Buying / selling Shares info May 18, 12, 5:29 a.m.

Hi guys,

Im interested in learning a bit of stock market info to start buying and selling shares. I have no idea about it, I've never bought a share in my life, so im curious what resources you might recommend for a beginner.

I mean what sites, what software, tools and blogs etc.

Any help would be much appreciated.

p.s. this isn't just because Facebook went public, been planning it for a while! :P

What was that site... May 9, 12, 5:27 a.m.

That 'so bad its awesome' flash site with all the little experiments on and silly sound effects. It was really colorful and stupid looking.

Had a very soft sounding name like boomba or something iirc.

Hope you can help!

Xbox 360 4gb hdd upgrade Apr 21, 12, 7:16 a.m.

Hiya buddies!

Gonna get a 360 shortly, and I'm mainly getting it for ultimate marvel vs capcom 3 (fighting game) and netflix, so I was planning on getting the 4gb version as its cheaper.

But if I were to later start playing more and using it more is it easy to upgrade the hard drive? Anyone done this?

I found some guides but they all seem to be quite different and have different opinions. I've built several computers so I'm no stranger to hardware and such, but I wonder if microsoft make it difficult to do this.

Hope you can help! :)

illy / PDF issue Mar 19, 12, 9:38 a.m.

Yoooo qbners,
I'm running into a problem with a pdf.

Its just a simple text document using helvetica. So in Illustrator I convert it all to outlines and save as PDF. (smallest file size)

This way it should print and display fine on any machine regardless of the installed fonts (at least i thought so).

But people are showing me print outs where some letters (not all) are missed. Which to me doesnt make any sense. If it was a font embed issue that displayed no characters at all I could understand, but it isnt a font embed issue as its completely outlined, just shapes in a PDF.

Anyone tell me why its happening?
Thanks all! :)

chatttr has some serious competition Jan 30, 12, 12:11 p.m.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/…

Better step your game up stewdio, cat style!
See you in there folks!!!!!!! :D

A5 devices jailbreak released! Jan 20, 12, 3:53 p.m.

Celebrations all you 5.0.1 iPad 2 and iPhone 4s owners!

http://greenpois0n.com/
(site probably won't load at all due to high server load)

http://youtube.com/index?client=…

https://twitter.com/#!/pod2g

Mac only release at the mo, but a windows release in the next few days :)

Ipad questions Dec 3, 11, 12:59 p.m.

Yo qbn,

I'm considering getting an ipad, but have a few queries.

Firstly, is there much point in getting an ipad 2? It seems that the ipad 1 runs all the apps the ipad 2 does (albeit a little slower). Of course apple could release apps that need the extra horsepower if the ipad 2, but I don't see that happening soon.

Can it play most video formats? Like mkv, divx avi etc (i understand apple say .mp4 / mov only but ive read that it can play others with apps)

Anyone know of a good itunes alternative?

Anyone tried the flash plug ins? Like iswifter etc

Looks pretty sweet from what ive seen.

Thanks guys! hope you can help.

Web host recommendations? Nov 20, 11, 10:03 a.m.

Hiya fellas,

My site is up for renewal and I'm shopping around. You have any good hosts to recommend?

Thanks :)

Trying to find an advert... Oct 14, 11, 8:33 a.m.

Hi fellas,

I'm trying to find a TV ad for a 4x4 BMW, Ive searched x3 or x4, but not sure which it is. could be x10 for all i know.

Its driving along and the camera is locked onto it. then the screen is split into 4 different videos (split with 2 lines corner to corner).

Each video showing the bmw in the same place, but the 4 different videos show different terrain. So the back end of the car might be in snow, while the front end is in a desert etc.

The split is in the shape of an X emphasizing the x4 name.

This is part of the same campaign -

Hope you can help!

WTF - frutiger Oct 2, 11, 4:22 a.m.

We all know and love adrian frutiger. But what the hell is the font for the word 'campagne'?

The preview image is for the Egyptienne font, but the word campagne is in a different font.

Noobie CSS/HTML quesition Sep 23, 11, 4:45 a.m.

Hey guys!

Trying to build my first site in an attempt to learn html+css, and Ive encountered 2 problems.

1) The first is trying to set a class for my headers (that are titles to various sections).
I have within the HTML -
<h5 class="title">Showreel</h5>

And in the CSS -
#title {
*various variables - font size etc*
}

But this does nothing. I thought that was the right way to call a class. I tried '#title h{ }' too, but no luck.
_______________________

2) The second problem is when setting the formatting for headers Ive used the same css settings in each header, but when i get to header7 (<h7>) it doesn't do anything.

so i have -
h4 {
margin-top:50px;
padding-bottom:20px;
color:#D2D2D2;
font-size:1em;
}

same settings for header tags 4-7. But in header tag 7 it doesn't effect anything at all.

HTML looks like this -
<h7>International</h7>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>

Anyone know why? Hope you geniuses can help! As I'm code noobie, small words, visual aids and a patronizing voice are optional.

Thanks!

Just another shameless rip... Sep 4, 11, 4:39 a.m.

This shit pisses me off.

Some douche blatantly copies a vid by Rob Chui (aka http://theronin.co.uk), whacks it on vimeo, and in true rip off fashion doesn't even mention Rob chui. On top of that he gets lots of positive comments for something he had no creative input in whatsoever.

Even the audio bites are the same. No wonder he disabled comments on vimeo, i was about to comment and expose that mofo.

Rob chui (original) -
http://theronin.co.uk/Motion/?OF…

Some douche (Daniel Soderberg) -
http://vimeo.com/15441179

Maybe i should start spamming his name followed by 'rip' and 'copies work' etc in the hope that google will expose him.

Classy + Bespoke Logo inspiration. Jul 11, 11, 10:23 a.m.

Struggling to come up with ideas.
Please share some premium, classy and bespoke logo examples.

also feel free to share some good logo websites.

Just upgraded firefox... Jul 11, 11, 6:31 a.m.

just upgraded to firefox 5 from ff3 (bit late i know), but i thought the text looked different, and upon closer inspection the kerning is much narrower -

I think it looks like ass, almost unreadable. FF3 was much easier to read. Chrome looks ok, but shame chrome doesnt have a bookmarks sidebar (which has been requested a billion times by chrome users).

Im on windows7 btw. Is it cleartype? anyone know how to turn it off in ff5? maybe i should try ff4...

Save pdf from illustrator Jul 7, 11, 4:29 p.m.

Hi guys,

i save a pdf from illustrator and problem im getting now is the exported pdf is pixel based, when i want vectors. I've done it before but forgotten how.

Ive converted everything to outlines and then tried saving as pdf but no luck :/

Global Economy Jun 27, 11, 10:08 a.m.

Hmmmmmmmmm

Inflation is killing the US dollar.

The Amount of US dollar notes in circulation is massive and increasing exponentially. The US' debt is rapidly increasing, which people believe will make the US dollar worthless, and given Americas involvement with world trading and business this will cause massive consequences for all countries and currencies.

Complete economic collapse has been predicted by: Ron Paul, Gerald Celente, Peter Schiff & Jim Rogers.

Vince Cable (Lib Dem Business Secretary) -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politi…
"The political class as a whole is not preparing the public for how massive the problem is."

Experts also say that quantitative easing (putting more cash in circulation) has never ever helped or been proven to work in any economy ever.

Now I'm no paranoid conspiracy theorist, nor do i believe everything i read, and usually these theories never amount to anything, but when the worlds leading authorities on economics are saying were fucked, I'm pretty concerned.

What are your thoughts?

Noobie illustrator question Jun 26, 11, 11:16 a.m.

hi all!

Just a quick one and im sure its simple to do (but clearly WAY too complex for me).

Im trying to subtract one shape (a drawn line) from another a larger solid shape.

e.g. i have this -

but this happens -

Ive tried all pathfinder options but no such luck. I'm sure im ham fistedly missing a simple button or something.

any ideas? Thanks :)

How is this done? (animation Q) Jun 22, 11, 10:08 a.m.

hiya buddies!
Ive got a project and i need to animate some characters. Im wondering how in the vid above (which is great) have they animated the characters.

I'm assuming its all done in after effects which I know fairly well. It looks like some sort of warp / bend modifier of some description, but im not sure.

any ideas? Hope you can help.

Panasonic Lumix G3 May 14, 11, 1:44 p.m.

News just in -
http://forums.dpreview.com/previ…

The new Micro Four Thirds Camera, the Lumix G3. successor to the G2.

The main downfall of the micro four thirds cameras is not their image quality, but their focus speed and high iso.

This new sensor puts the G3 high iso / low light capabilities on par with that of the 600D and Pentax K-5.

crosses off one weakness with m43 cameras when compared to DSLR's.

Sites for freelance jobs? Apr 16, 11, 6:57 p.m.

Evening QBN.

Can you lot recommend any good websites for looking for freelance work. Preferably UK related, but some clients don't care about your location, so any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks