April, 2008 Archive

Fixing Wacom Touch Failure on Sleep and Hibernate

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I finally found a fix for my Wacom touch screen on my Gateway E155c. I noticed that it stopped working whenever the laptop resumed from sleep or hibernate. To fix this I had to tell vista that it needed to restart the service if it failed. If you are having this problem you can run services.msc from your start bar.

Services.msc

Then scroll down until you find the Wacom Touch Service

Wacom Touch Service

Double click on the Wacom Touch Service and go to the Recovery Tab

Change the highlighted areas in the image.

OneNote highlighter and screen grab did its job :)

CSS Off Entry

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Yesterday, I participated in CSS Off which is basically a 24 hour competition to see who can turn a Photoshop design into the best web page.

I used YUI reset-fonts-grids for speed and browser compatibility so I expect to get criticized because its CSS doesn’t validate properly. I also noticed that I have a small error in my tabbed menu when the font gets changed. I should of styled the background on the bottom instead of the top of the tabs so when it resizes it doesn’t gap. I also used could of used a definition list instead of misusing bold and emphasis tags.

Overall, I spent a little over 4 hours on the entire thing. I’ve never had to deal with a PSD file with so many layers before. Usually, I just get one or two backgrounds instead of 10-12 images.

Anyway, here is my Creepy Critters entry for the competition.