Every now and then, we strive to bring free gifts aka giveaways to our readers as a token of appreciation for the support. We’ve done couple of giveaways over the pass few months, and you can see most of them at the Freebies Category. See, the problem with most of these giveaways we noticed is, there’s too little for too many readers. So this December, before we call it a year, we decided to do again what we’ve done in May - another giveaway month. And this time, we promise there will be much more and chances of winning will be greater.
How things work?
Every week, we’ll create an entry letting you know what we are giving away for free. If you react fast, you might win yourself something.
Tip: To get alerts fast, we urge that you subscribe the RSS feed (if you have not), or follow hongkiat on twitter.
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Once in a while, you may want to try a different approach in design. If the concept/idea is green or nature related, wood elements can fit in pretty nice and they are fundamentally suitable. In this article, we attempt to showcase you 28 High Resolution Wood Textures designers can take full advantage of. Unable to create realistic wood texture from scratch in Photoshop is no longer an obstacle.
Note: Some of these textures have limited rights. That means they are not allowed for commercial usage. We urge that you check the rights before using them for business purposes.
Full list after jump.
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The intention and initiative for this blog post was pretty simple. We are about a month away (as this article was posted) from Christmas. As the holiday is getting nearer, we thought it’s about time to decorate the desktop while counting down.
Let’s leave the recession drama aside, and celebrate this holiday season with true Christmas spirit. But first, you might want to dress up the desktop a little bit. Here are some really Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers for your desktop. Full list after jump.
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iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone which combines the main functions of several popular electronic gadgets in a single device. With its 9 cm (3.5 in) liquid crystal display (320×480 px at 6.3 px/mm, 160 ppi) HVGA touchscreen and a minimal hardware interface, it allows us to interact better regardless in watching video, accessing Internet, listening to music, communicating with friends and even playing games.
iPhone games designed for iPhone are nothing short of amazing. That’s because iPhone has variety of features available like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio.
At the time we’re writing this entry, App Store contains more than 100 free games for download but not all were everyone’s cup of tea. Here’s 25 Most Addictive Free iPhone Games , you might already have know some of them, but probably not all. Full list after jump!
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Whether you are working on a Mac, a PC, or even both, the way your workstation is setup tells more or less about your attitude and style of working. The workstation could also be your source of inspiration, therefore you might want to put in more thoughts on the place that you’ll spend most of your time at.
We crawled through the net, checking out at how people setup their workstations, focusing how what machines they use, how they are positioned, the decorations, and how other peripherals come in order. Some might think setting up a cool workstation is nothing much but an ‘ego-thing‘ but we’ll like to add a point - lots of great ideas and inspiration came from great working environment, particularly the workstation.
Now if you agree, or maybe just curious to see how other people’s workstations look like, here a compilation of 50 Greatest Computer Workstation Setups. Full list after jump.
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Assuming you run a high trafficked website or blog and you ran in to these following problems:
- Slow content serving - Contents (htmls, images, download files) are serving at extremely slow speed, especially during traffic spikes
- Paid, and unused - You are paying you web host more than what you are actually utilizing. That means, you are probably paying for a web hosting package with 50Gb of web space and 1Tb of bandwidth, but you are barely using half of them.
- Messy files/folders - The web account is in a mess. Images folders, download-able item folders are not properly organized.
All these can be easily solved with Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront is a new service launched by Amazon, powered by cloud computing technology. Using Amazon S3 as storage, CloudFront serves on top of the buckets and deliver contents at a much higher speed with lower latency. Click here to read more.
If you are already using Amazon S3 to serve files for websites, CloudFront is really something you should check out. We’ll now guide you through setting up CloudFront to serve web files.
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Written by: Sakib
Fundamentally any weblog would be made up of header, sidebar, content section and footer. In the eye of a visitor, the footer is perhaps one of the most unnoticeable section but to a designer who knows how important user experience, navigation and designs, they are treated the same. That said, footer will not be anything less important compared to the header (or masthead)
Footer contents varies from developer/author’s short bio, recent articles, Flickr photos, quick links and so on, but it’s interesting to find out how designers prioritize their footer. Not only it will inspires us, it somehow help us understand what we really need in our footer section.
Here’s a compilation of 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs collected everywhere from the blogosphere. If your footer is nice, let us know, we’d like to have it in our sequel entry. In the mean time, full list after jump.
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Screen capture, or print screen is perhaps the most efficient way to share whatever appears on your desktop. They help tech users like us to share and communicate better with friends and peers. Major operating systems today comes with basic screen capture and print screen function, but if these can’t fulfill what you need from a screen capture then you are probably looking for a screen capturing tool.
Screen capturing tools do what the basic tool don’t. What these tools could do varies, including the ability to include sketches and text, instantly upload image online, audio capturing, dimension-specific capturing and more. Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here’s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques. Full list after jump.
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Greate news for those who uses Adobe Flash. We are giving out a copy of FlashEff Premium (worth $149) for free, countersy of Jumpeye Components. If you use Adobe Flash to create text and graphic animations, this could be your ultimate guide to create great animations.
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Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images. We use raster graphics editor as primary tool to edit a digital image in terms of manipulating, enhancing, transforming, applying effects and filters, and file formats converting.
Due to the popularity of digital cameras, image editing programs are readily available. At this moment, we believe Adobe Photoshop is still the most powerful program on market which perform a large variety of advanced image manipulations. However, not everyone will afford to get a copy for popular raster-based digital image editors like Adobe Photoshop if all one need to do is just basic image editing.
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Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is one great way to expand one’s blog. Assuming the recruiting of writers part is being taken care of, the next big problem you could be facing is management. Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task. It’s often a challenge to keep co-authors in control, getting them to write quality content on schedule, making sure they did not miss anything before hitting the publish button, etc. Also sometimes you might also want to give different authors different level of accessibilities and controls, depending on their performances.
Luckily there are lots of Wordpress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.
More Wordpress related blog post:
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Designing a website has never been easier. If you asked a web designer who been long enough in the industry, they could tell you there’s actually not much resources, articles nor communication channels regarding web design/develop in the older days, let alone high quality free tutorials.
If you intend to create your own personal websites or perhaps redesign your blog theme, it’s not something too hard already. Thanks to generous designers and contributors, the net is full of great tutorials with step by step guides helping you building web interfaces and navigation. And with this blog post, we’ve probably just scratched the surface of what’s out there. We’ve previously showcased you 40 great Web Interface Design, and today we want to show you another 31 Practical Interface Design Photoshop tutorials. Full list after jump.
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A digital audio editor is defined as a computer application for manipulating digital audio. As a multimedia creator, we normally use audio editor for recording audio, edit the duration and timeline, mix multiple sound tracks, apply simple effects for audio enhancement and create conversion between different audio file formats.
There are countless ways that digital audio editor can be used, and fortunately there are plenty of good and free digital audio editors out there to help you with your own implementation. So if you’re thinking to purchase a license for Adobe Audition, Cool Edit or Soundforge, hold that thought first. Not to say they aren’t cool, but it’s always wiser to tryout free applications before going to the pay deal.
Here’s our collection of 25 free digital audio editors. Full list after jump!
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Formerly codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna, Windows 7 is the next anticipated operating system by Microsoft after Vista. Everytime when an operating system is launch, one thing aside from the functionality that excite us are the wallpapers.
To celebrate the arriving of this new operating system fan boys and enthusiasts created related wallpapers and shared them all over the Internet. Here’s a collection of some of the Finest Windows 7 Wallpapers (yet).
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