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Top 10 digital camera review sites to help you choose next camera

Michael Garmahis — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:15:15 +0000

Best digital camera review sites will help you to choose and buy your next camera. Here are the excellent sources to guide your research on best digital camera for your needs. It’s a good idea to decide what camera features are most important for you and then choose which camera to buy. I strongly suggest you to check and compare reviews on several sites; it’s perfect if they come to the same conclusion. You can compare unbiased experts opinions, check image quality test results, read usability testing experiences.

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Top premium WordPress themes

almagreta — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:15:16 +0000

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Google News redesign fails

Michael Garmahis — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:25:06 +0000

Google News redesign fails as spectacular as its attempt to borrow a background image feature from Bing. Google News support forums are filled with furious users crying for rollback to the old design or suggesting alternatives. Almost 90% of redesign feedback for testing beta version was negative. So why Google decided to go live with it? Some already say that the Google News redesign is a repeat of The Coca-Cola Company’s New Coke disaster in 1985. The irony is that Google claims that Google news redesign makes it more adequate to users’ interests.

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CSS books Best of

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:56:02 +0000

These CSS books are best source of tips, tricks both for beginners and advanced users. CSS books contain plenty of useful information on web standards, lean semantic CSS mark up and style, modern best practices and techniques, creative and cutting edge use of CSS. Some CSS books provide step by step solutions or describe the proper website development process to unleash your creativity and push your boundaries. You’ll learn a lot of practical CSS solutions as well: how to create complex and attractive navigation bars, create effective photo galleries and special effects, including drop shadows, get up to speed on CSS 3 properties

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Top 25 Font Families

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:30:00 +0000

What are the font families and why every serious web/graphic designer should own at least several font families for virtually any type of project, from corporate identity or product branding, to text and display use? Font families are collections of closely related typeface designs that can include hundreds of styles. A font family is typically a group of related fonts which vary only in weight, orientation, width, etc., but not design. Font families include typefaces with significant structural differences, but some design relationship, under the same general family name. While most fonts gives you three of four styles, font families includes dozens of styles. Each of these font families gives you unprecedented typography variety and uniformity at the same time

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Topaz DeNoise Photoshop Plugin Review

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:30:35 +0000

Topaz DeNoise is one of the best noise removal tools on the market. Topaz DeNoise specially shines with photos that have a lot of noise preserving details and color edges to be sharp. Topaz Labs claims that Topaz DeNoise can make ISO1600 look like ISO100. This Photoshop plugin can be useful not only to shoot darker indoor or outdoor and get clear images but also shoot faster increasing shutter speed to freeze the action and minimize motion blur or camera shake when shooting without tripod. That is invaluable for sports, wedding and wildlife photographers. Topaz DeNoise can also be a very valuable asset for landscape, architectural and interior photographers where proper lighting is often limited

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40 iPad tools, tips for designer

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:43:07 +0000

iPad tools, tips and tutorials in this review will help you to optimize your website for iPad. You’ll learn things to consider while developing iPad applications. It also provides links to iPad wireframe elements for easy prototyping both on paper and screen as well as GUI elements for design mockups of iPad apps. Also included tons of other useful and inspiring information such as IPad usability testing, websites optimized for iPad and tools for testing how your website looks on iPad

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Best web design books

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:02:47 +0000

Best web design books to master your web design skills are included in this review. You can learn about web design principles, process, basics as well as advanced tips and tricks right from the experts. These web design books will also help you to spice up your imagination, better communicate ideas to clients, make your pages look beautiful, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time

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Best sites to buy royalty free stock photos

Michael Garmahis — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:10:21 +0000

If you need to buy royalty free stock photos then you’ll find best sites to do it in this review. Most commercial stock photos sites sell royalty free stock photos starting form 1$ and up to several hundred dollars. It depends on photo quality, size and photographer. Usually you can buy royal stock photo with credits per download or on subscription base. All the sites in this review provide million of royalty free stock photos of high quality as well as vector files and video. Some of royalty free stock photo sites also feature a number of free images or watermark free comps for registered users. Where do you buy stock photos?

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11 Usability, UX, Interface books you should own

Michael Garmahis — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:47:11 +0000

Usability, UX, Interface books in this review cover everything from user research, tests and interface design to information architecture, UX strategy and accessibility. They are the most popular and recommended books on usability and user experience. These books not only include theory of user interface design but a number of case studies and real life examples. Usability and interaction design are becoming more and more important nowadays. A website which is easy to use sell better in any ways, guides the users, helps to successfully sign up for a service or to complete a checkout process

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Top 10 Twitter WordPress plugins

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:05:49 +0000

Twitter WordPress plugins will help you get the most out of Twitter in your WordPress blog. These most useful Twitter WordPress plugins will help you to automatically publish your blog posts to Twitter and Twitter updates to your blog, show stylish Follow Me Twitter badge to increase the number of your followers, easily integrate retweet button with your WordPress blog, send notification to your commenters via Twitter about updates on the blog post, use Twitter avatars in the blog comments and track your Twitter campaigns with Google Analytics. Do you have a favorite Twitter plugin For WordPress?

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Why Disqus sucks

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:57:16 +0000

Disqus is one of the most wide spread comment system for WordPress as well as other blog platform used by many popular blog and yet is sucks. Why? The short answer is ignoring what user/customer wants is the best way to failure. I started to think about implementing Disqus for comments on this blog after reading positive reviews and seeing it implemented on Mashable and other blogs. Then I tried it myself. And I was very disappointed

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Top 10 Wordpress Books

Michael Garmahis — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:05:02 +0000

WordPress books in this review cover WordPress as a flexible blogging platform and CMS from the basics through advanced application development. These books will help you to use custom WordPress plugins and themes, retrieve data, maintain security, use social media, and modify your blog without changing any core code. Top WordPress books would be helpful whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro. You’ll even get to know the ecosystem of products that surrounds WordPress. What’s your favorite book on WordPress? Please speak up it in the comments

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WordPress Shopping Cart Plugins

Michael Garmahis — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:54:25 +0000

WordPress shopping cart plugins included in this review will help you to easily sell products on your blog using different payment getways, get donations and send invoices to clients. It features both free and commercial shopping cart plugins to help you use WordPress as full featured E-Commerce solution. Since online ecommerce is growing each year , every seller requires some kind of online shopping cart to manage the transactions. Don’t forget to check out Top 10 mobile WordPress plugins and Top 60 incredibly useful WordPress plugins to power up your blog

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Top 10 Free Stock Photos Sites

Michael Garmahis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:00:13 +0000

Are you looking for free stock photos? Need wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Want to spice up your commercial website design project? Looking for inspiration? Fortunately, there are plenty of websites with free stock photos that won’t require you to pay a dime. Here you’ll find the best websites where you can get high quality stock photos for free. Some of the sites included in the list offer free stock photos only for personal use. Be sure to check stock photography site licensing policy before using photos. If you’ve got a favorite and it’s not here, add it in the comments

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