Friedeggs.com Clone

I would like to have a clone made of fiedeggs.com for me. Its a merging of facebook and twitter into one site. The site should have the ablity for status updates to be private (only friends can see them) or public like twitter for all to see. Also unlike both twitter and facebook members should be able to embed a picture or video with their status updates. Members should be able to create and upload aps like facebook to. The site should have a nice logo made and have a clean look and feel to it.

Adobe Bridge Export Module

The brand new Adobe Bridge CS5 4.0.2 update now supports export modules. You should upgrade your bridge and test it before bidding on the project. I am looking for someone who can add a module that will enable uploading to my wordpress portfolio site. I have a plugin that currently allows for uploading to a queue through the wordpress dashboard. This Adobe Module would interface with my WordPress Plugin.

40 Free Headline Typefaces


Using strong typography will increase the quality and visual appearance of your work, after all strong typographic skills are one of the many keys to great design! This round-up presents 40 beautiful fonts suitable for typographic illustrations, headlines and sub-headers.

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Advantages Of Collective Collaboration in Online Art Collectives


Participating in online art collectives offers numerous advantages. A collective is a great forum to get your worked reviewed by professionals and critiqued by peers. By working together unique opportunities arise for fusing style and stretching your creative abilities. You can grow close connections with other talented artists, and learn to solve design/illustration problems by tackling themes. Through this article, we examine numerous advantages found by participating in online art collectives.

Online Art Collectives

As stated by Wikipedia, “Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals.” Collaboration is incredibly key for any artist. It is so key because it allows artists to not only branch out, but to establish relationships and connections with other artists. Another spectacular aspect of collaboration is how broad it truly is. A collaboration is not limited to two artists working together on a single piece of art, a collaboration can be something on a much larger scale, the most concise example comes in the form of the digital art collective.

Online art collectives have risen to prominence as a way to display large scale collaborations to viewers who are thirsty for inspiration. Art collectives typically involve between 30 to 100 artists who release exhibitions every few months. Certain collectives like slashTHREE and Depthcore use themes for their exhibitions, while others like Intrinsic Nature do not. Regardless of theme, one thing we can be sure of is that what occurs in these massive scale collaborations is something that is not only beneficial for artists, but also for viewers.

Let’s look at some of the advantages of participating in art collectives, and how collaboration will help you grow as an artist.

Unique Critiques

Critique is one of the most essential things for all artists. Who you choose to ask, how you choose to interpret it, and how you plan on following it might be some of the issues that arise in the mind of an artist when they begin to ponder how to get their latest work critiqued. Online art collectives provide a special brand of effortless and efficient critique that can help improve the skills and attitude of any artist.

What typically happens is that within the hidden area of an art collective (commonly called the artist area) exists the control panel, where each exhibition is worked on. Typically artists will submit a work in progress (WIP) or a finished piece to be voted on.

Once a piece is submitted, it will automatically become open to all of the collective’s artists for commenting, voting, and most importantly critiquing the artwork. At the online collective slashTHREE, each time a WIP is submitted it receives an intensive set of critique from Creative Directors, Senior Members, and Artists.

After the first round of critique, the artist will typically sift through what they feel are the best suggestions, make the improvements, and then update the work. If the community of artists feels that the work now meets all standards, the piece will be voted on, but if there are still errors, then a second set of critiques will be posted. This process continues on until the piece becomes something that the artist and the community feel is ready for the exhibition.

Although this is the style of the slashTHREE collective, this is a ballpark description for the general style of collective critique. It may not seem like a big deal, but knowing that in only a day you can have a piece extensively critiqued by a number of world class artists anytime is something that can be highly beneficial to the progression of any artist.

Another typical trait of collective critique is the technical feedback line diagram. Shown below is an example of a critique showing perspective and composition traits of a piece, the piece is done by Bechira Sorin.

Fusing Style

A style is what sets an artist apart. The facial recognition function within the human brain allows us to immediately distinguish people we know. One could say this is similar with visual stylistic traits, if you are an artist reading this, I’m sure you’ve had a moment when you’ve seen an intricately constructed swirl based illustration and thousand of neurons later you have had that eureka moment, “aha! this is Si Scott.”

Collaboration is a major breeding ground for fusing two styles together to create something new and fresh. And there is no place better to do this than design collectives. When a collective is working on an exhibition and multiple artists are all attempting to create their own interpretation of the theme in their style, roadblocks can come up. These roadblocks are the beginning of greatness.

Lets say one collective artist starts up a great 3D based render, but just isn’t sure how to finish it off. All that artist has to do is place the file in the private collective forum and wait for someone else who is feeling inspired to have a go at it. Below is an example of this, an illustration I created from a 3D object of Australian artist Chris Haines.

Community

I can say from my own personal experience that design collectives are one of the best places to make connections and good friends. Different collectives have various criteria for accepting applications, but two beneficial traits for applicants are personally and attitude. This usually leads to a tightly knit community of artists who are all in contact with each other, and always looking at each other’s artwork. When someone is familiar with not only you, but also your style of art and the way you are used to working. collaboration becomes a simple task with the potential for even more magnificent results.

Most creative professionals are used to collaborating with art directors who they aren’t familiar with on a personal level for commercially based projects. I personally believe that the best collaborations are produced by close friends, and often within design collective communities. Since it is hard for me alone to articulate the differences, I asked my friend Justin Maller (creative director of Depthcore) for his thoughts on the matter:

Collaborating with a friend gives you the artistic freedom to explore and mesh aesthetics in a way that simply can’t be afforded by art directing client work. As enjoyable as the challenges of realizing a goal within the parameters of the typical art direction project are, as an artist it is always liberating to be completely free. Especially when collaborating, the ability to drift through your own stylistic flights of fancy, anchored only to your partner’s contributions is not just liberating but often provocative; I’ve discovered and developed several styles and techniques that are now staples of my creative process whilst working with friends within my collective.

Following The Theme

I’d like to end this article discussing what I feel to be one of the most unique aspects of design collectives, themed exhibitions. As mentioned earlier on the majority of design collectives create a theme to follow for each exhibition, this gives the viewers something different to look at, while also continually challenging the collective’s artists.

Theme voting begins typically one week before an exhibition is about to release. Theme voting is an incredibly untidy process that usually results with many artists brainstorming ideas whilst arguing about which is the most plausible. When a theme is finally agreed upon by all of the collective’s artists, the magic can begin.

When collaborating within a design collective, the usage of a theme can be a productive breakthrough tool. Here are some examples of themes I have encountered over the years: Steampunk, Eve, Noir, Afterlife, Unity, Empire, Spectrum, Deja Vu, Revolution, and Heist.

I mentioned style fusion before, but one thing I did not mention is about some of the difficulties two artists can run into during a collaboration, and how a theme can be a viable solution.

Sometimes it’s hard for two artists to combine styles because it visually does not look compatible. A good example would be when a matte painter tires to fuse his work with a traditional pencil artist. These two styles are incredibly far apart, but here is where the usage of a theme can provide unity.

Using the Steampunk theme as an example, we could hypothesize that the matte painter creates his own Steampunkesque town, and then has the pencil artist render the people for the town, which he can then integrate, and voila, visual unity has been achieved. Many graphic designers are always saying that design is about problem solving, and the usage of a theme is great problem solver for roadblocks in collaboration.

Conclusion

You have all been given a glimpse into the world of design collectives and the way they work. We have gone over a few key things regarding design collectives and collective collaboration, but I am afraid this is only the tip of the iceberg. There is such a vast world of collaboration to be explore. I recommend anyone enticed by this article to pursue their own design collective research and get involved. Some of the aforementioned collectives include:

Add a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog

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8 examples of stunning CSS3 text effects

How to Create Inset Typography with CSS3


Just two years ago, we all used Photoshop to create beautiful inset typography. Now, you can do it using only CSS3. This great tutorial will help you getting started.
View tutorial: http://sixrevisions.com/css/how-to-create-inset-typography-with-css3/

Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography


Technically speaking, styling text is very simple. The hard part is the artistic part: How to make text easy to read and look good? This is the focus of the tutorial, which is a must read for all web developers and designers.
View tutorial: http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/05/13/create-beautiful-css3-typography/

Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow


The “letterpress” effect is very popular in web design. Many people do it using Photoshop, but you can do it extremely easily using CSS3 only. How? Chris Spooner shows you how in this interesting article.
View tutorial: http://line25.com/tutorials/create-a-letterpress-effect-with-css-text-shadow

How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS


Chris Spooner again! This time, the talented British web designer comes back with a tutorial showing you how you can create a anaglyphic effect with CSS. Not sure I’ll use it on a live site, but it’s always interesting to know how to do it.
View tutorial: http://line25.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-cool-anaglyphic-text-effect-with-css

Text Rotation with CSS


Why should text always be displayed horizontally? CSS3 has the transform: rotate property, which allow you to rotate any elements, including text. The following tutorial, written by Jonathan Snook, will show how in details how to achieve an awesome rotated text effect.
View tutorial: http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/css-text-rotation

Text Embossing Technique With CSS


One more technique I’ve done exclusively in photoshop in the past. Thanks to CSS3, I’m now able to do it entirely in CSS.
View tutorial: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/03/text-embossing-technique-with-css/

Adding an outline to your text using the CSS3 text-stroke property


Although this technique only works in webkit for now, I must admit that I really love it. You can add an outline to text, and even better, use transparent text with a solid outline.
View tutorial: http://www.cardeo.ca/2010/adding-an-outline-to-your-text-using-the-css3-text-stroke-property

CSS textured text


Ok, this isn’t new, and this isn’t CSS3, but this example is so great that I can’t not feature it on this post. Nick La from WebDesignerWall explains how you can make gradients or textured texts using CSS.
View tutorial: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-gradient-text-effect/

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8 examples of stunning CSS3 text effects

Health Tips

Health

Your health should be the number one priority in your life. Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is also a level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism, often implicitly human. The physical environment is perhaps the most important factor that should be considered when classifying the health status of an individual. This includes factors such as clean water and air, safe houses, communities and roads all contribute to good health.

Jogging:

For heart health, the benefits of jogging is no need to be doubted. However, to reduce fat and weight, it is not effective. Why is hard to loose weight by jogging?

Here is an explanation of why a body remain fat despite jogging every day.

Constant movement during jogging including aerobic activity can strengthen the heart and respiratory muscles. The impact on health is that breathing becomes more healthy and cardiac pressure will go down so that the risk of hypertension decreases.

However, to burn fat, jogging is less effective. The body will only process the fat into energy if the calories needs obtained from sugar and carbohydrates are not sufficient.

One way to reduce fat is through exercise. Jogging is an exercise which requires lots of energy, so many people do it with the expectation of energy reserves in the form of fat will burned more efficiently. In fact, some people fail to lose weight despite jogging every day.

“The body is like the best machine that constantly adapts to anything. The more often you jog, the body will be more prepared for the next jog.”

Jogging which is done frequently will only cause energy metabolism becomes more efficient. Adaptation which is performed by the body reduce the energy needed so not a lot of calories are burned.

Besides not being effective in loosing weight, jogging is also not good for your joints. When you jog, the joints will have to take 2.5 times the weight so vulnerable to injury.

The joints which are most prone to acute pain attack due to jogging, are the ankles and the knees. If often experience repeated pressure, these joints wear out faster.

Jogging is always considered as an exercise that can increase your metabolism and effective for weight loss.

5 Signs of a Healthy Heart:

If your heart stops beating for just a few minutes, followed by the stop of blood circulation, than your valuable life will end. That is why the prevention of heart disease and blood vessels are very important and highly stressed. Generally there are five vital signs of a healthy heart, which are:

1. Cholesterol

Pretend that the LDL or bad cholesterol is a fire and HDL or good cholesterol as a fireman. “A good firefighter is usually able to prevent long term damage.”

The higher the HDL cholesterol level, the lower the risk of ateroklerosis occurrence. For healthy heart, the bad cholesterol’s target is no more than 130 mg / dl and HDL should be higher than 40 mg / dl. HDL cholesterol levels tend to increase with exercise, lose weight, and eating lots of fiber

2. Blood pressure

If left unchecked in recent years, high blood pressure can damage arteries throughout the body so that the blood vessel wall will be thickened and rigid and clogged so blood flow to vital organs are blocked. Optimal blood pressure are lower than 120/80 mmHg.

Variation of various foods with different combination’s of the right nutrients will be beneficial to blood pressure. Various studies have also shown an effective stress reduction also lowers blood pressure. Spanish researchers say, the consumption of aspirin every day also decreased the systolic pressure of 6.8 mmHg and 4.6 mmHg diastolic pressure.

3. Heartbeat

Life is not in your hands, but in your heart. Knowing the number of heartbeats per minute (resting heart rate) is one way to predict the age. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine stated, a man who has a resting heart rate above 75 beats per minute (bpm) have three times greater risk of heart attack. Normal pulse is 65 bpm.

“When you do a cardio workout with low intensity and add a high intensity every two weeks, the heart rate per minute will be reduced.” Do exercise at least 30 minutes with 60-80 percent of the maximum amount of heart rate.

4. Fasting blood sugar

Fasting blood sugar levels is a sign of whether there is any risk of diabetes. The higher your blood sugar levels, the greater the risk of developing diabetes. “People with diabetes have a greater risk of heart disease, kidney, and eye disorders.”

To reduce levels of fasting blood sugar, we need to increase the body’s ability to use blood sugar, or in other words to increase insulin sensitivity. The best way to achieve this is to reduce weight.

5. C-reactive protein

C-reactive proteins or CRP is a plasma protein produced by the liver in response to infection, injury, and inflammatory processes. High levels of CRP indicate inflammation in the body. Because heart disease is due to inflammation in the arterial wall, CRP can be used as a common marker of heart disease risk.

Elevated levels of CRP are usually accompanied by increased cholesterol. A high CRP level, more than 1 milligram per liter, also associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. CRP measurement is done by taking blood from the elbow or the back of your palms.

To Improve Sleep:

1. Sprinkle just-washed sheets and pillowcases with lavender water. The scent has been shown in studies to promote relaxation, which can lead to better sleep.

2. Buy a new pillow. Katz says that studies show that pillows with an indent in the center can enhance sleep quality and reduce neck pain. Also, try a “cool” pillow — one containing either all-natural fibers or a combination of sodium sulfate and ceramic fibers that help keep your head cool.

3. Eat a handful of walnuts before bed. You’ll be giving yourself a boost of fiber and essential fatty acids along with the amino acid tryptophan — a natural sleep-inducer.

To Improve Stress Control:

1. Give your partner a hug every day before work. Studies show this simple act can help you remain calm when chaos ensues during your day, Katz says.

2. Have a good cry. It can boost your immune system, reduce levels of stress hormones, eliminate depression, and help you think more clearly.

3. Twice a day, breathe deeply for three to five minutes

To Improve Nutrition:

1. Buy whole foods — whether canned, frozen, or fresh from the farm — and use them in place of processed foods whenever possible.

2. Reject foods and drinks made with corn syrup, a calorie-dense, nutritionally empty sweetener that many believe is worse for the body than sugar, says Katz.

3. Start each dinner with a mixed green salad. Not only will it help reduce your appetite for more caloric foods, but it also will automatically add veggies to your meal.

To Improve Physical Fitness:

1. Do a squat every time you pick something up. Instead of bending over in the usual way, which stresses the lower back, bend your knees and squat. This forces you to use your leg muscles and will build strength.

2. Every time you stop at a traffic light (or the bus does), tighten your thighs and butt muscles and release as many times as you can. (Don’t worry, no one will see it!) This will firm leg and buttock muscles, improve blood flow — and keep you mildly amused!

3. Whenever you’re standing on a line, lift one foot a half-inch off the ground. The extra stress on your opposite foot, ankle, calf and thigh, plus your buttocks, will help firm and tone muscles. Switch feet every few minutes.

“Many people feel relaxed and comfortable when they go out and merge with nature.”
“But not many know that scientific studies prove the healing effects of nature.”

Forests, as well as other green natural places, can reduce stress, improve mood, reduce anger and aggressiveness, and increase joy. Trips to the forest can also strengthen our immune system by increasing the activity and damage cancer cells

Zen Cart Work

I have a site I believe is zencart and joomla. I’m willing to pay $75-125 for this work. I need it done in 10 days or less. It’s not hard work, so really it shouldn’t even take 10 days. The person I choose must give me an update each day.

What I need is for thee Magazine Subscriptions
I need the ability in zen cart admin to view – Customer; Subscription Type; Number of Issues Left

Each Subscription order needs to be “posted” to the Subscription Tracking – if the Customer /Subscription Type is already there, simply add the # of issues from the order to Number of Issues Left; if the Customer/Subscription Type is not there, insert a new record.

When an Issue of a Subscription Type is “published”, every Customer with that specified Subscription Type where Number of Issues > 0 should be listed in an Published Issue report; 1 subtracted from Customer’s Number of Issues; and Labels Printed for each Customer with Number of Issues Left printed in lower right – sorted by Number of Issues Left (for inclusion of renewal notices).

Looking For Expert Linkbuilder

Looking for expert link for long time

We need quality one way themed links for 6 website

The links must be one way and on genuine websites (no links on link farm or fake websites).

Show me some example of your previous one way link building work and tell me your reasonable rates for this project

We need link for pr1, pr2, pr3 and pr4

PR1+ — 25 Links
PR2+ – 100 Links
PR3+ — 21 Links
PR4+ — 10 Links

Requirement

– backlink pages must relate to our site topic
– Free one-way manual links.
links must be permanent and static html. You agree to replace any links which are removed within 6 months after placement.
– Text links only, no graphics.
– link pages and our text links must be visible, readable, indexable and do-follow.
– Pages must be indexed and cached by Google.com.au, Yahoo and Bing within last 30-60 days
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– Domains must be from different IP addresses and different Class-C IP
addresses.
– links that are not approved will have to be replaced by service
provider.

YOU MUST NOT DO THE FOLLOWING:

– No directory submissions, forum posts, article submissions, links from guest books, within newsgroups, yahoo groups, CL sites.
– No links from rel=”nofollow” or “noindex” tag for pages themselves and for anchor text
– No robots.txt blocking, fake PR, banned by Google, Yahoo, Bing sites
– No use of automated software or bots.
– No java links, jump scripts, framed pages, redirects, cloaking, CSS
redirects, 301 redirects, dynamic links, flash sites/pages, hidden links, no string parameters, session ID’s, etc.
– No link farms and link exchange programs or web rings such as
backlinks.com, Gotlinks.com, linkpartners.com, linksToYou.com etc., no rented links, FFA sites, gambling, adult & porn sites, pharmacy sites, illegal websites, hate-based websites, violent websites, cracking or hacking websites, no blacklisted or spam sites, links from “bad neighborhood” sites (e.g. link farms, porn and so on), ping sites, etc.

Note: Our budget is $110 only

Escort Directory

Hi,

Looking for someone to develop a escort directory like www.escortireland.com

I would like all the features that they have.

Plus automatic payment system (paypal etc)
Different level of membership e.g. Paid and free
I would like the design to be simple like escortireland.

I would like a good admin system which let you edit the website from there.

Please note that no deposit in escrow in order to start project but only milestone payments will be offered throughout the project.

Also note i do not want a packaged script i would like it to be original.

Please note that if project is successful to the required standards there will be paid on going work for the developer in updating the website etc.