June 7th, 2009 by Luis Alves

Can’t save transparent PNG 24 in Fireworks?

24 bit PNG’s don’t have transparency. A 24 bit PNG has 3 channels – Red, Green, and Blue. In a 32 bit PNG you have 4 channels – Red, Green, Blue and Alpha, so the way to save a transparent PNG with high quality anti aliasing in Fireworks is to save it in 32 Bit mode.

But Photoshop doest it!
That’s because Photoshop says it saves in 24 bit when it’s actually saving as 32 bit.

May 23rd, 2009 by Luis Alves

Converting sound formats

I was looking for a freeware application to convert ogg into mp3 and I found SoX Wrap.

Happens that SoX Wrap not only converts ogg to mp3 but it can also convert various other formats. looks a little promissing app.

April 30th, 2009 by Luis Alves

Problem with wordpress installation

Yesterday I lost a few hours of sleep trying to solve this fu***@@@ damn annoying problem with a Portuguese wordpress installation.

After the installation I got an error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /Users/Mac/Sites/wordpress/wp-config.php:1)

Now, there are a few ways all over the web to solve this… none of them worked for me, including the one displayed at the Codex Wordpress, but it might work for you, so you can check it in here

So what worked for me it was the following way:

1 – After you have the wp-config.php created, open it in a text editor that allows you to change the Encoding.

2- Cut all text.

3- Save the file empty

4- Re-open the file with another encoding… like ISO-8859-1 or other.

5- Now… a weird character will be display in the beginning

6- Erase the bastard!!!

7- Save the file empty

8- Re-open the file with UTF-8

9- Paste all the text

10 – Save the file

And that should take care of it…

March 23rd, 2009 by Luis Alves

Disabling iframe horizontal scrollbar

I have searched lots of websites looking for a solution to remove the horizontal scroll bar in IE (damn IE!!!) when placing an Iframe when the content overflows.

So I have found this: iframe src=”your source” width=”474″ height=”306″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”yes” horizontalscrolling=”no” verticalscrolling=”yes”

open and close your Iframe tags…

This works!

February 16th, 2009 by Luis Alves

Starting to work on version 3.0 of Gimmestock.com

Today I’m starting to work on the version 3.0 of Gimmestock.com, Waveweb’s stock photography project that goes around since 2005.

The new version of the website will be realeased until the end of 2009 ( I hope ). Design and performance will increase, also some new features will be implemented. The keynote to version 3.0 is “SIMPLE!”