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• Displaced Text
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Free Photoshop Tutorials | PhotoshopStar
  In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to show you creative way how to displace the text and get an interesting effect on it. To start create a new document sized 1000×500 pixels and fill it with color of #f4f4f4. After that add some dark line to divide the floor from the wall. Get out the Elliptical Marquee Tool and create selection as shown on the picture which you can see below. Then fill this selected area with black to transparent gradient. Remove selection with Ctrl+D and apply Filte...
• Sleeveface
  Published: February 22, 2010
  Source: accidental mysteries
  Click on any image for larger view.Click on any image for larger view.Click on any image for larger view.SLEEVEFACE IS A CULTURAL PHOTOGRAPHIC phenomenon that is sweeping the world where one or more persons obscure or augment any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.It’s fun and you can see more great concepts people upload here. There is also a book out on the subject.Send me yours and I will do a special post about them down the road!
• Facebook Tips: What’s the Difference between a Facebook Page and Group?
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Facebook Blog
  My Note: A nice, concise explanation of the difference of a Facebook Page and Facebook Group, from Facebook themselves.
  The following is part of our series, Facebook Tips, which answers some of the most commonly asked questions about using Facebook. While we hope the tips we share will be informative, we are unable to answer individual questions on this blog. Visit the Help Center for additional information about any topics we cover. Making connections on Facebook is not limited to friends. Through both Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups, you can stay more connected with everything that matters in your life—...
• The Funniest Headline Fails Of All Time
  Published: February 25, 2010
  Source: Business Insider
  From The Huffington Post: Newspapers (and even some news websites) just keep providing us with gold. Last week, we showed the you creepiest classified ads, and now we've collected our favorite unintentionally funny headlines Continue reading at the Huffington Post Join the conversation about this story »See Also:NYTimes.com Catches Up On Plane Crash StoryWhat Steve Jobs Said During His Wall Street Journal iPad DemoReporter Gets Fired For Email Blunder; Forwards Email About A 'Blind F@*!'
• PHOTO: In "Life, below 600px," Paddy Donnelly talks
  Published: February 22, 2010
  Source: Signal vs. Noise
  In “Life, below 600px,” Paddy Donnelly talks about “giving the fold the finger” (i.e. making visitors scroll isn’t really THAT bad) and uses the 37signals home page to support the cause. “What I’m proposing is for you to think twice about these ‘rules’ which are preached so often around the web and aim to create something original.”
• Amazon is The Most Trusted Brand in America
  Published: February 22, 2010
  Source: GigaOM
  Amazon.com is the top performing brand in the US based on two critical factors – trust and recommendation – according to a new report by market research firm, Millward Brown. The new report, “Beyond Trust: Engaging Consumers in the Post-Recession World” puts Amazon ahead of FedEx, Huggies and Downey. The “Beyond Trust” study used a metric called “TrustR” which as you guessed is about trust and recommendation. The more people trust a brand, the more likely they are going to spend...
• Does Blogger Outreach Still Work?
  Published: February 18, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  In early 2007, the Council of Public Relations Firms (CPRF) and APCO Worldwide partnered to learn more about interactions and relationships between public relations (PR) professionals and bloggers. Findings showed that PR professionals who understood blogger “culture” were having more success in communicating in this online channel than those who do not. In the study, bloggers cautioned PR professionals that traditional outreach methods would not be effective with them; they were adamant th...
• Honor Societies
  Published: February 16, 2010
  Source: xkcd.com
• How To Add Quizzes To Your Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog
  Published: February 16, 2010
  Source: MakeUseOf.com
  Currently I’m involved in a small project of creating a website for distance learning. Having tinkered with Wordpress for a while, I don’t have any second thoughts in deciding what the platform of the site should be. Wordpress is already famous for its flexibility. With the right theme and plugins, you can turn a Wordpress blog into almost anything that you need, such as a photo gallery. Other than the teaching-learning process, another important part of education is the assessment process �...
• Factoid of the day: Beyond co-ed
  Published: February 14, 2010
  Source: Daniel Pink
  In 2007, American women earned about 166 associates degrees and 135 bachelor’s degrees for every 100 earned by men. Among African-Americans, women earned 219 associate’s degrees and 192 bachelor’s degrees for every 100 earned by men. (Source: WSJ via Dep’t of Education, 2/12/10)
• SermonDrop.com: Turn Sermons into Podcasts on the Easy!
  Published: February 10, 2010
  Source: ChurchCrunch
  Apparently this service, SermonDrop.com, is really, really easy to use. This is a boon of course for a ministry who does not have the technical chops or time to create content for websites but still wants to have their sermons available to the public.Sounds like a good deal to me!It looks as easy as uploading, choosing a few options (you can even stylize it a bit), and then hitting publish. Check these screens after the jump.Looks painless enough, right? Check it out if you’re in the market fo...
• Parenting via Facebook: Vomit Reports and Baby Advice
  Published: February 9, 2010
  Source: Facebook Blog
  We are republishing a story about parenthood and Facebook that originally appeared on Feb. 2 in the Momania blog from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Blogger Theresa Walsh Giarrusso lives in suburban Atlanta and is the mother of two girls and one boy. I have been anxiously anticipating a round of stomach virus to hit our house based on what my friends from our school and other schools in the metro area are reporting on Facebook. Much like the local weatherman, the status reports on Faceboo...
• What’s the Cost of NO?
  Published: February 9, 2010
  Source: learningfromjazz.com
    “Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes There was a great post by Michael Cote of Redmonk about Agile Development and Cloud Computing last week. Two topics that are near and dear to my heart. Till now, most of the arguments for and against Cloud Computing have have been considered mainly operations issues but its high time we take the discussion outside of operations as Cote has done in this presentation. When I was at Social Media Group I was...
• Best breakdancing ever.
  Published: February 6, 2010
  Source: Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff
  I will never get tired of the second kid in this video, the one with the orange shirt. Insane.
• A Thorough Look At CamStudio As An Effective Screencasting Tool
  Published: February 5, 2010
  Source: MakeUseOf.com
  Screencasts are those videos depicting a shot of a computer screen.  There are many applications for such a program such as tutorials and software reviews.  It is also often used to record video chat conversations.  There are quite a few tools for creating screencasts.  Today I would like to review another free screencasting tool that has actually been around for awhile.  It’s free, good at what it does and offers several key features. The purpose of this article is to review some of thos...
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