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Unleash Your Creativity with the Wacom Intuos Pro Bluetooth Graphics Drawing Tablet

noreply@blogger.com (Rula Creative) — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 04:55:00 +0000

Want to create masterpieces that will leave everyone in awe? Look no further than the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Bluetooth Graphics Drawing Tablet- the perfect tool for bold, ambitious, and unconventional artists who demand only the best.

Get Ready to Create Magic with Wacom Intuos Pro Drawing Tablet!

If you're looking for a graphics tablet that can keep up with your passion for creating stunning artwork, the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Bluetooth Graphics Drawing Tablet is the ultimate choice. With its sleek design, innovative features, and impressive capabilities, this tablet is the perfect tool for any artist who wants to create unique and authentic artwork that stands out from the crowd.

Precision and Power - "8192 Levels of Pressure Sensitivity for Ultimate Control"

One of the most impressive features of the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Bluetooth Graphics Drawing Tablet is its high level of precision. With 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity, this tablet can detect even the slightest change in pressure, giving you complete control over your strokes and allowing you to create artwork with the utmost precision and detail.

The Pen is Mightier - "Battery-free, Tilt-Responsive Pen for a Natural and Intuitive Drawing Experience"

The tablet also comes with a battery-free, tilt-responsive pen that is designed to provide a natural and intuitive drawing experience. You can customize the pen's settings to suit your preferences, and the tablet's multi-touch gestures allow you to navigate your work with ease.

Work Without Limits - "Bluetooth Connectivity for Wireless and Cable-free Workspaces"

But that's not all - the Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Bluetooth Graphics Drawing Tablet also comes with six customizable ExpressKeys and a touch ring, allowing you to access your most frequently used commands quickly and easily. You can also use the tablet's Bluetooth connectivity to work wirelessly and eliminate cable clutter from your workspace.

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Kick the Habit: The Most Effective Anti-Smoking Ads That Will Make You Quit

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Get Inspired with Stunning Andrea Andrade Wallpapers!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:12:00 +0000

Looking for a new way to spruce up your computer or mobile device? Look no further than the beautiful and unique wallpapers created by Andrea Andrade. These stunning designs feature a variety of colors, patterns, and textures that are sure to make your device stand out from the crowd. Whether you're a fan of bold and vibrant designs or more subtle and understated looks, Andrea Andrade's wallpapers offer something for everyone. So why settle for a boring and uninspired background when you can have a work of art? Read on to discover more about Andrea Andrade's wallpapers and how they can add a touch of creativity and personality to your digital devices.

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Feather Painting Art - Where Canvas is so Last Season!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:20:00 +0000

Listen up feather-lovers and art aficionados, have you ever heard of feather art? No, not art for birds, but art ON feathers! It's a unique and unconventional form of expression that's been around since the dawn of time. And who better to showcase this craft than the one and only Julie Thompson? This Pacific Northwest artist has been painting the most intricate and jaw-dropping designs on peacock feathers since 1990. That's right, she's been at it for over three decades!

Her passion for this form of art has taken her to the far corners of the globe. From the southeast of Alaska, where she first started selling her works to eager cruise ship passengers, to now having fans and collectors from all over the world. Her feather paintings are not just beautiful, they're also affordable, with fully framed pieces starting at just $275.

But enough chit-chat, let's get to the good stuff! Check out her amazing creations for yourself by clicking the link below. Trust us, you won't be disappointed. And who knows, you might just find the perfect piece to feather your nest! Check her website here.

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99 Sites All Designers Must Know About !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Below is a list of 99+ graphic design resources, in English and (and a few other languages), that all designers must know about.

It is sorted by category (click to go to category):

For more resources you can check out the 101 Places To Get Design Inspiration. Also don’t forget to subscribe for more graphic design resources.

General Design

1 Spunk United

An excellent magazine with a selection of the worlds best artists providing inspiration, interviews, articles and more.

2 FreeLance Switch

The community site of reference for all freelances. You must know this one!

3 Computer Arts

The site of the excellent international magazine Computer Arts. I have subscribed to this mag and love it!

4 David Airey

A graphic and logo designer who shares his knowledge on these areas.

5 Behance

A site gathering the portfolios of the artists of the whole world, a true inspiration.

6 Pdf Mags

References all the PDF mags out there! A great resource.

7 Graphic Design Forum

The most active of the graphic design forums out there. A bit more focused for the beginner designer.

8 Design Is Kinky

An Australia site focused purely on design news and design in general. Stay up to date!

9 Freelance Folder

A community blog which posts regular articles on freelancing. Very diverse.

10 Bittbox

Provides regular resources for design… tutorials, brushes, vectors and more!

11 Vandelay Webdesign

Provides very social media friendly articles, large resource lists and tips for web designers.

12 You The Designer

Very complete and diverse range of articles on graphic design.

13 Design You Trust

A daily design magazine, blog and small community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios and hand-picked design stuff from all over the globe.

Web Design:

14 Noupe

An excellent site on Web design & the development of the web (CSS & Ajax).

15 Smashing Magazine

Information for all. So broad that if you are a designer and you don’t know this site, we all have pity for you.

16 Think Vitamin

Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. 50,000 subscribers can’t be wrong.

17 24 Ways

Web design and development, quality articles are always here.

18 A List Apart

Another pillar of the Web Design blog world, very good articles with diversified contributors.

19 Site Point

Very diversified site, graphics, css, ajax… Also editor of many Web Design books.

20 The Rissington Podcast

Excellent podcasts full with humour of excellent the Web Designer John Oxton andJon Hicks.

21 Web Appers

Blog of Open Resources for Web Developers. .

22 Happy Cog

They publish their best ideas and speak out to the world on web design.

23- Web Designer Wall

A must have for all web designers and designers out there!

Resources:

24 Design Float

A digg like site for design related subjects. Must know!

25- Psd Tuts

The best tutorials on the web. Mmmmm.

26- Blue Vertigo

The MUST HAVE bookmark of all stock resourceson the net.

27- SXC.hu

My favourite stock site, you may notice I use this site for most of my images on this site.

28- Icon Finder

Self explanitory.

29- Da Font

Free fonts. Mmmm.

30 Maniackers Design Make

A lot of inspiration can be found here along with a lot of free resources. Bit hard to navigate though.

31- Colour Lovers

Find, create and exchange your pallets of favourite colors.

Show Cases:

32- Command Shift 3

Have you heard of hot or not? This is like that but for web designs, you choose the best website of 2. Great for inspiration.

33- Showcase Point

Showcases Flash & CSS sites with several options of sorting.

34- Zeniltuo

Large database of all the inspiration sites out there.

35- The FWA

Mainly shows off flash websites but is always of high quality. Great inspiration here.

36- CSS Mania

Another showcase site.

37- CSS Remix

A very good gallery of CSS websites.

38- Best Web Gallery

A very good selection of designs.

39- ScreenFluent

A very good selection of Web designs.

40 W3C Sites

Excellent selection of valid W3C sites.

41- CSS Beauty

A good gallery and it also has very interesting articles on the development of websites with news.

42- Edu Style

The schools and universities have also right to a gallery css, this one is particularly remarkable.

Development:

43 – Problogger

Tips on blogging in general. Must have for any blogger.

45- Pro Blog Design

Tips on improving your blogs design. Only quality articles here.

46- WP designer

The blog of reference for all the WordPress developers.

47- Ajax Rain

One of largest Ajax bookshops on the Web.

48- CSS3.info

The site of future standards – CSS3.

49- CSS Earth

Site referring the best articles on the development of CSS on the Web.

Flash & Flex:

51- Labs Adobe

New technologies and development from Adobe.

52- Christophe Coenraets

Blog of a Flex developer.

54- Adobe AIR Tutorials

The site of for tutorials on AIR.

55- Mike Chambers

The blog of Mike Chambers based on programming and technology.

56- The Blog Flash

Blog for Action Script 3 and Flex.

57- Jean Phi Blog

One of the largest French flashers. Has some great work, but the French part may be a problem for some.

Typography:

60 Swiss Legacy

A blog focused on typography, swiss design and the grid.

61- I Love Typography

Speaks for itself. A must know.

62- Design & Typo

The blog of the famous Peter Gabor, posts cool inspiration pieces (in English too).

63- The Typographer

The site on typography for the French.

64- Slanted

Large German site on typography.

Video & Motion:

65- Stage6

YouTube of animation (2d and 3d). Great quality.

66- Fubiz

A great blog which posts creative daily inspirational pieces of design. Bookmark this one for sure.

67- Motiono Grapher

International reference for all who are in the motion business.

68- Video Copilot

Tutorials of creating special video effects.

69- Graphics/ Motion

Italian Blog of Motion, the articles are of great quality and are updated very regularly.

70 FX Guide

Great Community site of Video and Motion, do not miss this one!

71- Works Motion

The site of John Dickinson, great inspiration here.

Personal Design Blogs:

72- Elliot Jay Stocks

Just check it out. His name pops up everywhere!

73- Veerle Blog

One of most beautiful blosg on the Web, very complete articles and tutorials, in short a must.

75- Jina Bolton

Design of Jina Bolton (aka Sushi Monster), author of the book “Art & Science of CSS” and of the excellent conference “Create Sexy StyleSheet.” A very envious portfolio.

76- Snook

Blog of the graphic designer, developer, writer and lecturer of Jonathan Snook – very complete tips and tricks for all Web Designers.

76- Stuff And Nonsense

Super and super blog of Markley, one of best WebDesigners in the world.

77- Lysergid

Blog of the excellent French Art Director LoÃ¯c SATTLER. Great articles, fresh design.

78- Iso 50

Blog of the excellent graphic designer Scott Hansen.

79- John Nack Blog

Blog of John Nack, composed of very complete article on graphics and Adobe.

Web2.0:

80 NetVibes

The web comes to you. News aggregator plus!

81- Del.Ico.Us

A tool for bookmaking and social media attention, must have!

82- Twitter

Get updates on what your friends, co workers, etc are doing.

83- FaceBook

A website where you can pass your life.

84- Flickr

The social site of photography – a great number of people are present there with new photographs to discover each day.

Relaxation:

Places for just browsing – Areas that most designers are interested in. (ie. Fashion, Music, Design)

85- Vinyl misuses

A magazine about toys.. Must check this site out, some really cool designs.

86- Discobelle

Excellent site of music, showcases music videos, parties, etc.

87- Hype Beast

Magazine for fashion design and culture.

88- Lense

A French reference for all those who wish to know some more about photography.

90 PopRave Blog

Underground culture of the clothes industry.

Various:

91- All Graphic Design

A site for everything graphic design related.

92- North X East

Articles for bloggers.

93- Ads Of The World

Web site which publishes all of the worlds ads. Great inspiration here.

94- LogoPond

Logo Design Inspiration

95- Logo Design Love

A blog focused totally on Logo Design. Regular articles and resources.

96- Split Da Diz

I have translated his page from French into English as he was the original poster of this article however I changed the French sites he recommended into English ones, fixed the old links he had posted and changed the order of some items…

97- Boing Boing

A genearl directory of wonderful things.

98- Business of Design Online

Pretty much anything to help a design business grow online.

99- Just Creative Design

Who else would have brought you this massive English list of 99+ graphic design resources? We provide graphic design tips, resources and articles for all.

More Sites You Should Know About

DesignFlavr -The masters of Design and Illustration.
Inspiredology – The social media master of design. Inspiration at its best.
DesignMeltDown – Categorises websites into categories for inspiration.
Creative Briefing – A web workers blog.
ImageAfter - A great stock site.
IgniteMotion – Free motion backgrounds.
CSS Artillery – A showcase of web standards across the globe.
CreativeBits – A mac orientated website around design.
Communication Arts – The essential creative resource.
Designers Who Blog – A blog dedicated to designers who blog among other things.
NO-SPEC – Educate the public and designers about speculative, or ’spec’ work. Must read.
Creative Latitude – A worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.
Foto Search – A stock photography & footage site.
Passpack Tour – Free online password manager.
Free Website Templates – Free website templates for inspiration.

Logo Of The Day – A logo design inspiration gallery that gets updated daily.
Logo Designer Blog – A blog focused purely on logo, branding and identity design.

Resource:

http://justcreativedesign.com

What other sites should be added? What are your favourites?

شو بتختار لما تكون حياتك عالمحك؟

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:57:00 +0000

مبارح رحت مراجعه عالمستشفى

مراجعه اعتيادية - اتأخرت الدكتورة لتجي

وقعدت انتظرها بهالوقت - باللوبي تبع المستشفى كان الوقت عم يمر ببطء شديد - كنت عم حس بضيق شديد

كل شوي يمر من قدامي حدا يعاني من مشكلة اصعب من التاني

كله كان عادي إلى ان شفت وحدة الله يتلطف فينا كانت قاعدة على كرسي متحرك تدفعها قريبتها - كانت منظرها عجيب - ماعم يروح من بالي أبداً

واضح انها كانت تعاني من شلل أو شيء من هذا القبيل

وجهها عبارة عن عظام مكسوة ببعض الجلد الرقيق من شدة النحف

متشنجة وعيونها تشخص الى فوق ويدها متيبسة بشكل مخيف الى جانب وجهها وراسها مثنى بشكل غريب

أول ما شفت هالانسانه بصراحة خفت

وقلت بقلبي يالطيف الطف - الحمدلله الذي عافاني مما ابتلاها به وفضلني على كثير ممن خلق تفضيلا كثيرا

أكيد اني ما خفت من شكلها ولكن خفت اني فكرت أنه هي انسانه مثلها مثلي - يعني ممكن يصيبني نفسي الشي أو شي أسوأ منها باي لحظة - حتى بدون سابق إنذار

وهالشي استوقفني فجأة وكان مثل صدمة إلي

انه ياترى شو عملت لكبرتي

شو عندي رصيد اشياء ممكن استخدمها لما اكبر واحتاج الناس تساعدني - سواء من مرض أو ضعف أو اي نوع من البلاء اللي بيصيب الكبار بالسن

حياتي كلها إلى اليوم كانت عبارة عن طقطقة على الكمبيوتر زائد شغل بالبيت واهتمام بالاسرة زائد بعض الحسنات والاعمال اللي قصدت فيها وجه ربي اللي لو جمعتها كلها ما بتساوي شي قدام منظر هالمرأة اللي شفته يالطيف الطف بنا يارب بالاضافة طبعا لكتير من المشاكل اللي صارت بيني وبين الناس وكتير من الابتلاءات اللي اتجاوزت بعضها وفشلت قدام بعضها الاخر

ياترى لو صار وكانت حياتي على المحك

وجمعت كل اعمالي وكانت في الميزان مقابل العافية اللي عطاني ياها وحرمها لهالانسانه

ياترى كنت رح وافق فورا وقول المهم اني ابقى بعافيتي

ولا رح قول لا لازم اني عيش ببيت كبير ولا اركب سياره فخمة ولا فستان يذهل الجميع ولا ولا ولا .......

يا ترى لو اني خيرت ان تستبدل كل اعمالى الخيرة مقابل العافية أو مقابل انه امرض بس كون بالاخرة من اهل الجنة ياترى هل حيكون عندي القوة اني اختار الجنة مهما كان نوع المرض اللي حيصيبني ومهما كانت شدته

واستمرت الاسئلة من فكرة لفكرة

النتيجة اللي قدرت اوصلها بالنهاية انه الحمدلله اللي اعطانا الصحة بدون مقابل وما طلب مننا الا الشكر عليها واستخدامها بشي ما يغضبه

وفهمت عنجد شو معنى اني كون تحت ألطاف الله

واني كون مستورة بستر ربي سبحانه

قبل ما أنهي بتمنى منكم تشوفو هالفيديو لتقدروا تحسوا باللي عم احكي عنه

بتمنى لجميع أحبابي الستر والعافية

ولا اسمح بنسخ الموضوع دون ذكر المصدر

رولا

15 Nice Solutions for Free Contact Form Services

noreply@blogger.com (Rula Bashi) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:08:00 +0000

By Rula creative

It is fairly right that contact form is an integral part of many websites since it saves a lot of time and makes it extremely easy for site visitors to contact you directly. Still, creating website contact forms is sometimes a very tedious work if you don’t have the right tools and are not familiar with PHP programming. This hurdle can be easily overcome with the help of online form generators which will help you design your own contact form and, by putting a script, embed this professionally looking form anywhere in your website.
There are many free options from which you can create a contact form for your website. The services usually offer both free service plans with less features and the paid ones which will remove the limitations and offer extra features. In this round-up, you’ll find the range of 15 free contact form services that allow you to create contact forms easily even without knowing much about PHP programming. Note that some of them may additionally have advanced premium options that actually require a monthly fee. Now please, go through this quick review of the main free contact form creators. Let us know your opinions of those in case you’ve had a chance to work with some of them before.
1. WuFoo
WuFoo HTML form builder not only helps you create free contact forms, but also online surveys and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without having to fuss with a single line of code. When you design a form with WuFoo, it automatically builds the database, back-end, and scripts needed to make it just work. Plus, there are lots of features, including predefined forms, html form templates, Likert scales, Captcha, and there’s no need to worry about any upgrades or server configuration, because they host everything. As for the cons, there are no file uploads and the submissions are limited to 100.
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2. Kontactr
Kontactr is a one-click free contact form service which offers highly secure contact form to protect user’s email address. Actually, there’s an image verification system applied (captcha – which is a commong thing about contact forms these days), so that robots cannot submit using the contact form as only humans can recognize the images. Kontactr also provides a variety of tools to embed various forms, buttons, and widgets to be used on the website.
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3. EmailMeForm
EmailMeForm is a free online form generator service for those who need custom contact forms, web forms or PHP forms for their website. By using their form wizard you can design simple or complex forms that send you an email each time site visitors submit them. Additionally, their forms contain a Captcha image displaying letters and numbers to stop automated submissions. Contact forms from EmailMeForm are working on any kind of web hosting account, and users’ web hosting server does not need to be able to run scripts.
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4. 123 Contact Form
123 Contact Form helps you create custom html forms, contact forms, email forms and any type of web forms. All you have to do is follow the wizard and generate your html contact form script. Besides, you can customize the options of your web form, like colors, controls and text style. Though free 123ContactForm does not offer any file uploads, and their form cannot be used in iFrame, this service provides loads of features, including Captcha, form auto-responder, html form templates, no limit of form submissions. Users who want to create forms with advanced features, like file upload, multiple recipients, data validation etc are required to upgrade their accounts to premium and platinum service plans.
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5. FormSite
FormSite helps people build professional online html contact forms and web surveys. They have over 100 pre-built forms that you can customize for registrations, reservations, secure orders, customer surveys and payment collection. Their drag and drop editor enables you to easily create almost any type of form or survey. Once you begin collecting results, they provide the functionality to email, analyze, share, and download your data. FormSite’s forms work in all browsers, plus it offers multipage forms, login based secure forms, but is limited to 100 submissions, and Captcha is not available.
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6. Formspring
Formspring is a form creator with very limited options for free users, only reason it’s worth trying is that it supports straight redirect of form data to user’s email and no submission monthly limit which is really a very good thing. As for its pros, Formspring has good user interface, includes Likert scales, multi-column layout, reports. Still, it does not provide file uploads and Captcha.
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7. JotForm
JotForm introduced the idea of building a web form on a WYSIWYG form editor using JavaScript drag and drop and AJAX. Unlike similar services JotForm does not cripple features, show ads or show a logo on your form and all its features are available to free users. Still, you need to upgrade to premium version if you receive a lot of submissions on your forms. JotForm supports all standard web form field types. In addition, it allows you to use new and intuitive fields in your form such as Date Time Picker, Star Ratings, or Captcha checks.
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8. VisitorContact
VisitorContact is a free contact form creator complete with Google maps, Captha and other nice features. It enables you to create customizable contact forms and buttons, instantly acknowledge your visitors with auto-responders, additionally, you may keep a record of all those who ever contacted you, import the contact list and use it for your next email marketing campaign. VisitorContact has good styling, simple interface, though the fields can’t be modified. Besides, their Real time secret code verification helps them fight spam for you. You can also choose to hide your email address from your visitors.
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9. Free Contact Form
Free Contact Form has several versions available, including a free version. If you are looking for a quick no frills website contact form, Lite version is available at no charge. Among the important features Free Contact Form offers, there are unlimited forms and form submissions, full source-code providing, form validation and verification for secure spam protection, support for single line and multiline text fields.
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10. Response-o-Matic.com
Response-o-Matic offers four different types of plans including the free one. It doesn’t cost anything to get an account to start trying out their service and no credit card is required to sign up. Note that Response-o-Matic does not host the forms for you on their website. They help you create the form with their easy form builder and then give you the HTML code that you must put on your site.
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11. Freedback
Freedback is designed for people who want HTML forms without learning HTML. With their GUI form builder, you can create your own contact forms being able to instantly receive and automatically respond to form submissions, manage form submissions online using their web interface, and Download form submissions as an Excel spreadsheet. Additionally, there are two ways to use an existing form with Freedback either through fast to setup, but unsupported method (form submissions cannot be exported) or through the “proper” way which supports all Freedback features, but requires more time to setup.
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12. Foxyform
Foxyform is free to create the contact form for your website with integrated anti-spam protection. Among advanced settings, Foxyform enables the users to fine-tune the forms to best fit their own website design. Plus, they may specify which form fields they would like to include in their personal contact forms.
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13. FormSmarts
FormSmarts is a free email contact form processing service. You only need to create a contact form using their online web form builder, and they will take care of all the rest hosting your contact forms, validating submissions, filtering out form spam, and emailing you the form results. You can store form responses on FormSmarts, and export them to Excel. Besides, there is no form script to install, and FormSmarts generates accessible forms, usable by anyone using any browser.
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14. Allforms
Allforms provides free form to email with auto-responders and other form handling feature-rich services. With Allforms, you can use your own HTML form and use their service to create a form processor to handle it. So, for those who have an HTML form and just need an online form-processing service, Allforms is the choice.
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15. WRASAP
WRASAP is a free web to email gateway service that provides you with your own free contact form. With this service, you can get access to four different options for your free contact form, including installable free PHP contact form with Captcha, installable free AJAX contact form with Captcha, free WordPress contact form plugin with Captcha, customizable free contact page with Captcha hosted at WRASAP.

Written by Lilian Rigo
Resource: http://blog.templatemonster.com

Top 33 World’s Strangest Buildings

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:59:00 +0000

By Rula creative

Do you love architecture?

Strangebuildings.com has a wonderful collection of the world’s most unusual architecture and together with Bored Panda presents you an incredible list of 33 strangest buildings in the world, and best of all, it’s not just another random list, but it is based on 4.520 unique visitor votes. So don’t blame panda for this exact order, blame yourself for voting this way, or for not voting at all. (the voting took place here.)

Well enough of those boring talks, prepare your hand for scrolling down the list, while bored panda eats another bamboo leaf.

P.S.: if you want to find out more information about the building (date it was built, architect, interior shots) don’t forget to visit Strangebuildings.com.

1. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)

2. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

3. Stone House (GuimarÃ£es, Portugal)

4. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)

5. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)

6. La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)

7. Atomium (Brussels, Belgium)

8. Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

9. Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA)

10. Low impact woodland house (Wales, UK)

11. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)

12. Rotating Tower, Dubai, UAE

13. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

14. Casa da musica (Porto, Portugal)

15. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada)

16. Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico)

17. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)

18. National Theatre (Beijing, China)

19. Conch Shell House, Isla Mujeres, Mexico

20. House Attack (Viena, Austria)

21. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)

22. Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

23. Ideal Palace (France)

24. The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland

25. Eden project (United Kingdom)

26. The Museum of Play (Rochester , USA)

27. Atlantis (Dubai, UAE)

28. Montreal Biosphere (Canada)

29. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)

30. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)

31. Kunsthaus (Graz, Austria)

32. Forest Spiral (Darmstadt, Germany)

33. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)

Resource: http://oddfuttos.blogspot.com

وبالشكر تدوم النعم

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:35:00 +0000

By Rula creative

الشكر
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الشكر هو خُلق وصانا به اللهتعالى على لسان جميع أنبياءه ونجده من أهم الأخلاق التي أُمِرنا بها في جميع الديانات السماوية وهو من الفضائل ويكون بقول أو فعل يقوم به الإنسان بعد أن يحصل على مساعدة او خدمة أو أي شيء مفيد وذلك ليعبر عن تقديره لهذا الفعل وهو من أهم العبادات التي وصانا بهارسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلموهناك الكثير من الأحاديث التي أخبرنا بها سيد الخلق سيدنامحمد ليعرفنا فيها بقيمة الشكر وضرورته وأهميته.
ولابد من الإعتياد على شكر الآخرين حتى لو لم ندرك قيمة ما حصلنا عليه في الوقت الحال لأنه لابد من أن ندرك قيمته في يوم من الأيام.

الشكر بعدة لغات :

بالإنجليزية Thanks
بالعربية شكراً، مشكور، جزاك الله خير، بارك الله فيك
بالألبانية Faleminderit
بالإيطالية Grazie
بالأفريقية Dankie
بالفارسية با تشکر
بالفرنسية Merci

أنواع و وسائل الشكر:
أهم أنواع الشكر هو شكر الله تعالى على نعمه ويكون بالاعتراف بنعمه وإظهارها والثناء عليه بها، وأن يعرف الإنسان أن النعم كلها من الله وأنه هو مسبب أسبابها،ومن لا يشكر الله على نعمه فهو كافر بهذه النعم وجاهد لفضل الله عليه، قال تعالى: {فاذكروني أذكركم واشكروا لي ولا تكفرون} (البقرة: 152). اذ أن الاعتراف بالنعم ومن أنعم بها وشكره سبب لبقائها وزيادتها كما قال بعض الأدباء : قيدوا النعم بالشكر فإنها كالنعم لها أوابد ، أي تشرد وتنفر ،وبلا شك فإن كفران هذه النعم وعدم شكرها هو سبب رئيسي لزوالها.

العناصر التي لا بد من توافرها ليكتمل شكر الله تعالى:
الشكر باللسان: بأن يتلفظ الإنسان بألفاظ الشكر كقوله (الشكر لله،أشكر الله، الحمد لله ، حمداً لله ) أو ما أشبه، بل كل حمد ومدح له سبحانه فهو داخل في إطار الشكر وإن لم يكن بلفظ الشكر.

الشكر بالقلب: بأن يعرف الإنسان بقلبه أن النعم منه سبحانه، وأن المنعم بالأصل هو الله وأن الله قد سخر لنا البشر ليوصلوا لنا النعمة وينوي لله شكراً ومدحاً، ويخضع قلبه أمام المنعم والمتفضل سبحانه.

الشكر بالجوارح: وجَوارِحُ الإِنسان هي أَعضاؤُه وعَوامِلُ جسده كيديه ورجليه ، ويكون شكر الجوارح بأن ان لا يستخدم أعضاءه إلا بما يرضي الله عنه من الأعمال الصالحة وإجتناب الأعمال السيئة.

ولا يكون الإنسان شاكراً لله حق الشكر إلا حين يشكر من أحسن إليه من الناس سواءاً كان هذا الإحسان بالعطاء المادي أو العلم أو النصيحة أو أي فائدة قد تعود على الإنسان بالنفع.
فقد قال حبيبنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: {يا عائشة أخبرني جبريل، قال إذا حشر الله الخلائق يوم القيامة، قال لعبد من عباده، اصطنع إليه عبد من عباده معروفاً هل شكرته؟ فيقول أي رب علمت إن ذلك منك فشكرتك فيقول: {لم تشكرني إذ لم تشكر من أجريت ذلك على يديه} ـ البيهقي وابن عساكر عن عائشة

للشكر عدة أنواع ، من أهمها :

الرضا بقضاء الله شكر، يقول النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: (إذا مات ولد العبد، قال الله لملائكته: قبضتم ولد عبدي؟! فيقولون: نعم. فيقول: قبضتم ثمرة فؤاده؟!فيقولون: نعم. فيقول: ماذا قال عبدي؟ فيقولون: حمدك واسترجع. فيقول الله: ابنوا لعبدي بيتًا في الجنة، وسمُّوه بيت الحمد) رواه الترمذي وأحمد..

والصدقة تعتبر من وسائل الشكر للنعم.

الرحمة بالحيوانات أيضاً هي من أنواع شكر الله على نعمة أن سخر لنا هذه الدواب لنستخدمها في حاجاتنا.

حفظ النعم وعدم الإسراف فيها من أهم وسائل الشكر - عن عائشة رضي الله عنها قالت دخل علي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فرأى كسرة ملقاة فقال { يا عائشة أحسني جوار نعم الله عليك فإنها قل إن نفرت عن قوم فكادت ترجع إليهم } ورواه ابن ماجه ولفظه فدخل علي ، فرأى كسرة ملقاة فأخذها فمسحها ثم أكلها وقال { يا عائشة أكرمي كريمك فإنها ما نفرت عن قوم فعادت إليهم } والمقصود بالكسرة هي قطعة الخبز الصغيرة.

وقد علمنا النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أن نسجد لله سجدة شكر إذا ما حدث لنا شيء يسُرُّ، أو إذا عافانا الله من البلاء.

ويتحقق شكر الله بالاعتراف بالنعم، واستخدامها في طاعة الله، والتحدث بها، قال تعالى: {وأما بنعمة ربك فحدث} (الضحى: 11).

وأيضاً علمنا عليه أفضل الصلاة وأتم التسليم صلاة ركعتين الضحى ( مابين شروق الشمس وصلاة الظهر. فإن فيها شكر لله على نعمة العافية.

من قال : اللهم ما أصبح / أمسى بي من نعمة أو بأحد من خلقك فمنك وحدك لا شريك لك فلك الحمد ولك الشكر - في الصباح فقد أدى شكر يومه ومن قالها مساءاً فقد أدى شكر ليلته، وهي من أذكار الصباح والمساء التي علمنا إياها رسول الله وعلينا قولها كل يوم في الصباح والمساء.

للشكر أنواع كثيرة لايمكننا حصرها أبدا بمقالة واحدة.

آيات من كلام الرحمن سبحانه وتعالى تدل على فضل الشكر وعظمته وأهميته:

يقول تعالى: {يا أيها الذين آمنوا كلوا من طيبات ما رزقناكم واشكروا لله إن كنتم إياه تعبدون} (البقرة: 172).

{قل هو الذي أنشأكم وجعل لكم السمع والأبصار والأفئدة قليلاً ما تشكرون} (الملك: 23).

{وأيدكم بنصره ورزقكم من الطيبات لعلكم تشكرون}(الأنفال: 26).

{ومن رحمته جعل لكم الليل والنهار لتسكنوا فيه ولتبتغوا من فضله ولعلكم تشكرون} (القصص: 73).

ووصف الله -عز وجل- نوحًا -عليه السلام- بأنه شاكر، فقال: {ذرية من حملنا مع نوح إنه كان عبدًا شكورًا} (الإسراء: 3). وقال الله تعالى عن سليمان -عليه السلام-: {قال هذا من فضل ربي ليبلوني أأشكر أم أكفر ومن شكر فإنما يشكر لنفسه ومن كفر فإن ربي غني كريم} (النمل: 40).

وقد قال تعالى : { كلوا من رزق ربكم واشكروا له }(سبأ: 15)، وقال تعالى : { اعملوا آل داود شكرا } (سبأ:13)

من الأحاديث الشريفة التي تدل على حب رسول الله للشكر وحثه عليه:

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: (التحدُّث بنعمة الله شكر، وتركها كفر، ومن لا يشكر القليل لا يشكر الكثير، ومن لا يشكر الناس لا يشكر الله) البيهقي.

وقال: (إن الله يحب أن يرى أثر نعمته على عبده) أبو داود والترمذي].

روي أن النبي(صلى الله عليه وآله) سأل رجلاً قائلاً: (كيف أصبحت؟ فقال: بخير، فأعاد(صلى الله عليه وآله)، فأعاد الرجل الجواب، فأعاد(صلى الله عليه وآله) السؤال، فقال الرجل: بخير أحمد الله وأشكره، فقال(صلى الله عليه وآله): (هذا الذي أردت منك).

وقال أيضاً صلى الله عليه وسلم:( من صنع إليه معروف فقال لفاعله جزاك الله خيراً فقد ابلغ في الثناء ) رواه الترمذي وحسنه.

ونلاحظ أن رسول الله كان كثير الشكر لربه، وقد علَّمنا أن نقول بعد كل صلاة: (اللهم أعنِّي على ذكرك وشكرك وحسن عبادتك)(أبو داود و النسائي).

وتحكي السيدة عائشة -رضي الله عنها- أن الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يقوم الليل، ويصلي لله رب العالمين حتى تتشقق قدماه من طول الصلاة والقيام؛ فتقول له: لِمَ تصنع هذا يا رسول الله، وقد غفر الله لك ما تقدم من ذنبك وما تأخر؟! فيرد عليها النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قائلا: (أفلا أكون عبدًا شَكُورًا) متفق عليه .

وقال: (إن الله ليرضى عن العبد أن يأكل الأَكْلَة فيحمده عليها، أو يشرب الشَّربة فيحمده عليها) رواه مسلم و الترمذي وأحمد.

من أقوال الصالحين في الشكر :

قال عمر بن عبد العزيز عن الشكر: تذكروا النعم؛ فإنَّ ذكرها شكرٌ..

قال ابن الجوزي المعنى وقلنا : اعملوا بطاعة الله شكرا على ما آتاكم وقال ابن عبد البر قال بعضهم الطاعات كلها شكر وأفضل الشكر الحمد

ذكر ابن عبد البر في كتاب بهجة المجالس أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال { ما أنعم الله على عبد نعمة فعلم أنها من عند الله إلا كتب الله عز وجل له شكرها وما علم الله من عبد ندامة على ذنب إلا غفر الله له قبل أن يستغفر ، وإن الرجل ليلبس الثوب فيحمد الله فما يبلغ ركبتيه حتى يغفر له }.

ومكتوب في التوراة اشكر لمن أنعم عليك وأنعم على من شكرك فإنه لا زوال للنعم إذا شكرت ، ولا مقام لها إذا كفرت والشكر زيادة في النعم وأمان من الغير

وقال حذيفة بن اليمان ما عظمت نعمة الله على حد إلا زاد حق الله عظما

قال عروة بن الزبير من لم يعرف سوء ما يبلى ، لم يعرف خير ما يولى

وقال جعفر بن محمد ما أنعم الله على عبد نعمة فعرفها بقلبه وشكرها بلسانه فيبرح حتى يزداد .

قال أبو بجيلة :

شكرتك إن الشكر حبل من التقى----وما كل من أوليته نعمة يقضي
وأحييت من ذكري وما كنت خاملا----ولكن بعض الذكر أنبه من بعض

سؤال هام : هل يجب علينا شكر الله على البلاء والبؤس كما نشكره على فضله ونعمه؟الجواب : نعم، فإن الله تعالى لا يفعل بعبده ولا يأتي منه إلاّ خيراً، سواء أكان نعمة أم نقمة بحسب الظاهر، (قل كلّ من عند الله)، والنقمة في المؤمن أما تأديب أو تخفيف ذنب أو رفع درجة، وهذه الثلاثة تستحق الشكر.

فضل و فوائد الشكر :

1- دوام وإستمرار وزيادة النعم والفوز برضوان الله تعالى وجناته، والأمان من عذابه في الدنيا والآخرة، قال تعالى: {لئن شكرتم لأزيدنكم ولئن كفرتم ان عذابي لشديد ).} (إبراهيم: 7).وقيل : وبالشكر تدوم النعم.
2- دفع البلاء ورفع العذاب : قال سبحانه: {ما يفعل الله بعذابكم إن شكرتم وآمنتم وكان الله شاكرًا عليمًا} (النساء: 147).
3- رفعة شأن الإنسان عند ربه وتقربه له وهدايته فنلاحظ أن الشكر خلقًا لازمًا لأنبياء الله -صلوات الله عليهم-، يقول الله -تعالى- عن إبراهيم -عليه السلام-: {إن إبراهيم كان أمة قانتًا لله حنيفًا ولم يك من المشركين. شاكرًا لأنعمه اجتباه وهداه إلى صراط مستقيم}.(النحل: 120-121).
4- بالشكر يزداد الإنسان قرباً إلى معطي النعم (الله) فلا يفرح بالدنيا وما فيها لأن عطايا الله الخالق الكريم أعظم وأعظم،قال تعالى: (وَمَنْ شَكَرَ فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ) (النمل/ 40).
وأيضاً قال: (وَمَنْ يَشْكُرْ فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ) (لقمان/ 12).

====> ولابد أن نعلم أن شكر الله بحد ذاته نعمة لابد أن نمتن ونشكر الله عليها لأنه لولا رحمته ومحبته لنا لما عرفّنا هذه النعم ولما أدركنا فضله علينا ولما قدرنا أن نشكره ومهما حاولنا شكر الله على كل نعمه فلن نقدر - لأن نعم الله علينا لا تعد ولا تحصى ولا يمكننا إدراكها، فقد قال تعــالى : ( وإن تُعدُّوا نعمـــة اللَّه لا تحــصــوهـــا إنَّ الإنســان لظلــوم كفَّـــار )))( سورة إبراهيم / 34).
وبالتالي فلا بد أن نشكره دائماً بلا إنقطاع أو ملل.

سؤال هام : هل يجب علينا شكر الله على البلاء والبؤس كما نشكره على فضله ونعمه؟
الجواب : نعم، فإن الله تعالى لا يفعل بعبده ولا يأتي منه إلاّ خيراً، سواء أكان نعمة أم نقمة بحسب الظاهر، (قل كلّ من عند الله)، والنقمة في المؤمن أما تأديب أو تخفيف ذنب أو رفع درجة، وهذه الثلاثة تستحق الشكر.

ملاحظة هامة:
لماذا لا نشكر والدينا وعلمائنا والناس البسطاء مثل عامل النظافة في الشارع وفي الأماكن العامة والسائق والخادمة والخباز والنجار وإمام المسجد الملتزم بعمله , والمعلم الحريص على تلاميذه , والطبيب الساهر على راحة مرضاه, ورجال الأمن الذين يحرسون بلادنا وغيرهم الكثير ممن يتعب لنرتاح نحن.

من أهم ما كتب ونشر عن الشكر من كتب وخطب ومحاضرات رائعة:

كتاب : إحياء علوم الدين للإمام أبو حامد الغزالي - الربع الرابع : المنجيات- الصبر والشكر -لتحميل كتاب الصبر والشكر]]
خطبة :الشكر والعبودية لله للشيخ الدكتور سعيد رمضان البوطي
خطبة : بالحب والشكر تدوم النعم للشيخ الدكتور سعيد رمضان البوطي
خطبة : العبد بين الصبر والشكر للشيخ الدكتور سعيد رمضان البوطي
خطبة: خلق الشكر - من موسوعة الأخلاق الإسلامية -للدكتور محمد راتب النابلسي (مقروءة و مسموعة)
حلقة من محاضرات للداعية الدكتور عمرو خالد >رمضانيات> من موقعه الخاص في برنامج كنوز 1424 هـ بعنوان الشكر رائعة جدا .

50 Great Examples of Extremely Awesome Typography

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:10:00 +0000

By Rula creative

This time we’re gonna show you some truly inspiring works with text, also referred to as typography. This can be used many places; in magazines, advertisements, websites, logos and more. These great pieces will show you that there are no boundaries and that you can make almost anything with text if you have a good portion of creativity and talent.
Typography can in todays terms be so much more than what you find in a book or magazine. It’s turned into a very inspiring form of art, and there are many great pieces out there. Many times they can be mixed with either other graphical elements or some sort of poem or saying. Here we’ve picked out 50 pieces that can inspire you and maybe give you some new ideas.
Enjoy!

Gun by ~mou5e

Burdened by ~dylanroscover

En Masse by ~clockblock

your type by ~O-nay

I Speak Alone by ~Gordorca

Beauty by *mrgraphicsguy

Typography Plate 002 by ~Postpwned

I am not myself by ~OrigamiSuicida

Got a Light by ~DesertViper

Typography by ~e-emoo

John Lennon in Type by ~Dencii

Come Back To Me_1600×1050 by ~Dmaghar

Lying by =RenzGFX

Steven Paul Jobs by ~dylanroscover

Instant by *Shinybinary

The Raven by ~swordfishll

DUB.TILL.DAWN by ~ICDP

Lion by ~rickystuffedpie

The Garamond Fox by ~StolenStars

Think Differently London 2 by *crymz

Martin Luther King Jr. in Type by ~Dencii

Lemons by ~Beautelle

I love typography by =mindCollision

Triumph over Chaos by ~MasterC88

Big Yellow taxi by ~TonyFbaby

Love is an accidental gift by ~mujiri

Milking by ~buioaloha

Broken Stars by `shebid

The Fall of Sin – Extended by =Anton101

Bang. by ~Q8Toba

ARTRIBUTE header by ~H3AD3AD

science typo by =Mirousensei

Imagine by =blissart

Conceptual Art by ~AagaardDS

.CMYK by ~TheSpinxSage

99 Percent by *jeffrey

TYPOGRAPHY with Helvetica by ~sarakhanoom

Highway of Endless Dreams by ~Axytrix

Addiction by ~tokarnia

Typography by ~AilesdeMort

The Dark Knight by *Prain

love’ by ~drinadesign

One chance by ~Papa-figo

creativity is my thing by *razangraphics

love and knowledge by =CHIN2OFF

Doing it daily by ~northcoaster

Nothing Less Than Forever by ~jawalyfe

social networking by ~IigouthamiI

Typo by ~KalvinK

We hope you’ve gotten some inspiration from these great examples that show the diversity that can be found within typography. Remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, maybe you’ve liked some and disliked others. We would also love to hear your opinions. Which is your favorite?
Thank you for reading!

Resource: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com

70 Insanely Beautiful Dual Screen Wallpapers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:18:00 +0000

Dual Screen as the name suggests helps you to work in two screens simultaneously. They are extremely helpful if you are working on many projects at the same time and do not like the idea of frequently switching on from one screen to another. It consumes less time from your side and you do not have to wait to look at your results.
By viewing image in a dual screen you can display your image in a wider scale and you can also set higher resolutions which greatly increases the clarity of the image and gives a stunning visual appeal to the viewer. Not only in displaying wallpapers but you can use the concept of dual screens where you can edit the changes in one screen and view the results in another.If you are a web designer or really like to play with different moods of nature, this concept could give you an environment where you could show the nature changing its colors in a subtle manner in two wide screens. Not only the moods you could also show the changing climate with the help of additional monitors and if in a classroom showing a demonstration you could have anatomy of a flower in one screen and the description part in another screen.The below presentation of “Beautiful dual screen wallpapers“are in different categories of resolutions up to 2560 x 1024 px and resources of where to collect these.

Nature categories

1.Butterfly dual effect

Enjoying the sweet nectar on a bright sunny day.

2.Pale orchid in dual screen

3.Bunch of roses

4.Spring Pink

5.Yellow in its Brightness

6.Orchid

7.Majestic Sunset horizon

8.Bright Nature

9.West Coast

Goodbye for Today.

10.Tulips

11.West Lake at Sunset

12.Yellow One

Animals and Birds

13.Tiger’s Look

14.Lizard on a Trunk

Enjoying the same color.

15.Racoon

16.Where is my Predator?

17.Hey You

18.Three Brother Wolves

Happy in our friendship.

19.Stare of a Tiger

Pride of a tiger – Looks.

20.Lizard

Relishing the warmth of nature .

21.White Tiger

22.Parrot

23.Black Beauty

A rare combination of nature with its varied colors in this black beauty.

24.Flamingos

25.Odonata

Fantasy Art

Fantasy art is high and strongly linked to fantasy fiction. Indeed fantasy art pictures are often intended to represent specific characters or scenes from works of fantasy literature. Such works created by amateur artists may be called fan art.

26.The Big Reveal

27. Morning View

28. An Untamed horse

29.A Dreamy Scene

30.Strange World

31.Hazy view

32.A Dreamy World in Wide Screen

33.Dreamy World

34.Back Draft

35.Wind Mill

36.Sunset over Moorea

37.All alone in this World

38.Blue Forest

39.To Nowhere

Abstract wallpapers

Abstract wallpaper, non figurative wallpaper, nonobjective wallpaper, and nonrepresentational wallpaper are loosely related terms. They are similar, although perhaps not of identical meaning.Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art.

40.Mushroom Samba

41.Dual monitor floral

42.Swirlz

43.14 the War

44.Splash of paint

Flow of paint as a wonderful painting.

45.Splash

46.Jincy

47.Display of bright colors

48.Feeding Time

49.Plasmoid Neophile

50. Generator

51.Destruction

52.Bokeh Remix

53.Apple i-pad

3D dual screen wallpapers

One important interesting wallpaper category is three dimensional (3D) desktop backgrounds.Here we bring our best.

54.Boy & Butterfly

55.Classic Design

56.Skull Cog

57.Water Colored

58.Fedora

59.Six of a kind

60. Abstract Pink

61.Greatest Invention

62.RTX Wallapaper

63.Multi Display Nights

Miscellaneous

Made up of a variety of parts or ingredients having a variety of characteristics, abilities, or appearances.

64.Spawning sunflowers

65.Ghost view

66.Super Mario Galaxy

67.Crocket Red Dual

68.Cat Wallpaper

69.Tropical isle

70.Yin and Yang

Further Resources & Origin

1. Dualmonitorbackgrounds
This site is dediacted to dual monitor wallpapers in various categories where you can download them for free and also update any wallpapers if you want to.
2. Dualscreenwallpaper
Variety of wallpapers according to the resolutions and with different categories.
3. Wallpaperpimper
Display of over 400 images which could be easily navigated keeping the user friendliness in mind especially for dual monitors.
4. 3datadesign
A visual treat in 3-d format with high resolution of 3200 x 1200 and 2560 x 1024.
5. Pni.princeton
Wallpapers describing nature in resolutions of 1280 x 1024.
6. Hongkiat
A list of 70 smashing cool nature wall papers.
7. Instantshift
To refresh your memory and to spice up your desktop with a list of wallpapers.
8.Marcoofolio
For Widescreen and Breathtaking dual screen wallapapers visit the link..
9. Plasmadesign
Wallpapers are categorised into landscape and abstract and are in the resolutions of 3200 x 1200.
10. Wallcoo
Delightful display of more than 150 wallapapers in high quality.
11. Wall.alphacoders
A visual tour showing Earth, Space, Sci- Fi and many more in dual monitor mode.
12. Digitalblasphemy
Digital format of wallpapers to give a fresh look to your screens..
13. Mandolux
Go through your wallapapers seperately in right, middle and left monitors.
14. 2expertsdesign
More than 600 designs to give a tough test to your choice.
15.Ewallpapers
This site boasts of more than 600 images in resolutions of 2560 x 1024 categorised under different headings.
16. Epicwallpaper
Abstract wallpapers for your screens.
17. Socwall
A soceity of social wallpaers with resolution of 2560 x 1024, 3200 x 1200.

by Siva Kumar
resource: 1stwebdesigner.com

Books and References

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:36:00 +0000

Access to thousands of eBooks, Reference, printable books, lesson plans, worksheets, and assessments.

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Oxford Text Archive

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Distance Learning - الدراسة عن بعد عبر الانترنت

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:30:00 +0000

Distance Learning
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Distance Learning Association
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Earn Money In Internet:30 Different Design Marketplaces

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:49:00 +0000

Everybody of us would love to earn extra money on internet and here you will find several
ways how to do exactly that and where to find some work to be done. While writing this article I managed to learn few new money-making methods on internet.
The thing is, you don’t even need to be experienced designer or artist to start selling your work. On few sites you can even sell your leftover work so you get best out of it. While browsing I found that these all sites listed below seem to be really promising. Honestly I have never tried any of these but I guess it’s first time for everything.

1. DeviantART

DeviantART is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 13 million registered members, attracting 35 million unique visitors per month. If you want to sell your art then this is the place to be.

2. 99designs

99designs is the #1 marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design.

3. crowdSPRING

Designers compete with each other to win money.

4. Themeforest

Themeforest is just 1 of the 7 options you can choose. Here you can sell pretty much everything ranging from logo designs to 3D models.

5. Brandstack

This is pretty much the best way to sell in 4 easy steps:

You create several logo designs for a client.
Your client chooses one.
You have a bunch of left over designs.
You sell your unused designs on Brandstack.

6. iStockphoto

iStockphoto is the internet’s original member-generated image and design community.

7. Zooppa

Zooppa is the world’s largest social network for user-generated advertising.

8. Wordpress Designers

9. Buy Stock Design

If you can make any type of Design, Templates, Wordpress or html, then this is website for you!

10. Templamatic

A unique marketplace for premium web templates.

11. Fotolia

Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images.

12. Imagekind

The world’s fastest-growing art site offering over 750,000 high-quality fine art images for sale.

13. BigStockPhoto

Bigstock is your fast, easy-to-use marketplace for quality stock images.

14. Crestock

Crestock is a growing player in micropayment royalty-free stock photography and provides a great experience to both buyers and sellers.

15. Graphic Leftovers

Quality vector art and images on the web.

16. Cutcaster

Sell photos or illustrations with best prices.

17. Zazzle

It’s free and easy to create an online store on Zazzle to sell t-shirts online or sell posters online featuring your art, images, and designs.

18. Inkd

The world’s first online marketplace for cutting edge print designs.

19. Texturevault

TextureVault is a community driven supplier of royalty free texture and background images. It allows talented photographers and artists to sign up and sell their textures via the website.

20. CoSwap

If you are talented web programmer or graphic designer and deciding what to do with items that no longer have use for, then this is for you!

21. LogoTournament

An online community where businesses can go to receive the logo they really want by hosting a logo design contest.

22. RedBubble

Sell your work online. Over the last 3 years RedBubble has shipped 352,700 items of art! They take care of all the hassle. Give them your digital file and they will turn it into the finished product, deliver it to your customer and take care of any customer service problems.

23. Minted

24. ivoteforart

You can sell one-off originals like paintings, limited edition prints or open edition prints – that’s up to you.

25. Pixmac

If you’re looking for the best picture or just trying to sell your best shot, Pixmac is your perfect tool, with accurate search results and helping you at every step.

26. DepositPhotos

DepositPhotos.com is your #1 resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images.

27. Spreadshirt

Submit your designs and earn cash every time an item with your design is sold.

28. LogoSportswear

29. CafePress

The world’s largest collection of user-designed products.

30. Printfection

The easiest way to sell t-shirts & merchanise.

The most Incredible And Creative Advertisements I Have Ever Seen

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:30:00 +0000

Orion Telescopes

TOYS R US

Puma Shoes

Puma.Com

Foot Odour?

JACOBS

Glassex Cleaner

Burger King

WWF – Don’t cut the rain forest!

Pepsi Recycling

Stop Second Hand Smoking

Pepsi Twist

Canon DiGiC

Canon DiGi

Garden-coffee

Heinz Hot Ketchup

Bingham McCutchen

Parking For Disabled

NISSAN

CAT – fly the train

NIVEA – Hair Care

Australia Post

WWF – Donate and save the world with few coins

Unicef – Every child needs a family

Ariel

Audi Chairs

The Puma Store

Welt Kompakt

After two drinks your attention while driving will diminish by up to 76%

HOT PEPPER

Comedy Central

PSP – Use it or lose it

Beretta Heating System
BBC World – See both sides of the story
BAJAJ DTS Si
Cemex – Fast Drying Concrete

COOPS PAINTS
Dealer Track – Tools for a competitive advantage
CNN
Fila
Harley Davidson
Heinz Ketchup – No one grows ketchup like this

WWF – World Wild Life
Volkswagen – Comfort at work

jobsintown – Life’s too short for the wrong job.
Dunkin Donut – Once you taste it, you can stop!
Levi’s Copper Jeans
Nissan – True style

Metalatex Colors

Sony Playstation Retry
Hush Puppies
BMW – Don’t drink and drive
Volunteers Needed for Red Cross
World Wild Life – The future is man made
Safedriver – Things look different when you are drunk
AN Jay

17 Awesome Hearts and love designs And Colorful Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:18:00 +0000

Icon Designs

URL : http://www.icondrawer.com/free.php

URL : http://dezignus.com/loveicons/

URL : http://www.mouserunner.com/Spheres_Free_Hearts.html

URL : http://dryicons.com/free-icons/preview/valentine-love/

URL : http://weboso.deviantart.com/art/Be-my-Ipod-Video-Valentine-29027285

URL : http://dezignus.com/ribbons-bows-badges/

Brushes Set

URL : http://cubsocer10-stock.deviantart.com/art/Hearts-Brush-Set-51257101

URL : http://www.skeedio.com/other/brushes/

URL : http://tatsuyasaverem.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-Brushes-Hearts-39503043

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URL : http://yanagi-san.deviantart.com/art/Yanagi-Love-Brushes-32178317

URL : http://www.easyelements.com/photoshop-heart-brush-set.html

Vector Graphics and Designs

URL : http://createsk8.com/2008/free-vector-hearts-for-valentines-day/

URL : http://garcya.us/blog/amaizing-love-vectors/

URL : http://www.larissameek.com/a-wallpaper-made-with-love

URL : http://aramisdream.deviantart.com/art/Valentine-74951843

Pencil Sketches That Make You Say ‘Wow’

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:14:00 +0000

The Remnant

On The Way Home From The Pub

Pom

Sun

Pencil Sketches

Tube poster

Women

I am not a Hero

Still land

Forest Princess

Feathered eye

Masquerade: All is Vanity

Save us

The Darkest Illusion

+Liv Tyler

Puppet Not

The Infamous Professor Corc

The Pretty Rose

Dragon – Sanguine Pencil

Tidal Fayth: Revised

Hendrix- All Shades of Grey

Why Won’t She Love Me?

Secret Invasion 7 variant

Man

DAAN NOPPEN

Hyperbody C02

Dali- Pencil

Ambush

Lucien Freud

Katie

If Only

Ben Barnes – Prince Caspian W2

Sybilla

Beauty in Simplicity

By AN Jay

Creative Design Ideas With Inspirations From 16 Designer’s Community Website

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:05:00 +0000

What do you do you normally when you are planning for your new design project and you are curiously finding for an inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative ideas or just to motivate and inspire yourself, we are today getting an amazing designers community list for you. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative ideas and motivate you for design something which people will never forget that you have made it!

BehanceNetwork

deviantART

Flickr

Computerlove

DESIGNFLOOD

Coroflot

Creative Binge

QBN

We heart it

The RASTER group

depthCORE

Carbonmade

Spraygraphic

Design You Trust

DesignFlavr

Shadowness

By AN Jay

19 Free Flash Photo Galleries

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:35:00 +0000

A Flash Gallery is a free application that allows you to create a slideshow on your website easy and fast. You won’t need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or an XML files or from Flickr photostream.

I’ve seen a lot of flash galleries on the web and there are growing fast, in this post, I’ve put together 19 of the best and most beautiful free flash galleries that have been made ever.

1- Flash Photo Gallery

This gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file.
I’ve mentioned some of its features here:

- Flash Gallery is 100% FREE!
- Easy to implement in your site
- Intuitive navigation
- Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux
- Lightweight, only 11KB
- Image preloader and effects

2- Flash Gallery

This is a free flash gallery for you.You can download it from www.flash-gallery.org website.

Here are a few of its features:

- easy installation
- forms slideshow automatically
- supports Flickr photostream
- customizable design
- fully resizable

3- Free Flash & XML Slideshow Photo Gallery

You can easily add, edit or delete images and thumbnails by editing an xml file in Notepad.

Features:

- Flash Slideshow Photo Gallery
- Next and Previos Buttons
- Add unlimited number of images
- Add photos and captions easily in an XML file which can be easily edited in Notepad
- Preloader for loading images
- Images are loaded externally from a photos folder
- Neat fade-in and fade-out photo transition effect

4- Free Flash & XML Photo Album with Categories

You don’t need the Flash software for editing the gallery. You can easily add, edit or delete pictures and categories by editing a xml file in Notepad. Creating your own Flash photo gallery has never been easier! You can add unlimited number of categories and photos! You need Flash Player 8.0 to view this Flash Photo Gallery.

Features:

- Add unlimited number of categories
- Add unlimited number of images
- Next and Previous buttons to navigate

- Images are loaded externally from a photos folder
- Nice fade-in and fade-out photo transition effect
- Add categories, photos and captions easily in an XML file which can be easily edited in Notepad

5- SimpleViewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Main Features:

- Intelligent image pre-loading.
- Intuitive image navigation
- Lightweight (17k).
- Customizable interface – Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
- Resizable interface – Interface scales to fit browser window.
- Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).
- Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are messaged to upgrade Flash.
- International font support.
- Keyboard Navigation (Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down)
- Mousewheel navigation
- Optionally right-click to open image in a new window.

6- Agile Gallery

AgileGallery is a free Flash photo gallery that rips through the XML output from Picasa (a free download from google) and generates the paging and thumbnails and displays the full sized photos along with any description entered in Picasa. It also includes a slideshow feature.

7- XML Image Gallery With Source

Tony’s Photo Album is a open source image gallery, you can check its demo by clicking the link below or download it.

[DEMO]

[DOWNLOAD]

8- FREE Photo Gallery

Photo Album v.2 is a free image gallery, you can download it by clicking the link below.

[DOWNLOAD]

9- Flash Photo Album

It’s an easy to use flash gallery.

Main Features:
- Dynamic Picture loading
- Easy to install and easy to change content
- Show pictures automatically with slideshow
- Integrate to any web site
- No server side scripting or database requirement
- Adds great look and functionality to your web site
- Specify other configuration file like asp or php.
- Showing selected image on thumb and showing selected page of thumbs.
- Ability to show up to 1200 images.

10- dfGallery

dfGallery is a free flash gallery, Take a look to some of features.

Features:

- Flash Gallery to support both Flickr , Picasa , Fotki, Photobucket and Custom Images.
- Enable / Disable “Print Screen” ( requested by Photographers )
- Easily Customizable
- Full Screen mode. ( on the Right Click – Flash Player 9)
- Supports both RSS and Custom Images.
- Liquid Layout – Fits to any size you specify.
- Background MP3 music.
- Multiple language support.
- Notifies if a new update is available. 1.003b

11- Flash Page Flip Photo Gallery template for Picasa

12- Flash Photo Stack Gallery

13- Polaroid Gallery

A FREE, open source flash gallery developed by Christopher Einarsrud. The script loads images and image titles dynamically from an external xml file or a Flickr RSS feed.

14- 3D Flash image viewing

TiltViewer is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application.

15- AutoViewer

AutoViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewer. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.

16- PostcardViewer

PostcardViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewer. The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface.

17- Zen Flash Gallery

Zen Flash Gallery combines simplicity and elegance.

Main Features:

- Flash component (cs3) and swf-xml versions available
- Elegant author’s design
- Smart usability
- Multiple image folders
- Gallery parameters configuration via XML
- Image captions
- Slideshow mode
- Sound effects
- Gallery code is optimized for high productivity

18- Art Flash Gallery

Art Flash Gallery will organically blend with any design thanks to multiple appearance settings.

Take a look to some of features.

Features:

- Flash component (cs3) and swf-xml versions available
- Advanced appearance configuration possibilities
- Gallery parameters configuration via XML
- Convenient thumbnail bar
- Navigation bar
- Image captions
- Slideshow mode
- Full-screen mode
- Sound effects
- Gallery code is optimized for high productivity

19- Nineteen Free Picasa Flash and HTML templates to showcase your photos

Here are nineteen Picasa web templates to create web Flash and HTML photo galleries and slideshows using Google’s Picasa without any knowledge of Flash, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Use these free templates to showcase your photos and images.

from http://www.devwebpro.com

23 Unbelievable Photos That Are 100% Real and Unedited

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Get ready to have your mind blown with a set of 23 photographs that will make you do a double-take! Sure, there are countless posts out there about Photoshop and photo manipulation, but this one is anything but ordinary. We're talking about some truly magical photographs that will have you questioning whether they're even real. And get this - they haven't been heavily edited or Photoshopped. These are the real deal, captured using only in-camera tricks and the creativity and efforts of the photographers behind them. Prepare to be amazed and inspired by these wonder creations that showcase a different angle and approach to photography.

All the photographs are copyrights of their respected owners and creators. This post is about just to show their creative ideas and inspiration wonders to the world. Please contact us if anyone want to remove their work.

By AN Jay