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15 Worst Corporate Logo Fails

2012-01-18T11:57:00.001+08:00

If this logo seems like a company oversight, then think again.
A-Style very intentionally created this dirty (read: buzz worthy) design.
In fact, the logo even came before the product did. After the logo became a gorilla marketing success, the company began selling tee-shirts.

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The Importance of School

2011-05-07T19:32:00.001+08:00

epic fail photos - The Importance of School FAILSubmitted by: UnknownPicture by: Helena School Librarian Read more

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Conversations Are Shaping the Social Web

2011-05-07T11:59:00.001+08:00

Photo: Whiteboard Diaries

Every new industry has leaders.
How do you become a leader?
By starting conversations – by bringing relevant topics of discussion to light and getting others to talk about them… Creating engagement.

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5 strange facts about crying

2011-05-07T10:56:00.001+08:00

5 strange facts about crying

Sure, everybody sheds the occasional tear. But new research shows some surprising trends behind the science of how and when we sob

posted on May 5, 2011, at 4:32 PM

Speaker of the House John Boehner has been known to shed his fair share of tears: A new study shows that as men age, they tend to cry more easily. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Tears are universal, but not everybody cries the same way, or with the same frequency. Researchers have been trying for years to figure out the biological and cultural forces that might explain, for instance, the differences between the way men and women cry. Here, five discoveries about the science of weeping

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How to Brighten Up a Specific Part of a Photo with Virtually Any Image Editor

2011-05-06T10:55:00.001+08:00

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109 Ways to Make Your Business Irresistible to the Media

2011-05-05T18:58:00.001+08:00

109 Ways to Make Your Business Irresistible to the Media

Ever wonder why some businesses get press and some don’t? Getting a mainstream media outlet to pay attention to your business seems like an impossible-to-solve mystery.

You might see your competitors spouting a diatribe that you know for a fact is wrong, or that you could explain better.

“Why did they interview that guy instead of me?” you wonder.

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Read the rest at copyblogger http://www.copyblogger.com/irresistible-pr/

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Impressive Digital Girls by Mario Wibisono #Art

2010-08-23T12:15:00.001+08:00

Mario Wibisono the artist, who is the use of traditional techniques replaced by contemporary digital art. These characters are like living people. Wibisono achieve sensational effects in his images. In their eyes you can see the glitter, their hair flapping in the wind, and the blood is sticky. His favorite topics is woman, young, beautiful and nice, but brave and strong. Magic, history, fantasy and contemporary designs are the features of Wibisono’s work. Click on the images to see the larger versions.

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How to save a Buck! Really?

2010-08-15T10:25:00.001+08:00

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StarCraft II - All The Best Wallpapers

2010-08-09T11:09:00.001+08:00

The Best WallPapers of StarCraft II

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MOL and PayPal Launch Co-Branded Prepaid Card

2010-07-15T11:21:00.001+08:00

MOL and PayPal Launch Co-Branded Prepaid Card in Malaysia
for Online Shopping and Gaming

First co-branded prepaid card for PayPal and MOL in Asia Pacific
available initially for Malaysian consumers

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15 July 2010 – PayPal and MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL), one of Asia Pacific’s leading payment system providers, today announced a strategic collaboration to provide Malaysian consumers with a new prepaid card, called the MOL PayPal – The Digital Card, for online shopping and gaming. Issued by EON Bank Berhad, this is the first co-branded prepaid card for PayPal and MOL in the Asia Pacific region and will be available initially in Malaysia on July 19, 2010. The new card enables Malaysians to fund a PayPal account that can be used to conveniently shop on millions of websites worldwide or to easily reload MOLPoints to purchase online games, products and services – all without the need of a credit card. Visit www.PayPal-MOL.com for more info.

“We’re continuing to build key alliances to grow our business in Asia Pacific and today we’re very excited to launch our first-ever co-branded prepaid card in the region to provide Malaysians with a new way to fund their PayPal accounts,” said Melanie Tan, Vice President of Regional Strategy & Business Development, PayPal Asia Pacific. “MOL’s wide distribution network, prepaid card experience and digital lifestyle leadership makes them an ideal choice for this venture and we’re thrilled to combine their local strengths with the ease-of-use and security of our global online payment platform.”

“We believe Asian countries such as Malaysia can take the lead in driving digital trends. The new prepaid card co-branded by MOL and PayPal will enable many more people to embrace a digital lifestyle and use computers and the Internet to shop and have fun,” said Ganesh Kumar Bangah, president and chief executive officer for MOL. “PayPal’s fast checkout, security features and consumer protections combined with MOL’s extensive knowledge and network in the payment industry in Asia will enable more opportunities for consumers, merchants and game publishers.”

The MOL PayPal – The Digital Card provides Malaysians with a faster, safer way to shop the world through PayPal. Users don’t need to enter their financial information every time they purchase an item online – they just click on the PayPal button, enter their email and password and approve the purchase. Not only is this faster, but also more secure as PayPal doesn’t share user’s financial information with the merchant. In addition, PayPal’s Buyer Protection policy provides a full refund for eligible items if users do not receive the items they purchased.

MOL has over 200 game titles under its belt. MOL has been actively equipping gamers with the most robust online game payment service in Malaysia since 2002. The Digital Card allows gamers to immerse themselves in rich online worlds such as the ultra-popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, which boasts over 11 million players worldwide.

Shopping Benefits and Gaming Rewards for Using The Digital Card

“Many Malaysians still do not have credit cards or are not comfortable using their credit cards online, so this new prepaid card will allow them to use a PayPal account to quickly and more safely shop online as well as buy MOLPoints to play exciting online games,” said Elias Ghanem, General Manager, PayPal Southeast Asia & India. “Besides being able to conveniently top up the card at more than 15,000 physical locations around the country or via online banking, Malaysians can get a wide range of shopping benefits and gaming rewards for using The Digital Card.”

The MOL PayPal – The Digital Card is the only card that benefits and rewards users for online shopping and gaming.

Shopping benefits include:

Card holders can get a RM15 rebate for their first transaction of at least RM150 with their PayPal account, valid until 31 August 2010.
Great offers from PayPal merchants worldwide.
Hassle-free currency conversion for online shopping.
Accepted worldwide by Visa card merchants.

Gaming rewards for first-time use include:

If card holders use PayPal to reload their MOL member account with a minimum of RM150 in a single transaction by 31 August 2010, they will receive 1,500 MOLPoints + 5% MOLPoints bonus (minimum of 750 MOLPoints).
If card holders reload their MOLPoints with PayPal’s pre-approval reload feature, they will receive 5% MOLPoints bonus (minimum of 750 MOLPoints).
With the potential to receive 3,000 MOLPoints or more for first-time use, card holders can buy exciting in-game products from MOL such as weapons, armour and special powers.

Gaming rewards for lifetime use include:

Every time card holders use PayPal to reload their MOL member accounts, they will receive additional 5% MOLPoints bonus (equivalent to 5 MOLPoints for every RM1 they reload through PayPal).

Pricing and Availability

The MOL PayPal – The Digital Card can either be purchased in over 1,100 7-Eleven stores nationwide starting on Monday, July 19, 2010, or applied online at www.PayPal-MOL.com to be picked up and signed for at EON Bank branches once the application is approved. A special preview of the card will be available at the National World Cyber Games held at Mid Valley Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur from July 16-18, 2010.

The Digital Card retails for RM15. Card holders can offset this cost with a RM15 rebate for their first transaction of at least RM150 with their PayPal account, valid until 31 August 2010. Card top-ups are available through more than 15,000 physical outlets nationwide, including 7-Eleven outlets, Friendster cybercafés, EON Bank branches and ATMs, as well as online banking in Malaysia.

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About MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL)

MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL) is one of Asia’s leading payment service providers. MOL is a MSC Malaysia Status Company that operates and develops payment systems incorporated in 2000. MOL handles over 60 million transactions with an annual payment volume of more than USD200 million. MOL leverages on a network of more than 540,000 physical payment collection points across more than 75 countries. It is also linked online to 88 banks in 9 countries worldwide. MOL was recognized as one of Asia Pacific’s fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Awards in 2005 and 2006, won a Merit Award for the Best of E-Commerce Applications in the MSC Asia Pacific ICT Awards and received the Member Excellence Award at the 2009 ICT Leadership Awards of the National ICT Association of Malaysia.

Through its ownership of MOL and Friendster, MOL Global is Asia’s largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network, pairing MOL’s physical payment collection points and payment platform with Friendster’s large online footprint, social network and user community in Asia.

About PayPal

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, credit cards, debit cards and other methods. With more than 84 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. The company's open payment platform, PayPal X, allows developers to build innovative payment applications on multiple platforms and devices. More information about the company can be found at https://www.paypal.com/my.

PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California and its international headquarters is located in Singapore.

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Rare Photos Of Celebrities

2010-04-15T17:18:00.001+08:00

Here are the pictures of some iconic people that marked our spirits and history forever.

John Travolta

Arnold Schwarzenegger and a doll

Alain Delon at the Cannes Film Festival, 1961

Young Hitchcock, 1939

Audrey Hepburn for the Bazaar magazine, 1959

Parents of Angelina Jolie

And here’s Angelina herself

Ozzy Osbourne (one and only)

Elizabeth Taylor

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna

Liv Tyler and a baby

Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, his wife, Bianca, and Keith Richards having a party

Bob Marley, and Kate Simon, 1977

Brooke Shields and Robert Downey Jr.

Danny DeVito and Christopher Reeves

Sharon Tate (if anyone forgot, the wife of Roman Polanski)

Sean Connery, a beer fan

Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, New York, 1948

Lizzy Taylor is resting between shootings

Elvis Presley with his high school girlfriend Barbara Hearn

WTF? Harrison Ford!

Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston

Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour

Elvis Presley with parents

Elvis Presley buys a gun

Cher

Michael and Janet Jackson

Janis Joplin, 1962

John Lennon’s son Julian

Che Guevara in rare moments of relaxation

Jodie Foster

John Belushi and Steve Martin

Paul McCartney is dancing for his wife Linda

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Little DiCaprio

Marlon Brando with his parents

Marilyn Monroe in a room of distorting mirrors

Here she is working out

Mia Farrow and her mother, actress Maureen O’Sullivan (she played Jane in the film Tarzan and His Mate, 1934

Brigitte Bardot

Princess Diana is dancing with John Travolta

Young Queen Elizabeth II, 1955

Famous photographer Richard Avedon and his model Sophia Loren, 1966

Sean Connery with a friend

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jean Seberg

Steve Martin

Steve McQueen

Barbara Streisand

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"I Love You" - In Many Languages

2010-02-09T14:52:00.001+08:00

I Love You - In Many Languages

Afrikaans	Ek is lief vir jou Ek het jou lief
Albanian	Te dua
Amharic	Afekrishalehou
Arabic	Ana Behibak (to a male) Ana Behibek (to a female)
Armenian	kezi chat ge sirem (in western Armenian) yes kez sirum em (in eastern armenian) yes kez shat em siroom
aruba bonaire and curacao	mi stimabo
Assyr Assyrian	Az tha hijthmekem ANA KI BAYINAKH
Australian	'ave a beer :-)
Azerbaijanian
Basque (A region of Spain and France)	Maite zaitut. Asko maite zaitut. (I love you a lot) Nere Maitea (My love)
Bavarian	I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali	Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Berber	Lakh tirikh
BHOJPURI	ham tahara se pyar karila
Bicol	Namumutan ta ka
Bisaya	Nahigugma ko nimo
Bosnian	volim te (most common) (Volim Te Ba) ja te volim (less common)
Brazilian Portuguese	eu te amo
Bulgarian	Obicham te
Cambodian	kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah Bon sro lanh oon
Cantonese	Ngo oi ney
Catalan	T'estim (mallorcan) T'estime (valencian) T'estimo (catalonian) T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Cebuano	Gi Gugma Kita
Chamorro	Hu Guiya Hao
Chanchal	main (i like you) main Tere bina main ji nahi pauga (i love you) mail tere bina kaha jauga
Chinese	Wo ie ni
Manderin	Wo ai ni
Croatian	Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim (less common)
Czech	miluji te
Danish	Jeg elsker dig
Dhivehi (Maldivian Language)	Aharen Kalaa Dhekeh Loabivey
Dutch	Ik hou van jou
English	I love you!
Esperanto	Mi amas vin (Mi amas vim?)
Estonian	Ma armastan sind Mina armastan sind (formal)
Persian (Farsi)	Tora dust midaram
Flemish	ik zie je graag
Finnish	Mina rakastan sinua
French	Je t'aime
Friesian	Ik bin fereale op dy Ik ha^ld fan dy (Most commonly used phrase) (the ^ is above the a)
Gaelic	Ta gra agam ort (Tá mé i ngrá leat?)
Galician	Ámote
German	Ich liebe Dich Ich leba dich I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialekt.)
Greek	S'agapo
Hausa	Ina sonki
Hawaiian	Aloha wau ia 'oe
Hebrew	aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male) aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female) female to male "ani ohevet otcha". male to female "ani ohev otach".
Hindi	Main tumse pyar karta hun (Male will say to Female) Main tumse pyar karti hun (Female will say to Male)
Hokkien	Wa ai lu
Hopi	Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hmong	"Kuv Hlub Koj" Pronounced "Goo (rising tone) Hloo (high tone) Gah (falling tone"
Hungarian	Szeretlek te'ged
Icelandic	Ég elska þig (pronounced jeg elska thig)
Indian languages:
Gujarati (a dialect of India)	"Tane Prem Karoo Choo"
Kannada	Nanu nimmege preti maditi idini Naanu Ninna Preethisuve (Naanu Ninanu Pritisutene)
Malayalam-1 Malayalam-2 Malayalam-3 Malayalam (Kerala)	ngyaan ninne premikkunnu (Enjan Ninnei Premikunnu) "Njan ninne pranikunnu" or "njan ninne premikkinu" "enikku ninne ishttamanu" (enneke nine ishtam) NJAN NINNE SNEHIKKUNNU (Njan ninne premikkunnu) nnan ninney snehikkunnu enikku ninne ishtamanu nan ninne premikkunnu, nan ninne snehikkunnu
Manipuri	aina nangbu nunshi
Oriya	Mu tumaku bhala paye
Punjabi	Main tenu pyar karda haan Meno Tere Na Pyar Wa Menu Twadey Naal Pyar Hai me tumse pyar ker ta hu'
Sindhi	Aue tava saa pyar kar ya ti ( female to male) Aue tosa pyaar kar ya to ( male to female
Tamil	NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
Telugu	1. "Nenu ninnu premisthunnaanu" (It represents the opposite person in SINGULAR). 2. "Nenu mimmalni Premisthunnaanu" (It represents the opposite person in PLURAL). naanu ninnu premishthaanu (Nenu Ninnu Premisttu nanu) Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu
Marathi	Mala tujhashi prem aahe. Maza Tuzyavar Prem Ahe Majha tujhyavar prem aahe
Indonesian	Saya cinta padamu Saya Cinta Kamu Aku tjinta padamu saya mengasihi saudari (formal expression from male to female) saya mengasihi saudara (formal expression from female to male)
Malay/Indonesian	Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you) Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you)
Malay	Saya cintamu Saya sayangmu (Saya cintakan mu / Saya cinta mu ?)
Niasan (one of tribes in Indonesia)	omasido khou
Javanese language (a tribe in Indonesia)	kulo tresno panjenengan (high languange) aku tresno karo kowe (low languange) (Aku tresna kowe!) in Java Indonesia: aku cinta kamu
Irish	taim i' ngra leat
Italian	Ti amo
Japanese	Kimi o ai shiteru (Anata wa, dai suki desu ?)
Javanese	Kulo tresno marang panjenengan (formal) aku terno kowe (informal)
Karen	Ya Eh Na Arr Gyi Law.
Kashmiri	meh chi chain maai
Kazakh	Men seny jaksy kuremyn
Kiswahili	Nakupenda
Konkani	Hanv tukka preeti karta
Korean	Tangsinul sarang ha yo (SA LANG HAE / Na No Sa Lan Hei?)
Kurdish	Ez te hezdikhem mn tom oxshawet or xoshm awet ???
Hawrami	Washem Grakani
Kyrgyz	Men seni syuem
Lahu	Nga naw hta ha ja.
Lao	Khoi huk chau
Laos	Chanrackkun
Latin	Te amo (Ego te amo ?) Vos amo Amo te
Latvian	Es Tevi milu (Es m lu Tevi ?)
Lingala	Nalingi yo
Lithuanian	að myliu tave (As Myliu Tave) Aš tave myliu. [Ash tave myliu]
Luganda (from Uganda)	nkwagala
Luo	Aheri
Macedonian	Te sakam
Madrid lingo	Me molas, tronca
Mahalu	zobb foxx il liba ommok ???????????
Maltese	Inhobbok! (Inhobbok hafna ?)
Mandarian	Wo ai ni
Mapudungun (a language spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche)	Inchepoyeneimi
Mohawk	Konoronhkwa
Moldova (Moldovian)	Craciun fericit si un An Nou fericit!
Mongolia	Bi chamd khairtai
Myanmar (Burma)	Nga nint ko chit dae Nga nint go chit tel.
Navajo	Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele	Ngiyakuthanda
Nepali	Ma timlai maya/prem garchu
Norwegian	Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
Pashto (National Language of Afghanistan)	Za Tasara Meena Kawam Za tha sara meena laram (Za la ta sara meena kawom)
Persian	Tora dost daram (Tora Doost Darem ?) Duset daaram (informal language) Dustat daaram (more peotic) \'a\' here sounds like \'a\' in \'pat\' and \'aa\' sounds like \'u\' in \'umberlla\'. :))
Pilipino	Mahal Kita Iniibig Kita
Polish	Kocham cię Ja Cie Kocham (Pronounced Yacha kocham) Ja cię kocham (thats acurate spelling) is completly not in use. \"Ja\" is \"I\" and in this type of sentence we just skip it.
Portuguese	Eu amo-te (continental) Eu te amo (Brazilian)
Punjabi	Main tenu pyar karda haan Meno Tere Na Pyar Wa Menu Twadey Naal Pyar Hai me tumse pyar ker ta hu'
Romanian	Te iubesc
Russian	Ya lyublyu tebya Ya vas lyublyu Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic	Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian	Volim te (most common), or Ja te volim" (less common)
Serbo-Croatian	Volim te
Shona	Ndinokuda
Sinhalese	Mama Oyata Aadarei
Sioux	Techihhila
Slovak	lubim ta
Slovenian (Slovene)	Ljubim te
Somalia Languages	Waan kujeclahay
Spanish	Te quiero Te amo
Swahili	Naku penda
Swedish	Jag a lskar dig
Swiss-German	Ch'ha di ga"rn
Tagalog	Mahal kita Iniibig kita
Taiwanese	Gwa ai lee
Tamil	NAN UNNAI KHADAL LIKERAN Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
Thai	Phom Rak Khun Ch'an Rak Khun Khao Raak Thoe / chun raak ter
Tibetan	Nga Chola Gagai Yo. Nga Chola Tsewa Yo
Tunisian	NMOUT ALIK Ha eh bak (ÃÍÈß - spelled AHEBAK)
Turkish	Seni seviyorum!
Ukranian	Ya tebya kahayu Ya tebe kohayu ya tebya lyublyu (Russian variant) Yalleh blutebeh
Urdu (Pakistan)	MUJHAY TUM SAY MOHABBAT HAY or Main tum say pyar karta hoon. Mea tum se pyaar karta hu (when a guy says it) Mea tum se pyar karti hu (when a gal says it)
Vietnamese	Anh ye^u em (man to woman) Em ye^u anh (woman to man) Toi yeu em
Vlaams	Ik heb je lief
Welsh	'Rwy'n dy garu di. Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) Rwy'n caru ti
xhosa	ndiyakuthanda
Yiddish	Ikh hob dikh lib
Yoruba	Mo ni ife re
Zazi	Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
Zuni	Tom ho' ichema

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12 F-Word Appropriate Situations

2010-01-29T23:24:00.001+08:00

Here are 12 situations where I’m pretty sure your mom will not be offeneded when the F-Word is blurted, yelled and or screamed.

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Pictures Taken Exactly At The Wrong Time

2010-01-29T23:21:00.001+08:00

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10 Of The Funniest Star Wars Motivational Posters Ever

2010-01-29T23:13:00.001+08:00

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30 Amazing Celebrity & Models Pencil Sketches

2009-12-22T01:59:00.001+08:00

All Artworks are taken from deviant art and art properly linked back to artist’s profile and artworks. Click on Artists name for artist profile, artwork name for artwork and image for full previw.

Beauty in Simplicity by ~Snow-Owl

Dance Spirit

Rum lover by =nabey

From Yesterday

Pretty

Here comes the King

emotions

Was it a Dream

Katie…

Temptation

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

If Only…

Scofield, Michael by ~Narya13

Angelica by ~niimsz

Scarlett Johansson -CK Ad-

The Greek God by ~Visumveri

Nameless by *iizzard

Friends by ~nobodysghost

Ben Barnes – Prince Caspian W2 by *Svera

Half of you_Christina Aguilera by ~Esteljf

Sir Sean Connery by ~theangryfish

Captain Jack Sparrow by ~AndyBuck

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY by *Bereaved

Sybilla by ~pbozproduction

Jennifer Love Hewitt by ~Tanya-B

Liv Tyler by ~theangryfish

Madonna by =akaLilith

Natalie Portman by ~xialaceleste

Kate Winslet by ~Lorelai82

lamb by ~czornyy

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10 Places To Get Awesome Photoshop Tutorials

2009-12-16T18:50:00.001+08:00

Another great aspect of Photoshop is the community, as it’s so widely used the community have alot to offer, here I have listed 10 great resources for Photoshop tutorials where you can sharpen and expand your toolset and hopefully allow you to create some amazing work.

Photoshop Cafe

PS Lover

PSD Core

PSD Fan

PSD Tuts +

PSD Vault

Photoshop Lady

PS Wish

Tutorial 9

Planet Photoshop

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McBonio is a full time web designer, blogger and general web lurker. He runs Tropica Web Design, which is a web agency based in Liverpool, UK. You can also catch McBonio at Twitter: @mcbonio

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20 Excellent Facebook Scripts and Resources

2009-12-16T00:42:00.001+08:00

Networking has certainly become important to our daily life. Whether light-hearted interaction with friends or communicating with business clients the world over, socializing is integral to our personal and professional relationships. Facebook has gotten most of the buzz in the past few years, allowing members to easily stay connected with friends, family members and business associates.

Adding friends, sending messages, chatting, joining causes and networks for your institution or workplace, you can do it all here. Here, we’ll introduce you to 20 scripts that are typical for the Facebook user experience. Web designers and developers who want to integrate Facebook-like features into their websites and applications are in for a treat.

1. Post-To-Wall Application Using jQuery and PHP

A lot of information is made available on Facebook’s wall message board, including message content, users, senders, comments, dates, times and other relevant details. Though this may seem like complicated work, this tutorial by Antonio of woork.blogspot.com makes it easy for you to implement a similar post-to-wall feature on your own website. Use the few lines of Javascript and PHP code from the tutorial and watch your website flourish like never before. To make it easy for beginners, the tutorial deals with only one piece of information on the wall: the message content.

2. Lightbox

A lot of lightboxes are out there, but why not make the perfect one, like the one on Facebook? This great lightbox script was created by famspam. Writing code for even routine tasks can be cumbersome. But with the simplicity of JQuery, you can have a lightweight Facebook-style lightbox for your website. Capable of displaying DIVs, images and even entire remote pages, the lightbox creates pop-ups that are visually appealing and easy to use. You can get started here.

3. Auto-Suggest Search With jQuery

Automatically suggesting potential search results based on just a few letters entered by the user, this Facebook-style auto-suggest search engine is a true time- and effort-saver for users and enhances their experience of the website. For example, typing the letters “Fra” could bring up “France” or the user’s friend “Frank” as suggestions. This stylish search engine makes use of BSN Autosuggest libs and employs jQuery for the AJAX framework. Some of the features of this Facebook-style search are:

AJAX and auto-suggest support;

Renders support for search plug-ins;

Provides support across different browsers (Firefox, IE 5.5 and above, Opera, Safari);

Supports cache.

Download this Facebook-inspired auto-suggest search feature here.

4. Modal Box Using MooTools

Stylish, lightweight and subtle, Facebook’s modal box is the best and most coveted of all current modal boxes. This JavaScript creates modal dialogues and wizards — i.e. dialogue sequences — without resorting to conventional page reloads and pop-ups. These are also sometimes used to display large versions of small images. The tutorial here takes the CSS and imagery from Facebook and combines it with the amazing functionality of MooTools in order to create the Facebook effect.

5. Elastic Plug-In

A major hit on Facebook, this jQuery plug-in is now counted among the most functional UI effects on the Internet. This elastic plug-in automatically shrinks or expands text areas according to the amount of text inputted by the user. The weight of this plug-in is what gives it its edge over competitors. Now, you can recreate this impressive Facebook-style effect of an elastic text area by simply following this tutorial.

6.Tipsy Plug-In

Wondering how to make a relevant tooltip pop up as users move their cursor over the title attribute of an anchored tag? Facebook provides inspiration for this jQuery plug-in, and you can implement this cool tipsy plug-in on your own website now. Aside from being a neat trick, the plug-in is easy to configure and lightweight. Read the tutorial to learn how to incorporate the Tipsy plug-in on your website.

7. Activity Stream

This innovative plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 allows you to share, control and aggregate all of your activities around the Internet, along with several of your profiles from different services. The plug-in emulates the Facebook streams that adorn your wall. So, if you have a Movable Type blog and wish to exercise complete control of your activities on the ‘net, including showing or hiding certain activities, this tutorial on Facebook-like activity streams is sure to be a great help. To keep you from being locks in to any particular service, this plug-in can also publish your stream with the hAtom microformat and Atom.

8. Icons

Chatting with friends online is fun, but words are sometimes not enough to convey our feelings. Icons come in handy because they’re a cute, simple way to express emotion. Of course, saying “I love you” has a powerful effect, but an icon of a little heart pumping is so much more stylish. Facebook icons are a hit among users, and you can download 28 of them here, for free. They are available in SVG and high-resolution PNG format.

9. Sliders Using CSS And MooTools

Website developers are constantly looking out for great ideas with which to enhance their websites. The slider controls on Facebook have caught the eye of many professionals. To implement similar-looking sliders for your project, read the tutorial here. It explains how to create them and how to control the height, width and opacity of images. The credit for this easy three-slider tutorial goes to David Walsh, a successful Web developer in his own right. Hats off!

10. JBolo

Having to switch between two websites every few seconds — or even few minutes — can be annoying: for example, to chat with a friend on Gmail and browse photos on Facebook. With that in mind, Facebook took social networking to the next level when it integrated chat functionality. And now you can integrate a similar feature on your Joomla website using this tutorial. The distinctive name of this application is taken from the Hindi word “bolo,” which means to talk. So, get to work and let your visitors start talking!

11. Boxy

Styled like the dialogue box on Facebook, this flexible box supports size tweening and dragging. What distinguishes Boxy from several other overlays is the availability of an object interface to control dialogues after creating them. To make usage even simpler, it also provides you with a jQuery plugin that allows you to include forms and links automatically, along with the “Ask helper” to present the user with an array of choices. Read the tutorial to implement the Boxy dialogue box on your website.

12. Gmail- And Facebook-Style jQuery Chat

Everyone loves Facebook’s chat module. And this jQuery module lets you seamlessly integrate Gmail- and Facebook-style chat into your website. This chat script has many features, such as keeping chat boxes open and preserving a box’s state (and data) even when the page has been refreshed, just like on Facebook. Also, this chat is extremely simple to integrate. Learn more about this Facebook-style jQuery chat.

13. Alert Confirmation Box Using CSS And jQuery

It happens often enough that while performing a particular action, we lose focus and mess up the task. Alert confirmation boxes can be a great help here. In asking for your confirmation of an action, the box makes you think through your request before finalizing it. For instance, to remove a friend from your friend’s list on Facebook, you need to click on the “X” button, which brings up an alert confirmation box asking you, “Are you sure you want to delete so-and-so from your list?” You are given the option of “Yes” or “No,” which finalizes the action. Alert boxes can help visitors to your website complete important actions, such as deleting items from a shopping cart. This tutorial shows you how to make an alert confirmation box like the one seen on Facebook.

14. AJAX Pagination Using jQuery

Designing Facebook-style pagination to break up a long list of search results into several pages is no longer a difficult task. Though page numbers are not displayed at the top of Facebook, you are given the option at the end of the page to see more results. To create a similarly subtle yet helpful feature on your website, go through the tutorial here.

15. Cometchat

This is the best script for inline chat similar to the kind seen on Facebook. Get the script to give your visitors a chat environment to interact in while they browse your website. They can also update their status, like “Available,” “Busy,” etc. Facebook-style AJAXification ensures the feature does not reload every time a visitor clicks to another page. Hash URLs and notifications in the footer are some of the other features integrated in Cometchat.

16. Image Cropping

The crop tool hides unseemly parts of a photograph and brings focus to the subject. Facebook introduced such a tool that members can easily use before uploading and sharing their pictures. To achieve this nifty combination of Javascript and PHP, check out this amazing tutorial.

17. Input Box

Integrated with the auto-complete function, the input box on Facebook allows you to search for and send messages to your friends. To include a flexible Facebook-inspired input box for your website, just grab this MooTools 1.2-compatible script and get started.

18. Chat Room And Instant Messenger

Does the instant messenger and chat room on Facebook make you green with envy? Give your website the same with this Joomla module. Visitors can sign in to the messenger with their Facebook ID and password and use their friends list from Facebook. It really is as simple as that.

19. vBStatus (Status Display)

Isn’t it great that you can share what’s on your mind with all your friends in an instant, and vice versa. These status updates are one of the main features of Facebook. And below them is room for your friends’ comments and a option to “Like” your status. This feature is referred to as “vBStatus,” and you can include the same on your website by downloading it here. Users will have the flexibility to quickly change their status whenever they want using AJAX.

20. Facebox

Facebox is lightbox script that gives you the look of Facebook pop-up message windows. It can contain images, Flash movies, HTML and more. Facebox is a MooTools alternative to the original Facebox jQuery script. Read more about Facebox here.

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90+ Fresh Community News for Designers and Developers

2009-12-11T18:00:00.001+08:00

Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest Community Links submitted on tripwire magazine. Get more user submitted links here

Credit Crunchmas – 12 Cheap’N’Cheerful Designer iPhone Games

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20 Best Upcoming Social Networks

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Top 10 Sites to Order Business Christmas Cards

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5 Simple Ways To Keep Your Code Friendly

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Sweet Sixteen: 16 Ways of Giving Designer’s Block the Boot

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Eye Opening Photography

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42 Really Funny And Creative Print Ads

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Design Chair

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Free Textures – 21 High-Res Texas Snow Textures

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Eight Ways to Combat the Content Crunch

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330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

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35 Epic and Awesome Wallpapers

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8 Tips For Promoting Your WordPress Site

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35 Dazzling Logo Design Tutorials Part-1

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13 Magnificent Web User Interfaces and How to Create Them

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Take a advantage of 10 new handy features of Google Docs

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3 free PDF to Excel converters

Corporate Logo Design

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The Visual Science Blog

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14 Best CSS Editors for Web Designers & Developers

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Amazing Digital Portraits

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Alice in wonderland fairytale scene in Photoshop

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28 Creative Tech Advertising

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From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

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How to Become a Superstar Freelancer

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27 Clothing Retailer Logos from New York City

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No More Minimum Deposit for Premium Wordpress Themes

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40 Best Photoshop Web Page Layout Tutorials

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29 IncrEDIBLE Food Related Logos for Inspiration

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17 Awesome Free Fonts for Your Work

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How to make Wordpress and Blogger Post Via e-Mail

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25 Excellent Advertisements on Environmental Issues

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7 Super Creative Portfolio Designs

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30 Amazingly Creative Photo Manipulated Wallpaper to Tune Up Your Desktop

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13 Glamorous Photoshop Techniques For Extreme Facial Makeovers

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HTML 5: Does Flash Developers need to Worry?

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The Snow Show In Your Blogs

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Download a free 7-in-1 Joomla Template

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Cute Rank Checker

Free rank checker software that checks and tracks website rankings on multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing(MSN), Ask, and AOL.

Breathtaking Digital Art by Kerem Beyit

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Stunning Collection of Digital Art and Paintings of Fruits

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21 HQ Winter Style Wordpress Themes

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Best collection of robots illustrations – 49 artworks

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19 Amazingly Creative Mass Human Formations, That Will Blow You Away!

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21 Useful Typography Tutorials in Photoshop

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30+ Amazing Examples of Famous Caricatures

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Education Themes

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“Digging Into Wordpress” Book by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr

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19 Excellent Packs of Christmas Icons

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20 Amazing Minimalist Wordpress Themes Design

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10 Detailed Photoshop Tutorials Of November

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100+ Useful Techniques and Tutorials for jQuery

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Airopia Free Web Design Resources

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50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

2009-12-04T00:57:00.001+08:00

Author: Jarel Remick

I'm a freelance designer and web developer, an author and reviewer at ThemeForest.net, a writer for the ThemeForest blog and occasionally web.appstorm.net. When I actually manage to get away from the computer, I'm hiking, watching movies or spending time with my girlfriend in sunny Las Vegas. – View my net.tutsplus.com posts here.

cliqcliq Colors

With cliqcliq's Colors app, you can easily create, convert and manage colors and palettes. The app allows conversion between RGB, HSB and Grayscale. You can also extract colors and palettes from photos you've snapped or imported into your photo library.

When you're done, you can email the palettes to yourself or someone else to quickly import into Photoshop or Illustrator.

Price: $2.99
Developer: cliqcliq
Download from iTunes

Color Expert

Color Expert gives you an easy to use color wheel for creating great color palettes but also lets you get colors from photos, sliders and swatches. You can easily search through Pantone, web safe or HTML colors to find just what you're looking for.

When you're done, save or send the palette as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file (ASE) for Photoshop or another Adobe app.

Price: $9.99
Developer: Code Line
Download from iTunes

HEX RGB Colors Guide

HEX RGB Colors Guide is a pretty basic app for having a RGB and HEX color code reference guide in your pocket at all times. Choose between block or list view and get quick access to the color information you need right away.

For the price vs features, this is a bit spendy but could be very handy for some designers.

Price: $3.99
Developer: Inside Root Media
Download from iTunes

HTML Colors

Quickly select and preview colors for the web with HTML Colors for some fun exploring or just to make sure you have the right combination. The sample text and background color make it easy to get the right foreground and background color combination.

You can also view HTML safe colors or try your luck with the "Random" button, then save or send your palette.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Kevin White (iTunes Link)
Download from iTunes

WhatTheFont

You're probably familiar with MyFont's WhatTheFont service. This app connects to that service for font discovery anywhere. Take a photo of the font (magazine, book or computer screen) or use an iPhone screenshot and WhatTheFont will tell you what the font is in just a few seconds, then view the font details within the app.

You never know when you'll see a font you like or what and you it's hard to beat free!

Price: Free
Developer: MyFonts
Download from iTunes

FontShuffle

Need typographic inspiration? FontShuffle might be your solution. Browse 650+ font families or shake your iPhone for FontShuffle to mix new fonts into your results. Browse by category or search for something more specific, then view up to 24 similar typefaces in a list.

Once you've found something you like, you can preview it with custom sample text. You can also check out the font's glyph set.

Price: Free
Developer: FontShop AG
Download from iTunes

The Typography Manual

Interested in learning about typography? Or maybe just more about it? This is the app for that. It includes 60+ pages on the history of type, type basics, the latest info. on web typography and more. It doesn't stop there though, it also has a 100+ page glossary of type terminology and examples.

There's a lot more included in this app and it really is one of the best ways to learn typography.

Photoshop.com Mobile

This is the mobile companion to Photoshop.com for the iPhone which gives you access to your Photoshop.com photos for editing, uploading and sharing. Your editing capabilities are somewhat limited but considering this is on your phone, it's quite nice.

You can crop and rotate, adjust color, saturation and exposure or apply filters like Sketch or Soft Focus along with many more options. It's basic but powerful for a handheld device.

Convert ~ the unit calculator

Convert is an easy to use unit converter that even web designers and developers will want. It includes conversions all the usual stuff like volume, angles and money but also for typography, pixels, picas and a lot more.

It also includes a regular calculator though so you won't need to use the iPhone's included calculator any more.

Price: $1.99
Developer: tap tap tap
Download from iTunes

Caliper

Caliper is a basic but very handy app to have in your toolbox. With it you can quickly and precisely measure objects (placed on or near the screen) or images on screen in pixels, centimeters, inches and more. The measurement jaws are also multitouch for faster measuring.

Source Viewer

Source Viewer does exactly what it sounds like. It lets you view the source code of websites. However, it does much more such as syntax coloring with links highlighted specially, link extraction to easily view website resources, image collection for separate viewing and much more.

You can also open resource URL's via browser or send them via email, save bookmarks and toggle source code word wrap. This is a great one for developers on the go!

Price: $0.99
Developer: Piet Jonas
Download from iTunes

Web Source Viewer

Web Source Viewer is a much more basic than Source Viewer but it's a fast and free way to view source code of any website from your iPhone.

Price: Free
Developer: Casey Jones
Download from iTunes

FTP On The Go

FTP On The Go is a fully featured FTP app for the iPhone. It lets you do just about everything your desktop application does but with the convenience of mobility. Browse, upload, download, edit and preview files on your FTP or even on your iPhone. You can even email files, view documents within the app like Word, Excel, PDF's, etc. and much more.

There are far too many features to list but this is a fantastic app for the price so check it out.

ServersMan

ServersMan essentially lets you use your iPhone like a wireless USB flash drive... or web server. Yeah, you can actually run a website with ServersMan. You can also store files on your iPhone via WiFi or 3G from any internet connected computer with a browser.

You'll also be able to open files like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote), PDF's, HTML, CSS and much more.

Price: Free
Developer: FreeBit Co., Ltd.
Download from iTunes

TouchTerm SSH

If you're looking for a full SSH terminal app, this is it. Access your servers via WiFi, 3G or EDGE with just about all the features you'd find in a desktop SSH terminal application. If you need a step up, there is also TouchTerm SSH Pro with some more advanced features optimizing usage on the iPhone.

With the Pro version you get features like gestures, auto-completion, graphical filesystem navigation and much, much more.

Price: $3.99 - Pro: $8.99
Developer: Aji, LLC
Download from iTunes - Download Pro from iTunes

DatabaseViewer

DatabaseViewer gives you mobile access to your databases and the tools you need to work with them. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access, MS Excel, Oracle and several more. Sync database data via 3G, EDGE or WiFi, apply SQL Select queries, filters and much more.

It's a little bit expensive, but if you need access to your databases on the go, this is a solid choice.

Price: $19.99
Developer: Cellica Corporation
Download from iTunes

Are My Sites Up

If you run or host several websites, especially for clients, it's important to keep an eye on their status. If you use the Are My Sites Up? service, this task is a breeze. This is the accompanying iPhone app for both subscription based and free versions of the service.

From the app you can manage account settings like email and SMS alerts, view your sites' status and get push alerts.

Price: Free - Lite: Free
Developer: Shiftedfrequency
Download from iTunes - Download Lite from iTunes

SEO IT

With SEO IT you can easily analyze a website's Search Engine Optimization. The application will analyze tons different parts including complete source code listing, META tags, tag counts, title contents, back links and many more parts of your website of choice.

Curious about your competition? This is a great way to check them out. ;-)

Price: $0.99
Developer: Infinidigm, Inc.
Download from iTunes

Web Tools

With Web Tools you can check whois information, domain availability, view server information, check response times and more. When you find information you want to keep for later or share, you can email the results.

It's a pretty basic app but very useful, especially if you're with a client who's looking for a domain.

Price: $1.99
Developer: James Clark
Download from iTunes

Nomina

Nomina does more than just check domain availability. It can pull up a lot of helpful information for building a brand such as trademark checking, common-law usage, relevance of the brand name and lots more. It'll save you tons of time when trying to build a brand for you or your client.

Price: $14.99
Developer: Outspring, Inc.
Download from iTunes

iStat - Sys Monitoring, Battery

iStat gives you a great set of tools to monitor iPhone resource usage (including battery) as well as resource usage on remote systems including Mac, Linux and Solaris. You also get network tools such as ping and traceroute. Unfortunately Apple requested that they remove the "Free Memory" feature, which many are not happy about.

Easily monitor your iPhone, home computers and even web servers anywhere. Great value for the price!

Price: $0.99
Developer: Bjango
Download from iTunes

Ego

Ego gives you a quick overview of your web statistics from services like Google Analytics but can also check stats on services like Twitter, Vimeo, Squarespace, Mint, Feedburner and Ember. The app is clean and simple to provide a quick view of your current stats. Tapping a service rotates through additional stats.

This is a great app for developers who want to keep track of web stats as well as developing social media stats.

Price: $1.99
Developer: Garrett Murray
Download from iTunes

Analytics App

If you're looking for a fully featured Google Analytics app, this would be it. You'll get quick access to your Google Analytics account, including maps, and all the information you'll need. Google changed their API for Analytics so the app is being rewritten and the free update is due out this month.

You'll also be able to access all your Google Analytics information via WiFi, 3G or EDGE.

Price: $5.99
Developer: AnalyticsApp.com
Download from iTunes

Mint Stats

Mint Stats plugs into Shaun Inman's Mint analytics and provides stats for the last 24 hours. Check hourly and daily totals for views and unique visits, manage multiple sites, auto-refresh and more.

Overall, it's a pretty basic app but gives you the info. you need while you're on the go.

Price: Free
Developer: Edward Waller
Download from iTunes

Web Developer Bible

The Web Developer Bible app is a very handy reference for RGB to HEX color conversion, HTML entities and more. It's a pretty simple app but it could certainly be useful for some web developers and because it's free, it's definitely worth at least checking out.

Price: Free
Developer: Niranjan Kumar (iTunes Link)
Download from iTunes

Developer's Tool Kit

Developer's Took Kit combines several helpful tools for developers and designers such as a computer science hex calculator (works with binary, octal and logic operations), color wheel and categorized ANSI UTF-8 character set. The character can be browsed by name, unicode value and symbol type.

The price seems a little much for what's included but the calculator is quite helpful and finding UTF-8 characters is a breeze.

Price: $4.99
Developer: Swamiware LLC
Download from iTunes

CSS Cheat Sheet

Learning CSS? Need a refresher course or just a reference sheet for CSS? This is a great app for just that. CSS Cheat Sheet is searchable and easy to browse by category. It includes descriptions, values and examples for backgrounds, borders, classifications, fonts, margins and a whole lot more.

This is probably one of the most thorough CSS reference apps available for the iPhone.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Concentric Sky
Download from iTunes

jQuery Cheat Sheet

jQuery Cheat Sheet is another reference app from Concentric Sky. If you just need to reference something real quick or even if you're new to jQuery, this is a great app to have handy. You can even write and test your jQuery within the app now.

It's also important to note that this app doesn't retrieve any of its information from the internet, so you can use it anytime, anywhere.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Concentric Sky
Download from iTunes

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

JavaScript Cheat Sheet is another reference app from Concentric Sky. It's another great app for learning JavaScript or if you would like a handy reference app for those times you just can't remember an expression or something else.

As with Concentric Sky's other apps, this one also works completely offline.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Concentric Sky
Download from iTunes

HTML Cheat Sheet

This is probably one of the more popular reference apps from Concentric Sky that also allows you to write and test HTML within the app. Reference everything from tag lists to character sets and more with this.

As with Concentric Sky's other reference apps, this is another goodie for beginners and those who would like a quick reference guide in their pocket.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Concentric Sky
Download from iTunes

PHP Cheat Sheet

If you're a developer, your cheat sheet collection wouldn't be complete without Concentric Sky's PHP cheat sheet. Again, it's great for those who would like a quick reference and for those who might be learning PHP.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Concentric Sky
Download from iTunes

WordPress

The WordPress app gives you the power of WordPress in your pocket. Create and edit content on your sites, even if you're offline. The app supports true previews, tags, categories, iPhone photo integration and most other functions you can do in WordPress from your desktop.

The app also lets you manage multiple sites if you need.

Price: Free
Developer: Automattic, Inc.
Download from iTunes

Blog with iBlogger!

iBlogger is a multi-platform capable blogging app for everything from WordPress and TypePad to SquareSpace, Xanga and ExpressionEngine. You can easily manage just about any major blog installation with support for most major features like pictures, tags, links, etc.

If you run multiple blogs on multiple platforms, this is the app you'll want for easy mobile access.

Price: $9.99
Developer: illumineX, Inc.
Download from iTunes

1Password

If you're not using a password manager already, you might consider looking for one. 1Password is a popular choice and with iPhone integration, the choice is even easier. Store your information and passwords securely and let it automatically log you into websites with ease.

There's a lot you can do with it, especially for the price.

Price: $4.99
Developer: Agile Web Solutions
Download from iTunes

PassGen

PassGen is a straight forward and basic app that generates random passwords between 4 and 16 digits that will be much more secure than the basic passwords most people use. Once you generate a password, email it to yourself for safe keeping.

Price: Free
Developer: SCB (iTunes Link)
Download from iTunes

Dropbox

As a designer and/or developer, you probably share and sync files with lots of people across many computers. The Dropbox app gives you easy access to your Dropbox.com account files for viewing, managing and sharing while you're on the go.

Price: Free
Developer: Dropbox
Download from iTunes

SugarSync

SugarSync is a service similar to Dropbox and provides easy file access anywhere. The same applies to the iPhone app which lets you view, manage and share your synced files anywhere, anytime. You can even stream entire music collections stored on your computer!

Price: Free
Developer: Sharpcast, Inc.
Download from iTunes

Discover

Discover lets you use your iPhone as a wireless mobile hard drive via WiFi. You (or others) can connect and transfer or share files. It even works iPhone to iPhone. Within the app you can also view all the major document formats including Microsoft Office, PDF's, HTML and other text based files and many more.

Price: Free
Developer: mAPPn, Inc.
Download from iTunes

Air Sharing (Document Viewer, File Storage)

Air Sharing gives you drag and drop access to your iPhone over WiFi when mounted as a wireless drive on Mac, Windows or Linux. You can also connect through a browser if necessary. You can view literally just about every major file format available including Microsoft Office and iWork files.

Files

Store and view files on your iPhone with the Files app, again, over WiFi. You can also email and password protect your files if needed. Files also supports all major file formats such as Microsoft Office and Apple iWork. Once you've viewed files, the app can even remember the page and zoom level.

Price: $4.99
Developer: Olive Toast
Download from iTunes

Quickoffice Files

Quickoffice Files is part of an online service for managing your office files but the app can be used independently as well. Transfer files via WiFi, view, email and password protect files and even access your MobileMe iDisk account.

Price: $0.99
Developer: Quickoffice, Inc.
Download from iTunes

Sketches

Sketches lets you easily jot down notes and thoughts as well as annotate your pictures and more. It's sort of a cross between a fun and creative drawing and annotation app and something that also serves its purposes for business. You can also send your creations once you're done.

Price: $4.99
Developer: LateNiteSoft
Download from iTunes

iBlueSky (mindmapping)

As designers and developers, we get ideas all the timeâ€“regardless of location. iBlueSky lets you ditch the paper napkin and take brainstorming and problem solving to a new level. When you're done you can send via email in Novamind, PDF, PNG, OPML and more formats.

There's many more great functions with this app as well as integration with Box.net. The price seems a bit steep but it's hard to put a price on great ideas right?

Things

Things for the iPhone brings the power of Things for the desktop, to your iPhone. Wirelessly sync your lists and tasks when you're near your computer. The great thing about this app though, is you don't need the desktop application. Things for the iPhone is an independent app, thus the rather steep price.

Things simplifies task management and makes it much easier to stay productive and keep track of life anywhere you might be.

Price: $9.99
Developer: Cultured Code
Download from iTunes

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk (RTM) connects with the online service to sync your lists and tasks. You can also work offline and sync when the internet is available. RTM is a super simple and easy to use app and service but also provides the options and flexibility you might need.

RTM also has lots of integration with the iPhone such as detecting location for nearby tasks and much more.

Price: Free
Developer: Remember The Milk
Download from iTunes

MiniBooks for FreshBooks

MiniBooks brings the popular invoicing software, FreshBooks, to the iPhone. As far as I can tell, it's an independent application that is capable of syncing with your online FreshBooks account (if not, the price is way steep). You get all the features and power of FreshBooks while you're on the go.

There's also a lite version available which I believe requires a FreshBooks account.

Price: $14.99 - Lite: Free
Developer: Groovy Squared
Download from iTunes - Download Lite from iTunes

Jobs - Time Sheet + Tracking

Jobs is a simple time tracking and time sheet creation app. It's important to keep track of your time to make sure you get paid. Jobs features multiple timers, sessions, exporting, different currencies and more.

The nice thing about Jobs is that it's not bloated with extra crap you don't need. That way it's easy as pie to keep track of your time.

Price: $1.99
Developer: Bjango
Download from iTunes

PayPal

Most of you are familiar with PayPal. If you're not yet, you most likely will be soon. PayPal for the iPhone gives you quick access to your account for checking your balance, reviewing history, sending money and more. In fact, it's so fast and easy, I use it to check my account even while I'm at the computer.

Price: Free
Developer: PayPal
Download from iTunes

BeejiveIM 3.0 with Push

Beejive is arguably the best iPhone instant messaging app around that's more capable than some desktop messaging clients. Connect to all the major services such as AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, Facebook, Myspace... and the list goes on. It also moves from 3G/EDGE to WiFi seamlessly and is capable of push notifications after you close the app.

I communicate with many clients via chat and this makes it easy to take my chats with me anywhere.

Price: $9.99
Developer: Beejive, Inc.
Download from iTunes

Prowl: Growl Client

Prowl is simply a Growl client for the iPhone. Get push notifications from your Mac or Windows computer for anything you configure Growl with and would like push notifications on your iPhone. It's all highly configurable to fit your needs.

I personally use it for multiple email accounts, messaging, system alerts and a lot more.

Price: $2.99
Developer: Zachary West
Download from iTunes

Conclusion

Well, there you have it fellow web designers and developers. 50 fantastic iPhone apps for taking on many of our daily tasks anytime, anywhere, from the convenience of a pocket sized device. As I mentioned at the beginning, there are several other options for many of these app types. I couldn't include them all though or this list would be a mile long. These are the ones I've picked from personal experience and reviews during my own searches for apps to make my job a little easier.

As I'm sure we all are, I'm always on the lookout for fresh new apps to make my web design or development tasks easier, faster or more mobile. So, if you know of any really great apps, please share them with us in the comments below. Thanks!

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60+ Fresh News for Web Designers and Developers

2009-12-02T16:46:00.001+08:00

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Australia for potential visitors: FAQ

2009-11-18T16:14:00.001+08:00

These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a great sense of humour

________________________________________ __________

Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ).

A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
________________________________________ __________

Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? ( USA )

A: Depends how much you've been drinking.
________________________________________ __________

Q:I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? ( Sweden)

A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
________________________________________ __________

Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia ? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane , Cairns , Townsville and Hervey Bay ? ( UK)

A: What did your last slave die of?
________________________________________ __________

Q:Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia ? ( USA )

A: A-Fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe .
Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not
... Oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
________________________________________ __________

Q:Which direction is North in Australia ? ( USA )

A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
________________________________________ _________

Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia ? ( UK )
A:Why? Just use your fingers like we do...
________________________________________ __________

Q:Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? ( USA )

A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is
Oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.
________________________________________ __________

Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
A: You are a British politician, right?
________________________________________ __________

Q:Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )

A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers.
Milk is illegal.
________________________________________ __________

Q:Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can Dispense rattlesnake serum. ( USA )

A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from.
All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.
________________________________________ __________

Q:I have a question about a famous animal in Australia , but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. ( USA )

A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them.
You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
________________________________________ __________

Q:I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in Australia ? ( USA)

A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.
________________________________________ __________

Q:Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia ? ( France )

A: Only at Christmas.
________________________________________ __________

Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA )

A: Yes, but you'll have to learn it first

Your comments? no?

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60+ Design and Development Links

2009-11-18T03:10:00.001+08:00

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30 Fantastic Wonderful Landscapes Wallpapers

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Football Players Silhouette Hand drawn football players silhouette collection: ZIP file attached for download which contains high resolution transparent .PNG image, and .EPS – compatible for Illustrator 8 and higher.

Top 15 Hotel and Resort Websites for Inspiration

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Free Hi-Res Grunge Textures

3 hi-res grunge textures. Resolution 4752 px by 3168 px.

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Create a 3D Magic Top-hat Illustration

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21 Awesome Piece of Digital CMYK Art

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55+ Fresh Community Links for Designers and Developers

2009-11-04T18:54:00.001+08:00

101 Pro and Free Wordpress Themes for Personal Blogs

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30 Fresh & Priceless Wordpress Themes Out in Octomber

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Simple Jquery Slide Effect Tutorial

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20 Magnificent Magazine Covers in Recent Years

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57 Winter Photography Poster Inspiration

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40 Incredibly Useful Web Design Tools

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Xocolatl – Boutique Chocolate Shop A stunning CSS eCommerce website showcasing this boutique chocolate shop.

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http://icons.mysitemyway.com/3d-glossy-pink-orbs-icons-business/

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80+ Typography Related Twitter Accounts To Follow

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70 Of The Best Photoshop Actions For Enhancing Photos

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25 Creative Ideas To Make Your Workplace Look Really Cool

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Drupal Theme, Drupal Templates, Drupal CMS Template

Looking for a wide range of Drupal templates, download a fascinating drupal themes at Best Web Templates

10 Twitter Lists you’ll love to follow!

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15 jQuery slideshow/gallery plugins

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Smashing Magazine Redesigned, Introducing Smashing Network – With VIDEO

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60+ Promotional Websites to Promote and Submit Your Design Related Articles and News

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12 Lesser Known But Useful WordPress Hacks

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44 Amazing Agency Websites

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Getting Design Work in The Recession

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10 Essential Social Media Blogs You Should Definitely Bookmark

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26 interesting yellow logos

It may be a happy, friendly, sunny and energetic color but it is also a difficult one. That may be the reason why not so many designers used it in their logos, or why the clients did not ask for it.

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If you are serious about your website or blog, you should definitly take the analytics part seriously.

Creating An Online Portfolio: A Good Read Round-Up

Thorough research is the first and probably, the most important step you should take before building your personal portfolio website.

My Google PageRank is 2/10 within 3 Months. How does it happen? Tutorial about indexing your Google PageRank more quickly.

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If Politicians were HTTP Status Codes!

2009-11-04T17:27:00.001+08:00

401 Not Authorized

George W. Bush

416 Not Satisfiable

Bill Clinton

417 Expectation Failed

Barack Obama

302 Found

Saddam Hussein

404 Not Found

Osama Bin Laden

410 Gone

John F Kennedy

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30+ creative Abstract Desktop Wallpaper designs

2009-11-03T00:09:00.001+08:00

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Lazy Blogger’s guide to Super Charge WordPress with 100+ Plugins

2009-10-31T05:15:00.001+08:00

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55+ Fresh Community Links for Designers and Developers

2009-10-29T22:42:00.001+08:00

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.

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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

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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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30 Misplaced Ads

I created a list of 30 unfortunately placed ads so other designers and advertisers will not make the same mistake.

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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

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The Commercial Art of Mid-Century America

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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

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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.

Design Chair

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

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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.

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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

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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 I Care About IE6?

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?

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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

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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

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Using Caurina Tweener Class AS3

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Confessions of a style sheet hacker

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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

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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

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100 Best Ever IMDB Movies Covers

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Small Tips To Stay Motivated Freelancing

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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.

Google Search goes Social

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

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Grungy Polkadots Patterns Part 2

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Drupal for .edu

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

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55+ Fresh Community Links for Designers and Developers

2009-10-29T18:19:00.001+08:00

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

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Is Your Web Design Balanced?

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.

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50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

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Free Wordpress Theme Translucence

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26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs

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Best Halloween Wallpapers for Your Desktop

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10 Ways A Designer Can Make Some Extra Money

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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..

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30 Misplaced Ads

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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

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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.

Design Chair

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..

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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 I Care About IE6?

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.

Google Search goes Social

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.

Drupal for .edu

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

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

2009-10-29T18:16:00.001+08:00

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

2009-10-29T18:13:00.001+08:00

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

2009-10-29T18:08:00.001+08:00

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

2009-10-29T18:01:00.001+08:00

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

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How to setup Efficient Digital Photography Work-flow (Beginners)

2009-10-28T17:38:00.001+08:00

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

2009-10-21T22:32:00.001+08:00

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

2009-10-21T18:34:00.001+08:00

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.

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8 Powerful Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should

2009-10-20T16:49:00.001+08:00

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.

You are welcome to share more Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

All in One SEO Pack

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

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

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

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

2009-10-18T02:12:00.001+08:00

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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