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Two weeks ago, James created a nice post here on bokeh photography here in hongkiat and I got to be honest it is great and inspiring but it just can’t quench my thirst for more. So I went ahead and look for more.

It is really amazing how these out of focus helps in telling your eyes the area of the photo you should focus on. Now without further ado, let’s take a look at more beautiful bokeh photos. Here’s another round of showcase of bokeh photography – we present you another 70 beautiful examples of Bokeh Photography.

If you are born around the 80′s, chances are this video game had been your favorite pass time, or maybe it still is. It’s been 23 years since world-renowned video game Street Fighter was released by Capcom. The series silently set the standards in fighting games genre and eventually became one of the highly successful franchise that continues to this day. Not many video game franchises have both the deep history and significance of Street Fighter today.

With so many interesting characters SF have, we picked those very famous ones. These Illustrations below are created by artists, professionals and fans around the world. You’ll see artworks portraying the Street Fighter cast in a wide array of styles and designs, from powerful to passive, sexy to silly, extremely detailed to sketchy. Enjoy!

Attractive, visually appealing cover is probably one of the foremost step for a PS3 game company to persuade gamer for another good sale. Thus, the company must be putting a lot of effort in working their designers to create the most attractive and promising cover for their product.

That’s why we grab a chance of a post to showcase 63 purely attractive PS3 game covers for you to get inspired, and who knows, you might grab yourself a copy!

We’ve got some freebies for you! This week we are giving away 5 copies of ClassiPress premium WordPress themes to Hongkiat readers, courtesy of Appthemes.

ClassiPress is a premium theme that turns the entire WordPress blog into a classified site. It takes care of the technology so you can focus on the listings ans sales. If you are looking to create a classified website, this is something you probably don’t want to miss.

I’m sure each and everyone of us were pretty excited when we first got our DSLR. I mean, who’s not right. And the next thing most of us will do is – start abusing the shutter and snapping non-stop. That’s just how we learn.

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Photography is a beautiful form of art with no hard rules. It’s all about creativity and individual style. And that’s what makes it so interesting. There are lots of tips and tricks to be learnt, and certainly lots of experiences to be gain before one becomes an expert. If you are new to photography, here are five ways to create cool photos to impress your friends.

The approach of the word geek has changed significantly over time, and there are no longer a definitive definition. Words like dork, nerd, dweeb, spod, and gimp have the same connotations as geek, but a lot of people chose to give different meanings amongst these terms. Being address as a geek tends to be an insult in the past tense, in fact in 1876, the meaning of geek is "fool", which is indeed blunt and as if it is not bad enough the definition evolved to "a performer engaging in bizarre acts like biting the head off a live chicken." but that was 134 years ago. The term geek today has become more complimentary, geek is the trend just like fashion due to many technical people had become very successful in their chosen field.

Today, we collected bunch cool stuffs worthy for a true gadget geek. Whether you’re a Starwars fanatic, Apple fanboy, social media addict or just a retro gaming activist, our nerdy list of product will give you some truly geek-themed design. If you need more geeky items in your arsenal to parade your geek pride, then get some of the cool products below.

Let’s be open-minded, finger painting is no longer just child’s play. There are numerous online artists including some friends of mine who are designers love to use their iPhone and iPad to draw pictures.

Thanks to some apps like Brushes, these artistes can upload their masterpieces directly online to social networking sites like Deviant Art, Facebook or Flickr. They also created some awesome videos teaching you how you can do that too.

Below are 20 Piece de Resistance (which means masterpieces) that are painted only with iPad.

Contributed by: Sandesh Sethi

If you design and develop WordPress theme, chances are you’ll have a local (localhost) copy in your machine for testing & debugging and preview purposes. Here’s a common mistake some of us may make – we tend to forget our admin password.

If you’ve forgotten your password for an online self-host WordPress blog, it’s easy as clicking on the “Lost your password” to recover. But in a localhost environment, configurations may vary from machine to machine. Most of the time “Lost your password” will not work as email system is either not supported or not properly setup.

In this article, I’m going to show a simple workaround to login to your localhost WordPress Dashboard even if you’ve forgot your password, or even the login.