Phoenity is back

Phoenity. What a nice name. That's what I said last time. Even now, it is still a very nice name. Phoenity. Good news everyone, I'm back. Phoenity is back. For the past two years, I've been very busy with university life and never ...

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The fate of Phoenity

Phoenity. What a nice name. It is born on 4 November 2002, around 3 to 4 years old by now. All started quite miraculously, since I never expect this little project could make me who I am today. I'm known as the ...

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Dead hard drive

I have bad news. My computer died. To be specific, my hard disk drive died. Peacefully. My tri-boot system is gone. All my music files are gone. All my experiments and things I learnt are gone. All my artwork including the Phoenity ...

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Firefox Secrets

Cheah Chu Yeow is the man! Though he hasn't been blogging much last few months, but he's sure capable to produce such wonderful book for everyone. Also not forgetting Asa Dotzler for being the Expert Reviewer of the book, while ...

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Breast in Phoenity?

i spy... a breast! phoenity 1.4.1 - refreshingly 'normal and healthy' in the best sense a 19 y.o can be! http://phoenity.com/about.html the firefox motion indicator in the far right corner of my screen is not a small white illumination, travelling anti-clockwise ...

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Foxy changes

Today in Star In.tech, Mozilla Firefox is yet again featured with few articles written by Chan Lee Meng, Tan Kit Hoong, M. Madhavan, Chris Chong and Zam Karim. This time, it focused on Firefox's wonderful extensions and themes. What excites ...

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Non-commercial artwork

Sometimes, I receive emails from people asking to use my Phoenity icons commercially. Most of them are software developers and web designers. I remember the first time receiving such email, I was shocked, never even realised that I can actually ...

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Experimenting things

It seems that I haven't post much these days. I want to post but simply don't have much time because I spend most of it experimenting things. Wondering what am I experimenting? Here they are: Phoenity for Thunderbird 1.0 Firefox 1.1 Options ...

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Reading user comments

I read. I notice. I reply. Too bright yellow Nice, but the bright yellow for folders is awful Maybe I should make it brown? Or simply darker? Most folder icons are yellow in colour, though I doubt about it. I agree there are ...

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First steps in theme design

I remember before I started making themes for Phoenix, I don't know anything at all about icons design and theme design. At that time, I have never even created a theme or skin for any software before. But somehow I ...

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Personal review of Firefox 1.0

After two years of using Firefox, I have never actually write a thorough review of this browser. Okay, I am not a tech specialist or journalist but somehow I feel like want to write something. I don't regard my previous ...

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Malaysians and Firefox

I always wonder, am I the only Malaysian involved in this Firefox mania? I asked myself this question ever since the release of Phoenix 0.1, about two years ago. If you don't know what is Phoenix, you might not realise ...

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Smart icon sizing

I've spent the last few days updating the Phoenity theme for Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR. Again, I found few more interface glitches during the process. I also had some problems here and there, as I struggle to cope with the ...

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Complimentary Phoenity

I found this from the K-meleon Development forum, posted by jsnj: There's never gonna be a skin/theme that makes everyone happy but of all the available themes, the only one which fits all the conditions requested by the developers is Phoenity. It's ...

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Scrollbar tweaks

Do you notice anything weird in the screenshot? Take a look at it carefully. It's neither the themes list nor the buttons. No, it's not a trick image or whatever. It's the scrollbar. I've customised my Firefox with Mac-alike scrollbars, by adding ...

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Firefox Dust

I've quietly released Phoenity 1.2 for Firefox yesterday night. It's a huge update with lots of fixes and changes, especially the bug fix with Googlebar extension. The updating process has taken me weeks, because I need to examine every single ...

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