I bought this creative wall decal clock from a €5 Shop while walking around in Erlangen, Germany. I didn’t expect it could look that handsome on my living room’s wall, which was lacking such fashionable big clock. The wall decal clock consisting of: the wall decals (stickers) which stick on the wall in certain places, and the clock mechanism which hanged on the middle. That’s it! Definitely priceless.

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This CSS Cheat Sheet consisting of the following properties:

• Syntax
• Box Model
• Selector Syntax
• Background
• Font
• Text
• Links
• Lists
• Colors
• Borders
• Outline

Later on, i might upgrade the current one with more properties and small font size, again to achieve the same goal, which is packing all details in one printable page. I have seen many CSS cheat sheets around, but they come in more than one page, which i don’t think making any sense to be called “Cheat Sheet”. For the full CSS reference i recommend w3school official CSS reference.

Again, this sheet is only for the most commonly used properties, it is useful whenever you need to remember more options or sometimes to double check spelling for particular CSS property when things go wrong. Enjoy it

The application has many features as we used to use in Photoshop, it includes basic layers system and photo adjustment, there are image editing features, such as levels, curves, brightness/contrast, and such and such, in addition to many new artistic filters, painting and retouching tools.

One significant thing is the hard work behind scenes from Pixelmator team. There have been many corrected bugs and overall improvement, within a short period of time. The last two updates were within roughly 5 months, but the results were astonishing.

Because it is made for Mac OS, it fully interacts with some built-in apps like iSight and iPhoto. A “New layer from iSight” in the layers menu was never been closer. So when you click on capture and you liked the photo, you simply hit Ok and it goes directly as a new layer into the layers palate, where you can enhance or cut into a custom design. The interaction with iPhoto is another unique feature as well, in which you can access your iPhoto library, albums and pictures folder with the built-in photo browser.

What about using the application? Pixemlator is a user friendly. Its interface is based on Photoshop, so Photoshop users will not be confused when trying to find commands and menus. Actually, menus are located at the same places as in Photoshop. The awesome black windows of tools and options make it more attractive to play with. There are many text and video tutorials around to use Pixelmator creatively, have a look at the official one, it’s much of impression I should say.

With some of the features mentioned earlier, some users might be missing some of the most basics of Photoshop. Pixelmator lacks the adjustment layer feature, which allows you to re-adjust many patterns of a certain image at any time, without permanently changing pixel values. And because it is made for Mac OS only, Windows users still looking for their own copy or another alternative that behave close to Photoshop at a price in the pocket.

Pixelmator is a two thumbs up application at only $59. It really deserves trying for its powerful features and closeness to the Photoshop.

Yesterday, Apple launched the sleek iPad (Wifi version) in USA, fans were camping outside New York’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store. Absolutely a great day for apple, particularly Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of Apple, watching how much geeks of Apple’s products love to be involved in creative devices from the first moment. Many iPad buyers says they will use it as their primary computers according to Cnet News. Though, some people argue that it still lacks some essential features to replace a laptop!

As we are very excited to have our own in Saudia, and despite its fabulous features well known earlier, there are some drawbacks in this first generation of iPad everybody should note, that includes:

- No multitasking (running two apps at the same time)

- Heavier than it looks

- Will not replace the laptop nor phone

- A fingerprint magnet

- No camera (for iChat)

- Non removable battery

- No flash support

Although, the sleek iPad is one of the most stylish multimedia and internet surfing devices and is promising for much of enjoyment and fun.

Reminding you, “Kan” is my nickname, I picked it up in 2000. It’s just fun when having another name while using it properly within the network. I am a fan of every creative digital art and well taken photograph. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be much involved – on the personal side – in such art, that’s for study reasons. Back In 1999, I got enrolled in KSU,  Electrical Engineering, and that should shorten the story of being busy at many times. In the last two years, I was doing Master study in Curtin University of Technology at Perth/Australia. Though, during the last ten years I have been involved in freelance projects and worked in some part time jobs. I am just glad to have such experiences.

So, I’m blogging again because I just love it. I like the idea of expressing my thoughts and opinions, communicate and share knowledge, and trying to motivate others which in turn will keep myself motivated. Blogging shall include issues relates to digital art, photography, CSS coding, websites design, typography, personal works and variety of other interests.

I guess that’s pretty enough introduction, please have a look around and tell me what do you think.. Your feedback is highly appreciated…

**Following are thoughts from the previous Kan Design:

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