Archive for October, 2010
Interesting Facts You Might Not know About SPAM [Infographic]
E-mail spam, known as unsolicited bulk Email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients. Spam in e-mail started to become a problem when the Internet was opened up to the general public in the mid-1990s. It grew exponentially over the following years, and today composes some 80 to 85% of all the email in the world, by a “conservative estimate”. I have recently came across to really interesting infographic about “Spam” and I want to give 5 stars to Infographic World who created this.
We would love to know what you are thinking while viewing this infographic. In future we are going to release/share these types of more amazing infographics with you. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter.
WP-Snippets Helps You Get Code Snippets To Facilitate WordPress Theme Development
WordPress is a highly popular blogging platform. Over the years the platform has seen countless improvements and today, it continues to improve the user experience it offers. Apart from being reliable and secure, WordPress offers great visual appeal through its countless themes.
Web developers have contributed a lot to WordPress by building themes for the platform. By spending time on visualizing a theme and then coding it, developers can share their brilliant blogging designs with other WordPress users. If you are a WordPress theme developer looking for a way to reduce the time spent on coding, check out the brilliant website WP-Snippets.
WP-Snippets is a free to use website with a fitting name. The site provides visitors with different snippets of code for WordPress themes. These snippets correspond to a variety of functions; ranging from “Remove Metadata Generator” to “Change Login Logo” you will find many snippets.
The snippets are listed in a tag cloud on the site’s homepage. You can use the search bar to filter the snippets and find the one you are looking for.
Clicking on your snippet will take you to its page.
The snippet’s page includes a brief description of the code. Scroll down and you will find the code itself. If any additional explanations or special instructions on how to use the snippet are required, they are included under the code.
You can share the snippet with your other WordPress developer friends via sharing the snippet’s URL or directly Tweeting it using the button provided on the top right.
In conclusion, WP-Snippets is a must-bookmark website for WordPress theme developers.
40 Robust Tutorials Of “How To Create Planet And Space Art” On Photoshop
Photoshop is a state-of-the-art software with which you can create what you have imagined if you have command over its tools. You can create stunning space and 3D planets scenes too. Although it might be difficult to create space formulations, stars, and planets using Photoshop, but a little hard work can let you accomplish this difficult feat.
Here we have gathered 40 most stunning and dazzling space and planet tutorials to assist you get started on your space art hobby. Enjoy and feel free to share your opinion with us.
Making of Fiery Planets Collision
A step by step and detail tutorial of Fiery Planets Collision, in this tutorial we will need around 4 images for this tutorial.
Create Beautiful Space Environment
Create a real space environment with Photoshop.
AHHHHH! Oy! Alien Invasion! A Photoshop
A mindblowing and step by step tutorial where we will learn lots of great technique of photoshop.
Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion Tutorial
In this tutorial artist will walk you through creating a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding. Strap yourselves in, Photoshoppers!
Night Sky with Stars
Serene and tranquil scenery of stars and a major sun and Earth. Worth seeing.
Sea And Space
In this lesson artist will tell you how to create fantastic landscape using several pictures and your own hands. Combination of two themes, sea and space, promises to give a very interesting result.
Space Scene Design in Photoshop
In this beautiful Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create a beautiful Space Scene.
Space Explosion Photoshop
This tutorial shows you how to create your own space scene using three stock photos and Adobe Photoshop. The majority of the effects use the brush tool, layer effects and the filter gallery.
Creating an Awesome Space Effect
This is my interpretation of a space scene. The fun part about working with a space scene, is that you can let your imagination go crazy.
Eclipse Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how he created the Abduzeedo’s footer.
Planet Effects
Lighting effects planets with powerful reflection effect.
Planet Ring Tutorial
A mindblowing and step by step tutorial.
Abstract Universe
This tutorial will show you how to use some cool tools in Photoshop, step by step
Create a Space Explosion From Scratch in Photoshop
If you’ve ever wanted to create a space explosion in Photoshop, then we have the tutorial for you. With the techniques learned in this tutorial, you can create explosions as seen in a Sci-Fi television series. Let’s learn how to make this effect from scratch.
Create A Realistic Outer Space Scene In Photoshop
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a realistic looking outer space image with your own home made galaxy. Without using any stock photos or any material at all besides Photoshopís filters, effects, and blending modes you will create a vibrant and lifelike creation you can use for numerous applications. Let’s begin!
Quick and Effective Planet, Star and Meteor Impact Creation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, artist will show you how to make planet, star and meteor impact in Photoshop in a quick and effective manner. This is intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a little tricky.
How to make a planet in Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial we will see how is it possible to picture a background with stars and planets.
Making a Planet
In this tutorial artist will be showing how to make a simple Planet in Photoshop that should take less than 10 min and it’s very useful to implement in other images.
Create a Realistic Space Scene from Scratch with Photoshop
In this intermediate-to-advanced-level design tutorial, we are going to create a stunning space scene that has realistic-looking planets, stars, and lighting effects using a few innovative Photoshop techniques and some textures.
Very Easy Heroes Eclipse in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a nice eclipse effect using only Photoshop. We will add a texture in the end just to give that retro feel to the image.
Create a Shiny Earth with Photoshop 3D Layers
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a shiny planet icon using the 3D features of Photoshop CS4 Extended. This will cover basic information about 3D layers and texture maps. Let’s get started!
Planet Tutorial
Using just one texture in Photoshop, artist is going to teach you how to make a planet that looks somewhat realistic although, in the end, whether it looks realistic or not is entirely up to you and the way you play with settings.
Creating an Interesting Starfield
This tutorial explores the methods to make an interesting nebulous starfield, similar to the image on the right.
The Soft Sea Light
This tutorial is about how to create by three pictures only a tender collage of sea-piece. A peculiarity of this collage is that we will do the effect of soft light.
Abstract Light
This tutorial will show you how to create an awesome abstract light which just exists in fairy tales!
Stars
This tutorial will help you get started down the road to creating realistic and awe-inspiring star fields.
Create a Spectacular 3D Space Explosion
Ten Best Web Services to Create Free Slideshows Online
Slideshow creation is something we all do on regular basis. Whether family or vacation pictures are turned into slideshows for sharing with family and friends or an info graphics bar chart slideshow is created for a professional presentation, slideshow creation is commonplace today. We have lined up ten great free slideshow creation services online which help make slideshows without any fuss. SO have a look:
PhotoPeach is a great free web based slideshow creation service which allows creating, sharing and embedding slideshows online for any type of content which you want. A sign up is required to use the service.
myPicPals enables slideshow creation and sharing on websites which support Flash as well. This free service is geared towards social networks and has support for many including MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, Blogger, hi5, TypePad, Friendster etc.
WithKioza’s slideshow creation service, text and audio/video clips can also be added to slideshows and it also allows burning slideshows to DVD via its premium service.
Smilebox works seamlessly in creating slides shows which can then be instantly e-mailed and uploaded on Facebook for your family and friends to view. It has a large collection of slideshow templates available as well.
Picturetrail features a photosharing and image hosting service as well along with standard slideshow creation and claims to have the largest collection of slideshow templates online. Try it out and see if its really true.
Slide offers a multitude of skins, themes, backgrounds, effects, sizes and a lot more to customize the slideshows you create with its service. Creating slideshow is easy and can be done in as many as three steps only.
Quite popular service, Roxio provides free online slideshow creation along with cool musical backgrounds matching to the pictures depicting inside. Also, slideshow sharing is fun and easy with Roxio.
The name might confuse you, MySpace slideshow isn’t an official slideshow creation service from MySpace social network, but that doesn’t hides the fact how good it is. With MySpace Slideshow you can upload multiple MySpace photo albums in a single slideshow. It also allows an unlimited number of pictures per slideshow along with resizing and direct access to Photobucket.
Scrapblog lets one create multimedia scrapbooks featuring photos, videos, audio and other elements. You can share your scrapblog online with friends. Once a slideshow is created, it can be turned into high-quality photo books and DVDs.
With Thumbstacks, presentations and slideshows can be created right in the web browser with Word-like rich-text editing controls and with images and drawings. Created slideshows and presentations can be shared with friends via a single unique URL for each one.
The Most Amazing Examples Of Vexel Artworks (AWESOME PICS)
The word Vexel is derived from two words: ‘Vector’ and ‘Pixel’ and it is the new emerging form of digital art which is totally based on pixel. Vexel art can be done in Photoshop but it is not limited to it necessarily as it can also be done with any image editing software. The only requirement is that software must has a very good pen tool.
Below we have gathered some really awesome examples of Vexel art for you. We hope that this will facilitate you to master the skills and the technique, and if not you would at least get a good understanding on how these techniques can be used. Enjoy!
Pratt and Miller Corvette C6RS
Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki
Hard Candy: Scarlett Johannson
Excellent Chrome Extensions (For Fun & Gaming) That Can Make Your Daily Browsing More Enjoyable
You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below We have gathered 6 Chrome extensions That Can Make Your Daily Browsing More Enjoyable. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be much enjoyable.
Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you. You are welcome to share if you know more fun and gaming chrome extension which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter.
Mini Golf adds a golf ball icon in the browser that opens a fun flash mini golf game. Just press the icon again to close the game instantly and get back to work.
You can play Tic-Tac-Toe Game right from Google Chrome with this extension.
You can play Chess Game right from Google Chrome. Play Chess in Google Chrome with Computer as Opponent.
Play a prank on your friends by turning every webpage upside down. It’s version 0.2 features multiple options like flipping the whole page, only images, everything but images, and a delay to set the prank as a time bomb.
Install this fun game to kill time while waiting for slow sites to load, talking on the phone, or any other time you’d like a distraction! To start the game, hit any key. Use the arrow keys to move your character, and dodge the falling icicles.
With this Chrome Extension, all the page will show falling snow flakes.
This extension shows the interesting photos on Flickr, the same day last year.
PrintRunner Giveaway (Win A Set Of 250 Color Business Cards Of Your Choice)
PrintRunner.com is running a contest, where 13 winners will get the sets of business cards and each set being with 250 color cards of user choice. Well, you guys know what PrintRunner.com is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.
Note : This contest is open to legal residents of U.S., Please read the rules below for further details.
PrintRunner.com is a full service high quality printing company located in Chatsworth, California. It was established with little more than a small press and a dream. 10 years later PrintRunner.com is one of the foremost quality printers in Southern California. Whatever your promotional needs, from business card printing to full color brochure printing to postcard printing services and beyond, they have a solution.
Specifications of business cards:
- Premium 14 pt. card stock
- Durable, water resistant UV-coating
- Choice of glossy or matte coating
- Full color, black & white, or blank back available
- Available on 100% recycled paper
Official Rules
- No purchase necessary
- Open to legal residents of U.S.
- Must be 18 years of age or older and not an employee or relative of an employee of PrintRunner LLC
- One entry per person
- Void where prohibited and subject to federal, state and local laws
This contest will run from October 08, 2010 to October 15, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before October 17, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win 250 Color Business Cards Of Your Choice by PrintRunner, All you have to do is :
1. Just leave a comment.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Not necessary, but you can subscribe to our rss feed and follow us on twitter as well. (To track this contest and for future updates)
4. And thats it!
So what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
Mindblowing Assortment Of Black And White Photography With Partial Colors
Colors play an important role in making any photograph worth watching if used properly. No doubt colorful photos are very attractive and catchy but nowadays partially colored photos are getting very trendy. Partial photos are created by converting photos into black and white with the exemption of only one entity which is made colorful to be noticeable. This is why it is sometime called as Black and White with Partial Color.
In this post, we have prepared this assortment of black and white photography with partial color. So get ready to be inspired and thrilled. Feel free to share your opinion with us via comment box.
Colour my life with the chaos of trouble
Chairs on grand river in Galt – SEEN ON EXPLORE
Malibu Pier, Ca – Perseids and the dance of the mossy rock fish.
AMRITSAR/Golden Temple/holy washing
The 5 Useful (And Unknown) Operating Systems You Probably Never Heard Of
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find out of the box operating systems that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of Five Operating Systems You Probably Never Heard Of. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
Jolicloud
Jolicloud is a new operating system for netbooks. The OS provides a beautiful interface, an application directory and a set of social features that make it easy and fun to use.
ReactOS
ReactOSis a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows-NT architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.
PC-BSD
PC-BSD is a complete desktop operating system, which has been designed with the “casual” computer user in mind. It offers the stability and security that only a BSD-based operating system can bring, while at the same time providing a comfortable user experience, allowing you to get the most out of your computing time. With PC-BSD you can spend less time working to fix viruses or spyware and instead have the computer work for you.
openSUSE
openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or Server. You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun.
gOS
gOS turns your computer into a desktop full of your favorite widgets, fresh with live, personalized content just for you. Technically gOS is a cut down version of ubuntu 7.10 desktop, who’s focus is online applications like gmail, google news, google maps, youTube, mebo and many more.
Congratulations To The Winners Of BundleHunt 2 ($2000 Worth Of Designer Goodies)
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win BundleHunt 2. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them BundleHunt 2.
- Peter
- Mario Awad
- Mary Mo
- Dennis
- Boost Inspiration
BundleHunt is a premium resource pack aimed to empower the creative community with more than $1400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, ebooks, hosting plans & premium memberships for less than 50$. This time Bundle Hunt team announced the release of BundleHunt 2, the big brother of BundleHunt, their original package of essential applications for developers. Packed with even more applications at discounts much higher than before, the idea for this release is to put together a complete designer’s resource pack for web developers across the board for the smallest price in history.
BundleHunt 2 comes with a number of new premium applications included such as 8 High Quality Fonts from FontSpring (priced at $289.75), 30 Premium Download Credits from Vecteezy.com (priced at $119) and a number of other useful desktop application licenses for both Windows and Mac OS X. In all, there are 16 applications, memberships and resources included in the bundle this time as against the 12 included in the previous version, all for the same amazing price – $49.99
When each of the applications in this exhaustive list is considered individually, the combined value of the bundle comes at $2,040. However, the entire bundle is available from www.BundleHunt.com at a heavily discounted price of $49.99!
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted in few days. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter because we are coming up with another new great contest in couple of days.
Thanks to BundleHunt for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.
