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Unique Design Blogs
13 Mar2009
If you’re looking for inspiration from the internet then take the time to checkout these unique webdesign blogs. You’ll definitely find inspiration as well as great advice on web designing , css tricks , jquery scripts , how-to photoshop tutorials and designing ideas.
10+ Unique Design Blogs
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- In: Blog| Fun Stuff
- Tags: design blog, photoshop tutorials, web design
High-Quality Twitter Backgrounds
9 Mar2009
Twitter , just exactly what the hell is it ? I still can’t answer that for anyone reading this. I won’t bother trying to define it because it’s almost like defining what abstract art is.
From what I’ve seen its one person using it as a professional business profile , another using it as a online personal diary and another using it as a way to get designing clients. Even senators & members of congress use Twitter as a way to communicate to each other during the president’s speech as reported on the Daily Show.
Whatever the reason for why you use Twitter, I won’t judge that. If you do use twitter here are a few backgrounds I’ve rounded up from a few places. By the way for anyone thinking about PAYING money for a custom twitter background please don’t do it. It’s not too hard to create your own wallpaper (I might create a tutorial soon on how to do that and update this post in the near future). ** I take no credit for creating these wallpapers.
Free Twitter Backgrounds List
DarkStorm Grunge Twitter Background
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30+ Must Have Blog Tools for Bloggers
6 Mar2009
If you own a website or blog of the sort then this article of 30 Blogging Tools applies to you.
Best of all everything here is free , so the real crime would be doing nothing to improve your blog.Content-Management-Systems
The wonderful part about using a CMS such as Wordpress , Joomla or Drupal is that they make blogging & posting so easy a drunk monkey could do it. Not that I am saying that you should get a monkey drunk typing on your computer.
Check out the following Free CMS’ to get started on making your life easy & hassle free.
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Wordpress is arguably one of the best & most versatile platform to Blog on. If you don’t believe me then check out all the plugins Wordpress’s repository has to offer.
One of the personal things I love about Wordpress is the amount of support there is for the CMS. It also has an insane amount of free templates to offer too. All these reasons combined is why I rank it at #1.
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Joomla is another widely known Blogging Platform that promotes open-source. It’s free and like Wordpress , It does not charge money for usage.
It also has an extensive amount of free plugins. BUT be forewarned there are plugins can only be bought at high prices. This is why I rank Joomla at #2.
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Drupal is yet another great functional CMS that can make blogging a breeze. It also has free extensions similar to Wordpress.
I haven’t seen any plugins that are being sold like Joomla’s System. The reason why Drupal is ranked at #3 is because the learning curve can be real tough for newbies.
It took me a good 2 days before I was somewhat comfortable to use it.
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LifeType is another open-source blogging platform that is free to use.
I have not personally used it but have heard only positive things from the users. it may be a better alternative to the big 3 as it may be more simpler for day-to-day blogging.
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MovableType is another free Blogging Platform that can help you start blogging effortlessly & fast.
25 Reasons You Don’t Need Google
1 Mar2009
When you were in High school did you do the same things that everyone else did ?
I know I didn’t. You shouldn’t be following them either
There’s an old saying “If bob jumps off the bridge do you want to jump off the bridge too?”
Read the 25 reasons You Don’t Need Google below:
| 1 | For every search , for every keystroke Google records it in their little black logs that are backed up on multiple servers across the world.
But why do they want to know what browser you’re using , your geo-location , your ip-address as well as other miscellaneous information. It’s kind of scary if you think about the amount of info Google has on all of us. |
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| 2 | Google’s Adsense sounds really great and profiting at first but what most people do NOT know is that in Google’s fine print it basically says that if you break any rules then you will be banned.
Ok fine , but if you have $99.99 in your account and you are banned before you hit the required $100.00 for a payout. Guess what too bad , Google does NOT have to pay you a dime.
It’s a great scam & now I kind of understand why Google generates so much money & profit when they are screwing the publishers. To make things even better even if you did not break the rules or if someone crazy clicked the ads like 200 times then you are again out of luck. Do yourself the favor if you are a publisher and sign up with buysellads. It’s better than having to deal with Google and getting .005 cents for 1-3 clicks a day. |
| 3 | If your a user of Gmail be careful , Google’s new motto soon will be “all your info are belong to us”. Every email you send , receive is scanned and recorded by Google and even if you delete them , you can bet that Google has a copy of it backed up.
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| 4 | Google’s toolbar is just like spyware it spies/logs every single page you visit / use or query for (creepy). |
| 5 | Google’s cookie will stay on your machine until the year 2038 , so from now till 2038 they will know about every site you will visit. |
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