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Groundzero v6.0
Since this website is turning 8 years old, I thought it would be appropriate to update it, so I did, but while I’m at it, I might as well change the platform and the direction as well, the result? Groundzero v6.0. Whats changed you ask? Well, I’ve decided to go with a blog format using [...]
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Twitter Widget HTML Code
For some reason Twitter decided to remove the HTML code to show tweets/updates on your website in favor of a scrolling loop flash widget, don’t get me wrong there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it but for me its a bit overkill. Sure, there are plenty of plug-ins available to show tweets, but all I wanted [...]
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Retro Album Cover Color Schemes
One of the simplest ways to make your website stand out is to choose an interesting color scheme, if you get that right then everything else on the page just falls into place. A good color scheme doesn’t even need to be enhanced by graphics, as long as it flows well and doesn’t offend the [...]
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Picnik Online Photo Editor
For creating web graphics and editing images I use a combination of GIMP and a really old version of Macromedia Fireworks, don’t ask which version because I’m a little embarrassed to admit what it is, but I’m still using it because I like the interface and it does what I need it to do, so [...]
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Wordpress Comment Spam Plugin
Language wise, my personal blog is a little risque, actually, to be honest, its quite crude, so crude in fact that its kind of offensive, language wise that is, so that combined with the wide range of topics I constantly rant on about (it is a no themed personal blog after all) it attracts its [...]
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VSO Image Resizer
VSO Image Resizer is a free and powerful piece of digital picture resizing software that simplifies the process of resizing and optimizing, as well as compressing digital images so you can conform to social media standards and/or trim website load times. Resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos. Optimized for use [...]
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Google Doesn’t Use Keywords Meta Tag
For a few years now I’ve always known that Google didn’t use the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results, but that said I noticed that they did use “description” meta tag as the text for search results snippets, and now its official, even though it has been common knowledge for quite some time [...]
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Google Wave Logo
To these eyes the Google Wave logo is complete perfection. Sure it looks great, but the real genius can be seen in it how it incorporates its mother brand by way of the traditional Google colors, combined with the smart wave design that illustrates the product name in 2 ways, the aforementioned wave form of [...]
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Twitdraw Twitter Sketch Graffiti
Twitdraw is a nifty web based browser app that allows you to sketch/graffiti whatever your creative (or non-creative) juices demand of you, and post it to Twitter with an attached comment/tweet. Extremely simple to use just select your brush size, color, width, opacity and away you go. You can also view or even vandalize other [...]
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Cu3er 3D Image Slider
Cu3er is a free Flash image slider that creates real 3D transitions between slides, and it can also be used as a content slider, feature slider and image/banner rotator. Featuring an easy to use interface to morph GIF/JPG/PNG formats, you can control and modify elements including horizontal or vertical cubing, transition direction (left/right/up/down), duration and [...]
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Browsera Cross Browser Testing
As someone who has been making websites for about a decade, nothing frustrates me more than browser compatibility … actually, to be more precise, nothing frustrates me more than Internet Explorer. The problem for me has always been IE, I’m not anti Microsoft but I’ve always gotten websites to look exactly the way I want [...]
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330 Million Firefox Users
First off it needs to be said, I am “not” anti Microsoft. Want proof? I’m still using Windows XP as my main operating system of choice and I see nothing wrong with it, but with that said, when I do upgrade I’ll be going with Ubuntu and regardless how good people think Windows 7 is [...]
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PunyPNG Image Compressor
Its not a major issue as it used to be when we were all stuck in the dark ages using dial up modems to access the Internet, but image compression is still a factor to consider when designing a fast loading website, and this tool from Gracepoint After Five will help compress your images with [...]
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Sexy Bookmarks Plugin
There are plenty of social bookmarking plugins for Wordpress that all do a great job, but sometimes its a matter of finding the right one that visually fits the look of your website, and at the time of writing this post Sexy Bookmarks is my plugin of choice. Its simple, yet it gives me a [...]
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Cyclops Photo Search
Sometimes you just don’t have the resources to take photos of your own, and maybe you need a photo of a dog, a family, or a happy couple to sell a product or put a visual reference on a blog post. This is where Cyclops comes in handy, sourcing royalty free stock images from popular [...]
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Blender 3D Software
Blender is a powerful and free 3D graphics application that can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing and creating interactive 3D applications. It runs on a wide range of systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows, along with FreeBSD, IRIX, [...]
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Google May Change Page Titles
Google “reserves the right” to change the titles of your pages in search results. Google’s Matt Cutts has released a video discussing why and how they go about doing this. Cutts says Google wants to show the titles that it thinks are most useful. “For example, suppose the title of your page is ‘Untitled’ or [...]
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StatPress Reloaded
StatPress Reloaded displays real time statistics about your Wordpress blog, collecting information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, operating systems, browsers and more. You can see visitor actions while they’re browsing your site or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. Statistics can be viewed in detail or summarized, and you can also [...]
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Google Adwords Editor
Adwords Editor is a free Google application (for Mac or Windows operating systems) that allows you to manage your ad campaigns from your desktop without a browser. Work offline, upload your changes, download your account(s) and update your campaigns with powerful editing tools. One of the best things about this software is that you can [...]
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Sumo Paint Image Editor
Sumo Paint is a feature packed photo editing and painting application (similar to Photoshop) that works right in your web browser. It can be used in Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems with the only requirement being that Flash is installed on your computer. It can be used without registration, but in order to take [...]
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