This is a slide show of a powerpoint that I made following my dad and I’s trip up to New Brunswick, Canada for the Keirstead Family Reunion in the year 2000. I meant to post this awhile ago but I just found it while searching for something on my external harddrive. As you can tell by watching this that its old and outdated. A couple of things I noticed off the bat Comic Sans typeface…horrible, Some really bad clip art/images (random Bart Simpson?), the third and most disappointing was the slow and obnoxious animations for all of the slides, luckily for you when I turned it into a slide show to be upload online I lost all of the slide animations so you guys don’t have to put up with it. Also some of the things I can’t believe that I put on there, the horrible excel graph and used the template from powerpoint. Although I guess I have to take into consideration that I was 14 when I created this and it was before I had even started high school so I guess I can give my self a break.
EDIT: For some reason its coming out really small. Click here to view it full screen.
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Lilkeith | No Comments »
If you check out www.keithkeirstead.com there is a new design up. Nothing to tricky, nice simple and clean. Got rid of that slow flash opening and the flash gallery for displaying my work. I also was able to add descriptions to my portfolio page as well as adding some new work and PDF versions for those who need it. Looking back at all the years I decided to take a screen shot of the so far of the 3 different designs that I have had. Hit the jump to seem them in all of their glory.
As you can tell I have a new design for my blog. Over the next couple of weeks I am going to try and update the blog to my liking and adding some pages as well as updating my regular site. I am going to try and go for a whole new theme as well as making it more user friendly. If anybody has any suggestions feel free to email me.
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Lilkeith | No Comments »
Its been two weeks since Firefox 3 has come out and I’m just getting around to posting a “full” review of it. Overall I’m impressed with it, its a big step up from Firefox 2. There have been some visual changes as well as software and memory changes. Now I don’t know much about programing so I have no idea what they did but all I know is that its faster then 2 and that it uses a lot less memory then 2 did. One of the changes that I love that they did is when you enter your user name and password into a site a bar drops down from the top to ask if you want to save the password or not. In the older versions and was a pop up window that asked you which was extremely annoying if you entered the wrong password you wouldn’t know until after you selected if you wanted to save it or not.
Today was the official release of the ever popular Firefox 3. Today was the official day to download to try and set the Guinness book of world records record. Right off the bat when Firefox 3 went live their servers started to crash from everybody trying to download. Once they fixed that ahem minor problem everything seems to be going fine. I was able to download and install without a problem. Once I installed I was expecting for only a handful of my 31 extensions to work. However all but 7 worked and installed correctly. So before the browser even started I was happy with them all just working. Once the browser was up and running I opened a few tabs and was surprised how much faster it was then Firefox 2. They had developed a new “theme” for it to fit across all platforms and there appeared to be some people who didn’t like this new look. I however think it works just fine under Vista (yes I use vista). Right now I have just been playing around with and wanted to post to tell people to go download and Spread Firefox and help to break a world record! Expect a full review later this week when I’ve used it for a couple of days.
Today was Apples WWDC (world wide developers conference) conference today. With the much anticipated iPhone 3G release as well as the iPhone 2.0. So why am I saying No no no? Well look at at the name “iPhone” first of all nothing was released about the phone part of it, just add-ons for it. Then there’s the price for it….you ready…..$199 for 8GB and $299 for 16GB version. That’s it. For a phone. An iPhone. A PHONE. Are you kidding me?
When my parents signed up for the their mobile plan they got my phone for free. Now my phone doesn’t have a camera, or have GPS or have a touch screen but you know what it does do? It makes phone calls, receives phone calls, receives voice mail, receives and sends text messages, plays games, does email and even has Internet.
Now why would anybody want to pay $199 for a phone when you could easily get pretty much the same features for $199 less? Hit the jump to find out the big secret.
I’ve mentioned Last.fm before (here) to track my listen habits and statistics. It gives you pretty much endless statistics and graphs and list, yet I crave more, I need more. Then along comes the wonderful and re-launched Lastgraph. Lastgraph creates, you guessed it, graphs based on your last.fm feed. All you have to do is go to their site and enter in your Last.fm username and then click on posters and pick from what dates you want data to be collected. Then after awhile your data will be collected and made into a graph similar to what’s pictured above. The way the graph is made is that the more songs you listened to by an artist the bigger their color section gets. So for February/March I was listening to a lot of Pink Floyd and Boston, then for April it was Blue Oyster Cult Then for May it seems to be Elton John and Michael Jackson and since then its pretty much dominated by The Beatles. The huge increase with The Beatles has to be attributed to me watching Across the Universe. The picture above is really bad quality, but you can download a PDF version from Lastgraph that you can zoom in to see every bend and curve and name. You can view a PDF of mine here.
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Lilkeith | No Comments »
Big Buck Bunny is a animation movie that was released last month both digitally and physically. Its licensed under the Creative Commons License so anybody can view and use it and its source files. The movie is a little under 10 minutes long so make sure you have time to watch it. I found it to be entertaining and the animation to be amazing, I wish I could do anything close to that. While the story line could have been a little better and the characters could have been developed more the technical side of the project was amazingly done. You can head over to their web site to download the movie or purchase the DVD and support them.
This movie was created by a team of 7 who have spent the past 7 months working on it in Amsterdam. What makes this so interesting and amazing is that its licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Which means that anybody can use the images, movie, or source files if they want. I think the only limiting factor is that they can’t use it for profit. It was created by Blender Institute completely using Blender. Blender is a completely free application for a creating 3D animation and objects.
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Lilkeith | No Comments »
Yesterday I mentioned that I began using Digsby instead of pidgin for my IM needs. So now that I’ve had a little time to play around with it I figured I would give it a full review. First off the bat it takes some getting used to, its not as straight forward as aim or pidgin. One thing I have to mention is that they just added Facebook chat. Which adding it is amazing but how quickly they added it was quick, less then a week I think. I already mentioned the email yesterday so I won’t mention that again. But go ahead and hit the jump for the full review.
I stumbled upon Digsby a couple of weeks ago and decided to try it out. It was alright the first time I tried it but the one thing that kept me from switching was that all of my conversations were logged under Pidgin and I often reference them so it was a big thing to not have. However this week the site makeuseof.com posted a blog entry on Digsby and I made a comment about the log issue. Within probably an hour I received an email from a guy telling me about the digsby log converter and then there was a comment from one of the dev members telling me about the converter (Here is the converter).So I gave it a try and now I am a happy digsby user. One of the things I love about digsby is the ability for it to synch with pop/imap email. So that it will give me constant updates when I receive an email and then open it with ease. The other item mentioned in the title is Woopra. Woopra is like Google analytics and tracks visitors to your site. Hit the jump for why its so cool.
Edit: Updated the Digsby Log Converter Link. New Link here.
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