Comments for the Holter Project

Comment on Inmotionhosting.com, WordPress, and a hack: My Server Was Hacked by Tiger-M@te by holter

holter — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:41:02 +0000

I realized after the first hour when your (IMH) tech guys didn’t respond to my request that it wasn’t just me, and it certainly wasn’t any fault of Inmotionhosting. I’ve always had the best service and support from the folks at IMH and any delay in response time is unusual.
First, I fixed the problem on my own site, then started searching around to see how this happened and who was responsible. I posted what I found as quickly as I could and went back to work. The downtime due to the hack cost me an entire morning of my workday and put me way behind. I didn’t find out until later that evening how many sites were affected by this malicious attack.

Thanks for the follow up, Brad!

Comment on Inmotionhosting.com, WordPress, and a hack: My Server Was Hacked by Tiger-M@te by Brad Markle

Brad Markle — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:18:31 +0000

Hi holter,

I’m very sorry to hear that your sites were compromised as well, but am happy that you were able to get things resolved. Unfortunately due to the many requests for help we were receiving, hold times on the phone increased like we’ve never seen before, and many users, it did appear as if we weren’t even in the office.

I was hoping to post a link for any of our users that find this page. If anyone is still having an issue with their site either showing blank / defaced, we do have a forum setup that has more info + steps to take to fix your site:
Directory Listing / Defacement Fix due to TiGER-M@TE hack

If you also have any further or specific questions, feel free to post in those forums, we’re more than happy to help.

Thanks,
- Brad

Comment on iPhone wallpaper backgrounds by Holter

Holter — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:39:58 +0000

I have a bunch more in the works with the app icon shadows on the backgrounds; if you like those, I’ll get busy and upload a few more soon.

Comment on iPhone wallpaper backgrounds by iPad Joe

iPad Joe — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:20:16 +0000

I like how the icon spots are sort of burned into a few of those. Now if I could just read what I wrote without needing to select it, I’d be gracy. =)

Comment on iPhone WordPress app update 2 by Gavin Wright

Gavin Wright — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:03:08 +0000

Adobe Photosop is the number tool for digital photograpy`~-

Comment on iPhone WordPress app update 2 by Alex Allen

Alex Allen — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:53:30 +0000

i use adobe illustrator a lot and i really love its great freatures’,-

Comment on Make the most of Adobe Illustrator’s Symbol libraries by Holter

Holter — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:47:11 +0000

I know the issue but have several ways to resolve it depending on the image.

The simplest solution is to crop the excess image for this one instance.

Is there any way you can email the image to me? I can give you a better answer if I can see the problem in detail.
If it’s a proprietary image that you cannot share, then maybe send something similar.

I’ll help you if I can.
- Jeff

Comment on Make the most of Adobe Illustrator’s Symbol libraries by ciaran

ciaran — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:27:44 +0000

Hi,
just wondering if you could help me on an issue i am having with saving a symbol.

I have a cover of some packaging work i have done and want to present it on a AI 3D rendered box.

There is a linked image in the artwork, that i have embedded, then i have made a clipping mask over the entire artwork so nothing overlaps.

My problem is the symbol still picks up the box around my linked image which overlaps the mask giving me extra blank space which doesn’t allow me to apply it to fit to my 3D box.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ciaran.

Comment on Make the most of Adobe Illustrator’s Symbol libraries by Holter

Holter — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:23:51 +0000

I assume you are referring to a Symbol pulled from the Symbol Libraries and placed in an Illustrator document.

Symbols are Flash movie instances and intended to be used repeatedly in a document or movie. In their normal state they are not editable, however, there are a few ways to make them editable as vector objects like any other Illustrator graphic.

With the Symbol instance selected, here are three ways to make them editable:

1) right click > select ‘break link to symbol’ from the contextual menu.

2) from the Symbols panel (window > Symbols) click the broken link icon at the bottom of the panel to ‘break link to symbol’.

3) go to Object menu > Expand > check Object in Expand panel > Ok.

Hopefully that is what you are looking for. All Adobe Symbols and all Symbols I’ve created are vector based objects at their core, and just need to be expanded to make them fully editable.

I like to create Symbol libraries from graphics that I use frequently, such as icons for website graphics & iPhone apps, textures and logos, etc., so that I can keep them right at my fingertips for when I need them. It’s much faster and easier than hunting for an Illustrator file
containing the graphic that I need somewhere on one of my hard drives.

Please let me know if this does not answer your question.

Comment on Make the most of Adobe Illustrator’s Symbol libraries by Zav

Zav — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:42:52 +0000

Why can’t the symbols tables that are opened be edited or redefined? Is there a way to turn off that “line through the pencil” icon in the lower left of an opened symbol table? We want to be able to use and redefine symbols from one symbol table in more than one document.

Thanks in advance.
- Alex