Web Design & Development

As Twitter has blown through other social media sites, it's become one of the most trafficked websites of the present day. Everybody and their grandma is using Twitter, and there's no shortage of helpful applications and Twitter resources for them all! Ranging from Twitter wallpaper creators to free icons or avatars, the internet hosts them all.

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Infrared photography captures the near-infrared part of the electro magnetic spectrum, a wavelength of light that is invisible to the naked eye but when caught by camera produces astonishing imagery.

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Graphic Designers loves to draw text effect in an amazing way with step by step trainings of each tutorial which we listing from the gallery of famous designers who working hard and even sharing with everyone for giving trainings through Photoshop tools and techniques. We seen thousands of Photoshop tutorials out there, but few that are top-notch in terms of instructions, presentation and of cour

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It's time for another cool photo collection. This time we will show you the results of using the long exposure techinque in photography, 50 great images combining light and darkness in an awesome show of "speeding colors".

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Introduction
Anger is normal and healthy emotion that helps us instinctively detect and respond to a threatening situation. More than this, when it is properly channeled, it can be a powerful motivating force - we all know how hard we can work to remedy an obvious injustice. It can also be an emotion that gets out of control, leading to stress, distress, unhealthiness and unhappiness. Uncontroll

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We have compiled some of the best designed calendars over the recent years to let each of you have an idea on the variety of calendars that designers have came up with. Enjoy!

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Uprinting is giving away a total of 2,000 High-Quality Business Cards. There will be 2 Winners and each will receive 1,000 High Quality Fully Colored Business Cards.

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Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation. In your case, annoying a few users wouldn't be much of a problem, but if millions of people are using your product, you'd better be snappy in delivering it. For years, Hollywood movies showed us how fast the Internet was: time to make that a reality.

Even if you don't have millions of users (yet), consider one very important thing: people are consuming the Web nowadays less with fat connections and massive computers and more with mobile phones over slow wireless and 3G connections, but they still expect the same performance. Waiting for a slow website to load on a mobile phone is doubly annoying because the user is usually already in a hurry and is paying by the byte or second. It's 1997 all over again.

Performance is an expert's game... to an extent. You can do innumerable things to make a website perform well, and much of it requires in-depth knowledge and boring testing and research. I am sure a potential market exists for website performance optimization, much like there is one now for search engine optimization. Interestingly, Google recently announced that it will factor performance into its search rankings, so this is already happening. That said, you can do a lot of things without having to pay someone to point out the obvious.

If you are planning to create your own site, then you may get useful ideas with this awesome collection. Feel free to visit these sites…Who knows, you may pick a tip or two.

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The guide will show you how to put video on your iPod with iPod Video Converter. This powerful iPod Converter software can assist you convert MP4, MPG, MPEG, MOV, M4V, RM, WMV, ASF, MKV, 3GP, MOD, TOD, etc, even the YouTube FLV video to your iPod video or audio supporting formats.

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Lorem Ipsum has been around for many years, and it has been a standard in most design mock-ups. But have we ever considered the fact that Lorem Ipsum is killing our designs?

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Creating rich professional-level Flash media components isn’t simple for the ordinary designer or developer who doesn’t have a strong command of Flash/Flex. And even if you were a Flash/Flex guru, you’re probably looking for ways to save time so that you can focus on other things.

SnackTools, a suite of webapps for creating Flash components, is here to help. SnackTools aims to bring non-Flash developers a way to create customized, sophisticated and impressive Flash media components without having to know how to code.

Since SnackTools is web-based, there’s no need to install anything, and you can access your work any time and anywhere (with an internet connection).

Currently, the suite has BannerSnack, which lets you create rich interactive Flash banners, and PhotoSnack, which lets you create stunning photo galleries (perfect for portfolios).

BannerSnack

BannerSnack lets you create Flash banners using a very intuitive interface. It has standard templates that you can modify so that you don’t have to start from scratch. If you want a more customized solution, you can import your own graphics assets and use the tool to design your Flash banner. You can select a standard size or customize the size of your banner. Check out some examples of banners created with BannerSnack.

PhotoSnack

PhotoSnack is a web-based application that lets you generate stunning photo slideshows/galleries. You can choose from a wide variety of templates. It will literally take you a few minutes to get your slideshow set up: you pick a template, you upload your photos, then adjust the settings, and voila – your own professional-level slideshow. You can use it to display your portfolio, photos, and more. Here are some examples of PhotoSnack in action: Slideshow examples.

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An Easter egg for geeks

If you’re familiar with the Konami Code, here’s a tip: you should try it out when you’ve logged into the system and see what happens!

Related Content

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

I've been looking for some new plugins for an ongoing project, so I extended my research a bit to share these cool jQuery plugins with you.

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The quality of Photoshop tutorials seems to increase year after year and 2009 was no exception. After going through quite a few ourselves, below are a handful that really caught our attention but may have been missed by a lot of the round ups posted throughout the year. Here's a second chance to catch up on our top overlooked tutorials of 09. Hope you guys and gals enjoy and here's to a great 201

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Rob Diaz who is a 3D Artist/Animator from Spain participated in a contest, 2 minutes of film and came up with a splendid short film shot entirely using his Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

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A compilation of some beautiful and charming female character designs. A women brings inspiration in a man's life and these lovely character designs will surely inspire as they all bring out different shades of women in various forms on life and more than that these are all stunning creation of artworks.

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With the popularity of iPhone, many of the UI designers have made some applications with awesome user interface. The apps listed here not only have great designs but are also very easy to function. Their designs stand out of masses and bring a challenge to other application designers and developers. We have collected 18 iPhone Apps With Really Good User Interfaces.

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The last year released iPhone 3G has surpassed iPod touch and the old iPhone for its recreational functions. It supports H.264 video format and has a larger memory, which is more than enough to store multiple videos. With the larger memory of iPhone 3G, we are now enabled to put a lot more videos on iPhone. But how to enjoy videos on iphone? Now I will share a easy and convenient method about how

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Here goes second Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration collection. We spend our time searching best web designs all week, so we can showcase them for design community and our reader's inspiration. We would love to hear about your recommendations for our next week roundup. You can write us about your recommendations through Contact Us page. Hope you will enjoy your stay

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The blurry effects of bokeh can help create some uniquely beautiful designs. Here are 10 great resources to find some stunning bokeh textures.

Lost and Taken (30 Textures)

Heart Bokeh Textures (3 Textures)

SloDive (11 Textures)

Little Box of Ideas (155 Textures)

Grungy Abstract (4 Textures)

JenDarling1010 (11 Textures)

Grunge Bokeh (5 Textures)

Photoshop Website (1500 Textures)

Premium Bokeh Textures (7 Textures)

High Resolution Bokeh Texture (5 Textures)

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