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Vector images have not fix resolution, that means they can be boost up to any dimension without loosing the image quality. They are great for print ads, flash animations and designers loved them because it gives great flexibility. So if you are looking for clip-arts, icons or images for your design project, don’t settle for raster images just yet, here’s 50 Websites To Download Free Vector Images. Full content after jump.
Assuming that you have plenty of accounts for emails, social networks, ftp accounts, banking services, Instant Messaging and etc. Technically you might be able to register a same ID for all of these accounts but we bet you are not using only 1 password to access all of them.
You determine the most appropriate passwords for particular accounts but the problem is - “how do you remember all of them?” For this, you can try KeePass.
Before we’re diving in, you might be interested in our previous privacy security related articles:
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Good news for Firefox fans out there. If you are getting bored with your wallpaper, we’ve got something cool to spice up your desktop. We’ve crawled deep into the Internet and this weekend, we present you with some of the nicest Firefox wallpapers you’ll ever find. Get your fingers ready on the mouse wheel, here’s 70+ nice and beautiful Firefox wallpapers. Full list after jump.
Check out the wallpaper section for more cool wallpapers.
Have you noticed someone stealing your images, directly taking the URL and display on their websites without your permission? This is what we call image hotlinking. It is bad, as it not only stealing our images, it also take advantage of our bandwidths. Because it’s called directly from our server, every time the images are loaded on their webside it cost us bandwidths. Controlling via .htaccess is one of the most efficient way to prevent image hotlinking.
And by smarter way, we mean giving the webmaster more control on the .htaccess in terms of:
Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it.
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So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump.
Getting a solid good password is important, that’s a no-brainer. However really making your password unbreakable, that’s the hard part. So what makes a strong password?
A strong password should contain:
For the reasons above, we found a free tool - Xyzzy, which able to provide you a strong password with the above 4 elements.
If you are kicking back this weekend in front of your computer and got nothing interesting sites to surf, check out this site - Wordle.net. Wordle is a site that generates word clouds (similar to the tag clouds used in blogs) off any text, RSS feed, del.icio.us tag or URL you provide. The image above is an example of what I’ve got after keying the URL http://www.hongkiat.com
To make a screen capture in Mac OS X, we use either
The #2 is good but it wouldn’t allow us to select a specific window. To printscreen a specific window in Mac, try this following.
We mentioned about this cool tool but it must slipped our mind. If you are unfamiliar with Skribit, it’s a widget that allows readers to suggest what they really want to read from the blog they visit. So now, we are going to implement this on hongkiat.com and it’ll stay as long you keep the suggestions coming in. This widget will be placed on the sidebar (refer to the image above), and if you scroll all the way down on the right sidebar, just after Recent Comments, you should be able to find it.
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Whether you have a broken link on your site or your visitors happened to come from a site that incorrectly hyperlinked your site; they are likely to land on a error page. If this error page is properly handled, the visitor will be reading a Error 404 page.
Seeing things from a visitor’s point of view, when a hyperlink is clicked, it’s expected to return results of related information. And if it turned out to be an error page, it’s disappointing, sometimes frustrating too. Most of the time, a frustrated visitor don’t return.
So for a web designer or developer, though sometimes you cannot control the cause of error page, but you can minimize the damages by using a custom Error 404 page. The page can serve to educate, encourage visitor to re-search, display related information visitor might be interested or even redirecting them back to main page. Error 404 page is mandatory and if you currently don’t have one, here’s 49 nice and creative Error 404 pages begging to inspire you. Full list after jump.
Do you know you can place contextual ads on PDF files and earn some money from it. Adobe launches Ads for Adobe PDF, a free service that allows PDF publishers to embed Yahoo ads on it.
Here’s how it’ll works. To get some ads up your PDF files, simply upload them to Adobe for ads registration. Your content will then be analyze and relevant ads will be placed. You earn when someone clicks on the ad.
If you’ve followed this blog long enough, you should know we have a collection of some of the nicest Apple-themed wallpapers. In the process of getting these good ones, we too came across numerous bad designed wallpapers but we just don’t have time for them. If you are curious how bad some Apple-themed wallpapers really can be, visit macenstein as these guys have collected 21 Worst Apple-themed wallpapers ever.
Speaking from theme designer and blogger standpoint, sometimes you will not want your design to be limited/restricted by the low resolution images you found online. Getting the high resolution (usually the vector format) often gives you the flexibility (colors, dimensions) to match your designs.
Here’s few logos, including Wordpress, Blogger, Digg, Del.icio.us, etc I have in my storage that I’d use whenever I need to hook them up with any part of my blog-related design work. Thought it will come in handy on any occasion. Feel free to download. All after jump.
Here’s a heads up for you guys who read and deal with PDF files on regular basis. Folks at Adobe has just released the latest version of their PDF reader, Adobe Reader version 9. The new release comes with sets of interesting features, amongst is the capability to work with Acrobat.com (beta). That means you can go directed to Acrobat.com, create some PDF files or even share your screens with Adobe ConnectNow.
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