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Some very impressive classic works of art reworked, impressed is I!

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest

The One-Man Multiplayer World

Gallery: 'Love' — The One-Man Multiplayer World

WOw is all I can say about this pics in this article on a Multi player online world created by ONE man!! The landscape has been generated using procedure to avoid having to hand code everything. See the full article here

Impending Ouch!!!

Doooooom! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

International Men Of Mystery

I have just bagged 3 new domains:

• InternationalMenOfMystery.com
• InternationalMenOfMystery.net
• InternationalMenOfMystery.org

Now I just need to come up with an idea to do with them, I am thinking of an travel site with a spin on adventurous sports and exotic travel destinations.

Beautiful Tag Cloud

I am not genrally a fan of tag clouds because they dont look good in genral and can often be confusing and detract from site content. Here is a tag clound that looks amazing though although the links are not clickable the typography is increadible and it just looks very cool.

Website Health Monitor Montastic

After discovering my server had gone down I started to wonder about monitoring software, at my day job we pay £580 per url to be monitored but the seemed RATHER STEEP to me. After a little digging on the web I came across Montastic It is a free service that monitors your sites for you. It is open source and so far I am very impressed, stick in a list of the urls you want monitoring, download a widget, and away you go. It has both Dashboard widgets for the mac or yahoo widgets for windows or a desktop app. It also has an rss feed for showing system downtimes and an email gets fired off when a site goes down.

This seems like a great tool, I will look into setting up an automatic forward to the support team if a site goes down to minimise downtime. With tools like this available for free enterprise class development and website hosting is becoming better and cheaper.

Big box, little box ,light box, multibox, shadow box, box box box

Just spotted a great article comparing different light box variants.A Lightbox is a combination of css and javascript used to display content within a webpage in a stylish way without having to leave the page (displaying content inline). Generally the background of the website fades away and a box displays the content to the user with an option to close the window an goback to the main webpage. This looks cool and draws the users attention to the content. The article is a matrix showing the underlying frameworks for each implementation, the file size and what it can handle. Looking through Multibox comes out on top with a great look, smooth animation and the most flexible features. Shadowbox also looks very good and is flexible in terms of content it can display although it does not say the size of the files involved with using it.

Photrade

I have just started using a new web service called Photrade, its a cross between Flickr and a stock image selling site.  You upload you photos organise them into galleries and then you can set pricing levels if you want to sell the prints. I think it is a great idea and shows promise, since it is in private beta at the moment it lacks the critical mass to get people trading and buying each others pictures.

You can see my gallery here and one option that you can see is missing is the ability to rotate your images since a few of mine or the wrong way around.

view my gallery here

Richard Bransons skydive

I was chatting at work about skydiving and it reminded me about this OLD clip of Richard Branson pulling the wrong cord, so that rather than opening his parachute it detaches away from him. When you are traveling towards Earth at 120mph and you find yourself not in a plane do not throw your parachute away!



Fortunately skydivers carry a reserve chute in case of accidents or the main chute failing. You would need to be very unlucky for both not to work but as demonstrated below you can survive. My favorite part is after falling 12,000 feet onto the ground his friend asks if he is okay to which her replies, NO! classic british understatement

It's my Birthday soon, how about a bot beer opener

SEO tools

Here is a great list of SEO tools to use to help tune your site, very useful!!!!

4 gigs in and working