to copy the URL and use it as you like.

P.S. I have to get off the computer now because a thunder storm is passing through.

So many people know that I am going green. For a while now I have been very good with shutting off the lights and keeping the door closed when the A/C is on. Now I have two new green items that will help a little bit more. First is the metal water bottle, I can keep refiling this instead of buying plastic water bottles. I got it at school last year so its not that new but I am starting to use it more. The second item is the Tim Hortons Coffee Mug, I picked this up last night when I realized that I always go to Timmies after work. That’s a lot of cups that just get thrown out and Tim Hortons gives you $0.10 off whenever you use it. Odd enough not only are both items green but also the colour green. Cool! The total cost for these items is around $10, but that is a huge savings in about a month or two. Go out and get similar items and save some green in then end.

I just made a quick program to help me find colours of things that are on my screen. What it dose is when I press the hot key it gets the colour of the current pixel that my mouse is over. It pops up saying the colour code in the HEX format then copies it to the systems clipboard. I needed something that for a while then I decided to create one as I could not find one. I use the hex code for making webpages. It has saved me a lot of time because now I don’t need to look back into code to find out what the exact colour is of areas on the site. Very handy if you are creating a page add-ins, like google ads.

In the end I decided to share it with all of the developers out there that need something like this. I used AutoHotKeys and included both the source and compiled version in the download.

Here is the description that I used on my site.
The HEX Color Getter is a program that I made in auto hot keys that allows programers or website developers to figure out what the colour is of the current pixle that the mouse is over. To use it just start the program, you will see a little H with a green background in your taskbar. When you want to figure out what the colour is of a specific pixle on your computer screen (works on multi monitor setups) press Ctrl + Alt + Z. You will see a dialog box pop up and once you close the box it is automaticly sent to the computers clipboard. Now just paste it into your program. Note that you may need to append a # or 0x infront of it as its just the hex numbers on its own. This program includes both the source and a compiled version. The program lisenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.

You can download it now from my project page.
HEX Color Getter