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Books are great for getting started with a new area because they typically cover it well and start gently introducing the basics. If you are just starting up trying to learn JavaScript this post is just what you’re looking for as it list 10 really good books that will get you started well. The JavaScript books are sorted by difficulty, easy to hard, to help you pick the right books at the right time. Reading books online or as a PDF have become very popular and while it may not be as convenient as having a paperback (unless you have a ebook reader like Kindle) it is quite easy to find stuff because you can simply search it. Some of the books are available as ebooks if that is what you prefer.

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20 Most Popular Open Source Software Ever These days, you can quite easily buy a brand-spanking-new computer and install all the software you need for free, using applications offered under the Open Software License. You can get a free image editor, a free sound editor, a free word processor, media player, file archiver, PDF creator… the list goes on and on and on. While some of these free apps do not offer quite the same level of polished functionality as their commercial rivals, others far exceed the capabilities of everything else on the market. Below, we take a close look at the cream of the crop: 20 invaluable and indispensable open source applications that you really should be using, if you’re not already. The vast majority of them are cross-platform and absolutely 100% free! You’re bound to find several that are perfectly suited to your needs.

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IT seams like on of the trends in Web Designs currently is using Bokeh Effects for Background designs. I have to admit that I like it a lot if it is used right. So what is Bokeh? In photography, bokeh is the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. In web design it is not any type of bokeh that is being used but in particular the kind of Bokeh you will get from drops of water reflecting light while not being in focus.  Some would also claim that Bokeh of this kind could look like blood cells under extreme magnification. What over it is being photographed or if the bokeh is simply synthetic and created in Photoshop it makes website backgrounds look really dynamic and appealing. This post showcase excellent examples of Bokeh inspired web design and then provide a large list of Bokeh textures that you can use yourself. Share your site or just one you know if it’s missing in this article.

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Most blogs start out with a cheap shared hosting plan promising unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains, unlimited disk space, unlimited databases, etc. As long as you have no or minimal traffic this is probably the best solution for you blog. Cheap Shared hosting on the other hand is NOT geared for blogs where traffic starts to go up and become serious. There are aspects of the “unlimited plans” that in fact are very limited and prevents you from ever making use of whatever may be advertised as unlimited. This is what you would expect as high quality individual service, dedicated server capacity etc. cost money and really can’t be given away for a few dollars monthly fee. The concept works because tons of websites sit on these hosting plans receiving only a few hits a day. Once you start utilizing server resources you don’t fit into the business model any more and will hit the limitations on CPU consumption, database query time etc. and then your blog is in trouble! Learn what we did at tripwire magazine and how we are doing after 6 month on a Hybrid VPS from WiredTree.

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If you’re a designer like me guest writing may brings with it many advantages and should be considered as a great way to promote ourselves. Besides self promotions we will find that there are other great benefits. First of all guest writing can improve our writing skills significantly and be the starting point for our own blog or portfolio. Also connecting socially as designers is something we should all strive to be a part of, one of the first step in this is working to write on other sites as well as your own. The benefits don’t simply apply to the present but also towards your future growth as a designer and your website/ blog. In this article I share my thoughts on what benefits a designer may get from writing guest posts. Read on and promise that you drop a comment to share your 2 cents on this topic as well.

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The Internet truly is the land of opportunities of our time.  The amount of online sales transactions are increasing at an incredible rate and while opportunities seams nearly endless competition is harder than ever.  Being able reach anyone with a connection to the Internet certainly is amazing and the only problem is that the number of competitors have gone up at the same rate.  If you don’t manage to surface and get online presence the millions of potential buyers will surf by you store without noticing it.  Customers today can pick and choose, compare, analyze etc. your products and services against others making it essential to know your competitors well and more important to get a sale whenever you have the opportunity! This is where Landing Page Design becomes important and rally can make a great difference. This article provides essential tips and examples on creating Landing Pages that work.

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3D glasses object is a transparent glass object usually only have one color. 3D glasses object has been used by most people around the world as accessories to be placed especially at home. These objects produce beautiful color when there is light around them. They are very beautiful.

I don’t really know how to make 3D glasses object manually, but i know exactly that they can be made by 3D computer graphics software such as 3DS Max & Maya. I will feature some of the best 3D glasses object created by computer graphics which can be download as a desktop wallpapers from competeall & koleksifoto. Most of their resolutions are 1600 x 1200. Click on images to get higher resolution!

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There are many design related blogs at the moment and every day new players show up. The main strategy for the vast majority of design related blogs is to publish many articles with great content to attract readers, quantity seams more important than quality. Some of them have a creative and unique design but it is static and remain the same on the many posts and pages put online. Don’t get me wrong – I think this is OK but we could all learn a lot from a few design blogs that have chosen a completely different strategy. These few blogs provide a unique design on each post with excellent use of typography, backgrounds and colors to support the theme of the individual post. This is raw inspiration that you simply need to pick up!

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If you’re a web designer you know how important it is to pick up fresh inspiration and new ideas. This post showcase 25 hand picked Beautiful Websites with excellent visual artistry, integrated sound, ease of use, and pure uniqueness. Enjoy, be inspires and please leave a comment to share links to your own favorite web site designs.

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Why would anyone have a boring and completely non-inspiring desktop when it is possible to spice it up with loads of great looking apple inspired wallpapers? This post provides you more than 40 awesome wallpapers that will make your desktop rock!

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