Around The World In 60 Seconds With Google Earth (Infographic)
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Around The World In 60 Seconds With Google Earth (Infographic)

How large is one billion? One billion hours ago modern humans were living in the Stone Age. One billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. If you traveled from Earth to the Moon three times, your journey would measure one billion meters. Google Earth has been downloaded more than one billion times since it was first introduced in 2005. That’s more than one billion downloads of the Google Earth desktop client, mobile apps and the Google Earth plug-in—all enabling you to to explore the world in seconds, from Earth to Mars to the ocean floor.In order to celebrate it's 1 billionth download, Google Earth tapped JESS3 to create an infographic that highlights the ease and speed with which users can explore some of the most fascinating parts of the globe.

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Congratulations To The Winners Of Visifire Charting Tools

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Visifire - Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Charting Tools were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them Visifire.Visifire is a set of data visualization controls - powered by Microsoft®Silverlight™ & WPF. Visifire is a multi-targeting control which can be used in both WPF & Silverlight applications. Use the same API to create charts & gauges in Mobile, Web & Desktop environments. Visifire Silverlight Controls can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. Visifire is independent of server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, SharePoint, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby or just simple HTML. You can visit Visifire Gallery or design your own chart or gauge using Chart/Gauge Designer.

40 Examples Of Artistic Symmetrical Logo Designs
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40 Examples Of Artistic Symmetrical Logo Designs

Logo design is the visual representation of a company and the goods and services it offers. Therefore, designing an impressive and ideal logo design is foundation of any branding or marketing strategy. Symmetrical logo designs can be defined as the logos whose one side is the mirror image of the other side. In other words, logos that are created by flipping one side over the other to form a symmetrical image.Designing symmetrical logo design signifies a form of stability and endows you with a soothing effect. Here is the collection of 40 out of this world Symmetrical Logo Designs that are simple yet extremely impressive.

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7 Cool Web Apps You Might Not Know About (But Should)

There are many websites and web applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 7 Cool Web Apps You Might Not Know About (But Should). Read each entry in the list and see which web application suits your needs best.

Colorful Websites With Attractive Panoramic Backgrounds To Embrace You
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Colorful Websites With Attractive Panoramic Backgrounds To Embrace You

Website templates with attractive photos and creative background images tend to attract audience attention much faster. This is a small designing secret that almost every designer and web developer knows very well and therefore, successfully apply it in his website creation task. When it comes to choosing the most appealing and eye-catching images, which one would you prefer? Without doubt, it is panoramic photos that exhibit incredible nature and urban landscapes. Generally speaking, parallel scrolling panoramic backgrounds are extensively spread all over the web. However, there are vertically-oriented panoramas and websites as well with a capacity to explore them in a fly-through mode. This is the time to embrace yourself with the beauty of panoramic backgrounds.

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10 Free Android Apps To Boost Your Productivity With

Having a smartphone in your pocket has somewhat become a style statement, but apart from its appearance and style appeal, it allows you to perform all tasks that you would perform with your laptop or computer. This is the main reason of smartphone popularity.For the designing fraternity, there are plentiful Android apps accessible on the internet. So, rather than wasting time in looking for the one you require, have a look at this collection of apps that we have composed here to permit web designers and developers discover the few useful apps they can magnify their productivity with.

SolidShops Hosted E-Commerce Software Subscriptions Giveaway
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SolidShops Hosted E-Commerce Software Subscriptions Giveaway

SolidShops is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the 1 year subscription of SolidShops hosted e-commerce software. Well, you guys know what is SolidShops? Let's say it once again for n00bs.SolidShops is an extremely user friendly hosted e-commerce platform for web designers and their clients. Way too often, open source software like Magento or OScommerce disappoints when it comes to user friendliness, not to mention creating themes. On top of that you're stuck for hours uploading and patching files to finally realize you still have to take care of backups and encrypted payments.

Digg App For iOS: 5 Reasons You Should (Really) Use It
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Digg App For iOS: 5 Reasons You Should (Really) Use It

Bloggers today honestly appreciates the power of social networking and how it delivers not only traffic to blogs, important backlinks and of course more recognition. When we talk about social networking the first website that clicks my mind is Digg, followed by Stumbleupon and Reddit. Digg has been around for quiet some time and it actually had gained insane amount of popularity among publishers. It had been known for crushing web servers by sending its loyal visitors to websites.Digg did change after they launched V4 and it may not be the same anymore but to make it up to its lost users they are putting maximum effort to make things right. Their recent attempt is the new Digg iOS app that is now available on iTunes for absolutely free.

10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Firefox 7
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10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Firefox 7

As we know Firefox has changed the way we browse the internet. To make it sure they always stay a step ahead from its competitors. Firefox continuously release updates to fix bugs and any other known issues. Their recent release is the new Firefox 7 which brought exciting new features and updates to the browser. After testing it out we have come up with at least 10 solid reasons why you should get Firefox 7 right away.

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35 Photoshop Tutorials To Get Visually Appealing Photo Manipulation Artwork
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35 Photoshop Tutorials To Get Visually Appealing Photo Manipulation Artwork

Photoshop is like a magic for the designers as loads of different tasks can be accomplished through it. Designers all over the world are exclusively using Adobe Photoshop not only to create creative and visually appealing web designs but also to create something very amazing. With Adobe Photoshop, designers can even play with the real photographs and make them look what they want them to be looked.

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Infographic: The State Of Open Source Adoption
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Infographic: The State Of Open Source Adoption

The goal of this infographic was to highlight assumptions and myths that the proprietary community might be existing under, namely, that open source was somehow inferior to proprietary software. But if you want to know the truth with facts and statistics so this graphic is for you. This infographic illustrated on the data collected in the surveys on systems management in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 to determine systems management usage trends among IT professionals who attended the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference.

Infographic: A (Hectic) Day In The Life Of A Graphic Designer
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Infographic: A (Hectic) Day In The Life Of A Graphic Designer

The dream of a graphic designer is to create meaningful designs that communicate on a visual, intellectual and emotional level. It is the joy of being creative and having someone pay you to do it. But the reality of that dream is that it often comes with the heavy price on the creative soul. There are endless meetings, client revisions, committee-mandated direction, project managers who are frustrated art directors, long hours and often little recognition. These are the daily and universal struggles of a graphic designer and this is my loving tribute to those in the design trenches. May the creative concept never be forgotten and the good fight always be fought. If you are a graphic designer then this infographic is for you, or if you are not then no problem because you will enjoy this too.