//:: From Phil Hill to the sharknose of the 156

Another F1 great has gone. Phil Hill died on Thursday in California’s Salinas-Monterey Hospital of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Phil Hill will be remembered as the first and only American Formula 1 World Champion. He took the World Title in 1961 racing one of the most iconic and one of the most distinctive of all Ferraris. The Ferrari 156!

The Ferrari 156 for me is one of the most beautiful Ferrari ever made. With it's distinctive and unique front air intakes which was affectionately dubbed "sharknose". This particular Ferrai was built to compete with the new F1 regulations that lowered engine displacement from 2.5 to 1.5 litres in the 1961 World Championship. Whilst Phil Hill Won his only World Title with the 156. Ferrari on the other hand won their first Formula 1 Contructor's Championship.

What's sad about this particular model is, that you will never see an original version again. Ferrari factory policy inevitably saw all the remaining sharknose 156s scrapped by the end of the 1963 season. So the one displayed at the Ferrari Galleria could be a replica of the original car. But 40 years later, Ferrari has once again re-incarnated the "sharknose" air intake design into one of it's latest GT road cars, The Ferrari F430...

Yes, there are lots of Ferraris now a days. But, will I ever see a classic Ferrari? Particularly the 156 from 1961. I hope and wish that some text' here on the web are all wrong. That Ferrari has destroyed all of the 156 from 1961. I just wish they're all wrong.....

"Will I ever see a real Ferrari 156 from 1961?...."

"Another F1 Great has gone, Phil Hill 1927-2008... But has this 156 gone too? I hope not..."

//:: Thinking out of the box!

Arguing with myself again!

Why do you have to make it so complicated? Just because that's what we're use to do be doing it, do you also have to do it exactly the same way? Can you think of another way of doing it? If you have a lock gate in front of you. Is the key to open the locks the only way around that gate? When you play the drums, do you really have to use drums sticks to make it sound? If your a Graphic Artist, do you really have to show what effects you can create to make your design really techy and hard for the eye to see? Do you really have to start from nothing, and end up making the same design that you did an hour ago, days ago, months ago? Why not try to make something that already has a design and try to add something easy for you to do?

Spent 3 to 5 minutes editing it. So if you have spare time? You could make it even better by refining it. Make it easy for yourself. Try to be more creative. Use the internet. THINK OUT OF THE BOX. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE. You have all the resources you need out there. :)

Thinking out of the box? What's that?

When you make a web 2.0 design. I'm talking about the reflection. Does it always have to be below the main body? It can be up on top, right? No one said it's wrong! Your A Graphic Designer your suppose to design. Not lock yourself to what you just know how to do.

Design is to Innovation ... Innovation is for you to lead and create something new.

"I'm not a master of thinking out of the box. I'm just trying to do it"

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Try reading the article of By Ed Bernacki. "Exactly what is 'Thinking Outside the Box'?"
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//:: Yahoo Messenger for Vista

The new Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista

At first, i was'nt so sure about the YM beta for vista. I thought it would be another memory hugging addon and make life worst for the computer. Looking at it's design, I immediately noticed the slick iphone like design which really caught me eye. The default color would be the dirty dark gray but you can choose to 6 colors and 2 other textures to start of with. Did I say memory hugging? Well it actually sups up about 200k of the memory. That won't be a problem at all if you have a computer which can support Vista which simply means your computer already has a bigger memory capacity. If you like the feat on your Mozilla Firefox which what we sometimes refer to as TABBED BROWSING then you'll really like the YM for Vista coz you can either choose TABBED chat window or you can hit the EXPLODE button to have different windows for each person you chat with. The feature that I like most is the add contact button for each group. This is the common issue with the previous YM versions. When you add someone you have to hit add and then select the group you want the person to belong too. Now? it's different simply go to the group name of the group and you have a button "+" to add a contact directly to that group. Another thing about the iphone or mac like design is when you hit the voice button or call. You'll notice it displays your avatar and the avatar of the person your calling. Which is exactly like how it looks like when FILE BROWSING using a MAC OS or even if you enable the view artwork feature in your itunes.

To be honest with you, this is just the 2nd day i've been using it :) but i kind-a like it. I'll give it a month and try to see if this will really work for me. When it comes to styling, it's already a winner for me the voice signal is I think better compared to the previous one and it connects even alot faster on my laptop. The real test for this is in the real world ... Try using it and see how it sums you up. :)

Download the new Yahoo Messenger for Vista at The Yahoo Messenger for Vista download site

//:: ICAD

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