Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Crosshatching – Staple of all Web 2.0ness

OkC Crosshatching

Just a quick HowTo on making crosshatching using Photoshop (any version from 7 upwards).

If you don’t know what I mean by crosshatching, then have a look at a Web 2.0 site of your choice. For example, the “web 2.0″ey online dating site, okcupid. Their background uses crosshatching as a way of making the gradient (yet another Web 2.0 staple) a little less boring. How edgey!

In any case, making a crosshatch pattern is a useful thing to know, and it’s pretty easy too.

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HP nc6320 SATA Driver for Windows setup

This is a bugger.

I have a HP Compaq nc6320 business notebook, and I want to install Windows XP on it. However, I don’t have the original disk, and I have formatted it since (with Linux the day I got it). I’m having to jump through a bunch of hoops.

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