Underpaid Freelancer and Those Who Bring Down The Market

From my personal view and observation, I would like to say that web designer freelancer does grow big from day to day. It was like the mushrooms after a rainy day. The pop out here and there, selling their skills to build a website, but not necessarily the whole package, perhaps, just a design or some coding work.

With this situation on the market, clients seem to overlook those good freelancer and offer them a really low price. A price where it is only sufficient to build one plain HTML page, and nothing more. But, they asked for something as big and awesome as social site or heavy influence of professional site browsing experience. All these feature cost the developers creative thinking, his intelligence copyright and hard work just to make sure the project that they working on, is up to the optimum level, the best of the best.

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The Dilemma of Choosing the Right Internet Browser

This is usually one of the biggest game which web developer had to deal with. Which browser should I support? How about IE?

Apart from that, this is also an issue for internet suffers (at least for users who are aware of speed and security of the browser). What is the right browser for them? Should they use Internet Explorer because it is built into those Windows system? Or should they replace them with Firefox because of those stickers and peer pressure from their friends, plus the ability to be expanded with plugins? Or should they use webkit-based browser for speed and fast rendering, but less expandable, yet which browser? Safari? Chrome? Or the unsung hero of poor connectivity internet browsing experience, the Opera?

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Snow Leopard Audio Bug : Volume Muted On Reboot

Volume resets to mute

I’m sure all of you are very excited with your new Mac OS X Snow Leopard. With those new enhancement, refinement and cleaner interface. However, every time you booted your machine, your audio gets reset to mute. And, you might think that you did silent off your machine.

But, it seems that the case happened every time you booted. Actually it is the sign of the audio bug after Snow Leopard upgrade. I’m not sure about clean install.

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A-PLUS Annual General Meeting Introduction Montage (Updated)

Today we had our Annual General Meeting for the 2nd time. I was given task to prepare a simple montage for the introduction of the ceremony. So, I decided to touch my long-time-installed Adobe After Effect CS4. Without any single clue on how to operate this application, quickly I browse through the internet searching for tutorials and how-to. And finally, I manage to prepare a 50 seconds short clip within 5 hours.

A-PLUS stands for:

Association of Petronas Undergraduate in Sarawak

Here, I clip on together the short animation created using After Effect CS4. It is available in High Definition (HD) quality. Press fullscreen for better experience.

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Snow Leopard Issues and Errors

Together with improvements and tunings made by Apple, Snow Leopard also facing issues and errors with its current development serial 10.6. Usually the compatibility issue and errors occur due to change of API or new security enforcement made by Apple.

Thus, developers for the particular applications has to wait for the official release of Snow Leopard before they can continue with the development and updates. Therefore, until the developer update their application, in this post I will tell you which error and issue I bumped to and how to get over it.

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