Vikiworks™ Studio

Just came across to another Flickr like photo sharing service, Photorganizr. by browsing the sample gallery, it featured with lightbox, stack and flash-based modes that really enables you to viewing the albums in different styles and dynamic way. It brought me to a registration

Today I’ve encountered a crash issue with Adobe Illustrator!!! Actually It was not app itself, while I’m working on something in Illustrator CS3 and trying to save my file, it totally crashed without a warning, without a chance to saving any piece from your file… and it keep it that way no matter reboot the system or re-install the app.

I’ve randomly turned off some services that I don’t use frequently to squeeze any possible resource. I realized that I turned off Print Spooler service last week since I had rarely using any print service at home. So I’ve turned it back on, Whoa! Illustrator works again! Never, never turn off your Print Spooler service on your computer, otherwise Illustrator won’t work.

As you probably know, when you’re using gradient tool in Adobe Illustrator, you would know that how annoying it is if you want adjust gradient color, you can’t just bring up the color picker by double-click on one of sliders (we’re lucky enough that we can do it with Photoshop). Using eyedropper tool to change that gradients, you will mess it up with a solid color. It really sucks!

Bittbox has figured an alternative way, it’s an awesome tip that eventually let you can quickly change your gradient color in a much easier way.

Just a couple of hours ago, I came across an open-source eCommerce platform: Magento. It looks to be an easy-to-use and easily customizable app. a demo is available online, you can go through to check out:

- Unlimited flexibility and no constraints
- A professional scalable architecture
- Integration with 3rd part apps

I was expecting something just like that for a long time, and definitely I would pay for this if it isn’t free. Maybe it’s time to open your own eshop and start to selling something.

As a starter, I’ve signed up for a light version copy. Unfortunately my FTP didn’t work properly, the upload process freezed for several time I can’t wait to have a quick test, if you’ve already given it a few rounds, please leave a comment with your thoughts.