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reat collection of diverse calligraphy font styles, that will work perfect with ANY font or any shape as well. Please see the screenshots, you won’t regret downloading these files! Please note that the fonts are NOT included in the download, and are for demonstration purposes only, when you open the PSD file included, if you don’t have the needed fonts installed, it will automatically get transferred to another calligraphy font.

The download includes:

8 Stunning Photoshop styles (styles file)
2 previews of the styles with different fonts
1 PSD file with each of the 8 styles

Styles:

* Yes – elegant glass blue effect
* Fantastic – pressed beautiful text effect with background texture
* Awesome – glowing gold effect
* Nice – cartoonish grey embossed
* Good – semi transparent glass effect with high beveled effect
* Cool – chrome effect with light texture
* Great – textured gelly-metal effect
* Excellent – glossy metallic style

Looks great with any other font (fonts are not included in the download)…

Download Now, only $1,99 for ALL of them!

Once you have made a payment, please don’t forget to click the orange button (on paypal) that says “back to merchant’s website”, once you do — your download will start automatically. If anything went wrong, just email me to the paypal address.

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Sky floats above the pack in style and its sense of whimsy is sure to leave your visitors surprised and refreshed. Sky is unique in the way its homepage operates, loading all of your content seamlessly using ajax. This means that no matter how many pages you have in the “slider,” your initial page load speed will be lightning fast as each page is only loaded when it is displayed (without a page refresh). We also added some fun parallax affects in the clouds, giving the design a great sense of movement.

Sky Features

1. Four Unique Colorschemes – Sky comes with four different colors to choose from. If blue isn’t your style, then try out the Red, Purple or Green options. You can change your colorscheme at any time from within the theme options page.

2. Portfolio Section – The Portfolio section makes it easy to feature photos. This is great for creative companies or individuals who wish to create a gallery of their most recent work. The gallery is paginated and includes a full lightbox view of each image.

3. Homepage Slider – The featured slider on the homepage makes it easy to feature prominent pieces of content to your first time visitors. You can populate the slider using posts or pages and adjust animations/animation speeds within ePanel.

4. Blog Layout - Sky includes a blog layout that allows you to feature a category of posts within the homepage feed, creating a seamless experience for your visitors.

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It’s been a long time since we last treated our readers with a good looking, professional wordpress theme, so we decided it’s high time to release a very cute WP theme with vanilla flavor — “Amalia”. Key Features of this magazine style theme:

1. AJAX powered drop down menu up to 3 levels
2. Inbuilt easy to manage slideshow gallery
3. Integrated with Twitter
4. Based on CSS3
5. Beautiful Web 2.0 Design with Classic cute colors scheme
6. Automatic thumbnails creation – script pulls the images from post and de-sizes them
7. Light and very fast loading
8. Nice organization of the comments section
9. Minimal SQL quires, optimized for busy blog
10. Magazine Style organization of the posts
11. Compatible with the latest version of WordPress 3.0
12. Compatible with all the recent versions of major browsers.

If you have any questions about the usage, please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments section.
For thumbnails in posts please use the key “Thumbnail” (without quotes) while for images in the slider use the key “slide“. You will also need to download, install and activate the FeatureMe plugin: http://www.bioxd.com/featureme/. Enjoy!

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Digital photography is quickly becoming the preferred way to take pictures.   If you are in the market for a new camera, consider the following advantages of digital over traditional film photography. In the long run, digital is less expensive.  All photos are recorder are on memory device within the camera and then downloaded straight to your computer.  You skip the need to keep buying rolls of film and paying for developing. You can send unlimited copies of the same picture to friends and relatives without spending a penny extra.

Get $90 off Your Purchase of PowerShot SD980 IS 12.1 Megapixel Digital Camera

You see your pictures quicker.  Most digital cameras allow you to view your photos immediately.  There is no waiting and worrying about whether or not that “perfect shot” turned out.  You can take a picture of that new baby and immediately download it to your computer to share your good good news with friends and relatives. There’s no need for anxious grandparents to wait days or even weeks for a picture.

Most digital cameras have built in editing features.   Cropping and re-centering the picture to make it look its best can be done easily.  You no longer have to worry about a stray hand distracting from the main subject of your photo.  Sharpening can be done immediately to bring out the details.  Within minutes you can have a print-perfect photo.

You avoid the frustration of running out of film and having to find a store that is open in the middle of an important event or on vacation.  Depending on the size of your memory card and the setting of file size and quality, which you often control, you can store a couple hundred pictures on one tiny card.  That is the equivalent of nine or ten rolls of film.

These are just a few of the advantages of digital photography.  It is definitely worth considering as you search for your next new camera.

It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what some of the more common terms mean.  Below you will find many of these common terms defined..

Automatic Mode — A setting that sets the focus, exposure and white-balance automatically.

Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode — a series of pictures taken one after another at quickly timed intervals with one press of the shutter button.

Compression — The process of compacting digital data, images and text by deleting selected information.

Photo Taken with PowerShot SD980 IS 12.1 Megapixel Digital Camera

Digital Zoom — Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.

JPEG — The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras

Lag Time — The pause between the time the shutter button is pressed and when the camera actually captures the image

LCD — (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen on a digital camera for viewing images.
Lens — A circular and transparent glass or plastic piece that has the function of collecting light and focusing it on the sensor to capture the image.

Megabyte — (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file, or how much information can
be contained on a Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk.

Pixels — Tiny units of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One million pixels
adds up to one mega-pixel.

RGB — Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to create all other colors.

Resolution — Camera resolution describes the number of pixels used to create the image, which determines the amount of
detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has, the more detail it can register and the larger the picture can be
printed.

Storage Card — The removable storage device which holds images taken with the camera, comparable to film, but much smaller. Also called a digital camera memory card…

Viewfinder — The optical “window” to look through to compose the scene.

White Balance — White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for the type of light (daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.,) or lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human eye.

It gives us an enthralling experience when we travel around the world to see some magnificent tourists attractions. Go and behold these tourist spots are indeed enchanting and before we knew it our camera is rolling already and shots after shots are taken to capture the breathtaking scenery that is unfolding before your very eyes. If you’ve been to the Great Barrier Reef, which is in Australia, and you are on a diving spree, you might ask yourself, how to take pictures of the great panorama of fishes, corals and other sea creatures that comes in different shapes, colors and sizes underneath the azure and crystal water of the reef? Taking pictures can give you a one of a kind experience but there are some ways to do get the job done with zest and gusto.

The first and foremost, is to obtain a waterproofing housing for the camera, that is, the inexpensive small point and shoot camera. Why? Because under water SLR camera maybe more expensive than the camera with housing. Underwater cameras can fetch to around $150 and comes along with it some risks for you to take, hmmm, just like taking the bullets by your teeth. If you don’t want to be a risk taker why not settle for cheaper camera like the reliable Sony Powershot which is equipped with high end point and shoot and an underwater case to shield it.

Photo by by W J (Bill) Harrison

Indeed, this is a very practical yet efficient way whilst you save some of your precious and hard-earned money. Thus the good first step is to buy a camera that you can use housing for it and drop the idea of buying DSLR while you intend to take pictures under the sea, unless you have ample amount of money to shell out for the expensive underwater camera.

Taking pictures underwater may give you some challenges to hurdle and conquer:

First thing is avoid things under the water can pose any harm on you, like avoiding diving into the waters that is infested with sharks or deadly jellyfishes. Problems with lighting or even the lack of it also poses a major problem to you. To take pictures under water you are in dire need of light from the cameras flash or better perhaps from other source, to enable you to shoot for great photos

Whilst shooting near the surface you need to adjust your camera setting to a small ISO speed, as you get deeper at around 30 to 40 feet, keep an eye with the shutter speed. At this depth the bottom light will be low, and if you begin with shutter speeds of 1 / 30, 1 / 15, or lower, the pictures taken are blurred, which can be unfortunate since you can only know the outcome once you already have printed copies of your pictures. For this reason it is wise to purchase a point and shoot underwater camera that is equipped with a low-noise at high ISO, which must be low.

Photo by jayhem

If you encounter some problems with the color, blurriness or mist in your photos. No problem, since there is the Adobe Photoshop that permits you to make some corrections to the flaws in your taken photos right away to make them look really good. This is a great method as it is, but nothing beats the photos that is not unedited, you can do this by simply taking the best pictures to the best of your abilities at all times which is far more rewarding.

Twitter’s growing more and more intensely lately, have you noticed? It was only a little over a month from when we told you about the new tooltips and now we have plenty of new featured to introduce you to. During this time, developers of the popular microblogging service added a lot of new “stuff” to the popular and functional Twitter. First of all, the new home, new business features, improved search and launch an advertising platform. Just recently I became aware that Twitter is going to swallow Atebits.

That’s what will  gave us soon a new twitter. In order not to become entangled in the news, we’ll talk about innovations in the order they appear in the official blog of the service.

Business Functions

In the end of March, the developers have activated the service under the name of Contributors. With the help of several users can write tweets on behalf of a single account. The work of this innovation could be a long time seen in the official account of service. Now this feature is enabled for all users and is free, at least for the time being.

Why “for the time being”? This function is the first in a set of similar corporate additions and it is possible that when their number is much larger pool of developers in charge package, as the result, we note that this innovation will be most interesting for various corporations, as well as for users who intend to lead a group microblogging.
Updated home page Announcement of the updated home page was a further 30 March, but the “full” power innovation has earned only a few days ago.

Page completely changed their usual appearance and became, in our opinion, more informative. Current trends show now in the form of scrolling text and near the top of the page. Added unit, which shows the accounts of celebrities, and slightly to the right is a dynamic block that displays the last tweets casual users.

The new design is perfectly suited for today’s Twitter, the meaning of which is reduced to a steady stream of news, opinions, thoughts, tips, and other, sometimes urgent, information.

Advanced Search

Many users find this innovation has been hidden, because As it SERPs. Now, thanks to new algorithm, the results of issuance, the user will see the 3 most popular tweets (their popularity is calculated quantity of re-tweets, so getting re-tweets is essential than ever). Other results, as before, sorted by date of their writing – from new to old.

The purpose of innovation, according to developers, to make searches more meaningful and relevant. As it is necessary to note the operational integration of the algorithm in the API service, enabling developers to third-party applications to include a new search feature in their programs.
Start advertising platform

This is probably the most important news, after updating the home page. Twitter has officially launched a way to monetize its service. And this, apparently, only the first step taken in this direction.

The first advertising feature called Promoted Tweets and, in terms of perception of information within the service is very simple and most convenient one available to date, types of advertising, and it’s going to make a decent competition to the Sponsored Tweets platform.. The result of the platform is to display advertisements tweets in the first lines of the SERP for certain search queries. This type of advertising is the best fit to the structure of Twitter and should not cause a specific criticism from users of service. Now a list of companies that cooperate with tweets is not too large, but there’s already a lot of major brands such as Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks and Virgin America. Undoubtedly, in future, will expand more than one dozen companies.

Also, in the official blog reports that Promoted Tweets will be actively explored and analyzed with a view to its further development. Depending on the effectiveness of this type of advertising, and reaction of users, the advertising function can be further disseminated. As an option – it is putting Twitter with advertising in the feed posts as in the web interface, and a twitter client.

Most interesting, in our view point, an innovation – an updated home page and the  start advertising platform. What do you think about these changes?