Did someone beat Google at design

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Google has an excellent philosophy, they keep it simple. I use Google A LOT and love minimal design more than anyone else, although when a company as large as Google stops enhancing their designs, we have a problem.

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10 Blender 3D tutorials worth a look

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Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

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Does wordpress need a better comment system

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The default comment system has a flaw, it does not encourage a new user to participate quickly and painlessly. Here is a comment system on the loose that is worth a look.

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Graphical User Interface Design Competition

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I am planning a Graphical User Interface Design competition and looking for sponsors that could help facilitate this event.

If you have a business or website you would like to promote, then this is for you. If you are excited about participating in the competition, you could link this page to possible sponsors or blog about this to spread the message so I can begin the contest, any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Piracy will never end and here is why

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Piracy is a MARKETING tool for corporations to gain market share [think Microsoft & Adobe]. Large companies will not let piracy die, even though they pretend to be against it. Let the truth be told!

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10 features Ubuntu should implement

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Ubuntu is a great Linux distro and has achieved a lot in very less time. Here are a few ideas that Ubuntu could implement. Most of these are GUI changes that are very simple but exciting. Click on the images to learn more.

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Is poverty lack of knowledge? here is how to solve it

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Poverty may have different meanings, it could be homelessness or hunger. Whatever it may be, it could be strongly related to education.
Education itself is a very vivid subject. Education is the act of imparting knowledge but what qualifies as knowledge is very controversial. Read More »

How to fix the ugly side of Ubuntu, its GUI

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Update: I have posted more info about the graphical user interface design contest that I am hosting.

Ubuntu & other Linux distro’s have come a long way as we know it. A lot of new and existing users have complained about the design aspect of Linux. [mostly ubuntu]

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All you need to know about starting a blog

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If you checked out some awesome blog and decided to start your own little blog, you are up for a challenge. If you are serious about making money you should be aware of the difficulties you will face. In this post I will take you through the experiences you will face as a blogger. If you want to blog for fun and experience, you don’t have much to worry about, and this tutorial can greatly help you.

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Why online advertising is goining to take a big fall

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Advertising has been a major marketing tool online for years and publishers made millions out of it, not anymore. It is becoming harder than ever to advertise successfully, users ignore advertisements completely and avoid clicking on them.

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The key to success! Really

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You have probably seen a lot of ebooks telling you that they have the secret key to success, guess what, its NO secret because you already have it. Its time to discover it.

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35 Awesome Gimp brushes

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Filed under Design

I hardly see any posts showing off Gimp Brushes, for those of you who have no idea what Gimp is; Gimp is an image manipulation program similar to photoshop. It is open source and free to download.

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What is the Future of Blogging?

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I would like to ask the readers [you], what do you think is the future of blogging.

At the rate of 100K blogs per day, [calculated when technorati posted this in 2006] a steady increase would mean that there are approx. 123 Million blogs out there.

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Firefox extentions which will make you hate Internet Explorer

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I know you already hate internet explorer, but there is never enough reason to hate it.

Here are some more you can tell your internet explorer friends about.

Ad Block Plus - I have no clue how I lived without this. It has changed the way I look at the internet. Its hard to browse without this. The extension will remove 90% of the ads on the net, and those of which that get through the filter can be blocked manually. Now that companies like comcast are adding bandwidth limit’s, this can help you take the useless load off.

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25 Stunning Web Apps yet to be discovered

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There are so many undiscovered web services we have not heard of, so i decided to make a list of all the services i think are worth trying out. [they are categorized]

I have not used all of these, even though i have tried some so let me know what you think of these in your comments and if you have any that i have missed please mention those too. Read More »

Web Services i can’t live without as a Web designer

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As web designers and internet enthusiasts we tend to use web applications to safely work without the worry of loosing data due to hardware failure. I would like to recommend a few web applications i use as a web designer. Let me know of your favorite web services in the comments. Read More »

Top 10 websites that suck but shouldn’t

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Filed under Design

I will not ridicule those who just made their graduation site on frontpage with comic-sans and a yellow background, Instead I will show you the 10 crappiest sites of corporations that should have the best designs possible !

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design & create websites using open source software

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As we all see it, the web is growing exponentially and more users find the need to learn to design and maintain their own website, so in this post i would like to guide you through all the tools and resources you will need to start and maintain your own website using open source and free software.

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