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Coolest “Web Based” Image Editors

// March 10th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, The Best of.., Useful, art, free, web tools, webdesign

Here is a list of web-based image editors that I found to be the coolest.
Web based editors allow you to make changes to an image from anywhere without having to install applications for example when you are not at home or on your laptop. Or for support techs like me — I work with Financial Advisors helping them develop their own websites and most of them have no use for photoshop and asking them to download a program like Infranview just to crop or resize one picture for their website would be illogical - so I’m always looking for easy to use web based image editors to link them to…which brings me to why I researched this topic and wrote this post. I hope some of you also find it useful.

SumoPaint

sumo-paint
which can be used as a paint program and photo editing program, and which was recently upgraded with a claimed 100-plus improvements, and a totally renovated web site to make it easier, faster, and more attractive, and several new tools. Layer FX, Change Layers With Blending Modes, change layer alpha, Shapes Tool, Brushes, Ink Brush Tool, Gradient Tool, Shape Trails, Zooming, Symmetry Tool , Color Picker, Swatches, Smudge Tool, and Custom Shape Tool. Sumo Paint’s user interface is Mac-like in a Photoshop-ish sort of way. Check out the Sumo Paint user manual here. Sumo Paint works with any browser but you must have the version 9 Flash player plugin installed, which you probably already do. http://Sumopaint.com

Fotoflexer

Another free online image editor I liked a lot was Fotoflexer, which is impressively fast and slick, with no registration or login necessary. Fotoflexer doesn’t have as many tools as Sumo Paint or some of the other online image editors I tried, and they’re laid out in a non-orthodox configuration, but it’s pretty intuitive, fast and responsive, and the adjustments refresh in real time so you can finely tune your enhancements visually as you move the sliders. Fotoflexer is also integrated with social networking sites such as Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, MySpace and more. It comes in handy when you’re looking for some quick common photo-editing needs such as cropping, resizing, and rotating. http://fotoflexer.com/

Picnik

Picnik is an image editor that was recently purchased by Google. Picnik lets you quickly edit all your photos online. Picnik has a fast startup and no login hassle, but I didn’t find the free version of this one up to par with the others. You would want to upgrade to the premium version, which costs $2.08 to $24.95 a month. Picnik is directly connected with many photo sharing sites like Myspace, Flickr and Facebook which is cool. http://www.picnik.com/

MyPictr

MyPictr is basically just a picture resizing service, which allows you to create a custom profile avatar for your favorite social network. You don’t need to install any programs: just upload your picture, resize it online and download it. MyPictr gives you enough time (approximately 10 minutes) to download your picture, then your file is automatically removed. MyPictr is free to use. http://mypictr.com/

Pixer.us

If you’re looking for an application to meet your simple photo-editing needs, check out pixer.us – a free, web-based photo editor. It has an intuitively simple interface which I really liked plus your basic yet useful photo-editing features like cropping, resizing, and rotating. It also has some color adjustment options such as Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast adjustments. You can save your work as one of the four popular digital image files (PNG, JPG, GIF, or BMP). PIXER.US requires no sign-up or account to use. Simply access the site, upload an image from a local computer, and start editing. When the editing is done, download the finished product. There are however, a couple of features missing. For example, I couldn’t find a way to import images from online photo-sharing sites such as Flickr or Photo-bucket. The program itself has all the basic features and functions usually found in this sort of app. These include features such as “rotate”, “flip”, “resize” and “crop”. The “resize” feature is nice, with a slider to make a picture bigger or smaller which I like because my clients don’t usually know what pixel sizes to choose but the slider would help make resizing more logical for them. http://pixer.us/

OnlinePhotoTool

OnlinePhotoTool is a service that uses Java to edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. You can use photos and images from your hard drive as well as pictures on the Internet. If you want to save your images online you need to register. You can download photos from the internet using their Onlinephototool.com import bookmarklet. The editing tools seem typical — you can resize, crop, rotate, flip, paint as well as use other advanced tools. The site is simple, direct and functional. http://www.onlinephototool.com/

pic2color

pic2color is a tool that helps you extract colors from any images. It helps you creates sophisticated color schemes from images effortlessly and offers seamless integration with GenoPal Online for individual color exploration. Users can also integrate it into their website by posting some HTML code. Free to use. http://www.pic2color.com/

picmagick

PicMagick – Simple yet Powerful Online Photo Editor http://www.picmagick.com/

Flauntr.com

a unique online imaging service that combines photo editing, printing, sharing and storage in a single seamless service. FlauntR by Fotodesk, is a digital effects website more then just an online image editor. Flauntr allows you to upload images from your computer or Flickr account and then add fun special effects. Create avatars, MySpace comments, or digital scrapbooks. http://www.flauntr.com/

Cellsea

Cellsea is a site that lets you rotate, resize, and crop photos to get the exact composition and size you need. There are over 15 ways to correct color, exposure, and lighting problems. You just need to click and drag your mouse to ripple, circle, sphere and curl the photo. It is also possible to add professional-looking blur effects to your photos. You can load from your PC or from an URL. Free to use. http://www.cellsea.com/java-cellsea/media/index.htm

makeagif.com

Use a form to upload several pictures at a time that you want to animate together. Makeagif takes the images and creates an animated GIF out of them, then your redirected to a download link so you can save it or share it. Very unique and very cool. I highly recommend you at least check it out. I was curious why I’ve never seen something like this before. http://www.makeagif.com

myImager

myImager is a web-based image editor. You can upload images from your computer and from anywhere on the web and edit them freely with the dozens of tools and filters that this tool offers. Uploaded files can not be larger than 500 KB. myImager is completely free to use. http://www.myimager.com/

Aviary Phoenix

Phoenix is a powerful web-based image editor by Aviary. This online image editing suite, has a range of functions from basic image retouching to complex effects, providing the key features of a desktop image editor, with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application. Its suite of creation and editing tools includes undo and redo, brushes, magic wand, and blend modes. Phoenix also supports layers, groups, and layer masks, and has an intuitive drag and drop interface. To fully appreciate the potential of this excellent image editor Check out this list of tutorials. Aviary delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application. It allows you to import images from popular photo sharing websites. http://aviary.com/home

Pixlr

Another online image editor is Pixlr from Sweden. It’s free, it starts up very quickly with no login required, and has a good selection of tools, adjustments and filters that work quite similarly to functions in Photoshop, including tools such as layers, image adjustments, and the magic wand, and which I found generally work well, although one thing I didn’t like is that the adjustments don’t refresh in real time as you move the sliders. Pixlr plugin for Firefox turns your browser into an image editor. Once the plugin is installed, you’ll notice a little icon in the Firefox status bar that you can click to automatically import any web page you’re on to Pixlr for editing. http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Splashup

Online & Downloadable Image Editing Program. Splashup is integrated with popular photo sharing services like Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. One of the coolest features Splashup offers is that you can access your photos remotely, Key features include Capture images from webcam, Layers with blending modes, filters and brushes. It’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. http://www.splashup.com/

72Photos

I was really impressed with 72photos.com! 72photos is an image host kind of like Fotki.com, where you can also edit your photos. They offer the basic editing options- like rotate, crop, enhance, plus some special effects. Once you’ve uploaded your photos you can tag them and edit them if you wish. You can organize them into categories, tag them , label them, and add them to different galleries. Sharing your photos is another plus to the site. Post your photos on; websites, forums, blogs, or send them to friends. There are many great photos on the site so take advantage and browse through them. You can view photos by the day they were uploaded to the site by clicking on the days of the calendar. Go to the popular galleries and popular profiles to take a look at the photos.. 72photos.com is a great place to host your photos and appreciate other people’s skills. http://www.72photos.com

Diva Geek Thinks:

Based on what I found.. Sumo Paint, Pixer.us, Fotoflexer or Pixlr would be my choices to recommend to my clients. I personally use Photoshop to do most of my photo editing and if I need to do a quick crop or resize I use a small program called Infranview* which I’ve been using for many moons! and I still love it.

FYI..Many Moons = 6-7 years.

*IrfanView: is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.. but you can also use to resize, crop, rotate, flip, paint as well as use other advanced tools like create a gallery, a slideshow, batch conversions etc.. it’s a very handy and useful tool that I think all web developers should at least try it.

Click here to visit Sales @ Digging Into WordPress.

Meta Tags in Plain English

// March 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Code, For Geeks, SEO, Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Meta-tags are used by search engines to correctly index and rank web sites. The most important meta tags are the keywords meta tags and the description meta tags and both are essential for any well-built site.

When you create a website and you submit it to the search engines, the search engines “spiders” are sent out to “crawl” the site and attempt to correctly index it based on the information it provides. They do this based on several things including the keywords in the content and in the meta tags. Each search engine indexes web sites according to their own algorithms. Some place emphasis on the description tag, such as AltaVista. Other search engines, like Exactseek, are meta tag purists, as stated in their user policy: “Your site will not be added if it does not have Title and Meta description tags.”

Recently, some search engines have downplayed the importance of meta tags due to spam. Some SEO “specialists” were keyword stuffing their tags with irrelevant information, just to get traffic. To penalize this abuse, some search engines don’t assign too much weight to the keywords in meta tags, but they still check to make sure they are relevant.

Fact: All major search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Scrub The Web, MSN Bing and others utilize Meta Tags!

If you’re visiting or worse paying search engine optimization sites that claim Meta Tags including the Meta Description are not used by the major search engines and the meta tag isn’t important anymore.. Run away, don’t walk but you don’t have to take my word for it, just visit Google™ or Yahoo!® and see what they have to say about Meta Tag optimization.

Bottom line.. either way, if you don’t have meta tags, or your meta tags are stuffed with irrelevant keywords, you won’t rank well in the search engines.

Avoid using capitalization in your code, as well as any repetition within the keyword tag. The meta tag description is displayed by most search engines along with the page title. It is important to keep the meta description short, concise and relevant to your site content. I suggest under 30-40 words. (up to a maximum of 250 characters).

Recommendations for the Meta Keywords tag: Make sure to only use keywords that are relevant to your site. Search engines are known to penalize or blacklist your site for abuse.

MOST IMPORTANT: Put the same keywords that you put your meta tag in your website content! If the keywords aren’t already included within the body text in sufficient density, and in a coherent and relevant context then it won’t matter what keyword tags you use or where you put them. You won’t rank well and you may be penalized for keyword stuffing.

Without a doubt, content is still king and still the biggest contributor to search engine page ranking, so if you want to raise your rankings, make sure you have quality content.

I recommed using a Meta Tag generator like Scrub the Web or Addme.com to create the Meta Tag. If you need help learning how to insert the Meta tag into your Wordpress hosted website click here.

For more information read How To Dial In Your Keywords and Making Friends With The Spider.

In the default installation, WordPress does not include meta tags such as description and keywords. So you must insert this yourself.

Using Meta Tag Plugins allow you to customize meta tags, and to choose the ones you want to add, or not, on a per-post basis. This allows your meta information to better describe each page.

OK..Now that I’m done researching this post.. I need to go re-do my meta tags. Well at least I have a meta tag!! The scary thing is I give financial advisors SEO and meta tag advice all day while I completly neglect my own meta tags. Bad, bad Webmaster!

DIVA GEEK BARBIE!

// February 13th, 2010 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

So, they finally came out with a Diva Geek Barbie.. ok so maybe that’s not her REAL title but it should be!

According to a release from Mattel, the unveiling of Computer Engineer Barbie–she’ll hit stores this fall–coincides with “a year-long, global brand initiative to inspire girls of all ages

Earlier on Friday, toymaker Mattel announced the results of an online contest to name the profession that the latest edition of Barbie dolls would have, and ultimately two were named: alongside “News Anchor” was the popular-vote winner, “Computer Engineer Barbie.” Yes, she has a Bluetooth headset, a pink laptop, a smartphone, and hot-pink glasses. Oh, and she wears sparkly black leggings and a neon green shirt patterned with binary code, the sort of outfit that was probably only acceptable among Burning Man attendees in the late 1990s who liked to talk about “cyberspace.” Read the rest of the article on cnet.com

Can you freaking believe that it took til to the year 2010!!!for Mattel to come up with a Barbie in the technical industry? Meanwhile in the “real” world computers effect the daily life of almost every human in every generations and has had a HUGE socioeconomic effect on our country and our earth in general. But Barbie is just now considering a career in computer engineering?? LOL Hilarious.
How many Ballerina Barbie’s have you seen? Too many! Bride Barbie? Are you kidding me? That’s what they came up with?
By the way..I don’t know any computer engineers that look like this or would wear that but to be honest I’ve only personally met a very small handful of women in the industry but they’ve all been hip dressers and very cool but far from blonde bombshells. We usually the only girl in the room so it’s not in our best interest to play up the sex pot thing.
I really wish there were more women in our industry. Hmmm.. maybe I’ll start blaming Mattel for that? Maybe there wasn’t enough geeky Barbie’s for my generation of women? Maybe this new Barbie will change all that!! Haha! Yeh right. Women from my generation (from my experiance) either don’t get why I’d be interested in technology or they think I do stuff straight of the Matrix and it’s all just way to complicated for them.

I don’t have the answer or care to much “about the meaning of it all”.. I just think it’s kinda cool – a Diva Geek Barbie!

My real name is Barbara, I’m a geek and I’m a Diva! so Wow she tickles me pink. Regardless of her lame fashion sense.

Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek w/ Lyrics

// February 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogging, I recommend, Music, Videos

“Hide and Seek” is the first single by Imogen Heap from her album Speak for Yourself. The song is performed with the sole accompaniment being the sound produced by a harmonizer (a DigiTech Vocalist Workstation),creating an altered a cappella sound.

This song has an Interesting History.. More then one person has found some success with this cool song..

I first hear the Jason DeRulo’s 2009 single “Whatcha Say” version which prominently samples Imogen Heap’s song so I googled the Imogen version and now I even like her version better so if you havn’t hear it yet I highly recommend you listen to it and then tell me which one you like better…
The single topped the Billboard Hot 100. Heap is credited for the single.

Jason DeRulo’s 2009 single “Whatcha Say” prominently sampled Heap’s song. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100. Heap is credited for the single.

The track samples the Imogen Heap song “Hide And Seek”. In late August 2009, the song debuted at #54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit #1 in November of 2009.

The single’s music video was released in September 2009; after the single became successful, Derülo began work on his debut album.

The single was certified gold by the RIAA on April 3, 2009.

The song was featured prominently in the second season finale of The O.C.. This was parodied in a 2007 Saturday Night Live Digital Short called The Shooting. In the short, characters cut each other’s sentences off by pulling out guns and shooting each other as the refrain plays over their slow-motion deaths. NBC was unable to upload the clip to YouTube immediately after the show because it hadn’t cleared the song, but fans uploaded it on their own, naming it “Dear Sister”. It became an Internet phenomenon, spawning a number of parodies in which scenes of real and fictional violence are punctuated with the refrain.

Heap arranged an alternate version of the song, labeled “Hide and Seek 2″, for the compilation album Songs for Tibet — The Art of Peace.

The song was also used in the films The Last Kiss and Warren Miller’s Off the Grid. It has also been featured in the series So You Think You Can Dance, Smith, The L Word, The Real World: Sydney, and CSI: Miami. The song has appeared in promotional spots for the television series Lost, Heroes, and the Norwegian version of Survivor.

The single was certified gold by the RIAA on April 3, 2009.

Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek Lyrics

Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to fall
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking feeling

Spin me around again and rub my eyes
This can’t be happening
When busy streets a mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy

Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first

Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity
Of this still life

Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
Blood and tears
They were here first

Mm what’cha say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did

Mm what’cha say?
Mm that it’s all for the best
Of course it is

Mm what’cha say?
Mm that it’s just what we need
You decided this?

Mm what’cha say?
Mm what did you say?

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet-talk newspaper word cutouts (paper word cutouts)
Speak no feeling; no, I don’t believe you
You don’t care a bit
You don’t care a bit

WP Remix: Making Wordpress a CMS, One Step at a Time

// February 3rd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

WP Remix pushes Wordpress to the max with a little bit of everything!

You may have never heard of the theme, but WP Remix just might be the most innovative and unique toolkit for Wordpress you’ve ever seen. Unlike your other premium “buy and install” themes, WP Remix comes in a single package filled with 50 amazing and unique layouts for Wordpress — some of which you never thought possible…truly making it the closest thing to a CMS (content management system) Wordpress has ever seen.

Features Unique Only to WP Remix

Theme specific features that you won’t see elsewhere!
There’s no doubt that a lot of loving care was put into the creation of WP Remix. It actually has its own visual editor: once you install WP Remix, you’ll be able to visit a special control panel within your Wordpress administration area, in which you can fine tune individual pages of your WP Remix driven website. Here’s a feature list for WP Remix:

WYSIWYG editor: WP Remix has an expanded code editor. Drop in code that would otherwise have to be manually typed out!
Smart drop-down menus: Wordpress dropdowns usually suck - it’s true. To remedy this, WP Remix’s design team created dynamic drop-down menus that go multiple levels deep. The menus will remember what page you came from, and what page you’re currently on!

How to Video: Creating and Editing Pages with the WP Remix Theme

If your not sure this is the theme for you watch the video below to get a better understanding of how the themes admin interface works.

Check out WP Remix if you need a kick-ass and comprehensive theme for your blog or company website! You won’t regret it. Click here to visit WordPress Remix.

Final Fantasy XIII Has a Final Release Date – March 9, 2010

// January 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Featured, For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, I recommend, PS3, Videos, Xbox

Final Fantasy XIII International Trailer
Check out this awesome new English voice trailer, featuring the sultry sounds of Leona Lewis!

See More Final Fantasy XIII Media at IGN.com

Pixlr.com – Cool New online image editing program – ALOT like a Free Photoshop!

// January 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Applications, Browsers, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, free, webdesign, webmaster

Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration jump right in!
Pixlr is a flash based web app that combines image design and paint tools with photo editing and adjustment features more convincingly than any other online image editing program. Whether creating an logo, layering one image over another or using a variety of filters, effects and level adjustments to transform photographs, Pixlr is equally capable of producing results on par with many of its software-based counterparts.
Yet, despite its deep feature-set, Pixlr remains facile, intuitive and, most importantly, user-friendly. Did I mention FREE?

Standout Features:

• A fully customizable user interface with movable and scalable windows
• Navigation-free drop-down menus featuring all filters, adjustment and layering options
• Intuitive design and paint features with a dedicated history window for reference and quick undo/redo
• A “Photo Express” portal for quick, simple changes to images and photographs
• dozens of filters and effects to give photos a stylish effect.

Oh and it’s FREE and Online!

I totally Dig It!! I’ve never been impressed with online image editors but this one actually got it. So, if you like Photoshop and you need to create some basic simple logos, banners, image cropping etc.. Check it out.

MassEffect 2 is Coming!!

// January 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Celebrity, For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, PS3, Videos, Xbox, blog

Hell YAA!!! I can’t wait for this game!

HOT Black and White Social Icon Sets

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Ultra Glossy Silver Buttons Icons »

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High Resolution Dark Blue Denim Jeans Icons »

Brushed Metal Pewter Icons »

Silver Inlay Square Metal Icons »

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New Social Networking Icon Sets Galore!

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Two cool new sites offering new social networking icon sets. It’s always nice to see new sets and I’m always looking so if you know of one I have not posted please let me know or if you’ve designed one and you’d like to be featured – Let me know!

Both sites were designed using.. My Site My Way which is something new to me..what I found strange instead of them having their own domain names they use a subdomain – for example: icons.mysitemyway.com must be great for mysitemyway’s search engine results! However..If I were the webmaster for one of these web sites above, I would nix using the mysitemyway’s subdomain and definitely register my own domain name. Because I’d want my ranking, seo etc.. to go towards my web site not my web hosts. Plus I never recommend sub domains. Use a .com and point to your main index so that people can type your domain name directly into their browsers and show up where they need to go without having to remember a long sub domain address.

Random and possibly use-ful or use-less information…

Understanding Sub-Domains and Sub Directory and how it effects SEO

“blog.domain.com” is a subdomain while “domain.com/blog” is a subdirectory or a folder within a domain.

A sub domain creates more separation than just a sub directory or a folder, since a subdomain is basically creating a stand alone site that could easily be it’s own domain. However, you may want to piggyback on the main domain name. For example, google.com is the main site. Gmail actually lives at mail.google.com.

Linkshare and Docstoc.com

// December 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

Docstoc – Documents, Templates, Forms, Ebooks, Papers & Presentations

Docstoc is a community for people to find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents.

This website is pretty damn cool and I recommend people check it out. You can even upload your own documents and connect it to your adsense account so when people read your documents you can make money with adsense. Sweet!

Example below of a code they provide you to add to your website. I uploaded a file I had saved on my computer in .rtf file format with one of my linkshare links embedded so you can see how you could easily use affiliate networking with linkshare and Docstoc.com. More Sweetness!

Effective, Natural Treatment For ADHD –

Do you Poken?

// December 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Design, Facebook, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Headline, News, Social Network, Twitter, Useful, web tools

Poken Bee and Geisha

Poken Explained from Poken on Vimeo.

What is a Poken? Well..Watch the video! Basically a poken is a gadget that allows you to transfer social networking data such as and I can only assume since i don’t personally have one but I assume your Myspace, Linkedin, Website, Twitter…etc and of course your email address. This is done when you touch your poken to another poken your data is instantly transferred.

Would you Poken? Will you? I think I would..if it was a little more useful. But even if these did become popular.. it’s going to take some time before they hit the mainstream. I think the concept is a cool one and the poken is pretty damn cute. I like the idea of easily transferring my social networking links and contact info to someone I randomly meet on the street who I might want to chat with again. Instead of getting out my phone to slowly type in their email address..You’d just use your Poken! You touch your poken to their poken and boom you’re done. Everything is transferred in on touch of the poken’s hands? Nice! But once again this takes two. It’s useless unless the other person also has a Poken. Watch the Video!
So, even if I bought one for me and a friend we could only transfer our data to each other once.. so what would be the point after that? I can see our cute Pokens taking a long Poken nap in the bottom of my gadget junk drawer along with all my old USB cords and flash drives for a long time or at least until the next time I found some random geek who also happens to have a napping Poken.. what are the odds? Not very good. So do I carry around my poken desperatly waiting? And then what if I finally find another person who happens to have a poken too but I have no interest in their contact info? Ha!
So.. for now I’ll give it a thumbs up for the basic concept but I think they should of thought of more uses for it while we’re all waiting for them to catch on in the mainstream. I personally don’t see that happening because of the time frame that takes and the uselessness of the gadget in the meantime.

Poken Mania

How It Works:

Great Wide Graphic Web boxes and Banners

// December 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy

For your website.. need a box? These are super useful, HOT and 4 bucks!!

Web boxes, 1 PSD Layered, easy to modify:

2 Different designs 3 different color scheme (you can create many more)

Ready to use!

Also these web banner Themes are available by the same web designer..these can be used as templates to create your company web banners.

Templatic Themes – Holiday special FOUR for ONE and 25% off

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Templatic Premium Wordpress Themes is currently offering a coupon for either 25% off Theme Club Membership or if your already a member 4 for the price of one!

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This is an awesome offer! So if you’ve been planning to renovate/build a business website, now is the right time to buy a new premium Wordpress theme.

I wish you a happy New Year and I hope you all have a great Christmas!

Merry Go Round Icon Set – Pastel Pretty-ness

// October 9th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Useful, free, icon sets, webdesign

Too cute! This Merry Go Round icon set is pretty pastel goodness.

Beginner’s Guide
- How to change icon in Windows XP:[link]
- How to use Large(48px) icon size on Windows XP: [link]
- How to change icon in Windows Vista: [link]