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Odosketch

26. January 2010

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Need a creative outlet to bang your head against?  I’m not sure what is more fun – browsing peoples “mind garble” or belching out some of my own.   “Ready to get sketchin?”   http://sketch.odopod.com/ 

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Watercolor & Salt Photoshop Brush Set

26. January 2010

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The good people at Room122 have released a useful brush set titled “Watercolor and Salt.”  It turns out that watercolors do some “interesting things when caked with salt.” Price – FREE Go and get it…

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WorkFlowLabs – Free 7 Easy

25. January 2010

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Do you have a large design project on the horizon.  Adobe recently released WorkFlowLab, a free air application that will help you organize your time and resources as well as work collaboratively with others on your creative team.  Think a very cool (and free) Gantt chart. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/workflowlab/

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Free Fonts for Commercial Use

1. December 2009

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Finding quality fonts that you can use for commercial purposes is a pain in the backside (and expensive).  Font Squirrel makes finding  “just the right font” easy…and free! www.fontsquirrel.com

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How to Make a Screenshot in Windows 7

19. November 2009

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Windows 7 and Vista both shipped with the “Snipping Tool.”  I loved the Snipping Tool in Vista, but the love affaire quickly ended when the tool failed over-and-over again to launch.  This is fixed in Windows 7.  The Snipping Tool offers 4 kinds of screenshots: Windows Snip Rectangular Snip Full-Screen Snip and Free-Form Snip You can also use the Snipping [...]

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Nothing Flashy…Just a Bunch of Darn Useful WordPress Plugins

19. November 2009

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Lesterchan.net doesn’t make flashy WordPress plugins, but he does make some of the most useful plugins out there: WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog WP-Polls – Adds a slick AJAX poll system to your post/page WP-PostRatings – Adds an Ajax rating system to your blog’s post/page WP-DBManager – Wordpress database manager WP-Print [...]

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Free Thanksgiving Themed Icon Pack

18. November 2009

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I love Thanksgiving.  Time off, family, food, friends, and cooler weather just rub me in all the right ways.  The good folks over at Tutorial9 have put together a November treat that is very worthy of downloading.  The pack includes 5 seasonally-themed icons that you can use in your personal and commercial projects – [...]

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Adobe Browser Lab

18. November 2009

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Testing your web site in multiple browsers is a drag.  I typically test in Safari, Firefox, and the latest release of Internet Explorer.  However, I have found that I must also test the site in older versions of browsers as well.  This can prove difficult because I don’t have older browser versions installed on my [...]

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Find a Font

17. November 2009

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Ever come across the perfect font for a project but have no idea what it is?  WhatTheFont can save some headaches by identifying the font for you.  Simply submit an image to WhatTheFont and it will crunch it through its database and spit out names and examples of the closest matches.  http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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jQuery Anything Slider

17. November 2009

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In the hunt for a nice jQuery based slider I stumbled on AnythingSlider over at CSS Tricks.  Its functions are pretty robust and can slide just about any kind of media content.  AnythingSlider offers the following features: Slides are HTML Content (can be anything) Next Slide / Previous Slide Arrows Navigation tabs are built and added [...]

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