Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Google Analytics Blog: More Enterprise-Class Features Added To Google Analytics

Google Analytics Blog: More Enterprise-Class Features Added To Google Analytics

Mac Version of Filter Forge Announced, Preorders Available

Filter Forge, Inc. announced today the upcoming beta release and preorder availability of the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge, a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects.

Filter Forge, Inc. announced today the upcoming beta release and preorder availability of the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge, a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more.

After over two successful years on the market with a Windows version, Filter Forge, Inc. is finally coming up with the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge. The public beta release is due before the end of the year 2008. For more information about the Mac version, visit http://www.filterforge.com/download/mac-version.html.

Starting October 14, Filter Forge for Mac OS X is available for preorder at a special price -- preorder customers can save up to $50. The offer is valid until the commercial release of the Mac OS X version. To preorder Filter Forge for Mac at a discount, click here: http://www.filterforge.com/buy/?mac.

Filter Forge is a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, frames and more. The key features of Filter Forge include a visual node-based editor and a free online library of user-created filters. At the moment, the filter library contains about 5500 filters, with new filters added every day. For more information about Filter Forge, visit http://www.filterforge.com.

About Filter Forge, Inc.

Based in Alexandria, VA, Filter Forge, Inc. is a one-product company solely focused on developing and improving Filter Forge, an innovative Photoshop plugin allowing computer artists to create their own filters. For more information, visit http://www.filterforge.com.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

VC Presentation of Doom [SPOOF]

Wanna know how we got into this mess? Search no further.

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78 Ways For Your Small Business to Save Money

With the economy struggling, every business is trying to cut costs to make ends meet. Small businesses, which have fewer resources, are especially feeling the burn. Here's a mega-list of ways to trim the fat off your enterprise so you don’t become a casualty of the latest economic downturn.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes

This selection covers 13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

14 Awesome Google Tricks You May Not Be Using

What many do not realize is that Google has some excellent functions that aren’t always easy to find. Here is a guide to 14 of the most innovative functions that many will find useful and most will find cool.

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Top 10 Web Tools for Election Season

It's hard these days to imagine how elections happened before the web grew to popularity. With all the instant-access news, video, data, and social networking available in a few seconds' time, election season is a prime time to dig in. Read on for a roundup of ten tools to get politically savvy this this election season and beyond.

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Fantastic Frilly Bits Typography [PICS]

A few months ago Fabio had published a tutorial showing how to create a nice typography effect, the Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography. That effect was inspired by the work of other famous artists like Si Scott, Tom Lane, Marian Bantjes, and many others. So in this post I will list a huge Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration.

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15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity

As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites ie the competition to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom

VentureBeat was able to track down the presentation Sequoia Capital gave to it’s portfolio company CEO’s earlier this week. It’s a long, 56 slide Powerpoint message of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley that we covered yesterday along with an email that angel investor Ron Conway sent to his 130 active portfolio companies.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

No more squinting - Google maps first hi-res satelite images

With access to the GeoEye-1 imagery, Google can now begin providing images for Google Maps and Google Earth that will boast a resolution of 50 cm. (That's just shy of two feet for you non-metric types.)

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Blog Catalog Launches Social Search Engine

BlogCatalog Launches First Comprehensive Search Engine of its Kind Developed by a Blogger Community

Meet the guy who designs Google's themed logos

The world isn't always thrilled with Dennis Hwang's choice of themes. As Times reporter Google took some heat from conservatives for not being more patriotic when it comes to commemorating events -- such as its decision to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch but not Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

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Kevin Rose: "Digg traffic has grown by over 40% since July"

Live from FOWA London: "Digg now plans to open up their taxonomy to allow dynamic grouping - the aim with this is to promote conversation amongst similar users. Digg also want to be a conduit to other places, like Twitter, Facebook etcetera. They are also developing and extending the recommendation API and tools for publishers."

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Top 10 Sarah Palin Look Alikes [PICS]

Hair in a bun. Kawasaki clear-rim glasses. Fake midwestern-Alaskan accent. If you have all of these things, then you are ready to begin your career as a Sarah Palin look-alike.

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Best Buy Launches Mix Enterprise Microsharing

I found this fascinating quote today:



IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle’s testing OraTweets. SAP’s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide.Best Buy’s “Mix”: Enterprise Microsharing Goes Big - Pistachio



You should read the whole article.

Mashable Gives Away FREE "Web 2.0 Coffee"

This week, Joffrey's is debuting “Coffee 2.0,” a new flavor based specifically on the feedback of beta testers. Learn more about how to get 25 free pouches here.

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5 Trends of Popular WordPress Blogs

5 WordPress trends for web developers: User Contributed Link Feed, Post Thumbnail, Tabbed Content and more.

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Google Has Changed Political Debate Forever

Today Google released some information about what kinds of things viewers were searching for as that debate unfolded, minute by minute. It is amazing both that viewers were able to do such a thing, in real time, and that we're able to watch what people are searching for.

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Monday, October 6, 2008

EBay Cuts 10% of Work Force

The move to cut about 1,000 jobs is an attempt by eBay to improve the performance of its core marketplace division, which has seen declining growth in the last few years.

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The 3 Q's for Great Experience Design

Teams that create great user experiences tend to have 3 things in common: vision, feedback, and culture. This article teaches you how to ask the right questions and improve your own product design in the process.

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7 Online Blunders That Invite Identity Theft

These common mistakes can ruin your computer or invite identity theft

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7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”.

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Is Google Using Chrome to Index Password Protected Web?

An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider that Chrome was initially presented as a browser for applications, instead of just web pages, this theory begins to make more sense.

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20+ Photoshop Natural Resources and Green Inspiration

For graphic designers, nature is often an excellent source of inspiration. Sometimes those things not created by man showcase more beauty and style than we would have imagined. In modern web and graphic design, the natural elements of trees, leaves, and grass are a recurring theme.

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27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers

Every designer & developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks. And, even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing, usually it is much more effective to run a tiny, fast-loading application that does the job.This is a list of 27 functional Adobe AIR applications that can help a web designer to design & develop.

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16 Web Based Handy Web Designer Tools

While designing and developing a website a web designer need several tools to maximizing the effectiveness of the website. There are a wide range of different tools which is been presented here. Each of these tools is so important for a web designer.

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30+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Most of the Wordpress blogs look more or less similar these days, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you have got to tweak it. And by tweaking, we mean really getting your hands dirty down on the blog theme and PHP codes.

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30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs

Blue is one of the most used colors in web design, therefore it’s hard to stand out from the sea of competition out there. This collection showcases some of the best, unique, creative designs that utilize shades of blue as a primary color and theme.

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

16 Web Based Handy Web Designer Tools

While designing and developing a website a web designer need several tools to maximizing the effectiveness of the website. There are a wide range of different tools which is been presented here. Each of these tools is so important for a web designer.

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