Image editing made easy

I signed up some time back to an email alert for an app called Pixelmator and I received my email today, with a link to the latest download.

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Sure enough I downloaded and installed the latest version of the app. This is what the artistic mac fanatic has been waiting for, this app will surely make even more of an impact than ever. It has a sweet looking GUI with transparent tool palettes and all the tools any good vector artist could want.

I am far from being an artist, so I won't offend those who are by posting some sort of doodle, instead I took the photo of the flowers I use in my header on this blog and gave it the kaleidoscope effect and Heh presto!



I know, what is that you ask. Well that is just the first effect I tried and nothing more than that, take a look to see for yourself, image editing made even easy than ever!

Strictly CSS templates

Yesterday I was pointed towards a site called free css templates and as inquisitive as I am I had to take a look. As is often the case with sites like these, I expected to find 'some boring old templates' but to my surprise I was welcomed to a site with fresh, clean, mean, CSS based templates that were all valid xhtml strict.
The designer has painstakingly taken the time to produce these templates and in my opinion some of these are works of art!

These were the first three thumbnails on the site when I looked
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When you reach the site you will read that all templates have been released FREELY under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, and the templates themselves are very lightweight in terms of images, are table-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes), they are all W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict) and are provided with public domain photos, generously provided by PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

All of the templates are free so what are you waiting for, get downloading!!!

But dont forget to put a link back to the site.

www. free css templates .org

Alerting all code demons

This is an alert to all code demons who admire semantic coding at it's best. I stumbled upon a beauty of a site desribing a way to make buttons that scale both horizontally as well as vertically with the minimum of coding, don't believe me take a look at these beautiful buttons
See what I mean this is coding at it's very best! clean code that degrades in legacy browsers.

Who could ask for more?
Well there is more, the same guy has also taken the time to write another breath taking tutorial desribing a way to create even text display across all browsers.
Here is a link to the blog post that describes Tripoli in more detail. ENJOY!

Look in to your web cam to leave a comment...

Well this one I found about ten minutes ago, it's a video commenting sytem that looks pretty cool to me.

I haven't tested this little baby out yet, I thought I would leave that up to you.


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