Colour spectrum in technical, are visible colours from red to violet that made up the white light. They are also the reason why rainbows are so interestingly beautiful. When they are correctly applied on the web, it too gives a pleasant look. MSNBC’s latest web header is a good example.
If your desktop wallpaper is looking a bit dull, perhaps it’s time to add a little spice, make it something more cheerful. Here’s some really Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers we’ve found. We find it not only inspires, also brighten up the desktop. Full list after jump.
Additional: For more wallpapers, check out our gallery.
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Let’s face it, you cannot be monitoring your website 24-7 but still for webmasters who are generating revenue from their websites, you need to be there as soon as possible to fix things up when there’s a downtime, or else you’ll potentially suffer a revenue lost. For those who are not making money from their website, there’s still a hit on reputation if the site has gone down for hours (or days) and the owner wasn’t aware. You could lose visitors, or worst, loyal followers.
Fortunately, there are web services that check your website from time to time (whether it’s free or paid services) and notifies you so you can get your hands on it when there’s a downtime. Here’s a compilation of various Web Services and Tools to Monitor Website Uptime and Downtime. Full list after jump.
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If you’re a video fan and spend a lot of time watching online video, here’s a must-have Firefox add-on for you to play a particular online video at Firefox sidebar – YouPlayer. In short, YouPlayer is a video player with playlist which works on Firefox sidebar while you are surfing the Internet on the right.
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You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.
While you are at it, here’s more Photoshop tutorials you might be interested:
Full list after jump.
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You have to give it to Dell, their Studio Hybrid is probably the nicest and smallest in the PC market. According to Dell, it’s 80% smaller than standard desktops and uses 70% less power than typical desktops. Are you ready to get one?
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Portable Document Format (PDF) has been widely used for electronic documents in our daily life, either in work or personal file exchange. According to Adobe, PDF has been around for more than 15 years, with more than 250 million circulating on the Internet. But why PDF, and not the typical text files, docs, etc? Adobe has a good answer for that - Multiplatform, Extensible, Trusted and reliable, Rich in file integrity, More secure, Searchable and Accessible. Click here to read more about Adobe PDF.
We present you 80+ Free Tools, Tips and Resources to help you master and get the best out of PDF documents. Full list after jump.
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If you have a product to sell or promote and they come in the form of CDs or DVDs, it’s good to present them in a disc-case visual. For those who are not too familiar with Photoshop, drawing plastic disc cases are no longer obstacles. Here’s few gorgeous looking free CD / DVD templates to make your life easier. They come in .PSD Photoshop files, each component broken down in layers for full customization.
Please check with author if you are planning to use them for commercial purposes. Full list after jump.
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Back to end of June, Google announced they are testing the new iGoogle in a small number of randomly selected Google accounts. In an other word, not everyone is able to access the canvas view enabled version of iGoogle
For this, we’ve crawled deep into the Internet and finally collected some information about the new iGoogle. Details next!
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Free icons are great, they are better when they are in high quality and comes in variety of different formats. Thanks to a great number of generous designers out there, we are enjoying what they are distributing for free. Here in this post, we’ve gathered more than 50 high quality Apple Mac related icon sets. What’s included are icon sets of Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iMac, Apple TVs and more.
Here’s a little note. These icon sets are fine for personal usage, but you might not use them for commercial projects. So please check with the authors or check with the disclaimer if you intend to use them on commercial projects.
Here’s more great icon sets you might want to check out.
Full list after jump.
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CCTVOlympics allows you to watch Beijing 2008 Olympic online for free with no registration required. For those whom countries only broadcast of paid TV and you’re not subscribe to, this should be a good news. It’s also a great news for white collars to take a break off work to go online and catch some live updates. Now that being said, you’re totally responsible for any consequences it may cause you for watching live TV at work.
We understand that reading is the most simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source. This tendency has been digitized when books evolve into digital media equivalent – E-Books.
It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book and take it with us. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 20 places to download free e-books for your use. Full list after jump.
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Here’s a quick heads for those who missed the 9rules submission last May, you should be aware that tomorrow is the 2nd round of 9rules’s intake. These folks only have 3 rounds on intake this year, respectively 7th May, 6th August (tomorrow) and 5th November. The submission period for tomorrow’s submission starts midnight EST 6th August 2008 and the submission only last 24 hours.
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Reader Douglas R. wrote in and asked if I can share few tricks and shortcuts to work around Photoshop more efficiently. I thought that’s an interesting topic, but that being said, depending on your job nature you’ll tend to have different list of frequently-used shortcuts.
As a designer cum developer, here’s 5 Photoshop shortcuts/tricks I frequently use. If you have something cool to share, feel free to leave them in comment box.
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Mountain View California, US
Located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, this is the headquater for Google. Google Map.
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