Monday, January 09, 2006

Delays~

As you may already know, I'm still pushing myself to study really "hard" for my examinations; the last paper being near the end of this month. These few remaining papers are far more important to me than the previous ones. Although I'm very reluctant to set aside my blogging activities, I can't afford to pass up some of my time (To be embarrassingly honest, I do take a loooong time just to post a single review. A very bad habit of mine ^^;). However, I'll try to keep up once the stress period is all over. Hopefully minna-san would still come over for a lil' visit albeit Mai-Otome has probably reached Episode 16 by then. LOL, probably nothing left for me to comment on. Maybe. Ooh... Crystal☆Energy is coming up!

Until then, see ya all three weeks later! ^^


PS. Of course this doesn't mean I'll give up watching Anime during my break time. :p

Just around 2 hours per day is good enough for me.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gambatte on your exams!! :D I believe you will ace them...no sweat! XD

To be embarrassingly honest, I do take a loooong time just to post a single review.

Haha no wonder! Now I know why since the quality is always top-notch and the review themselves turn out to be very detailed and inquisitive!

Choux said...

Ehhh? Really? =p

Ahaha... Thank you very much! ^___^

But to tell you the truth, I actually type my reviews rather quickly. Now screencapping... That's where the pain is. My Print Screen button is busted so I have to rely on another software to capture my images and it involves more than just pressing a single button. Manually resizing them to a particular dimension is even worse. Darn... I need to find a software which can automatically resize all my images to a specific dimension at the same time instead of doing it one by one. :s

Anonymous said...

Haha for me, it takes forever to do the Mai Otome screencaps too. It's because I usually take anywhere from 100-150 pics. After, pick the best ones, by doing process of elimination and thats a real nightmare. Yet, resizing them are a cinch since all I have to do is plug it into my resizer program and BAM! LOL that usually takes about 15-25 mins... >.<

Choux said...

Resizer... Program? There is one? Ooooh! *.*

Ne ne! Can it automatically resize a bunch of images at one go or does it resize them one by one? Hehe... Well, I take it there isn't a software like that which is a free download, is there? ^^;

I'm in serious need of image processing automation. The whole process of me screencapping and resizing the images takes me at least 2 hours for around 40 images. 40! That's a very very long time for a rather small number of images... ><

Anonymous said...

Oh my! LOL you should've asked me beforehand, so you wouldn't have to go through all the troubles with resizing the images. Umm..ok I use "Batch Image Resizer"...haha the name is pretty much self-explanatory. You can resize six pics at a time (unless you wanted to purchase it), but it takes like 1 min to resize all of them. If you were to dl this, make sure to adjust the settings properly, as I found out the hard way. >.<" LOL I recently acquired adobe photoshop, but its too complicated for me, so I don't use it.

Oh I also suggest using BS Player because it has a capture frame option. I think the majority of the bloggers use this, but I could be wrong. ^^

Anonymous said...

Hehe, I use BS Player's capture frame option too. Much better than changing the preferences of all the other players to disable hardware acceleration. But since I'm a lazy freak, I use Flickr to host my images, and it resizes them to about 4 different sizes automatically.

Before I forget, good luck for your exams!

Choux said...

I have been saaaaaaaved!! ^O^

LOL THANK YOU Problematic-san and ZMAng-san!! You've been a great help! Hopefully with those new software, I'm able to cut down my time for editting the images. Ahaha... Shows how ignorant I am when it comes to looking for the appropriate tools. ^^;;;

Anonymous said...

You could also use the XP Power tools batch image resizer, which is completely free and integrates with the OS. Select as many images you like, right click and click resize. It's very quick, but image quality seems to suffer from over compression.

That aside, good luck with all this work you've got!

only 2 hours a day? That's quite a but :p

Choux said...

Thanks for your suggestion, Washi-san! ^^

I tried that and yes, the pics seem a lil' blurry. ^^;;;

But I might actually stick with whatever good solutions I get recommended on. Erm... Depending on whether I find posting in the coming weeks really tedious.

Hehe... 2 hours is a lot though ^^. So now, I've cut down to only an hour. Which is sad... I WILL have my revenge once exams are over!!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *cough* *wheeze* *puff*