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timba_bng:
too bad it requires high speed broadband internet which is not something Naija gamers can just get hold of

Very true. Other than that, considering the rogue tactics they've employed in the past, I wonder if they won't sneak in something under the table for those who have hacked PSPs (conspiracy thought)

timba_bng:
looking at her . . . . . . i think she's got the statistics

Yeah - but we're all used to jolie's , _snap!

timba_bng:
i'll do anything to see that

You know!!!! _{(wait for me, make i go gym, )}

Gamine:
God of war na fantasy na

with Syphon, it could actually happen

who said i can't weld chains to 2 of mama's butcher knife strap am for back walk bare chested? _{(kai! na wa for my imagination o! )}

Not much of a fan of the Tomb Raider series but what do you think about seeing a new face for the game franchise?

There's a new Lara Croft in town, and she's a 23-year-old gymnast from South London, Tomb Raider publisher Eidos announced this week.

Ever since actress Rhona Mitra first took on the role of Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft in 1997, Eidos has sought real-life counterparts for its acrobatic archaeologist heroine, and they've helped propel the video game series to worldwide sales topping 32 million. Up until now the British publisher's picks have tended to be models or, like Jolie, movie stars, but Alison Carroll might just be the first Croft to have the physical abilities to do her famously acrobatic opposite number justice.

Carroll boasts 12 years of gymnastics training and numerous honors representing Great Britain in sporting displays. Although her Lara role won't involve any movie work, she'll still be kept sufficiently busy traveling the world promoting the latest Tomb Raider game, Underworld, to allow her to quit her day job -- as a receptionist.

"It's unbelievable how realistic [Lara's] movements are in Tomb Raider: Underworld and it's so gratifying to be able to use my years of gymnastic training to portray such a beloved character," Carroll said in a press release.

Although Carroll's more than able to match Croft kick for kick, she's still undergoing a training regime that includes weapons classes in Eastern Europe, survival technique instruction from British SAS troops, and -- naturally -- a crash course in archaeology.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/british-gymnast-is-new-tomb-raider/1236791

_{Personally? - there are better ways to squeeze your face}

becuz it relieves stress, and you have a good time pulling off moves you couldn't do in real life

as for the syphon filter - i wasn't a fan until i got the PSP version. the rest is history

Gamine:
i realised it was because i wanted to just start shooting people
and prolly my stress would disappear.

If syphon filter does it for you, what would you think of people who use god of war?_{point: you stress strong sha}

kehers:
One of the strong points of web design/development is browser compatibilities.
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It is hoowever not a bad idea to keep a couple of browsers on your machine - atleast the most used ones like IE, Firefox and Opera to test designs before they even go online.

Yup. Very true. I test with IE6, IE7 and FF. There are emulators that enable you run 6 & 7 together. For benefit of the thread you can find such using Multiple IEs (Win Xp only)

ok, i'm usually a silent member. but i gotta admit, this got to me.

one of the worst crimes in our generation is the theft of one's time. because one will always look back at what could have been.

But seriously, na love be dat? OMG! _{(and who are those 3 that voted "romantic? "}

Hi fellas.

I just got a PSP today, "Phat" version, with OFW 3.03. Is there a way to downgrade WITHOUT the GTC Method?

sniperwolf:
What's special about 1.5 mine is 3.03 and I play games from my memory card and what's the meaning of homebrew

Hey sniperwolf, if you can you could show me how this works. thanks in advance

@poster:

Why don't you add a poll to the thread? that way we'll do this by the numbers

_{oops, forgot mine - No Air}

All righty, will check later. I'm salivating.

Also, you might wanna take a lesson from Josh Whedon if you're implementing a web series

I wish you the very very best.

grafikdon:
It's animated. . . cel shaded 3D. The screen shots. . . as usual you're free to use 'em, no problem at all but I'll try to load a high res version of the biker girl.

Excellent work man. Excellent!_{(but you site has a virus sha - came across it when i browsed your site. do an online scan)}

i used to be afraid of this until i SAW someone's testimony.

the Friend and her fiance were AS/AS, bottom line she prayed, and it changed! Explain that!! (3x tested)

So now, i ain't got no fear. No be God?

Look at your topic title. It surely is not optimistic. Mabybe Life is trying to tell you something like "how long will you go like this?"

Dude, there comes a time in everyone's life where you SIMPLY DECIDE THAT THINGS MUST CHANGE!

That's me for you. Believe!

LOL _{(maybe - if you treasure your current ID)}

Scarlet Johanson and Jessica Alba _{(she's taken now)}

Neptune:
i acctually did everything from scratch with coreldraw & photopaint. (not photoshop). i seem to prefer photopaint to photoshop (don't know why )
anything else u need to know? and oh, i did'nt use brushes!

Chairman! Watch am o. Plenty Photoshop Zealots dey for this forum o!

But seriously, you did good. it takes a lot to move me, especially your attention to detail. Kudos!

_{but come o, this beautiful wallpaper for nairaland?}

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Absolutely fantastic.usually i don't specify height, unless i need to.well done. As for the 'thunder stolen', be prepared to see more.

beats me why one would go that far.aren't we content with .com and others?maybe i'm missing something, but in things like these people usually fare better when their options are limited.

na wa o! so a site looks 'nigerian' if you think otherwise of its design. That's quite harsh. have faith in your country small. at least if you do a good design, wouldn't you add "proudly nigerian"? or it's somewhere else?

So much carnage. its both!

webdezzi:
@webmonk, if you are looking out for errors, mozilla is one sure way to miss it

Lol. Sureeee. Perhaps IE is up to the task?

i checked it out (Firefox) and everything seems fine _{(perhaps they have secret military department that check every link on obama and saw your post - who knows?)}

As for quality assurance wise, i'm sure we won't get any progress in that regard until people actually start giving value to their websites

However, negligible errors will always abound, especially when WYSIWYGs are used (i used TotalValidator). The most important thing, i suppose, is to ensure all works well in most browsers, considering that newer browsers tend to suppress these errors (I stand corrected though)

@poster, i don't mean any ill, but i'm sure if you compare your website with something like yahoo personals, i think you'll get what yawatide was saying.

At the end of the day, a web project boils down to 2 things:

1: Design
2: Function

Combination of these 2? Value That's what the web is all about.

Look at it this way: The audience that you're trying to meet, for the most part, probably already have a dating site that they spend their time on. What do you have to offer them that they don't already have?

The sites that people come to are those that give them VALUE. No one complains about the ads on Facebook because there are other things that Facebook has to offer besides Ads

Jst an advice

Awwwwww. _{It's lovely (always wanted to do a wedding website )}

Although you would want to remove the scrollbars in the Wedding Bars and correct the misspelling under the navigation of the same page

tundewoods:
[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][color=#000099]
and i'm feeling rather bloomy today in the mood for comments & reviews.

_{Weddings have that aesthetic effect}

webguru:
i cld always design a site wt fireworks bt as a coder, im thinking of loading time, SEO and functionality

I'm sure a 50KB HTML design overhead won't break your app (Thank God for CSS)

webguru:
bt it looks so easy, it feels guilty

LOL. Ok - this comment takes the cake - sometimes its like that. _sometimes.

webguru:
i hope i can devote time to designing as i have all the packages on my system even animepro

*sighs* so much to learn - so much to do - so little time

So many titles for a similar set of skills. I go remix my own o!

But to the topic, uspry1 has raised many valid points. As per the job issue sha - I'm convinced that if you have da skills you can get the cheese. Most of those Job hirers in the graphics market know what they are looking for. They've seen what jaw dropping graphics can do (ever remember that feeling you had for visiting a site that was wonderful, even if there wasn't much you could do with it?). For the most of it, if need be, they will hire someone else to do the programming. And in developed countries, this is actually the case (division of labour), as opposed to the overabused "master of all trades" mentality due to economic factors. Afterall, ideal jobs are scarce.

I remembered when i went for an interview for the position of a graphics/web designer. Nine people asked questions concerning my skills (conference style - and not your "which HTML tag does what?" kind of questions). I handled every question like a friend waking me up from sleep and asking for my name, simply because i got my hands dirty for 2yrs prior. But i wouldn't have been that good if did both programming/designing at the same time. But give me time to enter programming and imagine how my resume will be like

Focus on one and the other will follow.

sbucareer:
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Why do you need to reinvent the wheel? Use Outlook Express to access any known email server on Earth. As long as you know the email server config, I don’t see why Outlook cannot retrieve your emails.

About marking read and unread attributes, log into your original email facade and go to setting and configure your server to allow program to retrieve emails and leave the original email in the server.

Unless there is another requirement you are trying to achieve without our direct knowledge, Outlook will be sufficient for your task.

Thanks, but what i actually want to do is to create FROM SCRATCH a php program that carries out an action if it detects a mail, specifically using a cron job to check for set intervals (more like the 1st example), so all actions are carried out on the server without my interaction

But it seems that where i need to go requires me to reinvent the wheel. And e no b small task.

@uspry1:
Yes - i'm familiar with the contact form. i've also done form to email questionaire scripts. Thanks

I'm looking for a script or tutorial (preferably a class) that can access the email account of a domain (something like address@domain.com), retrieve unread messages AND mark the unread msgs as read, as opposed to deleting them. Most of the tutorials I've seen use classes that are either old (1999) or use deprecated functions (now everyone's using PHP5), and it seems components like SwiftMailer are for sending mails rather than reading them. Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated. I could have used a webmail based script, but i need this particular function specifically to for an app I'm building, so better to learn from scratch.

Examples of what it could be used for:

- Wordpress can post a blog article for you if you send an email with the article to a specific mail address that wordpress can access automatically. It checks for mail and adds the post if it finds a unique code in the mail (something you specified)

- Similar actions shd be possible for custom CMSes where YOU can schedule routine functions rather than logging unto the site and doing the same (particularly useful if you're somewhere it takes an hour to open your mail or when you're blogging on the move - with your phone)

the possibilities are endless - if i can get the email class up and running - any help? I'm no pro to php so be easy on me.

It's possible - but are you willing to pay the cost?

You'll know deep within yourself that the dedication you put into programming is roughly the same as into designing. I've dabbled fairly deep into both to know this much. It's now up to you to decide how much of your time you're willing to trade to acquire whatever skills (graphical) you think you're lacking in.

But eventually, you'll end up being proficient in both, though one will always be higher than the other. I started from designing and now into programming and i could very much ask myself the same question. But as i hack into it everyday, i know it's possible (and given the hell i went through in CSS - i dare say that it is a programming language in that context )

Start with Fireworks. Its beautiful and user friendly, and there are more than a legion of Firework Zealots here on Nairaland. Then, if the obsession for jaw dropping and bandwidth efficient graphics overwhelms your soul - be sure to turn to the dark side - Photoshop!!!https://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/msg/emoticons/vader.gif_{(i hope i don't start another photoshop vs fireworks war!)}

charliebiz:
Sorry Mr. Webmonk (the web does not make the monk)

On the contrary, it is the monk that makes the web

@ poster:

Surely you could have come up with a better topic title than what you have. Rather than helping, the title scares people from doing online business or anything related - which is vital in our time. Its the kind of stuff that force banks to disable the cards for online use, which on the contrary doesn't solve the problem at all. People are suffering from lack of knowledge, and how the people are "sensitized" by that knowledge is pivotal to how they will take action.