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Author: Catzie

  • Wrapping text in table cells and DIV tags

    I’ve been doing research on how to wrap texts. First solution I found was giving the CSS property word-wrap the value break-word:

    word-wrap: break-word

    But this didn’t work in Firefox.
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  • Adobe Illustrator: Get a smooth blur effect

    I remember how the pixelated blur effects in Adobe Illustrator made me feel so frustrated back in my IT Elective 4 class. It’s only now that I found out the solution for that problem, after doing a Google search. Here is how we can avoid pixelated blur effects in Adobe Illustrator. Please note that I am using Adobe Illustrator CS4.

    1. Click on Effect.
    2. Choose Document Raster Effects Settings.
    3. Choose High (300 ppi) as your Resolution.

    Doing the three steps above enhanced the blur effect on the graphic I am working on. I hope it helps you too.

  • JavaScript: Setting the selected dropdown option by its index number

    Long time no new entry. 🙂 Internship is keeping me very busy. In this blog entry I’ll show you how to select a drop down option by specifying its index number.
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  • Easily embed web fonts to your web page using Google Font API

    I’ve been working on some website design recently. I used fancy fonts in the design sample I made in Adobe Illustrator, forgetting that I have to embed the fonts first to make them display on the visitors’ browsers even if they don’t have those fonts in their computer. I ended up using images on my header menu, making the web page take longer to load, and used fonts on site headings that are less matching to the website theme, making the design less attractive. I didn’t choose to embed the fonts I wanted to use because the procedures seem to take too much time from me.

    The designs I’m making are almost done when I found out about the Google Font API and the Google Font Directory. (more…)

  • Adobe Illustrator: If you cannot see or select points

    From now on I’ll be posting short entries like this, which will show solutions to small problems in graphics tools, programming, OS, and etcetera.

    I was working on an assignment (gradient mesh portrait) on Adobe Illustrator, when suddenly I could not see my mesh points. When I hovered on the mesh object I could see the lines, but clicking doesn’t let me select it. I tried drawing a path using the pen tool to check if I could select anchor points, and found out that I couldn’t select them too.
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  • CCNA Exploration 1 version 4.0 Network Fundamentals (Powerpoint Slides 1-11)

    Thanks to Catzie.net Blog’s visitor Ahmad M. for sharing with us his Powerpoint slides of CCNA 1. 🙂 I’ve been looking for this online for some time already but failed to find any in version 4.0.

    You may download the instructional materials from this blog entry.
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  • CCNA Exploration 4 version 4.0 Accessing the WAN (Powerpoint Slides 1-8)

    If you’re looking for course materials that you can install for offline viewing, click here to check the CCNA Exploration 4.0 Curriculum / Course Material installers, for offline viewing. They have more explanations that these PPT slides.

    Finally, Accessing the WAN! My last CCNA (I really hope that it is already!). 🙂 In this page I’m sharing the Powerpoint slides of chapters 1 to 8 for CCNA 4. The .ppt slides (instructors’ materials) are useful if want a quick reading about the chapters or for reviewing before exams.
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  • Restore missing desktop icons in Windows XP or Windows 7

    I noticed that all my desktop icons were gone. I thought it was only because my computer was hanging, so I restarted it. After the restart there were still no icons. I’m not the kind of computer user who knows every solution to every small problem so I searched for solutions to what happened. (And I’m posting this in case a visitor needs help with the same thing.)

    First thing I tried, based on a how-to page I stumbled upon (for Windows 7), was I right-click on my desktop and chooe Personalize. From the left side of the window that opened, I clicked on the “Change desktop icons.” There I checked the icons I wanted to appear. After clicking OK, there were still no icons.

    I did a bit more of searching and then (more…)

  • Fix PNG images with transparency in older Windows Internet Explorer versions

    I wonder if this post would still get hits from search engine result pages. So many other web pages feature this fix for IE 5.5 and IE 6 web browser, that the Catzie.net Blog’s entry might just show up on the… 10th page or so. lol.

    Anyways, I’m still posting this, in case there are some visitors browsing around who need help with properly displaying the transparency of .PNG images in IE5.5 and IE6. This also helps me easily find the needed code to fix the display. I need it from time to time when I design website layouts. 🙂

    Tip: Most of us are probably using the newer versions of Internet Explorer. I suggest that you download and use the IE Tester. It’s a web browser that lets you see how web pages render in different versions of IE – 5.5, 6, 7, and 8.

    I assume that as you read this, you are using Internet Explorer version 5.5, or the version 5.5 tab on the IE Tester.
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  • CCNA Exploration 3 version 4.0 (Powerpoint Slides)

    If you’re looking for course materials that you can install for offline viewing, click here to check the CCNA Exploration 4.0 Curriculum / Course Material installers, for offline viewing. They have more explanations that these PPT slides.

    This is the sequel to an older post, which is CCNA 2 Powerpoint Slides. This one features CCNA 3 – LAN Switching and Wireless Powerpoint slides, those .ppt lecture materials that instructors use.

    These are less tiresome to read than the curriculum materials.

    The following files are NOT CHEATSCO. :p
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