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25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity

25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity

There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and open source mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer. We’re covering from ...

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45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires

45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires

Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done. That’s where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. With lists of points covering ...

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35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design

35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design

CSS-design is not easy. We need to find workaround across browser inconsistencies, not that easy CSS-concepts and quite counterintuitive CSS-solutions. However, there are effective and useful CSS-tools and Smashing Magazine reviewed many of them in our previous posts. Now it’s time to present you with some fresh (or not mentioned ...

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50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

JavaScript is an integral part of the RIA revolution. JavaScript allows developers to create rich and interactive web interfaces and establish asynchronous communication with servers for constantly up-to-date data without a page refresh. Many things that were once accomplished using Flash objects can now be built using ...

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Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website

Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website

Almost everyone out there who runs a website has toyed with the idea of selling ads on their website. So many options are available. Dozens of ad and affiliate networks exist, and you have different ad formats to consider. Should you sell text ads or banner ads? Should you allow ...

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40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns

40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns

If there is a commonly reoccurring need for a particular solution, there is a great probability that someone has – by now – solved that need and has finished the legwork involved in researching and constructing something that resolves it. At the very least, you will find documentation ...

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25+ Magento Templates For Your E-Commerce Business

25+ Magento Templates For Your E-Commerce Business

Magento is a popular open source e-commerce software platform that has a modular architecture and is extremely flexible. It comes with a number of online shop maintenance capabilities. It is also simple to configure and easy to customize. And despite the fact that it was launched just last year, it ...

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25 Text Batch Processing Tools Reviewed

25 Text Batch Processing Tools Reviewed

Have you ever fainted from the sheer idea of having to find and replace text in millions of files? Have you ever felt helpless because you needed to search and replace different data 50 times at once? Have you ever lost original files while doing normal text processing tasks? If ...

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Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resources And Tutorials

Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resources And Tutorials

Originally called Apollo, Adobe Air was released in beta back in 2007 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. You can build an Adobe Air app using HTML, JavaScript, Flash or ActionScript relatively simply. Basically anyone with even a little knowledge of programming and a little patience can ...

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Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now!

Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now!

In January we commissioned Ilya Birman, a Russian designer with passion for typography, to adapt his typography keyboard layout (which has become a common typographer’s tool in Russia) to create a version for English-speaking designers, artists and, of course, typographers across the globe. The main idea was to provide the web ...

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MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up

MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up

The most popular and best open source database is MySQL. Simple as that. It is consistently fast , reliabile and very, very easy to use. One of MySQLs main features is its cross-platform support, it will run on almost all operating systems, including Windows, OSX, Linux and many more. So, ...

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100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources

100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources

Google AdSense is a simple and low-risk way for publishers to quickly monetize their content. The pay-per-click ad system has created an opportunity for anyone to instantly have advertising on their website, without the hassle of having to actively sell ad space. AdSense makes up a good portion of the ...

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  • Re: High Education!

    I did it years ago, we learned stuff like Java applets, MIDI background music and animated gifs so I don't know what the course would be like now.

  • Re: High Education!

    I will definitely check that out. Were you satisfied by the quality of teaching?

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  • Re: Best Solution for IE6 png Transparency?

    thegator wrote:EDIT: Actually having said all that, I'm not sure why I'd need more than 256 colours for any of my images as they are. I…

  • Re: High Education!

    I did web design & development at university of abertay in Scotland. You can find other UK courses from the UCAS site - http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/se…

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