hongkiat.comOnline Tips For Tech Users, Bloggers and Designers2009-11-21T18:14:09ZWordPresshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/feed/atom/24thfloorhttp://feedburner.google.comhongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogFreebie: Fluzzy Twitter Icon Sethttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54932009-11-21T06:33:30Z2009-11-19T12:44:12Z
Meet Fluzzy, yet another high quality free Twitter icon set released exclusively for Hongkiat readers from our friend at Iconshock. You might also want to check out Blitter Twitter Icon set we previously released no long ago.
Fluzzy is free, comes in a set of 6 different icons in two separate sizes – 256×256px and [...]
Meet Fluzzy, yet another high quality free Twitter icon set released exclusively for Hongkiat readers from our friend at Iconshock. You might also want to check out Blitter Twitter Icon set we previously released no long ago.
Fluzzy is free, comes in a set of 6 different icons in two separate sizes – 256×256px and 512×512px. All graphics are in tranparent .PNG 24-bit. We’ve also included the .AI source. For designers who wish to get the most of the icons, you are welcome to do so.
This icon set is free for personal or commercial projects, however you are not allow to re-sell, re-distribute or generate profit out from it.
Download Fluzzy
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30http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/freebie-fluzzy-twitter-icon-set/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogMasters of Paper Art and Paper Sculptureshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54782009-11-21T12:42:06Z2009-11-17T14:43:37Z
To most people, making a paper plane could be one of the simplest thing to do. It’s the simplest and easiest form of paper art, for this case a flying art. However, there’s a special minority who takes thing to the next level. They can turn the basic form of origami – which is folding [...]
To most people, making a paper plane could be one of the simplest thing to do. It’s the simplest and easiest form of paper art, for this case a flying art. However, there’s a special minority who takes thing to the next level. They can turn the basic form of origami – which is folding a paper in half – together with a little cutting, folding, bending, shaping, and more paper folding, into an utmost creative artwork you have ever seen.
Credit: Sculpture by Simon Schubert
In this post, we will attempt to show how these minority, creative minded folks turn a very thin slice of wood – paper – into wonders, and bringing paper art to the next level. Without further ado, here’s an impressive showcase of paper art and paper sculptures by some the best paper artistes in the world. Full list after the jump.
Jen Stark is a contemporary artist whose majority of work involves creating paper sculptures. She also works with drawing and animation. Her work draws inspiration from microscopic patterns in nature, wormholes, and sliced anatomy.
Over and out
Reciprocal
Enchant
Coriolis Effect
Cologne, Germany based artis, Simon Schuberts works imagine architectonical settings, common situations and objects, whereas the material he uses are either simple or sophisticated – white paper folded or mixed media arrangements.
A trained designer for digital and print media from University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany.
Helen Musselwhite creates highly individual and visually appealing framed paper sculptures.Each piece combines intricate hand cut layers of coloured paper and strong graphic images arranged to make interesting and intriguing scenes in box frames.
Paper dress sculpture made from pages of telephone book.
"I don’t follow traditional but I am trying to create a mixture of the traditional and modern styles and to produce my own world through this super fine lacy-paper-cuttings technique" Aoyama
Sher graduated with a very distinctive sculptural style, working with clay moulds and paper, from the University of Wolverhampton with a BA (Hons) in Three Dimensional Design and a successful end of year show at Covent Garden in 1992.
Yulia Brodskaya was born in Russia (Moscow); prior to moving to the UK in 2004 she was interested in diverse creative practices ranging from Textile Painting, Origami and Collage to more traditional Fine Art practices.
Born in the year of 1967, Danish artist Peter Callesen takes the most commonly consumed media – A4 papers and turn them into wonders.
Little Erected Ruin
On The Other Side
Looking back
The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow
Inspired by master of origami paper artwork Prof. Masahiro Chatani, Ingrid studied his work for years and is now a master of her own.
Khoshbin was exposed to art at an early age. Both her grandfather and uncle are master carpenters; her mother is a ceramic artist; her brother is a film maker and curator; and her sister is a new media artist. It seems meant to be. (via jen11show)
An illustrator from Bristol UK; currently majoring illustration in UWE.
Independent Arts and Crafts professional from London, United Kingdom.
Chatsworth, Derbyshure ‘A Guide to’
The Story of Peter Pan: The Pirate Ship
Alice: Through the Looking Glass
The Old House
One of Bert’s most impressive portfolio would have to be his 3 dimensional pseudo realistic paper portraits and sculptures. They are so realistic that some might find it eerie.
Harry Hamelink (2007)
Mr. Ivo Opstelten
Bert Simons himself
A couple more..
The Lifespan of Paper-Marriage
via ppt-ping
White Shadows
via hellofromthemoon
Serial Cut
Madrid based studio, established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto.
Origami Koi
via Richi89
38http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog50 Beautiful and Professionally Looking Joomla Templateshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54602009-11-21T17:10:59Z2009-11-12T14:18:29Z
Joomla is an award winning open source content management system (CMS) that allows you to build websites of different varieties like blogs, personal portfolio site, photo galleries, e-commerce sites, etc. Joomla is easy to customize and thanks to the Joomla community, there are plenty of beautiful templates to choose from so you can have a [...]
Joomla is an award winning open source content management system (CMS) that allows you to build websites of different varieties like blogs, personal portfolio site, photo galleries, e-commerce sites, etc. Joomla is easy to customize and thanks to the Joomla community, there are plenty of beautiful templates to choose from so you can have a great looking Joomla powered website and online application.
This following post is dedicated to Joomla users and those who wish to start with Joomla. Here are some beautiful and professionally looking Joomla templates you should know.
Free Joomla Templates
City sky | Demo | Download
The template features 2 parameters that serve to change the background on the one hand and to insert one’s twitter URL on the other, the latter then being highlighted to direct the attention of your readers to your twitter account.
Guild Wars | Demo | Download
Perfect for your online games website, it is perfect for clan forum.
Disco Beat | Demo | Download
Help you distribute your site contents between 4 layout columns – a 2-column central area and two neighboring sidebars (left & right). The main area will be your main site contents holder, while the sidebars will allow you to set apart supporting classified information.
PJ Enchanted | Demo | Download
Available in both native Joomla 1.5 as well as Joomla 1.0.x versions.
Top Gear | Demo | Download
Organized in 4 columns, including a 2-column main area, surrounded by a left and a right sidebar. The top-speed JavaScript based main menu bar will allow for a real quick navigation to the internal pages of your car racing website.
JS Lunar Eclipse | Demo | Download
Easy navigation and plenty of space to make modular websites expand.
Forex Trading | Demo | Download
Dedicated to the foreign exchange market affairs and is targeted at banks or other official institutions operating that trade markets globally.
Violin1 | Demo | Download
JS Optimus | Demo | Download
Clean template that let’s your all important content speak for your site, and not get buried under a distracting template. Built to be SEO optimized and take subtle advantage of Joomla 1.5’s template override features.
Bikini Beach | Demo | Download
This template can be successfully used for various leisure time related websites – from professional travel agency portals promoting their hot offers online, through e-stores offering sunbathing accessories, to personal sites representing trip diaries.
World of Warcraft Flash Joomla Template | Demo | Download
One more perfect Joomla template for game website.
Contaminated | Demo | Download
Black based toxic green for the alternative people out there with breadcrumb supported.
Sabana Plazza | Demo | Download
Lightweight and fast loading (its filesize only about 50 Kb).
Diablo III FLASH | Demo | Download
This is the FLASH version of Diablo III templates for Joomla. This is a standard Joomla template. However, it includes a flash header with great effects.
The DailyPraise | Demo | Download
Makes creating news and magazine site easy.
Digital Systems | Demo | Download
Comes with many standard features and is very easy to integrate with any Joomla installation. It comes with a custom right menu and all module positions are fully collapsible.
Default | Demo | Download
Professional Joomla Templates
Delicious | Demo
Features a 3 column layout, plenty of module positions, a menu with built-in support for VirtueMart 1.1 and a native or blog styled date tag for articles.
Dark Rational | Demo
This template has enough features to satisfy your need for gadgets, but still lightweight enough to be fast and super good looking as well.
Espresso | Demo
Espresso comes packed with themes for some of the top components for Joomla!, including: My Blog, Jomsocial, JomComment, Kunena, Seyret, and exclusive Joomla! content overides.
JA Tube | Demo
Showcase Plazza | Demo
For those of you who want to make your own CSS gallery website.
Blog You | Demo
Gives you complete control over the template styles in our custom TI template manager, from preset styles to your own custom styles, template control has never been easier.
Bliss | Demo
Snappa | Demo
A little grunge and dirty look.
NewsPro Darkness | Demo
Perfect for online newsportals, magazines, blogs, fashion and entertainment sites.
You Tutorials | Demo
Advanced Joomla frontpage styling that takes off the standard Joomla template look and gives your more flexibility and uniqueness.
Sea of Glass | Demo
JA Quartz | Demo
SuperBlog | Demo
Incorporates two very powerful extensions, K2 and the Superblogger Plugin (both from JoomlaWorks).
Creative | Demo
Introduces new styling and layout concepts in the Joomla template world. Menus with shadows, blog date tags with multiple designs and collapsible module positions give this template maximum flexibility. You can enable the blog styled dates to make it work as a blog, the VirtueMart enabled menus to make it an e-commerce website, or keep it simple and use it as a presentation page.
Mediaplate | Demo
PopPraise | Demo
One big trendy guilty pleasure that comes with drop-shadows, gradients, rounded corners, sex appeal, and even a pink color theme option.
eShop Dark | Demo
JA Cooper | Demo
Meridian | Demo
Microblog Plazza | Demo
Microblog Plazza is completed with a TPStatus component, where a user in your website will have his/her own microblogging page in which he/she can write a status update and then receive comments from other users. It’s like a great mix of twitter and facebook.
Zappa | Demo
Make your website gleam with a fun and bright Web 2.0 style template.
JA Opal | Demo
Refraction | Demo
Refraction is a template to inspire and amaze. Utilising transparent overlays over professional and artistic background images produces staggering results, all matched with the perfect colour combination. Its easy to radically change the design with just an image and colour.
EcoLife | Demo
This ground breaking new template has been handcrafted to be Eco-Friendly, feature filled & graphically stunning. This template comes bundled with many extra features & extra stylings for some of the most popular Joomla! components.
Grunge!sta v2 | Demo
Created in antique elegance manner with a touch of Gothic style for those who want to stand out.
Viyo | Demo
Dub | Demo
Packed with Moo + Jquery effects and Modules, Dub offers some of the most advanced effects and scripts on the web. Dub offers multiple themes and 2 layout styles with a host of graphic elements and font colors.
Affinity | Demo
Released from RocketTheme and features extensive third party support for powerful and popular community products, such as JomSocial, K2 and phpBB3. The template’s core feature is Sortable Elements, which allows for the movement of modular rows, individual positions and stacks of modules.
Yougames | Demo
Scene | Demo
ElveSocial | Demo
Infuse | Demo
Infuse is an infusion of artistic flair and functionality. The theme boasts six, individual and unique, style variations, meticulously constructed to perfection. The theme is accompanied by 6 Style Variations, each with 3 different background options, culminating in a total of 18 possible combinations.
Crystal | Demo
Crystal offers lots of different color variations for menu items, allowing you to style every page in a different color.
About author:Dainis is blogger from Latvia. He is webmaster of Psdeluxe.com (Photoshop deluxe) – Design community where you find photoshop tutorials and useful resources for web and graphic designers. Follow Dainis on Twitter
38http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-beautiful-and-professionally-looking-joomla-templates/Kayhttp://www.k-director.com80+ Creative Geek T-Shirts You Can Buy Onlinehttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=53652009-11-21T17:12:47Z2009-11-10T13:20:44Z
We love tees because they have so many rooms for creativity in terms of design. As designers who always strive to maintain originality and uniqueness, we are sucker for creative stuff, that includes what we put on.
When was the last time we you walked down the street and people start checking out your attire? It [...]
We love tees because they have so many rooms for creativity in terms of design. As designers who always strive to maintain originality and uniqueness, we are sucker for creative stuff, that includes what we put on.
When was the last time we you walked down the street and people start checking out your attire? It doesn’t have to be something branded, a creative and catchy t-shirt will do, really. Here’s a collection of creative t-shirts you can buy and add to your wardrobe this holiday season. Full list after jump.
Interactive Tees
You can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates.
A fully functioning graphic equalizer in a handy t-shirt format. Party like it’s 2999 with the glowing display on the T-Qualizer that dynamically changes with any ambient sound or music.
During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you’re fully powered up.
Hit the drums on this shirt with your finger and they play through the built in speaker simple but amazing. With 7 different drum sounds you’re ready for a personal drum solo on your chest.
Whatever you draw or write on the special section of the shirt will be converted into an illuminated message or design.
Whoever you go with, you will love these t-shirts, they actually light up! The bright logo is sure to attract the right sort of attention and will look stunning at the cinema, at parties, or out clubbing.
Amazing animated glowing old skool gaming on your chest. The two automated computer players are very talented and never seem to miss a shot.
Geek Tees
Sometimes you just have to get away. Just close your eyes, click your heels, don this fine t-shirt and all your troubles will flow by the wayside just like those luser files piped into /dev/null.
The "On button" on monitors from nerdy girl.
HTTP Error 405 – Method not allowed.
This is what would happen if you use the Photoshop eraser tool on yourself!
It’s easy to forget that Apple is 30 years old. Lets take a minute to remember the 20th Anniversary Mac.
A binary "tree" which displays a tree data structure.
Tell it like it is: No one cares about your blog. No one reads your blog. Enough about your blog already. Your blog is not special or interesting. Your blog is boring.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. Wear it with pride and look stylish-geeky too.
Confess it! You’re a toilet clogger and a bathroom blogger. It’s so wrong but it feels so right!
PHP code made for geeks.
Geeks rule.Support geeks with this awesome shirt.
The Internet – where awful people meet.
They may or may not perform medical experiments on eccentric rednecks, but they are here, they are among us, and they use Photoshop.
Pinkos capture your territory. Aren’t they supposed to be all about sharing?
Drool marks and blood-shot eyes along with slowly decomposing junk food are hallmarks of a late night gaming session too good to stop, until you pass out that is.
If recently uncovered sketches prove to be authentic, that nefarious DaVinci guy may have been the unwitting inventor of our future doom!
If you’re not careful, your 360 may jettison you out an air-lock.
My first time. It’s all there on a spacious 1.2MB floppy disk.
A Venn diagram showing the psychological forces at work among users of social networking tools
1 random thing, because 25 random things is 25 too many.
Don’t worry, I have extra lives.
For anyone that grew up in the 80s or anyone that has ever played Pacman. For the retro gamer in all of us.
It’s Super Geek. Give this gift to the special geek in your life.
Alt of Ctrl shirt shows your wild side in computer keys.
This one is for all the MMORPG freaks out there. Now you can share that rewarding experience with those around you as they read your shirt!
Without mentioning any names, we know that some of you are a little frustrated with the newest version of a certain operating system.
Haven’t you had enough of those pesky machine gun-building, health-healing, quick-running, disguise-wearing, rocket-launching, flame-throwing hooligans? Exact revenge with your own style of renegade justice: KA-BOOOM!
Insomniac Innovations, is the perfect tee for anyone who likes to stay up during the weee hours of night all the way into the early morning.
Every laptop battery monitor will let the user know when it is getting low. Your coffee could use a similar system so your coffee cup never ends up empty just when you need it most.
Show your support for the piracy scene with this Modern Pirate t-shirt.
It wasn’ t until PacMan ordered a giant white ball that Mr. Ghost knew something had gone awry. Disastrously awry.
If peter pan had the option, he’d wear this shirt every day.
Twitter Tees
Display a tweet of what she twittered right on a shirt.
The truth hurts, but people need to know it. Even if you’re being (slightly) immature about it.
It’s totally safe to tweet and text message while driving.
A funny play on lyrics from an old song mashed for twitter lovers.
When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the “fail whale” error message image.
The philosophy of twitter users.
Don’t tweet in space.
Typographic Tees
Reclaim the phrase for the humans by captioning yourself. This shirt is full of write-on, wash-off goodness.
Hi! is highlighted to attract attention.
This funny dyslexia shirt is perfect for that friend our family member always claiming to have dyslexia.
Thanks to phosphorous, “P” was taken, leaving “K” for potassium (obviously)…
Sex drugs helvetica bold, white print on black.
Will kern for food, white print on black.
Funny Novelty Tees
A funny novelty tee where a priest, a rabbi, and a horse walk into a bar.
Give this for super funny holiday gifts to prevent others from accidents. Hitting them just makes them want to eat your brains.
I’m old school reliable, baby. Like an abacus, you can count on me.
Wear the Evolution 2 design with the caption “Stop Following me!”
Pi and i argument. What would happen if Pi and i got into an argument.
Finally, all that math you learned in high school is getting put to use.
Perfect t-shirt for anyone getting ready to step into a math test. You can never be wrong with this funny find x tee shirt!
Your invisibility t-shirt will come as invisibility shirt currently deactivated. Remember turn it on at your own risk!
This funny tuxedo t-shirt is great for parties, weddings, or other special events. Dress up by dressing down.
The Biker Chick Cover-Up features a hot and sexy bikini.
Misc Creative Tees
Abstract and colourful barcode printed on a black tee.
Living in the city, we might be merged into the urban environment better when putting on the skin of the city.
Wearing a SQY-T Useful Information t-shirt, you might be more helpful to those who stare at your t-shirt.
Google map of Shanghai. You’ll never get lost again in Shanghai.
This shirt helps you show your softer side in the most nerdy way possible. With a galaga t-shirt!
Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon!
Tell the one you love that they’re almost as important as you are.
Realist, idealist, capitalist, communist, conspiracist, sexist, nihilist and opportunist, each with their own witty opinion of the glass half full or half empty.
Exit from rain on your shirt.
RedDot Boxing Gloves Tee features the illusion of crimson boxing gloves strewn around the neck.
This Bulzeye Headphones V-Neck Tee in Vintage White features crystallized headphones on front and Bulzeye logo on back.
The title says everything.
A surreal concept where there is a city of no horizon with endless flow of river towards bottom and infinite extension of sky towards top.
Nice colors and placement for a hand skeleton.
74http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-tshirt-you-can-buy-online/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogMacro Photography II – 70 Beautiful Photos of Insectshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54462009-11-21T17:18:32Z2009-11-06T13:40:20Z
Insect photography is challenging under the best circumstances. Think about it: you’re taking photos of something that is likely smaller than your little finger (and at largest is still probably smaller than your hand), has no reason to cooperate, and likely views you as a predator or is oblivious to your presence entirely. And even [...]
Insect photography is challenging under the best circumstances. Think about it: you’re taking photos of something that is likely smaller than your little finger (and at largest is still probably smaller than your hand), has no reason to cooperate, and likely views you as a predator or is oblivious to your presence entirely. And even if you’re taking photos of dead insects, it still takes a lot of skill (and a good macro lens) to get the right focus and lighting.
The photographers who managed to snap the photos below all deserve some serious respect. They’ve managed to capture the beauty and complexity of some of the most beautiful specimens in the insect world. Look at their coloring, their structure, the way their bodies are segmented, and let them inspire your designs. Whether you simply borrow a color scheme or go for something a bit more obvious, insects can serve as a wonderful source of artistic inspiration, one that is often overlooked.
Here are more photography related entries you might be interested:
Full list after jump.
Insect
by FockLove
Insect
by PauliusC
Insect Series 3
by Grugster
Insect 08
by Josgoh
Insect
by Phaedrus-42
Insect vs Spider
by Afri
Insect
by TheRedGirl
The Insect
by VerzaubertRocken
Leaf Insect Shot 2
by Jakwak
Unidentified Insect
by Gerald Yuvallos
Insect.
by Drvall
Insect On Wood
by Rockinxrebecca
Green Insect
by Abank
Insect
by Fuegomujer
Insect 01
by Josgoh
Insects With Attitude
by MJIphotos
Insect
by Diganta Talukdar
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
by Wolfpix
Metallic Green Insect
by Srini G
Insect Macro
by Publicenergy
Death To A Dragonfly
by Greekchickie
Dragonfly_Z19789
by Ennor
Dragonfly
by CW Ye
Nasty Insect
by Geaannunziata
Green Insect
by Jaszczura
Insect Eye To Eye
by Saddogeyes
Insect 7
by Mewlo
Insect.
by ZWincik
Insect 03
by Harry-Schoemaker
Spiny Leaf Insect
by Duskmoth
Macro – Dead Insect
by Noitu-lover
Cricket Macro
by Martin_Heigan
Insect Macro
by Salendron
Insect 33
by Josgoh
Hylotrupes Bajulus
by Selley
Tiny Red Cricket
by Garion
Insect Macros_021
by Josedeluna
Insect Macro
by Aidiwz
Shy Hopper
by James Jordan
Dead Insect
by Baton101
Insect Photo 3 – Set 3
by Blookz
Insect
by Mega-Ale
Rays Of Dawn
by Ageofloss
Mr. Insect
by MrStuart
He Can Fly
by Viand
Bottle Fly On Red Flower
by Erica_Marshall
Hawker Dragonfly Macro
by Mushi_king
Fly Extreme Macro
by Martin Heigan
Blue Fly in Flight
by David Reece
Blending In
by Kibondo
Bee
by DoeLay
Resting Insect
by Pusakal1402
Third Insect
by Owczak
Dragonfly
by HVargas
Dragonfly.
by Le-Voyageur
Dragonfly
by Jaydehawk
Red Dragonfly
by Sh0ggy
The Hanging Dragonfly
by SubterfugeMalaises
Dragonfly
by Indja-art
Halloween Pennant Dragonfly
by Motleypixel
Cinnabar Moth (Tyria Jacobaeae)
by Nutmeg66
Columbia Silk Moth
by Furryscaly
Male Golden Birdwing Butterfly Bangkok
by Travlinman43
Grey Dagger Caterpillar (Acronicta Psi)
by Nutmeg66
Saddleback Caterpillar
by Cotinis
Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysididae) Pollinating Euphorbia Flowers
by Martin_Heigan
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee – Bombus Vosnesenskii
by Maxi Millipede
Transparent Butterfly
by Thefost
Copper Butterfly
by Reini68
Butterfly In Hand
by DigiDragon
40http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/macro-photography-beautiful-photos-of-insects/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogExcellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Ofhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54112009-11-21T17:20:43Z2009-11-04T13:16:43Z
A well designed newsletter/email template can be the difference between success an failure. Whether its to update customers about a product, or to share information, having a well designed template can be a great starting point to guide your readers and give them a clear coherent flow when they read your email. This is crucial, [...]
A well designed newsletter/email template can be the difference between success an failure. Whether its to update customers about a product, or to share information, having a well designed template can be a great starting point to guide your readers and give them a clear coherent flow when they read your email. This is crucial, considering how important the first impression is.
Here is round-up of some of the best free HTML newsletter templates on the Internet you can download without paying a penny.
Here are more related entries you might be interested:
Full list after jump.
Top Five: Free Newsletter Templates We Like Best
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Campaign Monitor – 30 FREE HTML Newsletter Templates
Here is a neatly sorted collection of 30 well produced templates which have been tested against all major email clients and web mail, for example Outlook, Thunderbird and Gmail. One of the feature is that it already pre-sorts all the templates into those with left or right sidebars, or single column templates
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Carbon Graffiti – 10 Free email marketing templates
Carbon Graffiti is a great design website, and one of the cool resources theyve made available are 10 free email marketing templates. Designs range from very simple basic ones to custom complex templates.
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Aweber: – 5 Awesome Functional Newsletter Templates
Aweber has some of the best newsletter templates out there, and some of them go beyond a good design and are pretty darn functional as well. Here are 5 of the best from Aweber.
Download
This is a great email template to use when sending over a note asking someone to download a file. This template also comes in 3 flavors – one for PDFs, one for audio, and one for any other files, as well as 6 colors – so youre able to easily customize your readers download experience.
Welcome
This is a perfect email template to use send when youre welcoming new members to your service.
Blog Newsletter
If you write a blog, this is a great template to share your info and updates in a newsletter to build a stronger relationship with your readers.
Malibu
This email template was specially built to communicate promotional offers in a quick and efficient manner.
Outdoorsy
2-column (right-hand sidebar) email template with an organic feel and navigation links available to use in the header.
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MailChimp – 4 basic flexible HTML email templates
Mailchip four basic, flexible templates that you can use to get started. They’ve been tested to render properly in all the major email programs, like Outlook 2007, Lotus Notes, Gmail, and more.
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Cakemail – 17 Well Designed Newsletter Templates
More Free Newsletter Templates
Here are some other sites which also offer up free newsletter templates for download.
About Author: James Yeang is the writer of a Malaysian tech blog called Friedbeef’s Tech, and can also be found on Twitter.
38http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/excellent-free-html-newsletter-templates-best-of/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogBreadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices & Exampleshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54222009-11-21T17:22:03Z2009-11-02T12:00:55Z
Breadcrumb navigation is often overlooked in the design and development process. Some people may see it as unnecessary while others may feel it is too big of a hassle for what its worth. Fact of the matter is, breadcrumb navigation will greatly increase the usability of a website. Breadcrumbs give users an alternative method of [...]
Breadcrumb navigation is often overlooked in the design and development process. Some people may see it as unnecessary while others may feel it is too big of a hassle for what its worth. Fact of the matter is, breadcrumb navigation will greatly increase the usability of a website. Breadcrumbs give users an alternative method of navigation, allow them to see where they stand in the hierarchy of a website, and will reduce the number of steps needed to navigate to a higher-level within a website.
Outlined here are the different types of breadcrumb navigation being used today, why they are important, and how they should best be implemented online. Also included here for your reference are over 30 examples of how breadcrumbs are being used online today. Remember, while it is likely that breadcrumb navigation will not make or break a website it will provide an added benefit to your users by increasing the overall usability and functionality of your website.
Breadcrumb Types
Path
Path-based breadcrumbs indicate the steps, or path, a user has taken to arrive at the current page of a website. Furthermore, users will see links to pages they have previously visited to reach the current page. Out of the three types of breadcrumb navigation, Path-based breadcrumb navigation is least popular online. Reason being, Path-based breadcrumb navigation provides the similar functionality to the “Forward” and “Back” buttons on a browser. For most websites Location-based and Attribute-based breadcrumb navigation offers better functionality.
Location
Location-based breadcrumbs indicate to the user where the current page stands in the hierarchy of the website. This type of breadcrumb navigation is most commonly seen on websites with more than two levels of depth or content. Upon moving further into a website users are provide with links to pages, or categories, that act as a “parent” or a level up from the page they are currently viewing. For example, a user may be on the “Speak” page however the “What we do” page is a parent of the “Speak” page while the “Home” page is a parent of the “What we do” page.
Clearleft Ltd
Attribute
Attribute-based breadcrumbs indicate to the user the attributes or categories ascribed to the current page within a website. Often seen on e-commerce websites, products may not only fall under a category but under certain attributes as well. For example, a vehicle may be categorized as an SUV then have the attributes of being the color black and released in the year 2010.
Cars.com
Why Use Breadcrumbs?
- Great Usability
Breadcrumbs provide an additional means by which users can easily navigate a website. If a user lands on an internal page on your website from another source breadcrumbs will allow the user to see exactly where they stand within the sites hierarchy. User are also given the opportunity to move up to a higher level of the website at any given time without any hassle.
- Easy to Backtrack
Primary navigations are not designed to be followed backwards were breadcrumbs are. Since backtracking is extremely popular online providing a little additional help can go a long way.
- Eliminate Additional Clicks
Breadcrumbs allow users to jump from one level of a website to the next without having to use the “forward” or “backward” buttons on the browser. Additionally breadcrumbs eliminate the need for users to continually resort to the main navigation.
- Shows Users Hierarchy
The primary navigation of a website will not reflect the hierarchy of every page within the site. Giving users breadcrumbs will allow them to see the hierarchy of a page within a website.
- Visually Pleasing
Not only do breadcrumbs provide users with additional usability, they do so without taking up much room or space on the page. Breadcrumbs are easy to implement into the visual design of your website and provide a great benefit to users.
- Provides Additional Help
It is entirely possible that some users may not understand how a websites primary navigation works and in some cases users may not even know what they are looking for. Giving users breadcrumbs will allow them to see the overall progress and structure of a website thus allowing them to navigate the website better.
- Lower Bounce Rates
Typically breadcrumbs will provide a more detailed navigation than the primary navigation. In doing so, users will be given more options on how to navigate a website. Giving them the opportunity to easily back track a few levels within the website will lower your bounce rate.
- Builds Interest
When a user lands on an internal page of a website odds are they are already on a page of interest. Breadcrumbs may provide links to additional pages and information of which the user is also interested in without making them start from square one.
Breadcrumb Best Practices
- Use Breadcrumbs at the Top of a Page
The most common and instinctual placement for breadcrumbs is within the top of a page. This allows users to find the breadcrumbs in an uncomplicated manner and make use of them accordingly.
- Use Breadcrumbs Consistently
If you do decide to use breadcrumbs make sure that you use them across your entire website. Giving users breadcrumbs on some pages and not others will only confuse and frustrate them. (One prime example of this is Amazon as they remove breadcrumbs from the individual product pages.)
- Breadcrumbs Should Degrade Gracefully
Breadcrumbs should always start with the home page and degrade to the currently page. In doing so your breadcrumbs need to go from the highest level to the lowest level one step at a time.
- Stylize Breadcrumbs Appropriately
You want your breadcrumbs to be seen however you do not want them to be the focal point. You also want to make it apparent that your breadcrumbs are not part of the main content to a page, only additional support to it. Find a happy medium where your breadcrumbs are noticeable however not overbearing.
- Categorize Pages Clearly
If you have pages that fall under two or more categories you may not want to use breadcrumbs on your website. Trying to place a page under two or more categories will likely only produce unclear breadcrumbs and puzzle the user. Make sure your website has an organized hierarchy and is displayed accordingly through your breadcrumbs.
- Clearly Separate Each Level
Make sure users are able to distinguish the difference between each breadcrumb level. The most common separator between levels is the ‘greater than’ character (>). Other good separators include right double angle quotations (»), slashes (/), and arrows (→). If using a plain text character, only use one. (» is more appealing and effective than >>)
- Single Out the Current Page
Use a different style on the last item of a breadcrumb list to establish that it is the currently page being viewed. You can accomplish this by making the item bold, changing its color, or emphasizing it.
- Do Not Make the Current Page a Link
There is no need to make the last item of a breadcrumb list a link because it is the current page being viewed. Creating a link here will only confuse users, especially when they click on it and are not taken to a new page.
- Do Not Use Breadcrumbs as a Page Heading
Using the last item of a breadcrumb list as the heading of a current page is ineffective. If you choose to use breadcrumbs do so with the addition of a page heading as well.
- Breadcrumbs Do Not Replace Primary Navigation
Breadcrumbs are only to be used as support to the primary navigation, never to replace the primary navigation altogether. You should always provide users with a primary navigation from which they can navigate a website before using breadcrumb navigation.
Great Examples of Breadcrumbs
Vitra Direct
Trek Bikes
Illy
SiteInspire
Mia and Maggie
Intridea
Design by Humans
Roxy
Blik
SitePoint
Target
Walmart
1-800-Flowers
BestBuy
Amazon.com
Barns & Noble
Lands’ End
Apple
Google
Chase
AbsolutePunk.net
Littman Bros. Lighting
Guardian.co.uk
AREA 17
Wufoo
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee
The Glasgow Collective
Firstborn
Bell Canada
Grooveshark
Devlounge
About Author – Shay Howe is a professional web and user interface designer currently living in Chicago, IL. He writes about web design in his own blog over at letscounthedays and would love to hear from you on Twitter. Please feel free tell him hello!
42http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/breadcrumb-navigation-examined-best-practices-examples/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54022009-11-21T17:23:19Z2009-10-29T12:28:28Z
Minimalism has been a popular website design style for years. It has so many benefits; minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs. Plus, they give a professional, clean impression to visitors.
Many people still view minimalist designs as boring. But there’s a real art [...]
Minimalism has been a popular website design style for years. It has so many benefits; minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs. Plus, they give a professional, clean impression to visitors.
Many people still view minimalist designs as boring. But there’s a real art to effective minimal website designs, something not all designers can effectively master. When you limit the number of graphic elements you use and put the focus on negative space and typography, a good eye for spacing and proportion becomes crucial.
Below are more than 100 excellent examples of clean, simple and minimalist website designs. They run the gamut from simple brochure-style sites to ecommerce and portfolio sites. What they all have in common is a design aesthetic where less is more.
Rainfall Daffinson
A white background with red accents.
Ben Hulse Design
Dark gray background with white and gray lettering.
Amy Levy PR
White background with gray and red lettering.
Brand Spanking New
A black and white color scheme with gray, orange, and pale blue accents.
Frieze Magazine
A minimalist grid design.
Indie Labs
A dark gray, white and sky blue grid-based design.
Rikcat Industries
An entirely black and white design.
The Morning News
A minimalist magazine-style site.
Mark Boulton Design
A mostly black and white site with colored accents.
Jonnotie
A gray and maroon design.
Finch
A mostly black, white and gray design.
Maqina
A single column portfolio site.
Chama Inc.
A simple black and white design with an emphasis on typography.
Jon Tan
Another simple black and white design with orange accents and great typography.
Mark Wieman
Gray and White with mustard-yellow accents.
Cameron.io
A simple dove gray and white design with red accents.
Postmachina
Black background with gray and white text.
Concentric Studio
A simple design with a lot of white space.
DS.Emotion
A simple design that makes good use of drop shadows and red accents.
Kyle Sollenberger Design
Uses a soft color palette and slightly oversized text.
David Sutoyo
A soft gray, white and dark blue design.
Brad Young Photography
A dark background with soft gray and blue typography.
The DECK
A black and white design with strong typographical elements.
Hot Meteor
A simple design with retro elements.
The Portfolio of Matt Bango
Another simple design with blue accents and an emphasis on typography.
Vesess
Another black and white design with gray and red accents.
Design Intellection
A grid-based design with excellent typography.
Surfstation
A soft color palette and a two-column design with lots of white space.
The Old Fashioned
A black and white grid-based design.
CRW / Corporate Risk Watch
Uses a textured background and some hand-drawn elements.
Being Wicked
A mostly black and white design with oversized typography.
Eduardo de La Rocque
A dark gray and white, single column design.
Pixelumbrella
A rarely-seen minimalist grunge design.
NineZero
A narrow, single-column design with a lot of white space.
SimpleBits
A simple design with a textured header and a focus on typography.
Poccuo
A grid-based design with blue, gray and black text.
Davroc Interiors
A design composed entirely of shades of bluish-gray.
Sascha Eggenberger
Hand-drawn elements in black and white with blue accents set this design apart.
Nathan Carnes
A subtle color scheme and textures with black and gray typography.
Nathan Borror
Makes use of colored and geometric accents while still retaining plenty of white space and a simple design.
Beseku
A black and white design with an emphasis on typography.
NZ Venues
A subtle dark gray and white design with small, multi-colored accents.
Chris Garrett Media Ltd
A dark design with subtle gradients in the typography and blue accents.
DesigningTheNews.com
A black and gray design with a focus on typography.
3by9
A multi-colored minimal design with colorful accents and lots of white space.
Typographica
A black, white, and gray design that places emphasis on the images it displays and uses a grid-based design.
Theme
A magazine/grid-style design with orange accents.
Monty Lounge Industries
A blue and gray design with an emphasis on typography.
Berit Somme
A black, white and gray design that places the emphasis on the portfolio pieces.
el Candor
A black and white grid-based portfolio site.
Design by Silnt
A grid-based design in shades of gray.
Pixelcraft
A cream-colored background and black typography keep things simple.
Klipp og Lim
A grid-based design with a portfolio slideshow in the header.
Ole Martin Kristiansen
A dark background with subtly-colored typography.
SiteInspire
A gray site with bright red accents.
MediaFlex
A dark background with white typography that leaves the emphasis on the images.
Vudumedia
A black, gray and white grid-based design.
AREA 17
A black, white and gray design with some dark blue typography.
just.dot
A grayish-brown background and a grid-based design.
LegiStyles
A dark background with an emphasis on typography and tomato-red accents.
Visualbox
A subtly-patterned dark-gray background with bold white and gray typography.
Flush
A dark gray, slightly-grungy design.
Designme
A dark background with gray and white typography.
Designjunction.in
A dark background with lighter typography.
deCode
A dark, textured background with hand-drawn elements and a bit of a retro vibe.
72 Rivington Street
A bold, black and white grid design.
Analogue Motion
A grid-based design with a subtle color palette and typography.
Astheria
A subtle blue, gray and white design with plenty of negative space.
Cade Martin Photography
A white and gray design with the emphasis on the typography.
Daniel Howells
A subtle design that focuses on the typography.
Eightface.com
A black and white design with red highlights.
Fever
A gray background with gray and red text.
Fell Swoop
A white background with black and red typography and tons of negative space.
FRKT
A black and white design with subtle textures.
Jamie Gregory
A grid-based deisgn that focuses on typography.
Joni Korpi
A gray and black design with an emphasis on typography.
Matt Hinchliffe
A black and white design with light blue accents.
Martin Hipp
White background and green accents.
Stefan Persson
A grid-based design with orange accents.
Strange/Beautiful
A gray and white grid-based design.
Voce antica
A white and gray two-column design.
Inkcover Blog
A black and white design with oversized typography.
Allday.cc
A very simple black and white design with minimalist navigation.
Final Eyes
A black, white and gray single-column design.
80/20
A gray color scheme with green accents.
Craig Wilson
A very simple black and white design with hand-drawn elements.
Pomade
An extremely minimalist design with black text and red accents.
SOFA
A grid-based design that emphasizes typography.
The Typographic Desk Reference (TDR)
A minimalist sales page that utilizes modal windows.
I love Typography
A simple design with olive green typography accents.
Artypapers
A white background and subtle gray and pink color scheme.
Sisson Studio
A brown and tan grid-based design with a white background.
We Love Typography
A grid-based design with a white background.
Gordymac
A blue and gray design with plenty of white space.
National College of Art & Design: Postgraduate Study
A gray design with circular images and white text.
Minimalissimo
Black and gray typography with plenty of white space.
Wide Angled
A grid-based site that puts the emphasis on the images it features.
Hair Ott
A gray, black and white design with a Flash slideshow in the header.
Tim Parkin
A grid-based design with a white background.
Selldorf Architects
A simple black and white design.
LUXUX
A grid-based portfolio site.
Fluid
A grid-based design with a white background and simple typography.
Saturday
A simple design with a Flash slideshow.
The May Blog
A simple gray and green color scheme on a white background./p>
quadrifolia
A very bold green and white design.
Dhyr.Hagen
A bold gray and white design.
Nonesuch Records
A simple black and white design with an emphasis on imagery.
About Author – Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.
73http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/clean-simple-minimalist-website-design/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogFreebie: Blitter Twitter Icon Sethttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=54072009-11-18T12:05:52Z2009-10-27T13:00:14Z
We love freebies, and we love them more if they are high quality freebie. We occasionally search the Internet high and low to dig out these hidden gems to make designers’ life easier and better. This week, with the help from our friend Iconshock, we are releasing a free high quality Twitter icon set, named [...]
We love freebies, and we love them more if they are high quality freebie. We occasionally search the Internet high and low to dig out these hidden gems to make designers’ life easier and better. This week, with the help from our friend Iconshock, we are releasing a free high quality Twitter icon set, named Blitter.
Blitter Twitter icon set comes in two sets of sizes, respectively 215×215 pixels and 512×512 pixels in transparent .PNG 24-bit format. We’ve also included the Adobe Illustrator .AI source file just in case you want a bigger version of any icon. Feel free to use, edit for any type of individual and commercial projects. However you should not re-sell or take advantage of the freebie to generate any revenue of any format.
Help us spread a word if you like what you’ve downloaded.
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The Designer – Iconshock
"As one of the new projects, we are going to give a free Icon set monthly especially design for all the readers of Hongkiat, because we really like to be part of this amazing blog, and show you where the love comes from. Enjoy it! – Iconshock"
Iconshock is renown in the icon design industry for being the only one to release the massive sum of 5000 new icons each week. We have also built a huge and active community around icon design with more than 60,000 members, plus a blog and a forum where the public can reunite to discuss about design and programming issues, and also download design related resources.
Despite all of us being under 40, throughout these 5 years our company has built a valuable experience and knowhow in the market. We have a solid structure and we are 100% proudly Colombian. We offer almost thirty different icon styles, organized in more than 40 categories building up an astonishing collection of more than 750,000 individual icons.
Editor’s Note
Are you a designer looking to release your work (Wordpress theme, icon-sets, wallpapers, stock photos, etc)? We can give a hand, both financially and have it featured in Hongkiat.com, drop us a word!
39http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/freebie-blitter-twitter-icon-set/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog20 Best Wordpress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readabilityhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=53862009-11-21T17:25:25Z2009-10-23T17:21:41Z
WordPress has pretty decent typography features in the core installation. But there are plenty of areas ripe for improvement. That’s where the plugins below come in.
Credit: Image background by fabianohikaru
Whether you just want more control over how the basic text on your site shows up or you want to do something a bit more advanced, [...]
WordPress has pretty decent typography features in the core installation. But there are plenty of areas ripe for improvement. That’s where the plugins below come in.
Credit: Image background by fabianohikaru
Whether you just want more control over how the basic text on your site shows up or you want to do something a bit more advanced, there’s surely a plugin available to help. There are plugins to better handle things like hyphens and long URLS, plugins to replace text with images (whether in headlines or to avoid censorship), and plugins to let you add print-centric elements, like drop caps and pull quotes, to your posts.
Be sure to check out our previous post on Dynamic Image Replacement for more useful WordPress typography plugins and here are some Wordpress related plugins we’ve previously published:
Full list after jump.
Wordpress Plugins For Better Readability
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The TTFTitles plugin is another dynamic text replacement plugin that lets you replace your headers with images using any TrueType font you choose. It’s mostly a rework of the Image Headlines plugin. It has been tested with WP 1.5.2 up through 2.7.
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DRF2WP EN is a font replacement plugin that allows you to replace any font on your WP site with a dynamically generated image that uses any TrueType or OpenType font you want. The source code remains in-tact, which means your site won’t take a hit with search engines. The plugin works with WP 2.5 up to 2.8.4.
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The Drop Caps plugin lets you add a customized drop cap to each of your posts and pages (or even comments and other excerpts), similar to what’s commonly done in print publications. It can also be used to create other types of initials. The plugin has been tested with WP 2.3 up through 2.7.1.
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The WP Typography plugin adds a number of typography features to your blog. It includes hyphenation, spacing control, forced internal wrapping of long URLs, intelligent character placement, smart handling of quotes and other characters, and CSS hooks for styling ampersands, acronyms, and other special characters. It works with WP 2.7 up through 2.8.4.
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The Simple Pull Quote plugin lets you insert pull quotes into your blog posts to emphasize certain sentences or phrases using custom fields. Pull quotes can be styled by editing the included CSS file. It works with WP 2.7 or 2.8.
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jQuery Font Resizer is a plugin that improves the usability and accessibility of your blog. It adds three links to each page to allow visitors to resize the type on that particular page. It’s a great option to make your site more user-friendly to visitors who want a larger or smaller type than standard. It’s known to work with WP version 2.0.2 up through 2.7.
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WP-Syntax is another syntax highlighter that uses GeSHi. It gives you the option to highlight with or without line numbers and maintains formatting when you copy snippets. WP-Syntax is compatible with WP 2.0 up through 2.8.
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The Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress lets the original Google Syntax Highlighter that was developed by Alex Gorbatchev work within WP. It’s a completely client-side highlighter, supports multiple languages (including Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Delphi, CSS, C++ and more), and is very lightweight. It’s known to be compatible with version 2.0.0 through 2.2.2.
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WP-Syntax Colorizer is a simple plugin for colorizing code snippets within your blog posts when run alongside WP-Syntax. WP-Syntax Colorizer has been tested with WP 2.0 up through 2.5.
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CodeColorer adds syntax highlighting to code snippets placed on your blog. It’s a great plugin to use if you frequently post code snippets, such as on a web design or development blog. It works with version 2.7 up through 2.8.4.
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The TextImage plugin replaces all the text in a post with a PNG image. It’s a good plugin to use if you wnat to block search engines from seeing your content or otherwise fly under the radar. It also gets around most automated filtering that certain countries use to censor internet content. It’s been tested with WP 2.1 up through 2.7.1.
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Censortive helps you get around automated censorship by replacing certain words with images of the word instead of text. You define which words you want to be replaced and Censortive does the rest. It’s a great plugin for getting around a lot of censorship without blocking your content from search engines. It’s been tested with WP 2.0.2 up through 2.3.
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Title Style gives you additional formatting options for your post titles. It can be used to wrap lowercase words or words like “the”, “a”, or “of” in em, span, or other elements. It’s compatible with WP 2.0.0 up through 2.8.4.
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PS Disable Auto Formatting prevents WordPress from applying its own auto formatting functions to your posts and pages. It prevents WP from stripping out tags when you’re editing in the HTML editor and has a positive impact on the way the visual editor formats your posts, too. It’s known to be compatible with WP 2.5 up through 2.8.3.
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Post Typographer plugin adds a number of typography improvements to your posts automatically. It changes dashes with spaces around them to em-dashes, transforms hyphens without spaces to n-dashes, and turns spaces after particular words into non-breaking spaces, among other features. It’s been tested with WP 2.5 up through 2.8.3.
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Author Intro for Post plugin adds an author intro to the beginning of each post based on the author’s name and bio information. It’s been tested with WP versions 2.0.2 through 2.7.
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WP-Footnotes makes it simple to add footnotes to your posts. Usage is incredibly easy and only requires you to use double-parentheses around your footnote. It does the rest. It’s compatible with WP versions 2.0 through 2.6.
Plugins for Admins
Here are a couple of admin plugins that can help you improve your site’s typography by giving you more editing options in the backend of your site.
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WP Super Edit adds a host of WYSIWYG options to the standard WP visual editor. It adds two full rows of additional features to your visual editor toolbar, including options for applying specific styles and for adding and formatting tables. It’s known to work with version 2.8 and 2.8.1.
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The Real WYSIWYG Plugin adds a WYSIWYG editor that actually shows you the page layout of your post within the visual editor. It makes it easier to see how your line breaks, images, and other elements will actually fit on your page.
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Text Control gives you additional options for formatting posts on your WP site according to a variety of different syntaxes and encoding options, including Textile 1, Textile 2, and Markdown. It’s compatible with WP 1.5 and higher.
About Author – Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.
73http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-wordpress-typography-plugins-to-enhance-readability/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog30 Stunning Apple Concept Designshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=53692009-11-21T17:26:54Z2009-10-21T14:17:28Z
A great wave of excitement is sweeping across all Apple fans as they await for the official launch of the latest amazing Apple product by year end. Yes, it is the eagerly anticipated Apple Tablet, which was reported to be commercially available this coming November. Some of us may have seen the prototype online, and [...]
A great wave of excitement is sweeping across all Apple fans as they await for the official launch of the latest amazing Apple product by year end. Yes, it is the eagerly anticipated Apple Tablet, which was reported to be commercially available this coming November. Some of us may have seen the prototype online, and few will disagree that it is yet another beautiful creation by Apple.
In terms of the design and the aesthetic value of IT wares, there is little dispute that Apple create some of the finest and most creative design for their products that few or no other competitors can match. Over the years, product concept designs by hardcore Apple fans began to surface as Apple started to stand out among its competitors. Although these designs are not going to be marketed as actual products, it reflects the deepest wishes of die-hard Apple fans.
Here is a fine compilation of some of the best, coolest and most creative Apple concept designs created by fans. Don’t you just wish these are available in the market?
Desktops and Laptops
Mac Mini is super-slim concept design of the actual Apple Mac Mini. It has all the features of the original machine but is a lot slimmer. Connect the Mac Mini to a Apple LED displays and you will have a powerful Multimedia computer in-front of you. By Isamu Sanada.
iView is concept Mac design with curved display that is made for best orientation with the curvature of a human eye. It has a dual-sided display and 2 web-cams on both sides of the display. By Nuno Teixeira.
The tribook has exactly what the name and the picture suggest, it has three screens. One is the regular laptop-style screen and the other two can be folded to save the space when they are not in use. It is possible that the fordable screens use the Apple’s patented transparent screen technology, that way when they are folded – it can still be used a simple Macbook too. By Adam Benton.
A truly futuristic iMac concept design with a transparent display. Equipped with a transparent 30-inch display and a wireless keyboard with light-sensitive illuminated keys, this Concept design can also be set to various levels of translucency and can fade during sleep modes. By Adam Benton.
MacBook mini is a smart concept design goes one further to make MacBooks smaller. It features a foldable trackpad which saves up the space when you are not using the keyboard. One other mockup of the MacBook mini by the same designer is a sliding trackpad, which sounds like a better idea than the foldable one. By Isamu Sanada.
Now this is something purely innovative. An Apple Tablet concept that doubles as a desktop, just awesome. It Sports a 5.2-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen TFT display and can be hooked to a wireless Keyboard, a mouse, a super drive and a Time Machine to turn it into a fully functional wireless Desktop. By Isamu Sanada.
Concept is to discard the drawbacks which a iMac mini user would nark about the owned machine. And the mark about the Mac Mini is the I/O ports. This concept design makes the ports reachable easily and the V-shape design makes sure that it will remain cool while you are using it. That’s because the hot air will pass through the legs instead respiring from back lying on the top. By Sait Alanyali.
MacTab can be used as a standalone tablet as well as a laptop with a physical keyboard. It boasts a very thin wireless keyboard that can be easily removed from the tablet and put back to cover the screen when transporting it. The hinges on the back side can be used to support the tablet while in ’standing’ position and it can be used for placing the keyboard too. By Yann Le Corroler.
Tablets
This Mac Tablet concept has an optical drive and a slider-style Physical keyboard. It comes sports a physical keyboard which can hide inside the device itself. By Isamu Sanada.
Yet another concept design by Isamu Sanada. The MacBook Touch is actually an iPhone concept design with a bigger screen and I/O ports. By Isamu Sanada.
This concept has a foldable design that makes it a Tablet-cum-Macbook. It features Flexible OLED technology which makes the foldable, full-size display possible. When in notebook mode, one half of the screen is converted to a touch screen keyboard and trackpad. By Tommaso Gecchelin.
This MacBook Mini is a tablet Concept that Apple is always asked to develop into a product that would be a perfect design. This concise tablet can be used to view pictures, listen to music and watch movies in High Resolution. Moreover, surfing the internet will delineate the great fun.
This concept is a belief rather than a imaginary concept and the rumours all around gab about this product being the new Apple Tablet. By Adam Benton.
MacTab is a concept Apple tablet design that is equipped with a QWERTY physical keyboard. The keyboard can be easily closed, thanks to the slider mechanism. By Maverick18x.
This concept may be a reality soon as the rumours are that the two companies, Apple and Verizon, are looking forward to develop a wireless iPhone. The device is expected to be thinner, lighter and much affordable than the iPhone. The product may be launched by the end of this year and it will be the best to view pictures, listen music and watch HD videos.
iPhones
When Apple was to launch iPhone, a reporter asked Steve Ballmer what he though about it – He laughed and said, “A Phone without a Keyboard?”. If only he could see this concept design of iPhone. iPhone Elite has a dual slider mechanism. It has a bigger camera and a full QWERT physical keyboard too. By Mat Brady.
Mix iPhone with iPod Touch and through in some Macbook Air too. You get a slim iPhone 4G like this one. It has a front camera for video-conferencing and retains curves of a Macbook Air. By Rodolphe Desmare.
This Photoshop creation is a concept about iPhone Video. This one won’t be much diverse from the iPhone, but some extra buttons on its left and some additional effects for the sleek screen and home button make this look better than the iPhone. By Chromatix.
The iEye is a concept mobile phone which boasts a shutter button onto the camera making it over iPhone constraints. The phone curbs a glut of features that take in 720p HD video, 5.1-megapixel stills, 12GB of flash memory, and a large-capacity lithium-ion battery hardwired inside. Moreover a 30 pin connector boosts its aptitude in connectivity for easy file transfers. By Adam Benton.
What can be a copulate when a iPhone and Nano are parents? The iPhone Nano. It’s a pretty good concept which can be abstracted from the image below. It’s a concept mated from a iPhone 3G and Nano G4. By FreshAndContent.
A unibody iPhone with pretty slick looks and flatter body. The iPhone 3.0 or iPhone Pro comes in two versions, aluminium and glass.
iPods
This concept is by far one of the best and most sophisticated iPod concept. Apart from the sleek and slim looks, it also has earpieces that are able to play wirelessly. Made up of entirely Titanium, iPod chimera has a scratch/smear resistant display that is able to play 720p HD videos.
Not much creative but a good idea about a iPod Nano 4G. This concept is splendid with some more sleek curves and great combination of colours. Indubitably, the design will come with many more features and as the image suggests, an accelerometer as well. By Chromatix.
This concept is a portrayal of an iPod Shuffle wrist wrap dangling and would be found on all the joggers and runaway models on the roads, strapped on their arms. An iPod shuffle with a Mp3 bracelet and a wireless ear piece that might look prettier on arms of girls. By Isamu Sanada.
hiPod is a wrist watch style iPod that has a foldable display that becomes a digital watch when closed. It has the regular iPod dial-navigation and comes with a pair of wireless earpieces. By Isamu Sanada.
Miscellaneous Apple Concept Gadgets
With this concept iRing design, you are able to control your iPod via bluetooth. You can control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices using the touch-sensitive strip. It sports an OLED status display which can be use to toggle between ‘pause’ and ‘play’. By Victor Soto.
iVault concept entices you to own it in an affordable price of about $499 and will store hundreds of thousands of songs, videos and pictures. You are able to sync it with your Laptop/Desktop wirelessly just like Apple’s Time Capsule.
The concept is a marvel of its own . It syns with iCal via Bluetooth so that you won’t miss and appointment or a meeting. Moreover the watch has a touch screen making it a snap to use.
The set of iStick speakers are compatible with all Apple products and when compared to Harman Kardon speakers, it seems better to opt for and much reliable with iSub in a combo arrangement.
The iLight concept has a touch-sensitive panel which can be used to control the torch. Single tap to turn on, another to turn off, flick fingers forward and backward to control the luminosity, and double tap to lock the touch-panel. By Miyoshimasato.
68http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/stunning-apple-concept-designs/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogFive Vital Black & White Photography Tipshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=53522009-11-21T17:29:08Z2009-10-19T14:16:28Z
Monochrome photographs are timeless, especially black and white photographs. They enhance emotional substance and have a disposition of making photos look more artistic.
Credit: Jana by LudovicMazet
They can be used on many different scenes as it’s not required to think about all the colors that should look good together and match the amount of light [...]
Monochrome photographs are timeless, especially black and white photographs. They enhance emotional substance and have a disposition of making photos look more artistic.
Credit: Jana by LudovicMazet
They can be used on many different scenes as it’s not required to think about all the colors that should look good together and match the amount of light available. And for those who love to play with color, black and white photography doesn’t necessarily need to be boring as there are so many different shades to choose from.
Gray scale is a spectrum of black and white which evolves into shades and different depths of gray. So when we speak of gray scale we speak of how we measure tones of gray. Here are five tips you might need to know when it comes to Black & White Photography.
1. Use RAW
If you have the opportunity to use RAW, do it! It will open up many new possibilities and give you more control of the image’s appearance.
The negative aspect of RAW files is that it needs to be processed later. If you use RAW files, your computer, rather than your camera will process the records and generate a picture file from it. You can for instance use Adobe Photoshop to process the images.
If you don’t have that function on your camera, then don’t worry, carry on reading and you’ll see that there are plenty of other ways to get great black and white photographs.
2. Pattern and Texture
Rich textures and detailed sceneries will help your photograph become comprehensible and exciting.
Patterns are lucky in black and white photographs as colors aren’t taking the attention from them. So if you want to take a shoot where you’d like to emphasize on the patterns, then choose black and white tones instead of color.
3. Contrast
With the help of light you can get great contrast. Contrast will bring the tonal differences in your photography as you can’t use color. With side lighting, for instance, you’ll get longer shadows.
Contrast is important because when there is a distinct contrast, with dark shades and bright light, you’ll be able to see things you didn’t see before.
4. ISO
In photography, an ISO number is an indication of the sensitivity of the image sensor, where a higher number indicates higher sensitivity. The higher the ISO is the more are the possibilities to take pictures in low light, without the usage of flash.
For black and white photography, use the lowest ISO. When you use high ISO the noise will become more obvious. Noise in photography is like the “grain” in film, where the film doesn’t become as smooth as you’d wish. The higher your ISO is, the more unpleasant dots will show in your photo. Therefore shady and dim days are actually great for black and white photographs.
5. Subjects
Black and white photography can basically look good in most occasions and circumstances.
- Monochrome photographs are good at bringing a sensitive experience and story into a shoot, they tend to bring depth and give us the chance to explore an object or person more strictly due to the graphic elements that it conveys (especially thanks to a good contrast). Therefore it’s also well-matched for abstract photos.
- When taking pictures of large spaces, like landscapes or foliages; make sure that the same tone isn’t flowing through all the elements in your photography as this will give it a rather boring and dead look. Most black and white images are supposed to be dramatic and leave a striking impact on the viewer.
One way of doing this is by finding a movement, like an unsteady wave in a sea or a moving sky. Something that isn’t really all that dramatic in real life can become much more intense when a glimpse of it is caught on camera.
- One single subject is the most popular choice for black and white photography. This goes mostly for portraits, here you can really emphasize on the affect that the gray scale will bring to the person’s expression.
About Author – Juan Shaban runs a design blog dudye.com. Follow Juan on Twitter.
30http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/five-essential-tips-to-black-white-photography/Kayhttp://www.k-director.com70 Free Useful Portable Applications You Should Knowhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=52112009-11-21T17:30:33Z2009-10-16T15:57:06Z
Portable applications in general are software and programs you can run independently from a removable drives (like flash/pen drive) without going through the hassle of installing them. They are widely used and have been a favorite approach for professionals of different various industries.
With portable applications, you can leave your laptop behind; plug in the [...]
Portable applications in general are software and programs you can run independently from a removable drives (like flash/pen drive) without going through the hassle of installing them. They are widely used and have been a favorite approach for professionals of different various industries.
With portable applications, you can leave your laptop behind; plug in the thumb drive in any client machine, run the application without worrying about leaving anything behind. In this post, we attempt to show a collection of useful and free applications you can run independently from thumb drives, sorting by profession by general. You’ll be surprise how many applications you can actually run without installation. Full list after jump.
Portable Apps For Bloggers
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Mozilla Firefox, portable version allows you leave no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.
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Full featured web browser, rapidly gaining popularity. Fully portable, keeping all data in its local folder.
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Portable Safari is packaged so you can carry around on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (or also on your internal hard disk), taking your preferences with you.
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Windows Live Writer Portable has all your blog settings, ping server settings and FTP settings to redo.
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Zoundry Raven™ is the next generation WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier and faster.
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FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, keepalive, timeout detection, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy etc.
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Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust, state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.
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GreatNews displays full pages of news articles across rss feeds, optimized for fast reading.
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Foxit Reader is a small and fast PDF viewer.
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A lightweight Twitter client built in C/C++ with Win32. No additional frameworks required.
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Bookmark websites from any web browser with a global hotkey and bookmark documents, pictures, and other files with drag and drop ease.
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Web Design Toy provides a deceptively simple split-window layout. Whatever HTML is typed in the editor window is instantly shown in web-page form in the display window.
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Lingoes Portable is green portable version of Lingoes released by Lingoes Project.
Portable Apps For Designers
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The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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Artweaver is a Windows Freeware program to simulate natural brush tools.
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MobaPhoto is a nice freeware for managing your digital photos. MobaPhoto allows you to resize, crop, correct red-eyes of all your pictures very easily in "batch-mode".
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Activepixels is a neat full-featured photo editor. Interesting auto enhance options (including shadow/hilight recovery), many filters, correction and denoise settings.
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Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
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PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it.
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An image editor that can be used for image enhancement and graphic design.
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Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program.
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Blender is an integrated 3D creation software suite.
It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content.
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Inkscape is a vector editor that supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface.
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Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor.
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Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows.
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FastStone Photo Resizer enables users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode.
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JPEGCrops is a Windows program, created for preparation of a batch of images for printing. It provides lossless cropping with fixed aspects using jpegtran.
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Riot allows you to save images for web/email/other media with the best compression ratio and quality.
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SmillaEnlarger is a small graphical tool ( based on Qt ) to resize, especially magnify bitmaps in high quality.
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Png Optimizer creates PNG screenshots and make them easily available.
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IcoFX is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing.
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Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a professional, yet easy to use tool for designing and retouching icons, cursors, animations and static images, and assembling icon libraries.
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WinSnap includes easy capture of non-rectangular windows with customized and transparent backgrounds, simple and automatic canvas transformations, coloring effects, and the addition of eye-candy drop shadows.
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PicPick features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc.
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SiteShoter is a free tool that can be used to take a screenshot of any webpage.
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Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity.
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FastStone Image Viewer has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.
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IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for beginners and powerful for professionals.
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Cornice Portable is an image viewer that has thumbnail previews, full screen modes, rotation, slideshow modes and more.
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Osiva is a free image viewing program that opens and scale images fast — get images into view and out of the way
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RealWorld Paint.COM can display images using any zoom factor and always shows 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls.
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AMP Font Viewer is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts.
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FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically.
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Dia can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams and has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.
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Oiko is a visual CSS editor. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) allows to separate the representation definitions of such structured documents as HTML, XHTML, XML from their content, which is an effective principle in the design of web sites.
Portable Apps for Business Purposes
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OpenOffice.org Portable is a complete office suite — including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database
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Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
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An Office Suite which contains components that compatible with Windows Office applications like Word, Excel, etc.
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PNotes is fast and light-weight. It has flexible settings – both for the program in whole and for individual note.
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AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
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Jarte is a WordPad based, FREE word processor whose unique interface will make you feel like you are piloting a swift, nimble yacht by comparison.
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A simple and effective way to keep track of your current programming tasks.
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Task Coach Portable lets you bring your to-do list and task manager with you so you always stay on top of things.
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Date Reminder reminds you of recurring or nonrecurring events, like birthdays, bills to pay, appointments etc.
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Sunbird Portable is a standalone calendaring and task management application built on the same technology as the Firefox web browser.
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Koma-Mail is an email client which is comfortable and has very handy functions. It does not need an installation, so that you can run Koma-Mail from your flash drive but, of course, also on your desktop.
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Mozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more.
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Qm – The Quick Mailer is a tiny program for sending quick e-mail messages without having to load your main email client program.
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WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
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Keydb is a password manager. With it you create and store strong random passwords required by many websites.
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For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
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Express Burn lets you create and record audio or data CDs with any CDRW drive.
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Recover Files is an award winning program that can undelete / recover deleted files after they have been deleted.
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TeamTalk allows you to talk to friends and colleagues using the internet as audio carrier. With TeamTalk any number of people can participate in a conversation and is only limited by the bandwidth you have available.
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One powerful file encryption and security tool for the Windows platform.
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TrueCrypt is a software application used for real-time on-the-fly encryption.
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Tomahawk PDF+ is one of the most advanced word processing/pdf creation software packages available for the Windows platform.
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GnuCash Portable is the open source financial management software packaged as a portable app, so you can take your financial data with you.
63http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/70-free-useful-portable-applications-you-should-know/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog50+ Be-Bewitched Halloween Wallpapershttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=53322009-11-21T17:32:23Z2009-10-14T13:31:38Z
Halloween, which falls on the 31th of October is a holiday that normally associated with symbols like “Jack o’ Lanterns“, skeleton, pumpkins and activities like bonfire, costume party, "trick-or-treats", etc. As you have probably known, Halloween this year is already around the corner.
Every festive season, we’ll look out for related wallpapers to spice and [...]
Halloween, which falls on the 31th of October is a holiday that normally associated with symbols like “Jack o’ Lanterns“, skeleton, pumpkins and activities like bonfire, costume party, "trick-or-treats", etc. As you have probably known, Halloween this year is already around the corner.
Every festive season, we’ll look out for related wallpapers to spice and refresh our desktop. We did that for Christmas, we did the same thing for Chinese New Year and this time around – Halloween is no exception. If you are already into the Halloween mode, why not decorate your desktop with some awesome Halloween wallpapers. Here’s a collection of 50+ Be-Bewitched Halloween Wallpapers for your desktop.
Fun, Playful and Cartoon-y Wallpapers
Scarecrow
via kards.qip.ru
Available in 800×600, 1024×768
Trick-or-treat!
via American Greetings
A ghoulish trick-or-treater is being followed by some batty characters in this Halloween wallpaper. Available in 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.
The Gathering Storm (Halloween Night)
via vladstudio
New Halloween Wallpaper
via cruciald
Availabe in 1280×960, 1600×1200, 1600×900, 1440×900 and 1920×1200.
Pumpkin Time
via goor
Available in 1024×768.
Halloweenies
via vicber
Available 1024×768
Halloween Night
via silwenka
Available in 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×960 and 1600×1200.
Halloween Ghosts
via vladstudio
Ghostly Escape
via American Greetings
A young girl is running out of her shoes trying to get away from a bunch of scary ghosts in a haunted cemetery. Available in 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024 and 1600×1200.
Csscreme Halloween wallpapers
Cartoony halloween wallpapers from csscreme. Also available in wide screen and iPhone resolutions.
A Cheshire Kitten
via vladstudio
Halloween Wallpapers
via cricketbow
Halloween Ghost Pictures
via wallcoo
Available in 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.
Scary and Horrifying Wallpapers
Guildwars Halloween
via hdwallpapers
1920 x 1200
Pirate Skeleton
via halloween-corner
Macabre & Horror Wallpaper
via MuckyPup3000
The Pumpkins Gala!
Halloween
via alldesktop
Available in 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×1024, 1600×1200
Halloween Pumpkin
via Noko
Available in 900×720.
Wall-o-jack
via mumblyjoe
Available in 1280×960.
Think Halloween
via Zefhar
A nice mock-up of Apple’s logo. Available in 1280×960.
Pumpkins 2
via Trablex
A new version of the original pumpkins with a little bit of backlight enjoy! Available in 1280×1024.
Jack-o-lanterns
via American Greetings
A troika of jack-o-lanterns glimmering in the moonlight. Available in 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024 and 1600×1200.
Yet another Jack-o-lantern
via wallcoo
Available in 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.
Have a Happy Halloween Wallpaper
via gosquared
Available in high resolution 2560×1600. Also available in iPhone 320×480 format.
Happy Halloween
via garnettrules21
A little collage of the great pumpkin designs from pumpkinway.com.
Halloween Pumpkins
via Lethorgius
Available in high resolution 1440×900, 1690×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600.
Halloween In The Midnight Forest
via vladstudio
Halloween
via xCrispy
1280 x 1024.
MISC
Halloween (wallcoo)
via Zedoras
Available in 1024×768
Halloween
via Madydiu
Available in 1280×1024.
Halloween Wallpapers
via wonderwallpapers
Available in 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×960 and 1600×1200.
Halloween Animated Wallpaper
via wonderwallpapers
Animated spooky castle wallpaper. 1024 X 768.
More Interesting Halloween Stuff
130 Halloween Pumpkin Carvings for Your Inspiration
via walyou
The Ultimate Pumpkin collection that consists of 130 Halloween Pumpkin Carvings for Your Inspiration which hopefully give you some cool and creative ideas for Halloween 2009.
Sinister Fonts
Lots of free horror fonts and wallpapers.
Pumpkin Ways
Pumpkin in lots of different emotions.
Vladstudio Halloween wallpaper set 1.0
We mentioned some of these great wallpapers above, but here’s where you can download all of them one shot.
Horrifying Photoshop Tutorials for Halloween Season
via naldzgraphics
45 Horrifying Photoshop Tutorials for Halloween that you can read and get amazing techniques for your own freaky image designs
Halloween Wallpapers from Wallcoo
More halloween wallpapers.
79http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/beautiful-halloween-wallpapers/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogBlack and White Photography: 100 Pieces of Exquisite Portraithttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=53152009-11-21T17:54:29Z2009-10-12T13:12:51Z
A good portrait reveals something about its subject beyond the immediate appearance of the photograph. It includes layers of meaning and depth that portray the person as a whole, not just the superficial initial impression. Great portraits give us an idea of who the person really is, beyond what they’re trying to outwardly depict.
Portraits done [...]
A good portrait reveals something about its subject beyond the immediate appearance of the photograph. It includes layers of meaning and depth that portray the person as a whole, not just the superficial initial impression. Great portraits give us an idea of who the person really is, beyond what they’re trying to outwardly depict.
Portraits done in black and white add an additional layer of complexity to their subject. The choice to appear void of color says something about the person, though what it says varies greatly between people. Below are 100 stunning black and white portraits to give you inspiration in your designs. The range of subjects and what their portraits say about them run across the entire spectrum of the human experience, and you’re sure to find something that resonates.
More photography entries we’ve previously published:
Complete showcase after jump.
Funeral
by ultramaryna
The Queen
by zemotion
black and white . bricks
by beautifullydestructed
I’ll tell you a story…
by alejka
Laughing with
by iNeedChemicalX
Bitter Sweet Symphony
by iNeedChemicalX
Black Desire
by UnaObsesion
FANatic new
by Nigrita
On my mind
by liquidsunnyday
Smoke on the moon
by azarova
The running man
by Mattrobbyattack
Lyrical
by moodychick
06
by bezglowa
I’m free
by dashka-takes-photos
Sarmata
by polska
Aye Aye C’ptain
by TFraser
Secret garden II
by electricbird
Ethiopia-Dassanetch
by marjanvanthielen
Close your eyes
by Kvikken
Dilan
by kentsiz
The last smoke…
by rocker-sanjog
In the cold light of morning
by DisposableMe
Black & White Portrait
by Lars Willem Veldkampf
Landon BP Black & White Portrait
by Steven Hart
Fisherman
by womanish
The Girl and the Baby
by OneOnOne Photography
Nathan
johnny nikon
Antonino
by sam cartelli
Nikkormat
by Studio d’Xavier
Old man with a cigarette
by LouisWu
Dancing in Bare Feet
by dfg photography
Turkish Market Seller
by keith
Jinny in Black and White
by TXphotoblog
Oh my friends you haven’t changed
by Ornelia Olivieri
liviachicca
by Ornelia Olivieri
TRP: Me and My Camera
by Studio d’Xavier
6/100 Duff
by Studio d’Xavier
Portrait of a Punk Girl
by Havovubu
Damian
by Burgunda
Passin’ the Time
by Joel Bedford
8037
by Dmitry Medvedev
Day 30
by Murraynewphotos
Untitled Girl Portrait
by tuturuuu
Untitled Portrait
by MOSH S.K
Gau
by USELESSNANO
Crying Girl
by LouisWu
I hate my obvious freckles
by nikki psych ward
Market stall worker
by StephenQi
Gioty
by paranenormalus
Stare
by violin-sonata
AH
by Krstnn Hrmnsn
“The Pigeon Man”
by Elliotphotos
Che Boris 2
by FrankZimper
Black and White
by mariemadeame
Binki
by Pichead
Black Swan
by zemotion
Black
by BittersweetDisease
Eye black and white
by Ashleigh07Art
Black and White
by KarinePaula
Another Amber
by Jibby!
Sophie in black and white
by Palindroom
Julia
by photomek
Hush now
by iNeedChemicalX
Black Lava
by CRISTYNNA-NECROPOLIS
New Hope Childrens Home
by nick barta
Black white portrait
by lafaette
Black and White
by Fragoline
Black and white
by lkopuz
White 2
by Coffeestain
Hearts turn black and white
by iNeedChemicalX
Menja lady, Sheka forest, Ethiopia
by ngari.norway
Freedom In Black And White 1
by kreestal
Untitled Portrait of a Girl
by Lisa Askew
Wisdom
by pastaboy sleeps
Warmth
by pastaboy sleeps
Et l’anarchie de julien
by salusmarc
Black Cherry
by waga27
GPS 8 Rose Black and White
by Rubarb
Black and White II
by Orzz
Summer BW
by larafairie
Movie Star Black and White
by Adam25Toronto
Girl in a white dress
by LesiaV
White + Black
by maliciousfaerie
JOE!
by Martin Quiroz Photography
Black and white
by infernalphotography
Deitra 04
by Jason Stair
Warm Place II
by SynthTwins
Beth – Silhouette
by larafairie
Zoe
by c1po
Jana
by LudovicMazet
Manu
by LudovicMazet
Sells Hamsters
by Roman Abramovich
Black and White
by lucaspagnuoli
Black
by johnwaters
Black and white
by zakharova
Paint it black and white
by krecique
Black Hole Sun
by berzerker-sk
Black Sun
by fatallook
The peter pan
by muszka
Black Math
by rabatz
About Author – Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.
48http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/beautiful-black-and-white-portraits-photography/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogOpen Source E-Commerce Shopping Carts – Best Ofhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=52972009-11-21T17:58:31Z2009-10-08T16:11:57Z
The moment you decide to run an online store selling your favorite stuff, you are immediately thrown with dozens of questions and obstacles. For starters, you’ll need to decide between clean inventory/excess stock, then comes the resource for products. Ultimately, when it comes to open an e-commerce site, the biggest decision is – Which platform [...]
The moment you decide to run an online store selling your favorite stuff, you are immediately thrown with dozens of questions and obstacles. For starters, you’ll need to decide between clean inventory/excess stock, then comes the resource for products. Ultimately, when it comes to open an e-commerce site, the biggest decision is – Which platform should I use?
The software you’ve decided upon will be the foundation of your entire e-commerce site and will not likely be changed in the future, therefore it’s utmost important that you know all of the best one before you choose and regret later. In this post, we want to bring to your attention some of the best (free) open-source shopping carts available on the Internet. Do check them out, test of the demo, play around with it to know if the functionality suits your business before deciding on one.
Full list after jump.
OsCommerce Online Merchant is an open source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.
PrestaShop is a professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free. Having a very powerful back-end, store admins can manage the inventory, orders, customers & payments easily. System never limits you as it supports unlimited categories, sub-categories & image pictures.
CubeCart is written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.
Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Magento also comes with a much more powerful Enterprise version.
Digistore Ecommerce 4.0 is a fully featured open source ecommerce solution based on the popular osCommerce engine. Boasting improvements both to the administration and the end user experience – Digistore has quickly become a popular choice for people wishing to market products online.
A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost. OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.
Spree capitalizes on the dynamic nature of the Ruby progamming language to provide the most flexible commerce platform available. Spree has been designed from the ground up to be as open and extensible as possible. You no longer have to be frustrated with the limited set of choices provided by most platforms.
CRE Loaded is much more than your average shopping cart. It’s the industry’s first downloadable e-commerce system that makes your store fully compliant with all Payment Card Industry (PCI) security rules. Organize, manage and ship your products from your online store. Accept credit card transactions safely.
The Zeuscart shopping cart is based on PHP application and it is used as scripting language which facilitates developer in making dynamically driven websites. It is very facile to learn and understand. To be precise, application of PHP is most popular because of its functionality which can be changed as per ones requirements.
Offers a very wide range of features that allow you to setup an online storefront or shop ranging from a simple template based store for novices to the integration of complex web design concepts created by your web designer.
AFCommerce is a full and complete online store with both a store front and administration area directly Out-Of-The-Box, which can be easily installed, configured, and maintained over a web-based interface. AFCommerce now includes our Ecommerce Website Building Software, AFBuilder, included completely Free.
RapidShop (PHP/without MySQL)
Very fast and easy to use, without MySQL (and can without PHP), direct from MS Excel. For 1000-2000 item of products. RapidShop is integrated with PayPal, EGold and any payment system. You can link your shopping cart to any credit card merchant account or payment gateway. Search Engine Optimized.
For Designers and Photographers
These following shopping carts are light, simple and utmost useful for those who wish to sell stock photos, video and print graphics online.
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Cmsaccount Photo Store Script (PHP/MySQL)
Photo store software for selling your photos, images, artwork, audio, videos, vector illustrations and prints online.
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Ktools Photostore (PHP/MySQL)
PhotoStore allows you to setup a complete photo selling website on your server or hosting space in just minutes. Perfect for professional photographers looking to sell their images or prints to their customers online.
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Xpoze (PHP/MySQL)
Complete and easy to use solution for selling images and other media files such as videos, vectors or 3D graphics. As everyone tends for something unique Xpoze have worked had to provide you with the best flexibility to customize the look and the features you want to use without much fuss and programming knowledge.
Shopping Carts That Integrates With Others
Joomla
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VirtueMart (PHP/MySQL)
The complete e-Commerce shopping cart solution for Joomla! – used by thousands of store owners. It can be run in Store- and Catalog-Mode. With its powerful Administration Tool you can handle an unlimited Number of Categories, Products, Orders, Discounts, Shopper Groups and Customers. VirtueMart works for both Joomla and Mambo.
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RokQuickCart (PHP/MySQL)
RokQuickCart is a simple shopping cart for Joomla. It takes a simple, yet elegant, shopping cart script and integrates directly into Joomla. It allows you to showcase products, inclusive of images, descriptions and additional options, and purchase these items, with support for shipping and tax calculation.
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Seber Cart (PHP/MySQL)
Small, fast and easy to use shopping cart for Joomla.
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SimpleCaddy (PHP/MySQL)
Integrate a simple shopping cart into your content. No need to set up a complete system like VirtueMart if you are only selling a few items or you don’t want to setup a complete shop.
Wordpress
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ShopperPress (PHP/MySQL)
ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online. ShopperPress has built in support for multiple payment gateways allowing you to accept product payments online.
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Fat Free Cart (PHP/MySQL)
With FatFreeCart Plugin you do not have to generate or paste any code in CSS or HTML of WordPress theme. The plugin is designed to work within your WordPress post editor.
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WordPress e-Commerce (PHP/MySQL)
WordPress e-Commerce is a WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that is truly an industrial strength elegant easy to use and fully featured shopping cart solution suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.
Premium Carts Worth Knowing
Last but not least, we throw in some shooping cart that comes with a price tag. For those who have budgets for their online business, these following shopping carts are worth knowing too.
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CS-Cart (PHP/MySQL)
CS-Cart is an "out of the box" ecommerce software solution with easy-to-use functionality that allows to start selling online immediately. Its feature set fits into businesses of any size, from a small single-product shop to a fully-featured online storefront. Designed for ease of use along with flexibility, CS-Cart is equipped with the latest ecommerce innovations (like one-page checkout, AJAX-based web interface, block manager and others) built into a highly configurable and modifiable sales and promotion engine.
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Bosscart (PHP/MySQL)
Boss Cart is an eCommerce shopping basket application, specifically developed to meet the needs of small to medium sized retailers. Boss Cart has been created using the latest technology and runs on Windows, Linux and all other Web platforms. Boss Cart has been tested with over 20,000 items to ensure maximum speed and efficiency.
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Avactis (PHP/MySQL)
Avactis shopping cart is a software package that allows you to open an online store on the Internet. It comprises two parts – a client side and an administrator side. The client side is your website as seen by visitors. The Avactis’s client side allows the visitors to your site to browse products in the online store, select products and put them into the shopping cart, as in a conventional supermarket, and then pay for the selected products using a credit card or other payment options.
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Lite Commerce (PHP/MySQL)
LiteCommerce is a lightweight high-tech ecommerce solution devoted to make an internet store launching process as easy as surfing the Web. LiteCommerce is more than just a shopping cart. It is a multipurpose ecommerce store platform. Numerous built-in features will make your online store and your business successful: inventory management, credit card processing, SEO tools, special offers, discount coupons and others.
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X-cart (PHP/MySQL)
X-Cart shopping cart software is based on PHP Smarty templates, this makes it very flexible and easy to modify. The data is stored in MySQL database. X-Cart is a turnkey package. Installation is handled by web-based step-by-step wizard to make the system running immediately after receiving it. X-Cart is search engine friendly. A merchant can specify meta tags and define custom URLs for product and category pages that results in higher search engine rankings.
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Instantestore (Hosting not required)
InstanteStore provides a variety of SEO, marketing, and promotional tools that you can make use of to bring in traffic and customers. These features will help you reach your potential customer market and get them buying at your store.
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Interspire (PHP/MySQL)
From complete SEO optimization to single page checkout, track-able coupon codes and business intelligence reports – no other shopping cart software increases your online sales like Interspire Shopping Cart. Guaranteed, or your money back. We offer both a PHP-based shopping cart and also a hosted, fully-managed ecommerce solution called BigCommerce.
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Sunshop (PHP/MySQL)
SunShop shopping cart is search engine friendly shopping cart system. A complete ecommerce solution packed with and extensive feature list. SunShop offers all of the standard features you would find in any off the shelf shopping cart software plus much more. What makes SunShop shopping cart stand above the rest is the ease of use.
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Squirrel Cart (PHP/MySQL)
Squirrelcart PHP Shopping Cart software is a fully customizable, robust php shopping cart, designed with the advanced developer and web novice in mind. If you are a web novice, you will appreciate its ease of use, and the fact that Squirrelcart will generate the HTML for all of your store’s pages based on the built in templates provided. If you have a strong knowledge of HTML, you will appreciate the ability to make Squirrelcart look and work the way YOU want it to.
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Shopfactory (PHP/MySQL)
ShopFactory 8 all-in-one shopping cart software allows anyone to quickly create and manage their own professional Internet shop — despite being one of the most powerful and feature rich eCommerce solutions on the market. Now you can update your own website and products to sell securely online without professional help.
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3dcart (Hosting not required)
Shopping Carts from 3dCart are complete e-commerce storefront solutions for your new or existing web site. Easily build, edit, and maintain your online shop, and collect orders without any programming or HTML knowledge!
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Viart (PHP/MySQL)
The Viart range of software provides the tools you need to make full use of the Internet in your business. Now anyone can set up a secure online store without the need for any programming knowledge. The Viart suite of products is designed by Viart in-house team of e-commerce software developers. Together team has over thirty years of experience in this arena.
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Pinnacle Cart (PHP/MySQL)
Pinnacle Cart is an extremely powerful php shopping cart and website builder application. Designed from marketing perspective, this eCommerce application is feature-packed, robust, scalable and easy to use. Pinnacle Cart is the clear choice for serious merchants focused on rapidly and cost effectively deploying, managing and growing a successful web-based business.
About author:Dainis is blogger from Latvia. He is webmaster of Psdeluxe.com (Photoshop deluxe) – Design community where you find photoshop tutorials and useful resources for web and graphic designers. Follow Dainis on Twitter
72http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/open-source-e-commerce-shopping-carts-best-of/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog70+ Insightful Retro And Historic Artwork Around The Worldhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=52802009-11-21T18:00:02Z2009-10-06T10:57:48Z
When one speaks of retro art, images of art styles derived from advertising and propaganda posters from 1930s to 1960s usually flood the mind. The simple graphics made from oil paints reflect the less advanced technology of that time. This period is also a time of significant turbulence in our modern history, when major events [...]
When one speaks of retro art, images of art styles derived from advertising and propaganda posters from 1930s to 1960s usually flood the mind. The simple graphics made from oil paints reflect the less advanced technology of that time. This period is also a time of significant turbulence in our modern history, when major events such as the rise of communism and World Wars were taking ground. It is then not surprising that many posters serve as propaganda tools for the ruling governments. These propaganda images eventually contributed to the development of different retro art styles.
Many of the following retro art pieces that you will see are actual posters produced during those time. We’ve searched a couple of sources to compile a great list of retro art styles comprising not only of propaganda art pieces, but also a few other kind such as advertising posters. In addition, we have separated these pieces into two main categories, Western and Chinese retro art. Full list after jump.
The West: Retro Posters from the West
Here we have Soviet posters during the rise of communism as well as propaganda posters during World War II. There are also some miscellaneous ones like film and product ads, along with some retro-inspired art.
This is the Enemy
Guns of Russia
We’ve Beaten Them Before
Eyes of the Home Skies
Unwilling Volunteers
We Can Do It
Here They Come!
The Soviet Regime
The Power of Propaganda: Wartime Posters
Syd Mead Concept Design for US Steel
Say Yes! to Analog Design
Soviet Flag Over the Reichstag
Retro Never Dies
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Jantzen Swimsuit 1949
Le Facteur ATC
Kultura
Gorbachev
Glory To Our Army
I Wake Up Screaming 1941
Lenin
You Behave!
People and Army are One!
We Will Not Allow This to Happen Again!
Smoke Cigarettes
Great Stalin is A Flag of the USSR’s Friendship
Everything for the Victory – Women of USSR for the Front
Motherland is Calling!
To Defend USSR
Liberated woman – Build Up Socialism!
Fortunello
Beatles Badge
Hotdog
1953 Advertising Calendar for Hotpoint Appliances
Birds!
1924 Lenin Poster
Lenin
1940 Stalin
The East: The Chinese Art of Propaganda
As a result of over 5,000 years of China’s history and culture, Chinese art has always been uniquely different from the West. Here you will see how traditonal Chinese art evolved into retro art that still maintains its distinct culture while incorporating Western art elements to spread communism.
Propaganda
Mao is Always Right
Revolutionary Committees are Good
The Working Class is the Main Force in the Campaign
Win Honor for Our Great Leader Chairman Mao
Sharpening the Knife
Down with the Capitalist
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army
Learn from the Spirit of Daqing
We’ll Definitely Beat the World Record
Communism
Chairman Mao
Develop New Mountain Areas
An Eye for an Eye
Our Victory is Certain
Down with American and Soviet
The Chinese People are Not Easily Humiliated
The Revolutionary Movement
Smash the Old World; Establish the New World
Great Victory
Gutian Conference
Endless Production
Brilliant Light of the Red Sun
Chairman Hua
Chairman Mao
Double Happiness
Learn Science From Young
I Love the Blue Sky of Motherland
Military Spirit
Film Poster: Home
Film Poster: Beyond the Sea
Art Comes From Life’s Struggles
United As One People
These propaganda artworks were collected from Life.com, Flickr, Crestock, kaladarshan, Chinese Poster Online and other websites.
32http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/70-insightful-retro-and-historic-artwork-around-the-world/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog100 Captivating Examples of Urban Decay Photographyhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=52512009-11-21T18:02:03Z2009-10-02T14:41:11Z
One of the things that makes a great designer is the ability to see beauty in unlikely places. And images of urban decay can really put that ability to the test.
Whether it’s images of abandoned buildings or simply a disregarded alley or nook, there is beauty to be found in the derelict and forgotten areas [...]
One of the things that makes a great designer is the ability to see beauty in unlikely places. And images of urban decay can really put that ability to the test.
Whether it’s images of abandoned buildings or simply a disregarded alley or nook, there is beauty to be found in the derelict and forgotten areas of the world’s cities. The images below give only a small taste of what’s out there, ready to inspire your next design project.
Urban Decay in Tacoma
by anthonyh2006
Urban Decay at a Marin School
by CourtneyAllison
Urban Decay: Nature Juxtaposed with Industry
by Irit
Day 10 — Urban Decay (or Regrowth?)
by brianjmatis
Urban Decay2
by grigjr
Urban Decay — Sofas and Chairs
by byonder
Urban Decay 11 — Courtyard
by grigjr
Urban Decay – 01 — Graffiti
by scotto
Urban Decay — Aerosol Cans
by ridethespiral1
Urban Decay — Red Chair
by secdoover
UrbanDecay
by entengruetze
Urban Decay — English Academy
by ghostrider-in-ze-sky
Urban Decay: American Auto
by paperdolldreams
Urban Decay: Rusted Factory
by JoeCollver
Urban Decay – 14: Warehouse
by scotto
Urban Decay: Arches
by VSprink
Urban Decay: Black and White Doorway
by downhill
Urban Decay: Smoke Stacks
by snake.eyes
Urban Decay 5: Sunlight Effects
by ghostrider-in-ze-sky
Urban Decay Boston
by tarotist
Urban Decay: Three Towers
by bloodfilledlungs
Urban Decay: Water Fountain
by Enzo D.
Urban Decay New Set – 1
by ro-stock
Rust in Peace
by thespook
Decay VIII
by Benjinoman
Queens Urban Decay 207a
by chaserpaul
Urban Decay 3: Stroke-on-Trent
by CarolAnneS
Urban Decay 2: Peeling Plaster and Brick
by rosetigerdragon
Decay from the "Urban Exploration" Project
by MuffYz
Urban Decay, Velluters
by Xavi Calvo
Urban Decay (Moscow)
by happy-dee-dooo
Urban Decay: Broken Window
by B Rosen
Urban Decay 008: Peeling Paint
by MarcoFiorentini
Old Colonial Mansion Opposite the National Museum
by remittance_girl
Stuffed If I Know
by MIAD
Dodgey Ladder
by MIAD
Urbex Self Portrait
by James Loesch
Blue Door, Yellow Wall
by Stoxasths
Setting Up the Fair
by Stoxasths
Krampnitz
by James C Farmer
The Old Soccer Stadion
by Static_P
In the Heart of the Plant
by NARIBIS
MF
by Static_P
West Park – Still Life 2
by Romanywg
Abandoned Asylum
by andre.govia
Lier Mental Hospital – Old Wheel Chair
by Anders V. Tøftemo
The Next Mission
by Romanywg
West Park Reflections too
by Romanywg
Green: Peeling Pain
by James C Farmer
Please Close the Doors After Leaving
by James C Farmer
Beelitz: #1
by James C Farmer
Way Out
by James C Farmer
Beelitz: #2
by James C Farmer
Concrete Stairwell
by Chris Leithead
Rust Macro at Filey
by tina_manthorpe
Brooklyn Rust: The Brooklyn Bridge
by Digital Agent
Locked Rust Blue
by tina_manthorpe
Cracked Sidewalk in Front of Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton
by Chris Campbell
Bowling Alley
by keiththrn
Abandoned in Cork
by slinky2000
Abandoned Building
by Isaac E
Denbigh Abandoned Asylum
by andre.goby
Pripyat, Ukraine Chernobyl
by robot fotomat
Nuclear Winter in Chernobyl
by Stuck in Customs
Pripyat Amusement Park, Ukraine Chernobyl
by robot fotomat
Swimming Pool in the Abandoned School in Pripyat’ / Chernobyl
by Danny–Boy
Urban Decay 8
by ghostrider-in-ze-sky
Abandoned Building in Pripyat’ / Chernobyl
by Danny–Boy
Chernobyl/Pripyat, Ukraine: Ferris Wheel
by 8333696
Abandoned Building in Pripyat’ / Chernobyl
by DannyBoy
Watcher
by borderfilms (Doug)
OH Dexter City – Abandoned School
by scottamus
Abandoned City Methodist Church, Gary, Indiana
by Timothy Neesam
Pripyat – Abandoned City
by Dazzababes
Abandoned City: Paper Circles
by eruthnum
Abandoned City: Kitchen Stove
by eruthnum
City Meth: Gary, Indiana
by Noel Kerns
Abandoned Building in La Habana, Cuba
by vormplus
Hospental, Abandoned Building: Switzerland
by Tuuur
Abandoned Row Houses – Perlman Place (Baltimore)
by sann235
NYC Ghetto: Bushwick Brooklyn
by izakokomari890
Flats to Let 1987: South Bronx
by Urban Photos
Grungy Wall Texture
by iammi-z
Rust Texture
by code1name
Grunge: Wooden Door
by jazza
Lisbon Balconies
by hbrinkman
Old Wood: Grungy Wooden Structure
by jazza
Deserted Houses
by barunpatro
Old Tower
by cyborg1us
Old Stavelot: Ardennes, Belgium
by hbrinkman
Museum? A Rundown Shack in Sofala, NSW, Australia
by drakemata
Street Urban Decay: Porto City, Portugal
by saavem
Tangled Wires
by drog1998
Abandoned Warehouse 5: Gatke Building, Warsaw, IN
by freschje
Miami, Arizona
by kevinzim
New Orleans Alley post Katrina
by bonesdog
Ruins
by Marinela
Utrect: Canal in Holland
by martwork
Old Door in a House in Limache, Chile
by philhxc
Urban Winter: Saarbrücken, Bürgerpark
by Author
About Author – Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.
62http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-captivating-examples-of-urban-decay-photography/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blogEvolution of Microsoft Windows: 1985 – 2009http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=52482009-11-21T18:03:45Z2009-09-29T10:47:11Z
It all began in Plaza Hotel, New York City on the 10th of November 1983. Two Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates officially announced their corporation’s first and next-generation graphical user interface operating system – Microsoft Windows.
Despite the criticism on stability and constantly being compared to their rivals Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows is [...]
It all began in Plaza Hotel, New York City on the 10th of November 1983. Two Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates officially announced their corporation’s first and next-generation graphical user interface operating system – Microsoft Windows.
Despite the criticism on stability and constantly being compared to their rivals Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used operating systems in the world. In this article, we’ll bring you back to 1985 where the very first official Microsoft Windows 1.0 was announced, and then we take a trip down memory lane to see all boot screens and desktop interface of all Windows operating system possible.
Here are more related entries we’ve previously published:
Full content after jump.
Windows 1.01 (1985)
Officially released on November 20, 1985, this 16-bit OS that cost less than 1MB in overall is Microsoft’s very first operating system that allows multi tasking with graphical user interface on PC platform that runs on MS-DOS 5.0.
Windows 1.03 (1986)
Introduced in 1986, Windows 1.03 is an upgrade to its previous predecessor Windows 1.01. Entire operating system cost about 2.2Mb hard disk space.
Windows 2.03 (1987)
Taking advantage of the speed of Intel 286/386 processor at that time, Windows 2.03 is a replacement for Windows 1.x. It also starts the era where users are able to overlap windows, customize screens, etc. Still the entire operating system cost no more than 2.5Mb.
Windows 2.86 (1989)
Windows 3.0 (1990)
This is the third major released of Microsoft Windows with a improved set of Windows icons and applications like File Manager, Program Manager that is still being used in today’s Windows. This 22 May 1990 released operating system is then replaced by Windows 3.1 two years later.
Windows 3.1 (1992)
Windows 3.1 is probably the earliest Windows most of us are familiar with. Windows 3.1 and later Windows 3.1x is an upgrade to Windows 3.0 with bug fixes and multimedia support.
Windows NT 3.1 (1993)
The first Windows New Technology (NT) introduced. It maintains consistency with the Windows 3.1, a well-established home and business operating system at the time, the new Windows NT operating system began with version 3.1. Unlike Windows 3.1, however, Windows NT 3.1 was a 32-bit operating system.
Windows 3.11 (1993)
A superset of Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 added peer-to-peer workgroup and domain networking support. For the first time, Windows–based PCs were network-aware and became an integral part of the emerging client/server computing evolution – Microsoft
Windows NT 3.51 Workstation (1995)
The Windows NT Workstation 3.5 release provided the highest degree of protection yet for critical business applications and data. With support for the OpenGL graphics standard, this operating system helped power high-end applications for software development, engineering, financial analysis, scientific, and business-critical tasks – Microsoft
Windows 95 (1995)
Previously code-named Chicago, Windows 95 is a successor to all the existing Windows operating system so far. It gives full graphical user interface support, integrated a 32-bit TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) stack for built-in Internet support, dial-up networking, and new Plug and Play capabilities that made it easy for users to install hardware and software.
Windows NT 4.0 (1996)
Windows NT Workstation 4.0 included the popular Windows 95 user interface yet provided improved networking support for easier and more secure access to the Internet and corporate intranets – Microsoft.
Windows NT Server 4.0 (1996)
Windows 98 (1998)
Windows 98 was the upgrade from Windows 95. Described as an operating system that "Works Better, Plays Better," Windows 98 was the first version of Windows designed specifically for consumers – Microsoft.
Windows 2000 (2000)
More than just the upgrade to Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional was also designed to replace Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 on all business desktops and laptops. Built on top of the proven Windows NT Workstation 4.0 code base, Windows 2000 added major improvements in reliability, ease of use, Internet compatibility, and support for mobile computing – Microsoft.
Windows 2000 Server (2000)
Windows ME (2000)
Designed for home computer users, Windows Me offered consumers numerous music, video, and home networking enhancements and reliability improvements – Microsoft.
Windows XP (2001)
Windows XP Professional brings the solid foundation of Windows 2000 to the PC desktop, enhancing reliability, security, and performance. With a fresh visual design, Windows XP Professional includes features for business and advanced home computing, including remote desktop support, an encrypting file system, and system restore and advanced networking features – Microsoft.
Windows Server 2003 (2003)
Released on April 2003, and also known as Win2k3, this operating system is a sucessor to it’s predecessor Windows Server 2000 (Win2k).
Windows Vista (2006)
Came more than 5 years after it’s predecessor Windows XP, Vista is the longest timeline break for Microsoft between two operating system. Read more.
Windows 7 (2009)
Codenamed Blackcomb, Windows 7 is one of the most anticipated operating system which should be available somewhere in Oct 2009. Read more.
References
In order to gather all boot screens and interfaces of various Windows Operating System, we crawled the Internet up and down. Here are some sites we’ve cross-referenced:
111http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/evolution-of-microsoft-windows-1985-2009/hongkiathttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorialshttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/?p=52332009-11-21T18:05:07Z2009-09-24T15:01:15Z
We’ve seen how Photoshop has been extensively used in areas like web designing and beauty photo retouching. In today’s post, we bring you into another stretch where Photoshop also rules and dominates – the modding and sketching of rides.
This following article is dedicated to car lovers, forumites who use car photos as signatures, web designers [...]
We’ve seen how Photoshop has been extensively used in areas like web designing and beauty photo retouching. In today’s post, we bring you into another stretch where Photoshop also rules and dominates – the modding and sketching of rides.
This following article is dedicated to car lovers, forumites who use car photos as signatures, web designers or anyone who fascinates nice rides. We search the Internet and here we put forward some of the best Photoshop tutorials with techniques on how to mod a car. Full list after jump.
Colors Manipulation
Chrome your car
Gives your car body that chrome effect. Works better with black default.
Color Tweak The Ferrari
This tutorial make use of an additional mask and give your car a color change on the fly by applying different color blending options.
How to make Car Advertisement Mock-ups
Get your car air brushed with any color, or design. But before that, Thomas Baekdal suggest you give it the right base color.
Add Flaming Decals to a Modern Car Design
This tutorial will explain the steps needed to turn this boring Prius into an awesome street racer.
Body and Parts Enhancements
Porsche digital rendering photoshop tutorial
How to render a low quality digital car photo into a high quality output.
Give your car a little wood
Here is one way to take a simple texture and apply it to a shaped object like a car and have it appear to follow the body contours.
Create a stempunk golden car
Create a real life "Cars"
How to create a real CARS of your own cars.
Change rims on a car
Vanity License Plate
How to create a custom vanity license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools a piece of reference material and some creative layer stylings.
Folks at Digimods have a comprehensive list of Photoshop tutorials covers almost everything you will want to mod on a ride. From adding a bad boy bonnet, carbon fibre bonet to lowering the car, changing the wheels and much more!
Freehand and Sketching
Concept car sketch Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial describes how to render this car with paths, and finishes the paints with later masks and filters.
Drawing a Car Lineart in Photoshop
Draw the lineart of this Mclaren F1 using paths. You are required to have some experience in using Photoshop’s Pen tool to be able to draw this car in detail.
Photoshop Rendering
Photoshop rendering in Photoshop by Emre Husmen, a 20 year old Turkish design student, also the 2004 Peugeot Design Contest finalist.
Rapid Development Sketching
"In this tutorial it is assumed that you already have a design theme worked out and know roughly what your car will look like. Ideally you would be working over a photo of a clay or screenshot of an alias model. I have chosen a supercar to show the methods used here because the forms are exaggerated and it is easier to see how they are being rendered." Miles Waterhouse
Vector Car Tutorial
This tutorial guides you through creating a vector toon based Veilside’s Fortune RX7 from scratch.
Dramatic Effects
Create a truck coming from a flame
Create a Acura commercials simmilar effect where a truck came out from the flame.
Super Slick Lighting Effects
Learn how to combine photos and brush strokes to give a car photo slick dusky lighting effects.
How To Create An Amazing Car Illustration
How to create a fierce car illustraton making use of different type of brushes.
Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot
"We have another tutorial this week in which we will learn some menus of blur filter, which will help us create smoke effect. We will also cover up some brush technique too to make this smoke effect."
Video Tutorials
Photoshop Car Tuning – 65 videos and 3 how-to articles to learn all about Photoshop car tuning, by wonderhowto.com
YouTube – Tons of great video tutorials are hidden within YouTube. We attempt to pull out some of the best for you, sorted by view count.
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