ShadowReality

Instead of giving another episode of my amazing “Journey For the Perfect Screen Recorder” series, I’d thought to give just the result of my success. The program that I have found is My Podcast Recorder by Deskshare. This video is a Counter Strike Source Custom Skin Tutorial. Now, instead of giving you the Youtube link(It still exists), I will try something new and give you the link to the Vimeo video as it is a much higher quality than the standard YouTube.

Hope you like it and I really hope this goes on Smokey’s refrigerator. Or on the right side under his Spray Tag Tutorial.

Day 2

So in a random forum that I found while I was searching about my problem on Google, this person had the same synchronization problem as me. Instead of getting any answers, he says he found a program called CamStudio, so I went ahead and I downloaded the program but just to be safe, I downloaded another screen recorder programs as well.

ZD Soft screen recorder worked wonders……the first time. The second time I tried it, it wouldn’t actually record so I was stuck with Camstudio. I tried Camstudio to record a tutorial, A CS:S (Counter Strike: Source) Custom Skin tutorial to be exact. After recording, I went ahead and played the file. The problem with this screen recorder was, it didn’t seem to hold up when there were too many graphics on the screen. I guess that’s what you get with a freeware program. For example when I tried going on [http://www.fpsbanana.com] and then playing it back, my voice sounded really fuzzy. When I was on Google it was perfect, but now I’m just still trying to find a decent screen recorder. I might go back to the “ZD Soft Screen Recorder” and try to get that working again.

Until then, you’ll have to wait till next week for me to bring you some news.

• Camstudio - http://www.camstudio.org
• ZD Soft Screen Recorder[Not Freeware but free download] - http://www.zdsoft.com/screen-recorder/

I’m still working on my first wordpress theme, and since I’ve been working on it so much I thought I’d write a bit in here like a developer diary.

First off, I thought that developing a wordpress theme word be a little difficult/fiddly, I wanted to make it strict XHTML and a table-less build using as much CSS as I could, to make things a bit more bulletproof. It turns out all those wordpress tags and functions are easy as pie, its the CSS browser rendering that ultimatly will kill you.

By that I mean making it look the same in Firefox , Internet Explorer 6 & Internet Exploroer 7. I remember reading on A List Apart, that CSS can often be like Whack-A-Mole, As soon as you fix one thing, another problem pops up in the other browser, and so far I’ve been hitting the shit out of my CSS, metaphoricaly speaking.

I know there are shortcuts around this, but I am unwilling to comprimise my design for the sake of easier and quicker css, if there is a way I will find it in the end. So thats what I’ve been doing, I think im on track for it being changed across at the weekend, I’m looking forward to it.