DeviantART – Free textures
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Deviant Art has some wonderful backgrounds for textures and other graphics. Well worth a look as many of them are royalty and distribution free.
SimpleDiagrams, Git and jQuery Mobile
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The SimpleDiagrams Free Version has enough features to create your diagrams quickly and export your work to PNG. If you like what you see, you can update to the Full Version and you’ll then be able too save your work, publish your diagrams to sites like Basecamp, and work with multiple fonts.
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Using Git for web app deployment
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jQuery Mobile application development
Framework jQuery Mobile appeared not so long time ago and its quality was greatly improved. A number of subsystems have been rewritten (both for clarity and for performance) and cross-browser compatibility has seen a marked increase in quality. Previously I’ve worked with jQTouch and Sencha Touch. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, but I’d like to focus on the development on jQuery Mobile. Now I’m going to describe the process of creation of the simple application with several pages, Twitter integration, Google Maps and a set of basic elements.
SimpleDiagrams FREE adobe air application to wireframe and design draftsPaint.Net Free Tutorials
Tutorials for Paint.Net
As you all know (or at least those that are into free but brilliant software) Paint.Net is one of those wonderful pieces of software that not only works, but is somehow better than much of the commercial stuff that’s out there. Anyway for those of you using this great software I have found a mixture of free tutorials for the software.
SoftFocus: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dsgjq79_810jvmx6df7
Backgrounds: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dsgjq79_15hdnjpzv6
Colour and B&W photo effect: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26974
Antique effect: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26969
Airbrushing: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=27823
Whiten Teeth: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=31660
Enhance colour: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dsgjq79_829f9wv8ncd
Pencil Sharp Edges: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dsgjq79_803g5twxhkd
One of the features that sets this software apart from so many others is the great collection of addins available. These addins add a wonderful array of functionality to the software to enable it to easily compete with Photoshop and other commercial software. The great thing about Paint.Net is that (a) it’s free – donationware and (b) it’s robust and (c) it’s easy to use.
A quick scan on YouTube.com for tutorials shows 100′s of really good tutorials and videos to help use the software and create some great effects. I easily give this software 5/5 and recommend it to everyone that wants a very comprehensive free graphics package. Oh, and bye the way it works great with Windows 7 and has very comprehensive support for masks and layers.
One last comment… be sure to check out the very popular Paint.Net forum for expert advice and help.
Read: Paint.Net Free TutorialsCustomized Twitter Theme Experience
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Read: Customized Twitter Theme ExperienceCreate your own handwritten fonts, turn an ipod into a remote and gmail
YourFonts With YourFonts you can make a TrueType font from your own handwriting for free. The process is simple, quick and basically idiot-proof. Print out a template from the site, write in your letters, scan, upload and — voila — there you have it. If you’re a real fonthead, you might want more detail and control over the fonts you create. I remember even years ago seeing an ad in MacWorld for a “make your own handwriting font.” The template that software had was a lot more sophisticated, since it asked for examples of different letter combination as well as individual letters. The YourFonts template basically replicates the characters on a standard keyboard, with an optional extension to characters with accents/umlauts etc
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Music: Turn Your iPhone or iPod Touch Into a Multi-Room Wireless Music Remote
For a cool $1000, you can buy the Sonos Bundle 150 and wirelessly play music from a single remote control in two separate rooms in your house. On the other hand, for about $100 or less if you’ve already got the right equipment, you can get the same functionality from your iPhone or iPod touch. Let’s take a closer look at how to use the iTunes Remote application for the iPhone 2.0 with inexpensive equipment you may already have to remote control music playback wirelessly in any room in your home.
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Google Sync for your BlackBerry – Have a different phone? Synchronize the built-in calendar and address book on your BlackBerry® with your Google account. * Get your Google Calendar events to your device * Synchronize your Gmail contacts * Be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound and vibration using your BlackBerry’s native calendar
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Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007 :: the How-To Geek
Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007 We’ve all been hearing about the new IMAP support in Gmail, but how do we access that from Outlook? Those of you that have been waiting patiently will be happy to know all the instructions are on this page. Using IMAP we can synchronize email across multiple devices, since the mail stays on the server. You already stopped reading this part and skipped down to the instructions, didn’t you?
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