There are only so many hours in a day, and you’ve got to determine which social media tools drive business, which ones build community, and where you can learn the most in the process. Maybe you’ve built a blog or a home page or some other starting point for your online presence. How do you manage the rest of your online presence, and how do you keep track of everything? I have some ideas for you. Let’s start by building the following:...

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Guess what? I have 20 excellent Photoshop tutorials for this week that will simply keep you in the program like a mummy in its sarcophagus so pay attention to them...

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One of the biggest mistakes I see from web designers is making accessibility more complicated than it actually is. Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. However, by using some simple techniques and following some basic guidelines, you can make your website accessible to a wide audience of users without spending too much time and energy...

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It may sound like a threat, but the internet is not quite everywhere, yet. So what do you do when there’s no internet available to you? First, take a deep breath!...

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This brief will take you through the steps required to install WordPress - and all of its dependencies (Apache, PHP and MySQL) - in Windows Vista, using the fantastic open source software BitNami WordPress Stack...

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When we announced an AudioJungle wallpaper contest last month, I was not at all prepared for the barrage of jungle visual goodness that instantly began flooding our Flickr pool. With over 180 entries to select just three winners from, judging was always going to be very difficult...

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Grid/Newspaper/Magazine templates are becoming more and more predominant in the wordpress skin and theme community. They look classy, but it can be daunting knowing where to start. In this tutorial we use the power of jQuery to create a grid layout with size-degrading headers!...

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If you never saw apple.com menubar, here’s a screenshot of what we’re going to create...

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Whenever you need to design something that related to Indian ancient history you will surely going to need this. AMUKI.blogspot.com presents you these 10 unique animals artifact inside two sets of Photoshop brushes. Each brush is designed in high resolution (up to 2000px). The shapes are rather similar to ancient Indian Inca relief on archaeological artifact sites...

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I’ve been wanting to give away something to my readers for quite some time now - and I have a lot of plans for free WordPress themes and other web related goodies. But today, I want to give you all a 100% free icon set I have created titled simply, “Mac OS X Icon Set.” This is nothing fancy or complicated - it is just a simple icon set featuring the logos from your favorite OS X applications...

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In this post I want to share some simple tips useful to enrich your forms with various elements such as suggest messages, autosuggest feature instead of tag, simple check during data input and how to show hidden fields selecting a radio element option...

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There’s stuff all over the Web about jQuery, but finding the best tutorials to get you started can be tough. Here are Examples and tutorials from jQuery masters to keep you on the right track...

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jQuery Sparklines is a plugin for creating sparklines on the fly...

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Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify...

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MooTools 1.2 features the ability to create, read, update, and delete cookies. Lets look at how we can use MooTools to control cookies...

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The idea of image preloading has been around since the dawn of the internet. When we didn't have all the fancy stuff we use now, we were forced to use ugly mouseover images to show dynamism. I don't think you were declared an official programmer until you had seen Macromedia Dreamweaver's mouseover function. MooTools image preloading requires very little code — let me show you how it's done...

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Check out some of the latest makeuseof discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here...

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Of course, you need to know how to use GIMP well. The power of GIMP leads to an unfortunate effect of being too complex for a complete beginner to understand. To solve that riddle, here are some good GIMP tutorials from popular websites. Bookmark this post - we will be continuously updating it as we find better tutorial websites. Clicking on the screenshot of the website takes you to the website, and a few good tutorials that I found on those websites have been listed below the screenshot...

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This is part 3 of 3 on my website header and navigation tutorial. If you’ve gotten to this page and would like to follow along, you can view part 1 or part 2 by following the previous links.

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This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to access your OS X files and folders from Windows Vista...

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Unique patterns can be derived from something simple. Introducing BgPatterns, a background creator for web designers...

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few hours ago at 11am ET one of the better domain extensions to debut in recent memory - .me – went on sale at GoDaddy for $19.99/yr. Since then, chaos has ensued, as apparently purchases are either not going through, or going through but the domain name remains available for others to buy. As an illustration of the problem this creates, according to the Twitter message below, at least 8 or 9 people are claiming to have receipts for the domain name aweso.me...

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A simple component to select color in the same way as you select color in Adobe Photoshop Features...

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Enter Scene 360’s contest to be eligible to win an event ticket to the Spanish design conference on September 12th and 13th in Madrid, Spain. We are offering only the tickets, so if you live near Spain or can afford to get there, just fill in the form. Good luck!...

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Maybe you think that designing an Icon is very difficult and just some professionals can do it.
But those professionals are here to teach you how to design your own simple icons just by reading some of the best tutorials have been collected here.
I’ve placed these tutorials into 3 categories; Articles, Photoshop, and illustrator Tutorials...

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First, let's look at some concepts that will help you to create characters with dynamic and interesting poses. Then we'll break down the basic process of creating a character from sketching through to the final vector file. Whether you're interested in creating vector mascots for branding design, or making interesting characters to use in your animations, you'll find these techniques helpful...

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You know it: Forms are one of the most important part of a website. But forms also require a lot of work. Happilly, the excellent Javascript framework Mootools is here to help: Here’s 10 scripts to enhance your forms, both visually and functionally...

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Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database...

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Before that, you need to download and install a localhost in your pc. I am using xampp for this. After that, download wordpress from wordpress official website. Then, we will use the default theme to start the wordpress implementation. Below is the main sections that we need to take care with. I also create a few extra files for the theme we are going to build...

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Colin Moock has been creating some buzz in the Flash community with his article on the charges against ActionScript 3.0:...

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It's time that Opera Mobile got its due. Long overshadowed by Opera Mini--the light, server-fed browser for Java phones--Opera Mobile is a robust browser built on Web standards (and written with C and C++) that's known for delivering a full Web experience to Windows Mobile and Symbian phones...

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PostcardViewer, similar to AutoViewer (see WRD post) which is created by the same company, is a free Flash image gallery application with a very nice presentation...

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This is an incredible free icon set I recently came across and I wanted to make sure no one misses it. While I’m at it, I’d like to apologize for the lack of activity lately. I’m slaving over a complete re-design of BittBox at the moment and I’m neck deep in code and bug fixes, not to mention icon surfing. (Oh, and when BBv4 launches, you can kiss that big Google ad at the top of each post goodbye :) Anyway, for the time being, head on over to the Function site for a killer free icon set. The set includes 128 48 x 48px icons, yummy!...

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Last month we missed the free WordPress theme release, but the one for July is available now. BlueSensation is a clean theme with a traditional look: large content column on the left and a single sidebar, ready to display 125×125 ads...

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As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com/...

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Bluepulse, a social network geared exclusively for easy and free messaging among Web-enabled mobile phones, is expanding on its list of compatible devices today with the launch of an application designed to give iPhone owners a custom-fit window to send messages quickly to any number of friends...

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Live-blogging toolCoverItLive has released an upgrade this week that is truly helpful for bloggers in the social media space. If you’ve got one of those handy phones that supports Qik, or you do live video blogging with Mogulus or ustream, you can now drop your feeds into your CoverItLive window and broadcast it to the world, along with your live blogging coverage...

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This tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using only four stock photos and a texture background. We’ll look at using the Pen Tool, making colorful rainbow designs, and showing the correct way to pick out stocks to use in our photo manipulation...

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Sometime back we did a poll here at Make Use Of asking our readers about their favorite music player. I was just going through the comments in that poll and one of the comments about Media JukeBox caught my attention. It prompted me to download and try out this music manager and I can safely say that I finally found an awesome tool which can effectively manage the big and badly scattered collection of music files in my computer...

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AutoViewer is a lightweight (11kb) & free Flash image viewer that displays the images horizontally.
It also works as a slide viewer with the play-pause-previous-next buttons and can be navigated both with mouse & keyboard...

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The Safari browser from Apple has a great little icon that works well in small formats while also displaying quite a lot of intricate details when viewed in large format. Navigate through this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to draw up your own vector Safari inspired compass in Adobe Illustrator...

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What if you’re at school, at work or using a public computer and there’s no instant messaging client installed? You could try downloading it but chances are that you’ll bump into quite some ‘guest restrictions’. In the past I solved this by installing the files into the My Documents folder, or right on the desktop, but that’s so unprofessional...

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An avatar or Gravatar (Globaly Recognised Avatar) is a small image that appears next to your comment on any posts. It’s your profile picture. It will appears any time you leave a comment on a blog or forum. Here’s a screenshot of some comments taken on my site:...

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Hello,
I have been promising for awhile and here it is a brand new free web layout.
It is

W3 validated HTML 1.0 Strict
Full CSS 2.0 supported
Comes in Four Color Flavors/li>
Is Liquid
Easy to customize...

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If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free — among other things we presented high-quality free fonts, free Wordpress themes, free wallpapers and, of course, free icons. You can find many of them in our section Freebies...

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Maybe you’re a seasoned jQuery pro. Heck, maybe you’re John Resig. On the other hand, maybe you read words like “Prototype”, “jQuery”, and “Mootools” and think to yourself, “What the heck are these?” Now is the time to learn...

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After recieving many requests of how to create floral brushes in photoshop here is a tutorial , this tutorial has a source psd file with all the shapes in layers as wellas a brushes file which we will be creating by the end of the tutorial...

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LaunchSplash is a fresh web based service which enables you to create a free launch page...

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Changing the style of your links is probably the easiest change you can make in your design.
If you aren't sure how to do it, there is a good explanation at Echo Echo. It will show you how.
It takes only seconds to try out a new look for your links. With that in mind, here are some of the best ways to style your links, to both look good and be usable at the same time...

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This post presents the results of the contest — 45 beautiful blog header designs you can use for free. Below the designers have described their themes, intentions and shown us some examples of how header graphics can be used.

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