Mash Up #17: Topics in Design, Multi-Author Blogging, Search Rankings, SEO, Social Media, and HDR Photography

Hi everyone, it’s time once again for our weekly Mash Up series. This series is a list of great articles I have read over the last week or so and I share them here. Generally these lists have articles for everyone. You can usually find a great listing of design related articles. But I also […]

Hootsuite Hits 2 Million Sign Ups!

Back in November 2010, Hootsuite hit the one million mark for new signups. Now Just a few months later, they hit two million signups! For those that do not know about Hootsuite, it is a Twitter client and more. Its your personal media sharing tool. You can send a status to variety social networks and […]

QuickTip: Format Your Google Plus Statuses

One of the things I like about Google Plus is they are trying to build a great user experience for everyone. They are adding new features and refining features that have issues. One of the features that I like is the ability to format your Google Plus statuses. Although formatting of status updates isn’t a […]

QuickTip: How To Find the Permalink for a Google Plus Status Update

Just like most social networks, each status update in Google Plus gets its own permalink (web URL). If you ever need access to a status update, all you have to do is click on the timestamp in the top left corner next to the user name. This will then open up that status’ web page.

5 Free High Quality Concrete Textures

Hi guys, its been a while since I last did a free texture article. The free texture series a series that we try and do weekly, but with the lack of time and other great articles that were needed to release on Wednesdays we had to put the textures series on hold.  In the future […]

25 Beautiful Examples of Surreal Photo manipulation

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and features elements of surprise, unexpected objects to create a disorienting, hallucinatory dreamlike reality. One of the most popular uses for Adobe Photoshop is Photo manipulation. One of the reasons for PhotoShop popularity is its ability to blend real images with vibrant colors and […]

Mash UP #16: Its All About Google Plus Social Network, tutorials, Articles, and Cheat Sheets

This week instead doing a regular Mash Up, I decided to share with you some of my favorite articles, tutorials, and cheat sheets for the Google Plus Network. After deciding to create this list, I found that my good buddy, Hesham of Famous Bloggers beat me to the list. So, instead of sharing every one […]

QuickTip: How To Mention Someone in the Google Plus Network

Earlier someone asked me how to mention someone on the Google Plus Network and have the status link to that person’s profile. Once figuring out how to mention someone on Google plus I decided to see how many tutorials or mentions of how to do this on the web. I found only a few articles. […]

Picasa Gets Unlimited Storage for Pictures and Better Tagging When Using Google Plus

Last week the Google Plus Network was launched. Although the network is still in closed beta you can get your invites through your friends and you can request an invite from Google Plus. When I first wrote about Google Plus, I was hesitant to think that Google Plus would be a social media game changer […]

The Best PhotoShop Tutorials Created in June

It’s the end of the month and there are some new Photoshop Tutorials available to try out. This month, there were not that many tutorials created, normally you can find twenty or so tutorials. Out of what was created. most were tutorials designed to give a surreal feel to the completed image. Most months, they […]

Google Plus Social Network, Is it a Social Media Game Changer?

So it looks as if Google had more in mind than just adding the Google +1 voting system. Now that the Google +1 button is out and websites are adding the new buttons to their sites and articles, Google goes and creates the Google Plus social network. To setup your account, all you need is […]

Mash Up #15

Hi guys, it’s time once again for our weekly Mash Up series. This series is a list of great articles I have read over the last week or so and I share them here. Generally these lists have articles for everyone. You can usually find a great listing of design related articles. But I also […]