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Rohin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:37:56 +0000

Things have been quite crazy and busy as of late with college and work to be updating the blog. We will update things during the break.

As of now we are offering Web Hosting for either VPS , Dedicated or any other needs you may have.

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Happy Holidays !

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Server 500 Errors on Windows Server 2008

Sherif — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:38:05 +0000

This is if you keep getting server 500 errors or 500 Internal Server Error using Wordpress or any other CMS and you’re wondering why this problem happens. It is in fact a Permissions Error and If you are running windows 2008 and need to fix this problem.

Just go to Wherever your site is located on the hard drive, right click on the folder–>Properties–>Security Tab–>Edit–>Add–>And what you need to add is IUSR, give IUSR Read/Write Permissions to the files that are giving you the error.

Usually I just have wp-content only and that should take care of any server 500 problems on windows server. If you are computer savvy I will show you in the next entry on how to use procman to figure out any other permission problems and how to solve them.

If you need help, feel free to use the contact form or post a comment.

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The best free-font sites on the net

Rohin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:49:17 +0000

I have assembled a list of the greatest font websites that offer free font downloads as well as websites that only carry fonts that are free for commercial use. Enjoy

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30 Custom 404 Designs

Rohin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:31:05 +0000

Anytime a visitor can’t find what they are looking for when they search a website they get the 404 page. I believe that every great website deserves a custom 404 page. So I searched for some custom 404 designs that can be used to spark some inspiration for you to make your very own custom 404 error page. Enjoy.

Beautiful Hand Drawn Icons

Rohin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:46:20 +0000

As a followup to my previous popular post “60+ Vector Icon Set” I have compiled a nice list of a few of the nicest Hand Drawn Icons on the web for web designers.

Icon Name : Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set

Icon Description : ” This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and Wordpress. “

Icon Name :HandyCons

Icon Description : ” hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed & Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 and 48×48 pixels. “

Icon Name : Handycons 2

Icon Description : ” This time it is not limited just to socail media related icons. Package contains Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons. All icons come in four sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 64×64 and 12×128px. And they are all free, of course “

Icon Name : Social Icons Hand Drawn

Icon Description : ” The icons are available in the size:

24×24, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64 “

Icon Name : 19 Hand Drawn Sketch Icons

Icon Description : “These were all drawn by me. On paper. With a pen. Then I scanned them in and cleaned them up (but not too much) in Illustrator.

Each icon is a jpeg and comes in two sizes: 48×48 and 96×96 pixels. Each is dark greyish on a white background. You want more info than that, you’ll just have to download them!”

Icon Name : ColorStroked Free Hand Icon Set

Icon Description : Various Hand Drawn Icons

Icon Name : Hand Drawn Vector Icons

Icon Description : ” Inside the zip is an AI file with 22 icons that range from RSS icons to copyright icons and email envelope icons. Below you can view a screenshot of the icons placed over top of a wood texture as well as see the complete list of the icons in this set. “

Icon Name : Handy Icons

Icon Description : “
‘Handy’ is a set of 24 free and exclusive vector iconsthat can be used on websites, logos and more.

The icons have a unique hand drawn feeling and look great in color or black and white. The set also includes most social media websites, such as Delicious, Digg and many more.

These icons are completely free for personal and commercial use and they’re being released exclusively to all our RSS subscribers.”

Icon Name : Red Little Shoes Hand Drawn Icon Set

Icon Description : ” I redesign almost every icon to improved the usability. All icons painted with my good ol’ brush and watercolor. “

Icon Name : Nastu Icon Set

Icon Description : ” The name “Natsu” is japanese word, means “Summer” Work best with LARGE icon size (to see the “texture” of pencil and watercolour of course)

The Icon set composed of 43 icons, .ICO and also 256×256 PNG format “

Icon Name : Free Web 2.0 Hand Drawn Icons

Icon Description : ” there are craiglist, delicious, digg, facebook, feedburner, flickr, gmail, google, linkedin, mixx, myspace, reddit, rss, skype, stumbleupon, technorati, twitter, wordpress, yahoo and youtube icons. Each named folder includes 5 different size .png files(16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 256×256) and 3 .gif files(16×16, 24×24, 32×32) and 1windows .ico file and 1 .icns mac file. (simple math: 20 brands x 10files = 200 files ^_^;) “

70+ Marvelous Typography Designs

Rohin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:04:57 +0000

Typography art is truly a beautiful thing. Its always around us even if we don’t notice it. Typography is on your t-shirt , all over your books & magazine as well as pretty much anywhere else that text is printed on.

I searched all over the internet and posted some of the finest examples of typography design.

30 Cool Custom MousePads

Rohin — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:44:14 +0000

I’ve been recently busy renovating my minny design room/studio with some new wallpapers and paint. I noticed while fixing my desk that I needed a cooler mousepad. The OEM mousepad is quite dull and worn out reminding me of the winter. So I googled and found this website called zazzle.com .

Zazzle has an enormous amount of graphics & designs that can be applied to pretty much anything you can think of like shirts , coffee cups and in this case MOUSEPADS !

So I grabbed 30 custom mousepad designs that I personally would buy.

30+ Stunning Photoshop Brushes

Rohin — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:53:27 +0000

Phatbrush.com has grown a lot since it’s launch last month. It has over 195+ photoshop brush sets in all kinds of categories. So I compiled a list of the best photoshop brushes that truly caught my eye. If your a person in need of high quality free photoshop brushes then this list is for you.

Abstract / Fractal Brushes

Photoshop Brush : Destiny Brushes