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Lazy Blogger’s guide to Super Charge WordPress with 100+ Plugins
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55+ Fresh Community Links for Designers and Developers
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How To Create Cinematic Poster
In this tutorial, Im going to show you how to turn a random picture to an amazing cinematic poster. Ill use Photoshop CS4 and this whole tutorial will depend greatly on layers and Layers mode.
30 Delightful Calendar Designs
With the New Year just around the corner, it is a good idea to start thinking of new calendar designs to jumpstart your year.
Balance in design is important. It’s one of the principles of design. A balanced design has a unity of composition and helps the design make a single impression on the viewer and just feels right.
20 Scrumptious Typography Tutorials for Adobe Photoshop
A series of wonderful, step-by-step tutorials to make your own typographical designs and effects on Adobe Photoshop. A mix of great classic and brand new tuts.
50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web
Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off.
Free Wordpress Theme Translucence
This free wordpress theme features custom admin panel, 3 skins, widgeted sidebar, iQuery down menu and much more.
26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs
Long exposure are easiest to accomplish in low-light conditions, but can be done in brighter light using neutral density filters or specially designed cameras.
Best Halloween Wallpapers for Your Desktop
A list with most inspirational and creative halloween wallpapers. Personalize your computer for Halloween and amaze your friends and family.
10 Ways A Designer Can Make Some Extra Money
We have listed 10 Ways for a Freelance Designer to make some extra money each month, it sure helps to have a little extra.
Create an Famous Blog Logo Through Photoshop Tutorial
Today we’re trying to present an short way for make glossy logo for your designing blog website, we using some easy steps and make an very professional logo also follow some inspirational..
5 Fresh & Innovative Collaboration Platforms For The Creative Community
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I created a list of 30 unfortunately placed ads so other designers and advertisers will not make the same mistake.
Creepy Halloween Color Palettes
This time we want to share 20 Colourful and Creepy Halloween Color Palettes. These Color schemes is perfect tool for creating Halloween style web design, poster, logo and much more.
120+ Always Striking Sureal Art
After an long time research get some really stunning showcase collection of Surreal Art work which is belong to most famous art designers, Art is a thing that attracts almost every individual..
Creative interview with photographer Tom Hoops
Here at ReadyPhotoSite we strive to build an informative and insightful photography related resource. Today we are excited to present an interview with the famous Bangkok-based photographer Tom Hoops.
The Commercial Art of Mid-Century America
Being the passionate I am, I decided to collect work of stylish beauty, preserving advertising and illustration art of mid-century America
53 Best Practices How To Attract RSS Subscribers
This article will help you to decide why and where to place RSS buttons showing best practices, sharing smart tips and giving explanations why it works that way!
List of Dofollow Links Social and Bookmarking Networks
List of Dofollow Links Social and Bookmarking Networks
Freebie: Tweevil – The Dark Twitter Bird
Freebie: he’s not your average Twitter bird. He’s big. He’s black. He’s mean. He’s Tweevil, the Dark Twitter Bird, and he’s available as an exclusive download from Spyre Studios.
40 Killer Minimalist Blog Designs
Let’s explore the excellent use of minimalism in blog design. The designers of these blogs knew what was important and made sure that the website focused on those pieces – we appreciate them.
Glowing Purple Neon Icons – Signs
http://icons.mysitemyway.com/glowing-purple-neon-icons-signs/
Icy Blue Abstract Photoshop Patterns
Free combo pack of large (1024px * 1024px) seamless Icy Blue Abstract textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
Download Free Business Icons at Smashing Share
Are you looking to spice up your business website with some awesome icons? These free business icons are not standard .ico extension.
Create Mobile Version of Blog: 12 Free Alternatives
A list of best free alternatives for creating mobile version of blog.
Design a Realistic 3D Baseball Cap in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, It will show you how to create a realistic 3D Baseball cap in Adobe Photoshop using the Pen tool, brushes and some nifty tricks.
Seamless patterns can be a lot of fun to play with. When used properly, a nice seamless pattern can make the difference between a good design and a great one.
Inspiration: 100 Awesome iPhone Apps Websites
A showcase of the best iPhone apps websites.
17 Wordpress Theme Design Tutorials
These 17 tutorials will show an amazing diversity in the methods a blogger can employ in designing their very own Wordpress blog.
Free stylish Font : Technique BRK
Here you find plenty of Freebies for Designers collected by Designers needing them on their daily business… This Time: Technique BRK Font
101 invaluable questions to build your Web Design Client Questionnaire
With these 101 invaluable questions, you’ll be able to build an awesome Web Design Client Questionnaire and gather all the information you need to create outstanding websites.
100+ Mix of Great Community Links!
Here at Admix Web, we think it is important for web designers and developers to learn and improve themselves by sharing what they know and learning from what others share!
30+ Famous Useful iPod Touch/iPhone Applications
We Still reconnaissance for some famous useful applications to install on your new iPod Touch/iPhone? We offering 30+ of the latest best. All apps on our showcase are free, and also work with your..
Free Corporate Home Page Design (PSD File) for Design Community
I am sharing PSD (1.39MB) file as well as high resolution JPEG file. This is just a home page so you can change it according to your requirement. This is absolutely Free.
90 Exciting Typography Posters and Designs
Inspiring typography designs that have been printed or will look great as posters, made by various designers from Behance, Coroflot and more.
Create Amazing Wallpapers Or Design Concepts With These 30 Photoshop Tutorials
We present 30 photoshop tutorials for creating your own wallpaper or learning some nice PS tricks in these tuts.
Hokusai’s great wave is everywhere
The wave has been reinterpreted a lot, discover a few of those adaptations in the following collection.
Why should you design for IE6? Is there a demand for it? More and more websites are losing the support for this browser and the usage is dropping every month. So, why should I care about IE6?
Best of Best WordPress Custom Login Page Designs
This article shows you how you can create a custom login page design in WordPress. It also showcases some of the best WordPress login page designs.
Smashing Share With Fresh Natural Look And Feel
http://www.smashingshare.com/2009/10/25/smashing-share-with-fresh-natural-look-and-feel/
HOW TO: Official Facebook Share Counters for Blogs
The Official Facebook Share counter has rolled out. It has a nomal version and Compact version making it easier for Bloggers to choose from. In this hack we’ll see how to add this widget to blogs.
43 Tutorial Sites to Start Learning Web Design
If you want to start learning web design and development any time soon, you can start from these high quality resources.
Using Caurina Tweener Class AS3
You can use multiple properties in one transition without having problems, create complex animations with a few lines of code.
Confessions of a style sheet hacker
Discover the only IE CSS hack you should ever need and how to use conditional comments as an alternative to CSS hacks.
20 Excellent Free High Quality Wood Texture Sets
In this article, we will share 20 High Resolution Wood Textures that will help you creating modern and fresh looking design.
Best of the Web for the Week of October 18, 2009
Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of October 18, 2009.
How to Deal With Multiple Client Projects
Dealing with multiple clients simultaneously can be a tall order, especially when each project is bigger than the next. Find out how to deal with them all, and still have free time to boot. Read on.
Why Web Designers & Freelancers Should Switch to Online Invoicing?
The number of paper invoices generated by corporate America is even worse. Here is some food for thought.
The most stylish websites of October 2009
Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in OCTOBER. We congratulate the winners – they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.
100 Best Ever IMDB Movies Covers
We’re with best ever 100 IMBD movie covers, you may get some better movie collection and even learn about movie cover design ideas, here is an inspirational showcase which belong to IMDB..
Small Tips To Stay Motivated Freelancing
Being a freelancer has ups and downs. Staying motivated is one of the key things for success in freelancing career. Here is a few tips for being motivated, that I have personally found to effective.
10 High Quality Landscape Pictures
I created a list of 10 High Quality Landscape Pictures to help you inspire or to use in your personal work.
Yesterday, Google announced the introduction of Google Social Search. This service is available as part of a new experiment on Google Labs and getting started is pretty simple and straightforward.
Ajax Downloads Directory Ajax Free Scripts
Ajax, sometimes written as AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML), is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications
Grungy Polkadots Patterns Part 2
Free combo pack of large (740px * 740px) seamless Grungy Polkadots textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
Any .edu site requires a powerful and yet flexible Content Management System that would comply with all complex requirements, and it seems that Drupal is perfectly suited for university websites.
GZ – Simple Contact Form is very simple contact form for easy usage and implementation on your website. This package goes with easy administration, where you can customize adresses and notification.
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55+ Fresh Community Links for Designers and Developers
How To Create Cinematic Poster
In this tutorial, Im going to show you how to turn a random picture to an amazing cinematic poster. Ill use Photoshop CS4 and this whole tutorial will depend greatly on layers and Layers mode.
30 Delightful Calendar Designs
With the New Year just around the corner, it is a good idea to start thinking of new calendar designs to jumpstart your year.
Balance in design is important. It’s one of the principles of design. A balanced design has a unity of composition and helps the design make a single impression on the viewer and just feels right.
20 Scrumptious Typography Tutorials for Adobe Photoshop
A series of wonderful, step-by-step tutorials to make your own typographical designs and effects on Adobe Photoshop. A mix of great classic and brand new tuts.
50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web
Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off.
Free Wordpress Theme Translucence
This free wordpress theme features custom admin panel, 3 skins, widgeted sidebar, iQuery down menu and much more.
26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs
Long exposure are easiest to accomplish in low-light conditions, but can be done in brighter light using neutral density filters or specially designed cameras.
Best Halloween Wallpapers for Your Desktop
A list with most inspirational and creative halloween wallpapers. Personalize your computer for Halloween and amaze your friends and family.
10 Ways A Designer Can Make Some Extra Money
We have listed 10 Ways for a Freelance Designer to make some extra money each month, it sure helps to have a little extra.
Create an Famous Blog Logo Through Photoshop Tutorial
Today we’re trying to present an short way for make glossy logo for your designing blog website, we using some easy steps and make an very professional logo also follow some inspirational..
5 Fresh & Innovative Collaboration Platforms For The Creative Community
Here are 5 of the newest and most effective social outlets for designers, web artists and other creative ppl
I created a list of 30 unfortunately placed ads so other designers and advertisers will not make the same mistake.
Creepy Halloween Color Palettes
This time we want to share 20 Colourful and Creepy Halloween Color Palettes. These Color schemes is perfect tool for creating Halloween style web design, poster, logo and much more.
120+ Always Striking Sureal Art
After an long time research get some really stunning showcase collection of Surreal Art work which is belong to most famous art designers, Art is a thing that attracts almost every individual..
Creative interview with photographer Tom Hoops
Here at ReadyPhotoSite we strive to build an informative and insightful photography related resource. Today we are excited to present an interview with the famous Bangkok-based photographer Tom Hoops.
The Commercial Art of Mid-Century America
Being the passionate I am, I decided to collect work of stylish beauty, preserving advertising and illustration art of mid-century America
53 Best Practices How To Attract RSS Subscribers
This article will help you to decide why and where to place RSS buttons showing best practices, sharing smart tips and giving explanations why it works that way!
List of Dofollow Links Social and Bookmarking Networks
List of Dofollow Links Social and Bookmarking Networks
Freebie: Tweevil – The Dark Twitter Bird
Freebie: he’s not your average Twitter bird. He’s big. He’s black. He’s mean. He’s Tweevil, the Dark Twitter Bird, and he’s available as an exclusive download from Spyre Studios.
40 Killer Minimalist Blog Designs
Let’s explore the excellent use of minimalism in blog design. The designers of these blogs knew what was important and made sure that the website focused on those pieces – we appreciate them.
Glowing Purple Neon Icons – Signs
http://icons.mysitemyway.com/glowing-purple-neon-icons-signs/
Icy Blue Abstract Photoshop Patterns
Free combo pack of large (1024px * 1024px) seamless Icy Blue Abstract textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
Download Free Business Icons at Smashing Share
Are you looking to spice up your business website with some awesome icons? These free business icons are not standard .ico extension.
Create Mobile Version of Blog: 12 Free Alternatives
A list of best free alternatives for creating mobile version of blog.
Design a Realistic 3D Baseball Cap in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, It will show you how to create a realistic 3D Baseball cap in Adobe Photoshop using the Pen tool, brushes and some nifty tricks.
Seamless patterns can be a lot of fun to play with. When used properly, a nice seamless pattern can make the difference between a good design and a great one.
Inspiration: 100 Awesome iPhone Apps Websites
A showcase of the best iPhone apps websites.
17 Wordpress Theme Design Tutorials
These 17 tutorials will show an amazing diversity in the methods a blogger can employ in designing their very own Wordpress blog.
Free stylish Font : Technique BRK
Here you find plenty of Freebies for Designers collected by Designers needing them on their daily business… This Time: Technique BRK Font
101 invaluable questions to build your Web Design Client Questionnaire
With these 101 invaluable questions, you’ll be able to build an awesome Web Design Client Questionnaire and gather all the information you need to create outstanding websites.
100+ Mix of Great Community Links!
Here at Admix Web, we think it is important for web designers and developers to learn and improve themselves by sharing what they know and learning from what others share!
30+ Famous Useful iPod Touch/iPhone Applications
We Still reconnaissance for some famous useful applications to install on your new iPod Touch/iPhone? We offering 30+ of the latest best. All apps on our showcase are free, and also work with your..
Free Corporate Home Page Design (PSD File) for Design Community
I am sharing PSD (1.39MB) file as well as high resolution JPEG file. This is just a home page so you can change it according to your requirement. This is absolutely Free.
90 Exciting Typography Posters and Designs
Inspiring typography designs that have been printed or will look great as posters, made by various designers from Behance, Coroflot and more.
Create Amazing Wallpapers Or Design Concepts With These 30 Photoshop Tutorials
We present 30 photoshop tutorials for creating your own wallpaper or learning some nice PS tricks in these tuts.
Hokusai’s great wave is everywhere
The wave has been reinterpreted a lot, discover a few of those adaptations in the following collection.
Why should you design for IE6? Is there a demand for it? More and more websites are losing the support for this browser and the usage is dropping every month. So, why should I care about IE6?
Best of Best WordPress Custom Login Page Designs
This article shows you how you can create a custom login page design in WordPress. It also showcases some of the best WordPress login page designs.
Smashing Share With Fresh Natural Look And Feel
http://www.smashingshare.com/2009/10/25/smashing-share-with-fresh-natural-look-and-feel/
HOW TO: Official Facebook Share Counters for Blogs
The Official Facebook Share counter has rolled out. It has a nomal version and Compact version making it easier for Bloggers to choose from. In this hack we’ll see how to add this widget to blogs.
43 Tutorial Sites to Start Learning Web Design
If you want to start learning web design and development any time soon, you can start from these high quality resources.
Using Caurina Tweener Class AS3
You can use multiple properties in one transition without having problems, create complex animations with a few lines of code.
Confessions of a style sheet hacker
Discover the only IE CSS hack you should ever need and how to use conditional comments as an alternative to CSS hacks.
20 Excellent Free High Quality Wood Texture Sets
In this article, we will share 20 High Resolution Wood Textures that will help you creating modern and fresh looking design.
Best of the Web for the Week of October 18, 2009
Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of October 18, 2009.
How to Deal With Multiple Client Projects
Dealing with multiple clients simultaneously can be a tall order, especially when each project is bigger than the next. Find out how to deal with them all, and still have free time to boot. Read on.
Why Web Designers & Freelancers Should Switch to Online Invoicing?
The number of paper invoices generated by corporate America is even worse. Here is some food for thought.
The most stylish websites of October 2009
Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in OCTOBER. We congratulate the winners – they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.
100 Best Ever IMDB Movies Covers
We’re with best ever 100 IMBD movie covers, you may get some better movie collection and even learn about movie cover design ideas, here is an inspirational showcase which belong to IMDB..
Small Tips To Stay Motivated Freelancing
Being a freelancer has ups and downs. Staying motivated is one of the key things for success in freelancing career. Here is a few tips for being motivated, that I have personally found to effective.
10 High Quality Landscape Pictures
I created a list of 10 High Quality Landscape Pictures to help you inspire or to use in your personal work.
Yesterday, Google announced the introduction of Google Social Search. This service is available as part of a new experiment on Google Labs and getting started is pretty simple and straightforward.
Ajax Downloads Directory Ajax Free Scripts
Ajax, sometimes written as AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML), is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications
Grungy Polkadots Patterns Part 2
Free combo pack of large (740px * 740px) seamless Grungy Polkadots textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
Any .edu site requires a powerful and yet flexible Content Management System that would comply with all complex requirements, and it seems that Drupal is perfectly suited for university websites.
GZ – Simple Contact Form is very simple contact form for easy usage and implementation on your website. This package goes with easy administration, where you can customize adresses and notification.
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105 Free PNG Icons Collection
Developers icons is released by Sekkyumu. This Free Developers icons collection contains 105 icons (32X32 ) for your web development or others. All Free icons are available in the format .png, .ico, icns, .icontainer.
As these Professional Icons are Free, everyone can use it freely and these icons are licensed under Creative Commons.
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Import Outlook PST Files into Thunderbird
Windows/Linux (Thunderbird): Import Outlook's PST files and choose which email folders to bring into Thunderbird with PST Import, a free extension for the open-source, cross-platform email manager Thunderbird. While Thunderbird can import certain messages and settings from an existing Outlook installation, the PST Import add-on lets you set up email on Linux systems, and gives Thunderbird users the ability to pull specific email folders from a stand-alone PST file. The program was coded in France and one user review noted a dialog pop-up in French language, but the instructions should be fairly straightforward, regardless. PST Import is a free download and is listed as working with Windows and Linux versions of Thunderbird
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10 Best Content Management Systems for Designers
There are a lot of content management systems out there, but many of them are overly complicated and require a certain level of technical expertise. However, there are a select few that focus on simplicity and ease-of-use, but still give the designer flexibility in templating features and customization. In this article, we have listed ten of these CMS’s. Some of them are well known, while others you may have never heard of, but deserve a look.
If you have a favorite CMS that we didn’t list here, let us know.
concrete5
Concrete5 is a free open source CMS that focuses on ease of use, which makes it great for designers. Some key features include a file manager with bulk upload, drag-n-drop layout editor, and an open marketplace of add-ons.
ExpressionEngine
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website. It’s a favorite of famous web designers such as Veerle Pieters.
Textpattern
Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. It is both free and open source.
Joomla!
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications.
Movable Type
Movable Type claims to be an “All-in-One Social Publishing Platform”, and it definitely delivers. It powers some pretty big sites including Barack Obama’s site and Serious Eats.
Cushy CMS
CushyCMS is a Content Management Systems (CMS) that is truly simple. There is no software to install and no programming required.
WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is probably the most popular CMS and blogging platform out there.
Radiant CMS
Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
Drupal
Drupal is a free CMS that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power tons of different web sites.
SilverStripe
The SilverStripe CMS is a flexible open source Content Management System that gives everyone involved in a web project the tools they need to do their jobs.
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20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design
Below are twenty do’s and don’ts of effective web design. Study, read, (re)read and print this page. It will help either make or break your website. And don’t hesitate to let us know of anything we might have left out, in the comments below. We love getting your opinions on things and discussing the articles with you – after all, you’re quite possibly the coolest people in the world.
DO: Keep your page structured
In the recent months we’ve seen an explosion of great grid layouts and css files. The most famous (in my opinion) being 960.gs and one of the cooler, more light weight grid systems being the 1kb grid. Following after the structure and balance of a great magazine/newspaper, these grid systems help lay out information in a structured and easy to follow format.
Example
DONT: Just place boxes everywhere
We’ve all seen these types of websites before – 20+ boxes, all different sizes, nothing lining up properly and not on piece that actually grabs your attention because you’ve just ran into a whirlwind of craziness. if you’re a web designer and you cannot properly place items in a structured environment, well, I would’t really call yourself a web designer.
DO: Focus on what’s important
Are you building a website for a business that sells one specific product? If so, make sure that’s the focus of the home page. Allow yourself space on the inner pages to place calls to action for that specific item. If you’re building a blog that gives out freebies or writes tutorials, make sure they’re getting the proper amount of focus and attention. Websites like WOO Themes do a great job and putting forward what their main focus is – wordpress themes.
Example
Discover the Rest of Do's and Don'ts
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How to setup Efficient Digital Photography Work-flow (Beginners)
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First of all, the inevitable question – “What is Digital Photography work-flow?”. In simplified explanation:
“Digital photography work-flow” is a systematic series of process to capture, develop, sort, organize, export and backup your digital photos.
I’m just a beginner photographer and I am learning photography in the hard way. My only teacher is Google and Flickr community. Walking along the path to the learning photography I actually realized that it is required to have a systematic work-flow for your digital photo processing. Slowly by many trial and error I’ve found a simplified way to capture, develop, sort, organize, export and archive my digital photo collection. Professional Photographers might have more efficient systems for their own digital photo processing which I would love to learn from them. Moving ahead, lets see how we could organize our overwhelming collection of digital photos.
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How to backup Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE with FavBackup
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Most of you Firefox users probably use the FEBE Firefox extension to backup/restore your Firefox profile (or maybe using the manual mode of copying your Firefox profile folder). The problem with the FEBE extension is that you are not allowed to restore a complete Firefox profile to an existing one that you are using. So you need to fire up the Firefox Profile Manager to switch the profile and do the things you need to restore your existing Firefox profile completely.
This stand alone application, FavBackup, can actually do the job easier and it can also backup Chrome, Opera, Safari, Flock, and Internet Explorer as well! Check out this mini FavBackup review post!
Using FavBackup to backup Firefox/Safari/Chrome/Opera/IE
I did a simple test by backing up my Firefox profile:
As you can see from the screenshot, you can actually specify what you want to backup (Cookies, Bookmarks, History, Saved Passwords, etc). The safest way is to backup everything and restore only what you need later on. I didn’t tick the Extensions because I noticed that my Firefox did some weird things – where it couldn’t seem to display a page properly (CSS or HTML problem) at times. I suspected one of the Firefox extensions was causing this anomaly.
Specify the profile you want to backup, along with the location of the backup file (which is a single dat file after the backup is completed).
I then uninstalled my Firefox completely, erasing all data and preferences during the uninstallation process. After reinstalling Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, I confirmed that I have lost all my previous profile completely.
I then fire up FavBackup to see whether it can completely restore my existing profile.
Using FavBackup to restore Firefox/Safari/Chrome/Opera/IE
Choose what I wanted to restore, pointed to the dat (backup) file, and clicked the Next button. That was it. I then opened up my Firefox again and everything (bookmarks, address/URL history, cookies, passwords, forms history, etc) is still there!
I haven’t tried the other browsers yet (although I have Opera, Chrome, Safari, and IE installed) but the concepts are the same!
You can do a partial backup/restore (like I mentioned earlier) or a complete/full backup and restore of your favorite web browsers. You don’t even have to install FavBackup. It’s a stand alone .EXE application and all you have to do is click on the file to open the program.
It’s free, it works, it’s nifty! Go grab it and backup your Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Flock/Safari/IE now before something happens!
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A Complete List Of The Android Phones So Far
Labels: gadgets
Here are the Android contenders:
HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1
Status: G1 launched October 22nd, 2008. Available internationally.
Touchscreen:3.2-inch/ 320 x 480 Resolution; Full HVGA TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with Horizontal Sliding FULL QWERTY Keyboard
Dimensions: 117.7mm x 55.7mm x 17.1mm; 158 grams
Camera: 3.2 Megapixels with AutoFocus
Battery: 1150 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Standby Time: 402 hours
Talk Time:5.8 Hours
Processor: Qualcomm MSM7201A, 528 MHz
Internal/External Memory:256 MB/MicroSD (up to 32GB)
Extras: HTC ExtUSB Headset Jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: $149.99
HTC Magic/T-Mobile MyTouch 3G
Status: HTC Magic Launched May 1, 2009; MyTouch 3G launched July 8, 2009. Available through T-Mobile and Vodafone
Touchscreen:3.2″ /320 x 480 HVGA Touchscreen/TFT, TFD, LCD 262k
Dimensions: 113 x 55 x 13 mm; 118.5 grams
Camera: 3.2 Megapixels with AutoFocus (MyTouch has a 5MP camera)
Battery: 1340 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Standby Time: 420 hours
Talk Time:7.5 Hours
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7201a™, 528 MHz
Internal/External Memory:192/288 MB (Underclocked)/ MicroSD up to 32GB
Extras: HTC ExtUSB Headset Jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: $99.99 (T-Mobile MyTouch $149.99)
HTC Hero/T-Mobile G2 Touch/Sprint HTC Hero
Status: HTC Hero Launched July 24th for Orange UK. T-Mobile G2 Touch Launched July 29th.
Touchscreen: 3.2-inch/ 320×480 HVGA resolution; Full Touchscreen/TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen
Dimensions: 112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm ; 135 grams
Camera: 5 Megapixels with AutoFocus
Battery: 1350 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Standby Time: Up to 750 hours for WCDMA, Up to 440 hours for GSM
Talk Time:Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA, Up to 470 minutes for GSM
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Internal/External Memory:288MB/MicroSD 2.0
Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: $179.99
Huawei U8230/ Pulse
Status: Available in T-Mobile UK
Touchscreen: 3.5″/HVGA 480×320 pixel Touchscreen w/ Hardware Buttons: Trackball/HVGA LED
Dimensions: 116 x 63 x 13.5 mm; 130 grams
Camera: 3.2 Megapixels with AutoFocus
Battery: 1500 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Standby Time: 300 Hours
Talk Time: 4.5 Hours
Processor: Qualcomm 7200A 528 MHz processor
Internal/External Memory:128 MB RAM / 1 GB internal storage/ MicroSD (Up to 16 GB)
Extras: 2.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: Free with contract.
Samsung Galaxy
Status: Launched in July; Available on European Carriers
Touchscreen: 3.2 inches/320 x 480 pixels Full AMOLED Touchscreen
Dimensions: 115 x 56 x 12 mm; 114 grams
Camera: 5.0 Megapixels with AutoFocus
Battery: 1500 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Standby Time: 450 Hours
Talk Time: 6.5 Hours
Processor: 528MHz Arm11
Internal/External Memory: 8GB/microSD/microSDHC
Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: £240
HTC Tattoo/HTC Click
Status: Launched October 8th on Vodaphone
Touchscreen: 2.8-inch/240 x 320 pixels QVGA TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with hardware buttons
Dimensions: 106 x 55.2 x 14 mm; 108 grams
Camera: 3.2 Megapixels
Battery: 1100 mAh Li-on
Standby Time: 520 hours (WCDMA), 340 hours (GSM)
Talk Time:342 minutes (WCDMA), 390 minutes (GSM)
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz
Internal/External Memory: 256 MB/MicroSD up to 32GB
Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: Free w/ certain contracts
Motorola CLIQ
Status: Available October 19th, 2009 on T-Mobile and Orange UK
Touchscreen: 3.1-inch/320 x 480 pixel Full Capacitive Touch Screen w/ QWERTY side Slider.
Dimensions: 58 x 114 x 15.6 mm; 163 grams
Camera: 5.0 Megapixels with AutoFocus
Battery: 1420 mAh Li-ion
Standby Time: 325 Hours
Talk Time:6 Hours
Processor: Qualcomm MSM7201A, 528MHz
Internal/External Memory: 256MB/MicroSD (32GB Capacity)
Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: $199
Motorola Droid
Status: Rumored to be available October 31st on Verizon
Touchscreen: 3.7-inch/480×854 Full Touchscreen with Full QWERTY Slider
Dimensions: 60 x 115.8 x 13.7 mm; 169 grams
Camera: 5.0 Megapixels with AutoFocus
Battery: Li-ion 1400mAh
Standby Time: 450 Hours
Talk Time:7 Hours
Processor: OMAP3430 processor
Internal/External Memory: 512MB Flash, 256MB RAM/MicroSD (16GB capacity)
Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled; Android 2.0
Price: Unknown
Samsung Moment/InstinctQ
Status: Available November 1st from Sprint
Touchscreen: 3.2 inch AMOLED display (320 x 480 pixels)Touchscreen with Slideout QWERTY;16M colors
Dimensions: 117 x 59 x 16 mm; 161 grams
Camera: 3.2 megapixel camera with flash and camcorder with auto-focus
Battery: Li-ion 1440mAh
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time:5.5 Hours
Processor: 800 MHz Samsung S3C6410 CPU
Internal/External Memory: 256MB RAM/2 GB microSD card included (upgradeable to 32GB)
Extras: 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, Bluetooth and GPS enabled.
Price: $179.99
Motorola Heron/Iron Man
Status: Rumored to be available in November from AT&T
Touchscreen: 2.8″ 240 x 320 pixels QVGA TFT Touchscreen with Vertical QWERTY slider
Dimensions: 57.5 x 104 x 15.9; 125 grams
Camera: 3.0 MP w/ fixed focus and Flash
Battery: Li-Ion
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time:Unknown
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM 7225 528MHz processor
Internal/External Memory: 128 MB RAM/microSD/microSDHC (up to 32G)
Extras: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled.
Price: Unknown
Acer A1/Liquid
Status: Rumored to be launched in November
Touchscreen: 3.8 inch/800×480 wide VGA touchscreen
Dimensions: 118.6 x 63 x 12mm; 130 grams
Camera: 5MP w/ AutoFocus
Battery: 1350 mAh LiIon
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time:Unknown
Processor: 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250
Internal/External Memory: 256MB RAM/microSD (up to 32 GB)
Extras: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS enabled.
Price: Unknown
Samsung Behold 2
Status: Rumored to be available during Holidays 2009
Touchscreen: 3.2-inch/480 x 320 pixels AMOLED Touchscreen w/ hardware buttons
Dimensions: Unknown
Camera: 5MP w/ Flash and AutoFocus
Battery: 1000 mAh
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time:Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: Unknown/microSD up to 16 GB
Extras: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled.
Price: Unknown
ARCHOS Phone Tablet
Status: Rumored to be available in January
Touchscreen: 4.3-inch/854 x 480 pixel full touchscreen
Dimensions: 10mm thick
Camera: Unknown
Battery: Unknown
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time:Unknown
Processor: 1GHz ARM processor
Internal/External Memory: Unknown
Extras: Wi-Fi
Price: Unknown
Dell mini i3
Status: Upcoming on China Mobile
Touchscreen: 3.5 Inch/640 x 360 resolution
Dimensions: 58 x 114 x 15.6 mm; 163 grams
Camera: 3.2 MP w/ Flash and AutoFocus
Battery: 950mAh Li-ion
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time:Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: Unknown/microSD card slot
Extras: No Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled
Price: Unknown
Lenovo O1
Status: Upcoming on China Mobile
Touchscreen: Unknown
Dimensions: Unknown
Camera: 5 MP w/ Flash
Battery: Unknown
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: 624 MHz
Internal/External Memory: 8 GB / 16 GB internal storage
Extras: Wi-Fi
Price: Unknown
LG Etna
Status: Upcoming on Vodafone
Touchscreen: 3 inch 240 x 320 pixels Touchscreen with Full Slideout QWERTY
Dimensions: 101.6 x 50.8 x 16.8 mm; 108 grams
Camera: 2.0 Megapixels
Battery: 800 mAh
Standby Time: 250 Hours
Talk Time: 4 Hours
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: Unknown/microSD/microSDHC
Extras: Bluetooth, USB enabled
Price: Unknown
HTC Lancaster
Status: Rumored on AT&T (possibly canceled)
Touchscreen: 2.8″/240 x 320 pixels QVGA Touchscreen with Slideout QWERTY Keyboard
Dimensions: 109 x 54 x 17.1 mm; 110 grams
Camera: 3.0 Megapixels
Battery: 1,350 mAh
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: Unknown/microSD
Extras: Bluetooth enabled
Price: Unknown
Sony Ericsson Xperia X3
Status: Rumored
Touchscreen: 4-inch/800×400 Full Touchscreen
Dimensions: Uknown
Camera: 8MP w/ Flash and AutoFocus
Battery: Unknown
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: 1GHz Qualcomm Snap Dragon processor
Internal/External Memory: Unknown
Extras: Bluetooth and wi-fi enabled
Price: Unknown
Motorola Calgary
Status: Upcoming on Verizon
Touchscreen: 320 x 480 Full Touch, Horizontal Slider with Full QWERTY Keyboard, and an optical joystick
Dimensions: Unknown
Camera: 3.1 MP with Autofocus
Battery: Li-Ion
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: 256 MB/MicroSD
Extras: Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth Enabled w/ a 3.5mm headset jack
Price: Unknown
Philips V808
Status: Rumored
Touchscreen: Unknown
Dimensions: Unknown
Camera: Unknown
Battery: Unknown
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: Unknown
Extras: Unknown
Price: Unknown
Samsung Bigfoot
Status: Rumored on T-Mobile USA
Touchscreen: Full Touchscreen with Full QWERTY horizontal slider
Dimensions: Unknown
Camera: 3 MP
Battery: Unknown
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: Unknown
Extras: Unknown
Price: Unknown
HTC Dragon
Status: Rumored on T-Mobile USA
Touchscreen: 4.3 inch 800 x 480 pixels Touchscreen
Dimensions: Unknown
Camera: Unknown
Battery: Unknown
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon
Internal/External Memory: Unknown
Extras: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled
Price: Unknown
Samsung Galaxy Lite/Samsung Spica
Status: Rumored
Touchscreen: 3.2 inch AMOLED 320 x 480 Touchscreen with hardware buttons
Dimensions: 115.9 x 56 x 11.9 mm; 116.7 grams
Camera: 3.2MP
Battery: 1500 mAh Li-ion Battery
Standby Time: Unknown
Talk Time: Unknown
Processor: Unknown
Internal/External Memory: 1GB
Extras: Wi-Fi, bluetooth and 3.5mm headset jack
Price: Unknown
The information regarding these devices was compiled from manufacturer websites, Phandroid, Androphones, and PhoneArena.
via TechCrunch
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8 Powerful Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience. In this post, I tried to list down those powerful wordpress plugins that are really essential for every blog.
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This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. Using this plugin you can automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and generates meta tags automatically. IF you are beginner, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install and get relax.
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down to approve or disapprove them to publish on your blog.
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. With this plugin, you can save up to 80% Bandwidth via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. An advanced and versatile algorithm that is using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, and categories, YARPP calculates a “match score” for each pair of posts on your blog. You choose the threshold limit for relevance and you get more related posts if there are more
related posts and less if there are less.
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress
Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.
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Best Green Web Designs and Green Blog Designs
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
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As web and graphic designers, one of the easiest ways we can help out a green organization is to help out with their site’s design. There are a lot of big environmental websites out there with great information which could do with a facelift!
Hopefully the sites below will inspire you with what you can come up with for a “green” website, whether it’s green or not!
And more importantly, the content on all these sites is packed with information on the effects of issues like global warming and foresting, along with tips on how to reduce your impact.
Inhabitat – One of the nicest green color palettes in this list.
Planet Green – With a pretty brave logo! Seems to work though.
Pando.org – No green to be found, which is a nice change! This one’s all in the header photo.
The Greenists – Little details like the leaves in the nav and sidebar headings are done perfectly. 
Treehugger – You *must* load up this site and check out their navigation trick on the right side.
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