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Photoshop: Create Watchmen Style Blood

May 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Design

In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a blood style similar to what is seen on the Watchmen Movie poster designs. To get the desired effect you’ll have to adjust some blending effects and a couple of styling tools. Watch the video to learn how it’s done.

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Zajet: Social Media Mashup

May 30th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Technology

zajetZajet is a social media site that allows you to share everything without any limits. You can share short updates like in Twitter, extra long posts like on blogs, photos, ebooks, links, and virtually anything you can share on the web.

People can stay hyper-connected to their friends and always know what they’re sharing. People can share/browse slides, animations, art, books, articles, source codes, documents, doings, emotions, etc. easily.

It’s like having all the best of the features of popular social media sites rolled into one. The service promises more features in the future. A simple design combined with great features is always something to watch out for in an online service.

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Sa.Yona.La: Dead Simple Blog Service

May 29th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Blog Tips

sayonalaSa.Yona.La is a blogging service that has the least features you’d expect from a blog host. If you’re after cool designs and feature packed blog platform, then you better look elsewhere because it’s not what Sa.Yona.La stands for. It’s an easy solution for those who have something to say to post their articles without the hassle of customization, thinking of blog names and titles.

The things that you cannot do with Sa.Yona.la

You cannot specify your blog title.
You cannot set your account name.
You cannot customize any design.

The things that you can do with Sa.Yona.la

You can post/reply/trackback quickly and easily via a bookmarklet.
Can post anytime by sending email from anywhere.

You can set up two or more accounts easily using open ID
The blog title promotes the brand or what the blog stands for. Other use logos and images to help define their blogs better. The absence of any sort of branding might not be everybody’s cup of tea, but folks who love to write and differentiate themselves through their content and writing skills rather than with flashy designs will find Sa.Yona.La quite interesting. This is a blogging service that will let you speak out and define you online presence through your content and nothing more.

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Flock: Browser Integration with Social Media

May 28th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Technology

flockFlock is a browser made especially for social media sites and users. If you are a social media geek, then you will most probably find Flock very exciting to use. It has a lot of features integrated into it that enhances your social media experience. If you’re using plugins and third party applications to keep track of your favorite social networking site, social news site, email and others, you can use Flock to easily maneuver them all on the sidebar.

Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them.

The browser is built on Mozilla Firefox’s technology that’s why Firefox users will get a familiar feeling when using it. It also supports most Firefox plugins. There’s not much difference in the browsing experience compared to Firefox, except for the real time tracking of your favorite social networking site on the sidebar and a few visual tweaks. It is what makes the browser a must try for social media users.

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GeekChart: Share Your Social Media Activity Through a Pie Chart

May 27th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Technology

geekchartGeekChart is a tool that you can use to share your online activity through a pie chart. It surveys your social network activities. The service currently supports the most popular social media sites out there. You can display your activity survey on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, you blog, Digg, Stumleupon, Delicious, and Last.Fm (Facebook is coming soon). If you don’t see your favorite social networking site on the list, you can make a suggestion for the inclusion.

Creating the chart is very easy. Just enter your social networks’ usernames and you can instantly create your chart. The chart will display the last 30 days of your activity on the social websites that you have entered. It may not immediately provide you with an accurate computation because some of the sites only provide very recent usage, but once your data accumulates, you can expect to view a more accurate reflection of your activity.

GeekChart can be used to share your social network activity with friends. You can embed it on your blog to give them an idea on what site you are most active in. You can also use the chart to monitor your own social media usage. You can find out if you are spending too much time on a particular service. If you feel that you’re giving way too much contribution to a particular site, you can immediately track your statistics and become more active on others.

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MyPicsMap: Explore the World Through Flickr and Google Maps

May 26th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Cool Sites, Technology

mypicsmapMyPicsMap is a tool for viewing geo tagged photos on Flickr. If you like viewing places through other’s eyes or photographs, I’m sure that you’ll find MyPicMaps quite interesting. The tool was developed integrating Google Maps and Twitter to produce a user experience that most will surely enjoy.

You can enter a Flickr username and view the geo tagged photos that is shared by a particular user. Aside from being a Flickr Photo viewer, it also allows you to easily discover where on the map a particular photo is taken, whether it is a portrait or a photo of a scenery. If you want to go to explore mode, simply click the explore button and it will display random photos from Flickr scattered all over the world.

If you want a geo-tagged user experience with Flickr, check out MyPicsMap. Whether you want to view your own photos on a map or view the world through the eyes of other Flickr users, you will surely enjoy the best of Flickr on MyPicsMap.

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