Sunday 31 July 2011

Color Palette for Your Design Inspiration

What do I know about color harmony? Probably not enough to make you understand. But all of us were born with the natural talent to identify beauty when we see it. We might interpret things differently though. So, you can agree with me with these collection of color combo or we can agree to disagree. These are some of the color palettes that I really like {We, @ Best Photoshop Tutorials, think

Saturday 30 July 2011

Microsoft To Invest $100 Million More In SUSE Linux

Novell gets acquired by Attachemate Group Inc. And SUSE becomes an independent business unit of Attachemate. However, many things remain the same. For instance, the agreement struck by Microsoft and Novel Inc for broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support.

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Monday 25 July 2011

World's First Solar Powered Desktop PC

How would you like to own a Desktop PC that runs on solar power ? A solar PC that can work upto 3 - 4 days without sunlight ? A PC that helps you reduce your carbon footprint thus helping you contribute your mite in saving the environment ? And - drum-roll please - one that comes pre-loaded with Linux ?
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Saturday 23 July 2011

Creating Lens Flare in Photoshop

Perhaps a good photography practice is to try your best to avoid getting a lens flare on your captured image. But sometimes, for a twisted artistic reason we want to get that lens flare on our image. Now, if you're really good with your camera, maybe you can play around with the settings and figure out the perfect angle to get that lens flare effect. However, if you're still struggling with that

Thursday 21 July 2011

Microsoft Reaches Out To Linux - Says Happy Birthday!

Microsoft and Linux have been long term adversaries. While the comparison may not be logical - since one is a corporation and another an operating system, it has not stopped people in either camps to lock horns with each other.

However, on the eve of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday, Microsoft is reaching out to Linux via a video that says - "Happy Birthday Linux!".

Watch the video below.
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Linus Torvalds Releases Linux 3.0

Linux kernel version 3.0 has been released. This version according to Linus Torvalds does not usher in any new features or incompatibilities related to version change.

He goes on to say, it is simply a way to drop the inconvenient numbering system in honor of Linux celebrating its 20th birthday.

[Source : gmane.linux.kernel]

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Project Pop Art : Download PSD

If you've been checking out this blog and realize there's no update for the past 2 weeks. Don't worry, it hasn't been abandoned yet. No matter how much fun I have in real life, I always come back here. Today, I come out with this fun and colorful project. I'd like to call it Project Pop Art. Of course it doesn't define pop art as a whole, but I guess there's certain element in this project that I

Friday 8 July 2011

GIMP For Photos - A Collection of Tutorials For Photo Editing In GIMP

I love using GIMP. It is a worthy replacement to the mighty Adobe Photoshop (at least for tweaking images meant for the web). I have been using GIMP for quite a while now. And chances are any or all images you see on this blog have been opened in GIMP for manipulation and making them fit for posting on the Web.

There is a lot that can be done using GIMP software. In fact, this Free image editor has become so popular that numerous books on GIMP have been published.

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Tuesday 5 July 2011

JavaScript Language Advanced Tips And Tricks

Today I came across a fabulous trove of JavaScript tips and tricks. These are code snippets in JavaScript language. There are 100s of them all on a single page.

Check out the tips and tricks on JavaScript. If your job involves writing code in JavaScript, this set of tips are worth being bookmarked.

PS: To try all the JavaScript examples (code snippets), you can use a standalone JavaScript engine such as Rhino, Jhost, or SpiderMonkey. While on the topic of standalone programs that execute JavaScript code, do check out a list of other JavaScript engines.