Monday, November 29

Skype revealed

So you have Skype... a program using both IM (Instant Messaging) and VoIP since 2003... Using Skype you can call someones computer via a landline or have video live chats... And if you don't have a microphone or a camera you can engage in a conference call and reply with the IM feature - brilliant, but what can you do to enhance your Skyping experience?
Well That's what this blog post is all about....

First for the easy stuff ;)



If you wondering why the squirll is named Heidy.... One of the Skype staffs name is Heidy...

Now for the awesome stuff ;)
Being a Mac user I found this... Sorry Windows - I'll update you all when I find the short cut...


Here's how you can find the hidden ones without accessing internet at all. ctrl click on the Skype application in Finder, and click "show package contents." This should have brought up another window. Click "resources" in this window, and from there find the folder entitled "emoticons," then click "animated emoticons." After the second hyphen in each image, there's the name, which can be typed between the parentheses in Skype Chat. This trick (for Mac) reveals every optional emoticon.

Now here's a good link to all the commands I'm currently aware of...

Then If you really want to be cool stuff - Try some of these (Don't kill me if they don't work! They worked for me!)



blinking       <BLINK>blinking skype mood text</BLINK>
bold             <b>your text</b>
underline     <u>underline me</u>
colored        <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">colored text</FONT>
size              <FONT SIZE="14px">Big text</FONT>

Now for what you've all been waiting for! The other really awesome stuff! :) 
Have Fun! 
(These can be used for anything and not only Skype... Really cool for Facebook Statuses and the likes!) 






 (: llɐ noʎ ɹoɟ ɟɟnʇs ǝɯosǝʍɐ ǝɯos ɥʇıʍ uɹnʇǝɹ llıʍ ı - pǝɹnssɐ ʇsǝɹ ʇnq
 ˙˙˙ǝuoz ıɟ-ıʍ ǝɥʇ ɹo ǝɯıʇ ǝɥʇ puıɟ oʇ ǝlqɐ ǝq ll,ı ɟı ʍouʞ ʇ,uop ı puɐ uʍoʇ-ǝdɐɔ oʇ ƃuıoƃ ǝɹɐ ı puɐ ʎlıɯɐɟ ʎɯ 'sʎɐpıloɥ looɥɔs oʇ ǝnp 'ʇsod ƃolq sʞǝǝʍ ʇxǝu ssıɯ ʇɥƃıɯ ı


ĤĂРРŶ ĤŐĹĨĎĂŶŚ ŦŐŔ ĂĹĹ ŐÚŔ ŚĂ ŔĔŚĨĎĔŃŤŚ ĂŃĎ МĔŔŔŶ ČĤŔĨŚŤМĂŚ ŤŐ ĔVĔŔŶŐŃĔ!

Tuesday, November 23

Further Procrastination

Wanna know the Facebook emoticons? 
Well you came to the right place ;) 
This is what extensive non-stop studying does to you.... I'm just saying... (and I say that far too often) 
 
Okay - the basics are as follows... 

 Now for the fun stuff that takes forever to do - But I have conveniently typed out for you all to copy and paste ;) 

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Happy birthday sign
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Fishies! Yay!!!

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Lastly - just for Bradley (who has lost his lunch box - comment if you know where it is...) 
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Okay - have fun guys, I trust you'll use these wisely... more next week when we cover Skype ;) 
Good luck all! 

Wednesday, November 17

Study Procrastination


Yea Yea... It's not a good thing but hey if you're reading this during exams - you're doing it too... 
I'm just saying... just putting out there...  

So I thought you guys could do with some funny cartoons and pictures (to lift the exam stress a bit - you know I'm just that kind)

... And if your parents come in while you're browsing, you can always claim you're studying maths, because that's what I was doing when I found all of these.

Pythagorus.... 

Sometimes I wish that People like Rene decartes (The straight Line graph) and Mr Pythagorus (A squared + B squared = C squared) didn't have such great ideas - just so that I wouldn't have to be so confused in the exam.... But then again Where would we be without the straight line graph? Pi or any of the other mathematical break-throughs?   

For those of you still learning - Pi is an irrational number ;)


My maths teacher says Pi is pronounced Pi and not Pie... I tend to like 'Pie' as the pronunciation - it makes me think about lunch - mmmmm....











Sometimes I feel like the two on the right...


This is why we go to school and learn...
(Yea - we so go to school in case we land up on an abandoned island!) 



Our dogs are like this... Always and especially during exams :P 



I hope none of you are like this...



Okay - so to all of you writing exams - Good luck...
I write EMS (economic management sciences) tomorrow, which for all our foreign views is a mixture of accounting and business (neither of which I will be taking next year - thank goodness!)

And to all of you that aren't writing - well hope you had a good laugh... and good luck for when you do...

To all those procrastinating - rock on!
You're awesome!
(But seriously - it's not gonna go away, let's both go and do what we're supposed to) 

  

Saturday, November 13

In tune with the stars

People have been looking at the stars forth a  very long time, thousands of years. Long before calenders and clocks were invented, STARS helped people to know the time of the year and to find their way when travelling long distances. Farmers looked at the stars to know when it was time to plant and harvest crops.

People all over Africa knew the constellation Pleiades (said 'play-deez'). When it appeared in the night sky, it was timo to start hoeing and planting. Xhosa farmers called it isiLemela the 'digging' stars.

Start DIGGING!!! ;)

Tuesday, November 9

Purple - more than a colour

Well - if you've been following the blog you'll already know that a purple person AKA indigo child is someone that was supposedly born smarter than the average person and can be seen as the new 'evolved' human species. Studies suggest that if you are currently younger that 18 you could be an indigo child. Only thing is that is a load of absolute gibberish! And went the same way all the alien sightings and big foot research went.
But to be blunt we are smarter than the previous generations, just the other day I asked my mom if I could have an ethernet cable and she replied (not asking why) but rather why I wanted ethernet when I had internet... Ok maybe that's because I spend a lot more time with computers than my mom does, but there in lies my point entirely. When our parent were our age - Cell phones didn't exist, the internet and computer were not as accessible and the biggest source of information was well the library. I doubt a lot of you guys go to the library every time you have a big project - heck I turn to google. We're not necessarily a new species - we've just learnt a whole lot more, a whole lot faster!

We are Purple people. People with a desire to know more about the world and explore... Admit it, we all have that desire - be it exploring a virtual gaming world and shooting the hell out of stuff on your Wii or PSP or researching your hobbies and downloading or collecting stuff. No matter the culture, the country or upbringing we are all the same in some ways. And if you don't mind we being a tad wishy washy - that it pretty dam awesome.

Okay - so that's awesome, but it can only be awesome if we look after our planet (and clearly our politicians are too busy calling each other cockroaches to do it for us - South African joke, sorry foreigners)
It's not hard - change one thing to better the environment (check the side bar for ideas) then get everyone you know to do it to. Before you know it, it could be law.....