by Sven R. Ohlson on December 31, 2008
in Fonts
Different fonts give different feelings. A nice story-book from the old days would probably start the chapter with a capital letter in this style. Maybe you would write a biography and want to give the reader a perspective of that there is much to come. You will go way back in time. The letter has a feeling of life – the leaves giving an impression and describing how life turns out and grows every day. I wouldn’t mind writing one myself about life. Probably it would be a lot of sketches and designs and not too much text – but it would be great fun. Actually today’s bloggs are sorts of biographies. Niklas and I are talking about everyday things that we like… Maybe it’s more like a diary until we make a book out of it.
I think it is a great way to start off a book or story using this kind of style. Fonts really give a lot of character to the text that you would be reading. The writer should be concerned about the fact that this sets the mood.
So this might give you something to think of the next time you read a book. What does this font tell you…?
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by Niklas Waller on December 30, 2008
in Software
Sometimes you need to fit a lot of data into an excel spreadsheet. You might want to choose 7 or 8 as font size. When you start typing in information you suddenly notice that the text, that numbers the rows, are too big and gets cut off, see below.
As far as I know there is no way of changing the size of the numbers and letters. If there is, then great, another way. But this is how you should do it otherwise. Keep the default size of 10 or 11 or what it is. Then zoom out, that is set the percentage of what you are viewing to 75% or something like that. This will give you the same effect but it also makes the numbers and letters of the columns and rows to look as if they have the same font-size.
Now, if you print this, it will probably be in 10 or 11 as font size anyway. What you do to fix that is that you set the scaling in the ‘Page Setup’ dialog to the same percentage. Now when printing you will fit more information on one page.
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by Sven R. Ohlson on December 29, 2008
in Pictogram
This time I have been talking to Niklas and we had some ideas that we wanted to try out. So of course the new project has to have a name. So we had a little chat and thought of a few different ones. Then we decided on a name that has the word ”elephant” in it. So that got me thinking of making a logo as well.
When I started out searching for good reference pictures of , I looked in some good animal-books and browsed google too. So I drew an elephant with swirls and twirls to give it a more graphic cool look. At the same time I thought of making a little pictogram too. One that was more in the same colour scheme and one where the elephant is just a silhouette. Elephants mostly hang out in the warmer part of our hemisphere – that’s why I made the pictogram in yellow and orange.
We will get back on more of this elephant-project later.
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I few years back I travelled to Italy. A very good friend of mine was going to get married. So it was a great opportunity to take a look at this well know city – everything from culture, politics and maffia. Mostly I remember my friend travelling there every summer to visit family and friends. He talked about the lovely beaches, sunny days and playing tennis – a great way to spend the vacation in younger years. He and his older brother and younger sister moved there many years ago – by the way, she was the one getting married. Times have changed and the wonderful summers have changed into everyday work and living there. Still a beautiful place, but my friend Robert tells me it wasn’t as glamorous as he remembers it.
Ahh – life I guess.
I have taken this picture over the bay in , looking towards the island of Capri. You can see its silhouette in the mist.
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by Niklas Waller on December 25, 2008
in Web
One thing I just realized was that Google Chrome has got a resizable textarea by default. That is you can grab it by the bottom-right corner and resize it. What happens is that the rest of the html on the page re-adjusts. However, you can not make it smaller than what you have defined it with using cols and rows.
Take a look at this one and grab-and-drag!
Cool and handy! 
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Christmas has arrived and I sat here sketching away and all of a sudden I realize that I have started sketching a face that looks like Father Christmas – funny how the surrounding world can affect you like this. I have given him a dominant and powerful look. Maybe even a tattoo-“ish” style one could say. Maybe Santa Clause isn’t the most usual tattoo – but why not?
It is of course the red on his white face that enhances his Christmas-look – the big moustache and the beard also show the modern day look of Santa.
Hopefully you will have a great Christmas!
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by Niklas Waller on December 23, 2008
in Twitter
A pretty new service on the web that’s called creates stats for your Twitter profile as several different and also a cloud for your most used words.
Here is an example of a graph.
And the cloud for my profile.
You can also look at general as graphs and clouds, i.e. what’s currently being twittered about by all users.
Cool service! Keep up the good work!
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Christmas is coming and everywhere you look the Christmas-spirit is blooming. The windows in Sweden often have small lights lit – like a step-formation I would say. All the big stores and store windows have Santa Claus or elves in them – lots of parcels everywhere. People are running all over the place to get set for Christmas.
Not very many take the time to listen to some nice carols or something like that… or at least I would say that round about Christmas they are very nice to hear. After a few weeks of hearing them one can of course feel that they get on your nerves – but before X-mas like this – why not?
So I drew some “Carollers” singing. I mostly see these in Walt Disney cartoons or maybe in some old movies. Nowadays I haven’t seen anyone out on the street-corner singing – maybe some school-kids trying to make a buck – on the other hand these songs are playing everywhere.
If you feel like getting the lyrics or listening to some on your computer you should check out following links.
Merry Christmas!
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This time it is not a sunset. Instead I will show you a photo of the moon. As you might know, if you have seen the other pictures that I have taken from Venezuela, the are amazing and I have more to show. But the moon was quite amazing too.
Every morning I got up somewhere between 4AM and 6AM to put towels on the sunloungers that we were going to use for the coming day. It was a common thing to do among the guests at the hotel if you might wonder. I woke at that time anyway so it didn’t matter to me. Many mornings before the sun got up and if there were no clouds, the moon took its place. I ran in and fetched the camera and got this photo. It is the same palmtree as the right one on .
Another amazing photo to me. It could almost be the sun.
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If you for instance have Lotus Notes version 7 and would like to install version 8 on the side, i.e. you want to keep both installations on one computer. Then you have a good description of doing so . According to the instructions you have to make copies and rename at some places. But you can also do it another way that takes a little bit longer time but really don’t require more than one change on one installation window.
So let’s say you have version 7 and you want to install version 8.5. Start the executable for Lotus Notes 8.5. Go through the installation process. When you come to the point where the wizard asks for the location of where to install the program – change the path from <path>/notes and <path>/notes/data to <path>/notes8 and <path>/notes8/data or if there are other similar change them.
Now Lotus Notes 8 will be installed in a new directory. However your 7 version will not work. If you install the 7 version again now though without making any changes you will have two versions that should be fully functional. I don’t think you should run them concurrently though,
The 7 version kept the Teamstudio toolbar buttons, workspace and so on. But you will have to adjust this for the new 8.5 version howver.
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