PayPal a inclus si Romania in lista tarilor civilizate care pot primi bani in cont. Initial aveam voie doar sa deschidem cont din Romania cu optinea de trimitere de fonduri.


Pentru mai multe informatii vizitati site-ul PayPal. Iata si dovada ca putem sa primim bani si ca avem posibilitatea sa ii retragem cu un card - aici.

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După cum aţi observat şi pe blog, de vreo săptămână s-a încheiat colaborarea mea cu Google AdSense. Motivul: "Cont dezactivat pentru clickuri/impresii incorecte".

Cum s-a întâmplat nu ştiu exact pentru că eu nu cred că am mai dat un click pe reclamele mele nici măcar accidental de la revoluţie :)

O cauză care mi se pare destul de probabilă ar fi urmatoarea:

Un articol de pe unul din site-urile mele (Social Daily News) a ajuns pe homepage la reddit.com de unde cu articolul acesta am primit un numar de aproximativ 60.000 vizitatori în prima zi. Dimineaţa când m-am trezit şi mi-am verificat mail-ul am avut un gol în stomac când am văzut mail de la Google AdSense :) Şi ... asta a fost !

Rezumatul mail-ului primit de Google AdSense era ceva de genul acesta:

Ne-a atras atenţia faptul că au fost generate clicuri şi/sau impresii incorecte pe anunţurile Google AdSense din site-urile dvs. Din acest motiv, v-am dezactivat contul Google AdSense.

Ştiind că sunt nevinovat l-am sunat pe Bobby pentru a ştii ce să fac. Bobby la început a închis telefonul. Eu stresat fiind nu ştiam ce să fac. Era o lovitură puternică pentru mine mail-ul de la Google AdSense.

După vreo jumătate de oră am mai sunat o dată la Bobby care era grăbit că i se termină bateria la telefon :) aşa că i-am spus rapid motivul in 2-3 cuvinte: "Ban de la AdSense". A rămas şi el şocat şi mi-a spus să le trimit un mail şi să mă inspir în scrierea mail-ului dintr-un articol scris de Cristian Mezei (www.seopedia.org) în care Criti a scris un exemplu de mail pe care să îl trimiţi în cazul în care ai ghinionul pe care l-am avut si eu de a primii un astfel de mail.

Le-am trimis mail şi dupa vreo 10 minute max am primit un raspuns de genul:

Vă mulţumim pentru contestaţie. După ce am revizuit încă o dată cu atenţie datele contului dvs., ni s-a confirmat că aveţi un cont ce reprezintă un risc pentru agenţii noştri de publicitate AdWords. Din acest motiv, nu vă putem repune în drepturi contul.

Deci ei mi-au trimis un mesaj "general" fără să facă ceva verificări înainte. Cum l-au primit mi-au şi trimis răspunsul acesta de kkt înapoi.

M-am consultat cu fulgerica si cu Bobby din nou care mi-au spus că mail-ul este unul general şi să le scriu din nou. L-am rugat pe Bobby să mă ajute cu un exemplu de mail pentru că eu eram prea disperat pentru ca să leg două cuvinte şi mi-a spus că îmi scrie el un mail după ce-i pleacă instalatorii de acasa :) Stiţi cum e cu instalatorii ... numai nu mai terminau o dată. Eu număram unu după altul minutele până a revenit Bobby. Erau vreo 120 de minute :) Deja îmi tremurau degetele :)

Mi-a scris Bobby un mail şi l-am trimis către Google AdSense. De data asta au trecut trei zile şi tot nu mi-au răspuns nimic.

După aste trei zile am zis să le mai trimit dracu încă un mail că poate so fi pierdut pe drum "scrisorica" dar de data aceasta am trimis mailul în engleză şi la adresa de mail adsense@google.com si nu la cea a românilor adică adsense-ro@google.com.

Am primit mail-ul în 10 minute maxim după cum mă şi aşteptam. Mail în care mi se spunea asta:

Thank you for contacting Google AdSense.

Our system wasn't able to find an Google AdSense account associated with the email address you used to contact us. If you're an approved Google AdSense publisher, you can help our system automatically locate your account by replying directly to this email and including as much of the information below as you can. Doing so will enable us to respond more quickly to your email.

Please delete the 'enter here' text below and place your information between the brackets.

Google AdSense login email: [enter here]
Account contact name: [enter here]
URL you own that is displaying Google AdSense ads: [enter here]
Google AdSense publisher ID: [enter here] (ex. ca-pub-1234567890123456)

Deci baieţii nu ştiau despre ce era vorba şi deasta au răspuns atât de promt :) Le-am trimis din noul un mail cu datele pe care mi le-am cerut şi din nou nu am primit nici un răspuns. Tot ce îmi rămânea de făcut acum era să "tac şi să înghit" că doar asta trebuie să facă românul când e futut de străini. Sunt curios dacă eram american dacă era aceeaţi situaţie ...

Acum vreo două zile (adică după vreo 2 săptămâni de la suspendarea contului) am primit un mail de la Google AdSense. Entuziasmat am dat repede click să citesc ce mi+au scris ... dar mi-a picat net-ul la fix :)) După vreun sfert de oră timp în care eu nu ştiam ce rugăciune să mai spun (asta ca să vedeţi când e omul credincios) mi-a revenit net-ul, şi am intrat ca să citesc mail-ul:

Dear Publisher,
When you have questions, we want to help. With a few quick clicks, tell us about our performance. We will listen and learn.

https://survey.google.com/wix/p0621608.aspx/ts3?l=9&p=2&t=199841190&a...

And, as always, thank you for using Google AdSense !
The Google AdSense Team"

Nu mi-a venit să cred. Am ras cred vreo juma de oră deşi nu era râsul meu :) nereuşind să-mi dau seama cum mama dracului au putut trimite un astfel de mail dupa ce ştiu foarte bine care a fost situaţia :))

Cred ca vă da-ţi seama ce calificative le-am dat pe acolo si ce roman am scris la "Do you have any additional thoughts ?" :) Nu ?

Deci cam aşa s-a încheiat colaborarea mea cu Google AdSense. Foarte frumos. Foarte rau nu îmi pare pentru că folosesc multe alte alternative de monetizare si blogurilor şi site-urilor şi cine mă cunosc ştiu asta :) deci oricum cu Google AdSense câstigam pe luna cam căt am câştigat în ultimele două-trei zile cu un site de affiliates la un site de Pariuri Sportive Online. Suma este cu două zerouri. Deci nu mă plang având in vedere ca sunt afliat la mai multe sisteme de affiliates.

În urand voi scrie posturi referitoare la metode de monetizare a blogurilor/siteurilor, bineinţeles diferite de Google AdSense.

There is a quick and easy way to find out how many articles of yours have been dugg, you could just go to digg, and search your domain name, but that wont come up with the articles that may have been buried. Plus this simple method uses Google so its much more fun!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adigg.com+socialdailynews.com

Replace socialdailynews.com with your domain.

The Top sites by Digg$

• 1. YouTube - 551,000
• 2. yahoo.com - 191,000
• 3. Google - 188,000
• 4. Ars Technica - 135,000
• 5. Engadget - 121,000
• 6. BBC - 106,000
• 7. Gizmodo - 104,000
• 8. Wikipedia - 93,100
• 9. wired.com - 89,700
• 10. CNN - 64,900
• 11. Apple - 55,000
• 12. crooksandliars.com - 54,200
• 13. Consumerist - 49,300
• 14. thinkprogress.org - 41,800
• 15. dailymail.co.uk - 38,900
• 16. break.com - 38,600
• 17. msn.com - 36,400
• 18. treehugger.com - 34,600
• 19. Kotaku.com - 33,500
• 20. macrumors.com - 30,900
• 21. Destructoid.com - 28,500
• 22. timesonline.co.uk - 26,700
• 23. Boing Boing - 24,100
• 24. microsoft.com - 21,300
• 25. downloadsquad.com - 21,200
• 26. cracked.com - 20,200
• 27. jalopnik.com - 18,100
• 28. Read Write Web - 17,300
• 29. Huffington Post - 17,100
• 30. littlegreenfootballs.com - 16,900
• 31. lifehack.org - 16,700
• 32. Tuaw.com - 15,500
• 33. myspace.com - 15,500
• 34. Smashing Magazine - 14,800
• 35. dailykos.com - 13,800
• 36. valleywag.com - 13,200
• 37. neatorama.com - 12,600
• 38. zenhabits.net - 11,400
• 39. Giga Om - 10,700
• 40. tmz.com - 10,600
• 41. TechCrunch - 9,760
• 42. FileFront.com - 9,680
• 43. techdirt.com - 8,910
• 44. wikihow.com - 8,760
• 45. CrunchGear - 8,220
• 46. XKCD.com - 7,990
• 47. menshealth.com - 7,890
• 48. facebook.com - 7,830
• 49. Life Hacker - 7,580
• 50. GamerNode.com - 7,330
• 51. michellemalkin.com - 6,440
• 52. WSJ.com - 5,970
• 53. inhabitat.com - 5,460
• 54. ohgizmo.com - 5,380
• 55. Search Engine Land - 4,760
• 56. tumbl.us - 4,560
• 57. Pronet Advertising - 4,500
• 58. Search Engine Journal - 3,560
• 59. Mashable - 3,360
• 60. alistapart.com - 3,230
• 61. Copyblogger - 3,060
• 62. getrichslowly.org - 3,050
• 63. Blogstorm.co.uk - 2,970
• 64. guykawasaki.com - 2,870
• 65. SEOmoz - 2,940
• 66. PickTheBrain.com - 2,880
• 67. simplehelp.net - 2,390
• 68. ririanproject.com2,260
• 69. imagechan.org - 2,110
• 70. ProBlogger - 2,030
• 71. profit42.com - 1,970
• 72. racketboy.com - 1,910
• 73. John Chow - 1,860
• 74. Scobleizer - 1,690
• 75. Marketing Pilgrim - 1,600
• 76. DesignVitality.com - 1,420
• 77. gameriot.com - 1,410
• 78. whenpenguinsattack.com1,370
• 79. Shoemoney - 1,260
• 80. Dailygaming.net - 1,170
• 81. roscripts.com - 1,130
• 82. wowinsider.com - 1,070
• 83. micahville.com - 1,020
• 84. Matt Cutts - 851

The Burj is the worlds only 7 Star Hotel. I guess it earned one of its stars by having the worlds highest tennis court on its roof! Watch Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play a friendly game on the roof of the Burj.

What if you tripped and fell? You’d certainly see stars then.

There is a safety net on the sides though.

^^^ Andre blindly running towards the edge.

^^^ Now seriously, what if you aren’t able to stop? He’s almost diving for it. What if you trip and fall on the net and then bounce off it like it was a trampoline?

^^^ Awesome view!

^^^ I wonder where that ball landed. It probably ended up on the beach or into the ocean. Nice job polluting the ocean with tennis balls, Andre. Next some whale is going to get a tennis ball stuck in it’s blow hole.

^^^ It’s almost tempting to use those nets as a trampoline

^^^ I’m really curious about where those tennis balls would land and if the hotel has hired divers to go retrieve them.

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All my years in studying Urban Planning helped me grow a greater appreciation for the dense downtown skyline of the big city. The downtown core of big cities across the Americas, Europe and Asia are the cultural pulse and economic engines of urban regions where millions of people live. All urban "life" begins and ends, each day and night under the watch of the city's tallest skyscrapers and most grand architectural structures. So kick back and appreciate the view that they have to offer...

1. Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong is number one on my list for many reasons: Hong Kong has a whopping 43 buildings over 200 metres tall, 30 of which were built in the year 2000 or later!!! It also boasts four of the 15 tallest buildings in the world… that's all in one city! Hong Kong’s skyline shows a large selection of distinct sky-reaching towers, with beautiful night lighting and reflection. This city exemplifies the post-modern skyscraper and skyline. Finally, the mountain backdrop makes this skyline (as you can clearly see) the greatest on the planet!

Metro/Urban Population: 6.9 million


2. Chicago, USA
Chicago is the birthplace of the modern skyscraper. When Chicago built its first steel high-rise in 1885, it was not the tallest structure in the world but the first example of a new form of engineering that would change nearly every city on earth. Chicago has 19 buildings over 200 metres tall (three of which are among the top 20 tallest buildings in the world, including the tallest in North America). Chicago has some of the finest mid-century architecture and examples of modern skyscrapers.

Metro/Urban Population: 9.5 million


3. Shanghai, China
Not to be mistaken for a space station, Shanghai is a real city! China's biggest and most advanced city, Shanghai was said to be the most cosmopolitan city in the beginning of the 20th century, but lost its glory during the “Mao era”. It is now quickly regaining its position as one of the biggest economic powerhouses in the world as well as a showcase of modern architecture. In Shanghai you’ll find 25 structures that are over 200 metres tall, one of which is the insanely tall, the 468m downtown Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

Metro/Urban Population: 13.1 million


4. New York City, USANew York City has one of the densest and most diverse skylines, with a huge collection of buildings and building styles. Thanks to Hollywood’s obsession with the city, it is also the most easily recognizable skyline in the world. New York City has an amazing 47 buildings over 200 metres - the most in the world! The four tallest buildings in NYC were all built in the early 1930s! Home of the famous, now destroyed World Trade Center Towers, the Empire State building, the Statue of Liberty and the United Nations, New York City is the financial capital of the western world. Upon the completion of the new "Freedom Tower" (built on the old site of the World Trade Centers), it may rank higher in this list (depending on how good it looks of course).

Metro/Urban Population: 21.0 million


5. Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo is the world's most populated city. Its skyline has a number of unique characteristics that set it apart from other big city skylines, among them 15 structures at over 200 metres tall (including the Tokyo Tower which changes colors every night). But because of the density and vast size of the city, every corner appears to have its own skyline. With the height restrictions and the required red lights that flash atop all mid to tall-sized buildings make the city look spectacular at night. Tokyo is filled with neon lighting and unique, contemporary architecture, and like New York City is also often portrayed in movies for its aesthetic and eye-catching cityscapes. Interesting fact: Tokyo houses the world's largest fleet of helicopters to get around town if traffic gets too crazy.

Metro/Urban Population: 32.0 million


6. Singapore
One of the best (urban) planned and cleanliest metropolitan cities in the world, Singapore looks like an architectural model city come to life. The buildings cannot be higher than 280 metres due to air traffic control restrictions, but that has added a tall (but not too tall) and consistent building height and space pattern that makes this skyline unique: Three buildings are exactly 280 metres tall and 5 others (8 total) stand at just over 200 metres. The buildings are mostly light-coloured and there is a large expanse of greenery dotted around the city core. This South-Eastern city is definitely in a league of its own.

Metro/Urban Population: 3.8 million


7. Toronto, Canada
Toronto is a meeting place, a crossroads of many cultures and ethnicities. Toronto is downtown Canada, the biggest city in the country with a skyline to match. Toronto has 7 structures in its skyline that stand at over 200 metres, including the astonishingly tall 553 metre, CN Tower, which is often referred to as the tallest free-standing structure in the world. While mostly untrue (because there are taller TV masts in the world), the CN Tower possess the world's highest observation deck, making this city's skyline one of the most immediately identifiable.

Metro/Urban Population: 5.1 million


8. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This is probably the most impressive city worldwide that has less than 2 million residents. Marvelous modern buildings reach the sky here, and while the skyline is not too dense, it does allow buildings to soar and stand out. Kuala Lumpar has three of the 25 tallest buildings worldwide, including the tallest twin buildings, the Pretonos Towers (which are arguably the second and third tallest overall in the world) as well as the 420 metre Menara Kuala Lumpur Tower.

Metro/Urban Population: 1.5 million


9. Shenzhen, China
What was a tiny fishing village on the border of Hong Kong in 1970 is now a buzzing metropolis of over four million people. With 13 buildings at over 200 meters tall, including the Shun Hing Square (the 8th tallest building in the world), Shenzen is a marvel of lights after sunset. You can’t help but ask yourself if you are in a video game or in a real city.

Metro/Urban Population: 4.2 million


10. Seoul, South Korea
This city's skyscrapers are divided into many clusters, spread amongst the main businesses and residential districts. Most of the recent growth in Seoul's skyline, however, has been of residential towers over 60 storeys high that are shooting up like blades of grass! There are 10 buildings in Seoul over 200 meters tall and much of the mid-rise to high-rise structures are lined up in a linear fashion, creating a "wall" of buildings like no other. Seoul is where the ancient Eastern world meets the modern West.

Metro/Urban Population: 20.8 million


11. Sao Paolo, Brazil
“What building did you say they lived in?” Finding it in the largest mass of condensed apartment buildings anywhere would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Sao Paolo has a population of over 18 million people! While the buildings are not super tall (with only a single structure at over 200 meters tall) this skyline is nevertheless stacked. Sao Paolo has a fleet of over 500 helicopters, the second largest helicopter fleet in the world.

Metro/Urban Population: 18.3 million


12. Sydney, Australia
Australia’s showcase city, Sydney has one of the most recognizable skylines due to its world-famous harbour, often referred to as the most beautiful natural harbour in the world. The Sydney Harbour has many bays, inlets and secondary harbours. It is spanned by the monumental Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House decorates the shoreline like a white flower. The Sydney skyline is world-class with hundreds of skyscrapers in the central business district and many more high-rise buildings in the outlying neighbourhoods. Sydney has 8 buildings over 200 metres tall.

Metro/Urban Population: 4.2 million


13. Frankfurt, Germany
Certainly one of Europe's most interesting cities in terms of skylines, Frankfurt is home to five structures that are over 200 metres tall. These modern skyscrapers are marvels compared to those other, mostly non-existent ones scattered across European cities. The contrast here is interesting: The city combines low-rise, high-density traditional European architecture (some of which is over 1,000 years old), with modern towers that stick out like sore thumbs, but are impressive nonetheless.

Metro/Urban Population: 4.1 million


14. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Is this a mirage in the Middle East? Seemingly out of nowhere emerges a city in the middle of a desert. This is Dubai, a city that produces only the best modern architecture in the world. Already home of the world's tallest all-hotel building and the tallest all-residential building in the world, AND currently proposed to build the world's tallest building, this skyline might just leap to the number 1 spot in the near future. While the skyline is not so dense, each building is a marvel all on its own. As a skyline it probably can't compete with the larger cities, however the individual buildings in this city are by far the greatest examples of modern architectural accomplishments. All seven structures in this city at over 200 metres tall were built in 1999 or later - that's how new this city is.

Metro/Urban Population: 1.6 million


15. Seattle, USA
Seattle is the commercial, cultural and advanced technology hub of the Northwest USA and a major port city for Pacific and European trade. Home 4 buildings over 200m and the famous 184m Space Needle observation tower, Seattle is surrounded by mountains and water and offers some picture-perfect views. Seattle is commonly referred to as the Emerald City and renowned as a great social and corporate city with great planning and planning.

Metro/Urban Population: 3.6 million


16. Pittsburgh, USA
Although Pittsburgh only has two buildings over 200m tall, its skyline is very impressive nonetheless. Pittsburgh has nicknames like the "city of bridges", "the Burgh" or the "golden triangle" which outlines its true characteristics. It is surround by three rivers and the CBD is shaped in a triangle and surrounded by golden color bridges. The city is also surrounded by hills and valley's giving access to great views of the city. The city has not had a major skyscraper raised since 1988, but good planning and a scenic surrounding region still makes it a great skyline.

Metro/Urban Population: 2.4 million


17. Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou is a very modern city, yet it is called "the City of Flowers,” as each of its spectacular skyscrapers is surrounded by grand green spaces and flower beds. Although it only has six structures at over 200 metres tall, there are plenty of other high-rises, each displaying a design that stands out in its own respect. This includes the 391 metre, 80-floor, CITIC Plaza which appears transparent against the (usually) clear blue sky!

Metro/Urban Population: 4.1 million


18. Dallas, USA
The "Big D", is a major inland American city. The city and metropolitan area lies amidst vast, high, and varying rolling prairies - with hundreds of large & small lakes, rivers, creeks, waterways and meanders. But Dallas; downtown is the center of the Forth-Worth-Dallas Metro Region which is home to 5.9 million people. Dallas' skyline is home to 7 buildings over 200 meters and the 187m Reunion Tower which looks like huge sphere of light! The skyline is very distinctive at night as it building lighting is very colorful, particularly with lots of green.

Metro/Urban Population: 5.2 million

I hope that breakdown of Linux File Structure will help.

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Unul dintre cei mai celebri miliardari din Statele Unite, Donald Trump este si unul dinte cei mai remarcabili reprezentanti ai visului american.

Plecat de la aproape nimic, a facut avere in urma afacerilor din sectorul imobiliar, a pierdut totul si apoi si-a refacut averea. Viata sentimentala agitata si dinamismul lui sunt legendare.

Scriind “Cum sa te imbogatesti”, Donald Trump a vrut sa faca din noi miliardari! Cu o sinceritate tipic americana, autorul ne destainuie in mod concret si placut toate secretele reusitei sale.

Sfaturile lui vizeaza de la felul in care trebuie sa ne imbracam la secretele unei negocieri reusite; de la alegerea colaboratorilor pana la concedierea unui salariat; de la folosirea corecta a numelui de familie la necesitatea de a sti sa spui nu; de la arta interviului la lectura lui Jung; de la reflexul strangerii mainii la cele mai bune investitii; de la stiinta ascultarii celuilalt la indiferenta fata de critici; de la talentul oratoric la virtutile megalomaniei.

Acestea si multe alte subiecte sunt abordate de Donald Trump fara complexe, oferindu-ne retete lui de miliardar. Si fiecare e liber sa foloseasca cum poate mai bine lectiile maestrului !

Va recomand aceasta carte ! Este una dintre cele mai bune carti citite de mine !

Comanda acum ! - LIBRARIE.net

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Internet Marketing guru John Reese unveiled his new product to the world yesterday; BlogRush.


See the new widget in my sidebar to the right ? That’s the BlogRush widget and I have to say its pretty cool. Whats more important though is its free and a fantastic way to get more traffic to your blog.

Click here for more information.

These are some shots of the Kent farm after Superman’s return to earth after a long absence from the planet. This film picks up right after the Donner films, where Superman has left to discover his roots and now, as the title of the film implies, ‘Superman Returns’ to pick up where he left off, fighting the maniacal machinations of one Lex Luthor and what not.

They are currently filming in Australia. There is an online production diary up at Blue Tights Network, where you can view more set images and video updates, as well as a word from Director Bryan Singer.

There's no doubt that I like to design. Next to coding, I also love to edit photos, designing websites etc. My personal favorite tool to achieve this, has to be Adobe Photoshop. Next to a good tool, you'll need some good resources.

Fonts, Plug-ins such as Brushes and Textures, Stock photos can help you tremendously when designing. Here's a list of my personal favorite photoshop design resources.

Fonts, Stock Photos, Patterns, some Textures and Inspiring sites do not require Photoshop. Also, always check the compatibility of the plug-in with your software; Don't download Photoshop CS3 brushes when you're using Photoshop 7. The other way around (Photoshop 7 plug-in using in Photoshop CS3) can be possible.

If you think that there's a top-source missing from the list, share it with us by posting them in the comments. The sites listed here offer their services for free and are placed in random order.

Fonts

The standard fonts on a PC are really boring and just created to read. You want fonts that just look nice on your artwork. Download fonts from the following sites to give your text a nice look.
To install, place the downloaded TTF-file (or other Font-file extensions) in the Fonts folder on your PC. This can be found in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts.

• Dafont Personal Favorite
  Great website, huge amount of fonts. Excellent details on each font. Ordering by name or category. Also check the top 100.
• Exljbris
  Free quality font foundry. Has only 7 fonts atm, but their beautiful.
• 1001 Free Fonts
  Name of the website is self-explaining. Ordering by name or category.
• Ace Free Fonts
  Huge collection of fonts. Ordering on name or category.
• Die Gestalten
  A couple of experimental display fonts.
• Fonts 500
  The web's top 500 fonts.
• Urban Fonts Personal Favorite
  Great website, huge amount of fonts. Excellent details on each font. Ordering by name or category. Also check the top 100 and favorites.
• DDfont
  Listing fonts that have been collected from around the web.
• Font Freak
  Freeware, shareware and commercial font site.
• Fonts For Flash
  Website that has some freebies fonts. Created for Flash, but can be used in Photoshop.
• Simply The Best
  Nice website with huge amount of fonts. Ordering by name or category.
• Abstract Fonts Personal Favorite
  Great website, huge amount of fonts. Excellent details on each font. Ordering by name or category.
• Grunge Fonts
  This archive specializes in Grunge fonts. Website does contain a lot of advertations.
• 007 Fonts
  Hundreds of Freeware and Shareware fonts. Order alphabetical.
• Font Files
  Nice colletion of fonts. Order alphabetical.
• Font Garden
  Archive of fonts and dingbats. Especially look at the handwriting fonts. Order alphabetical.
• Font Village
  Nice collection of fonts. Website does contain a lot of advertations.
• Fontreactor
  Perfect site to download fonts. Nice preview font system. All fonts are sorted by alphabetical order and by themes.
• Fonts101
  Another website with a huge amount of fonts. Browse by category.
• Acid Fonts
  Good website with big collection of fonts. Browsing by name or category.
• All-free-fonts
  Small collection of fonts. Alphabetical ordering.
• Dingbat Depot
  Not an archive for fonts, but for dingbats. Ordering by name or category.
• Lotsa Fonts
  Nice amount of fonts. Website does contain a lot of advertations.
• Sharkshock
  Big collection of famous company fonts.
• FontFace
  FontFace is always adding fonts to this archive. Unlike many other sites, FontFace does not exist to be a massive archive of every font available.
• Fontasy
  German website with fonts. Order alphabetical at bottom of the page.
• TypeNow
  Big collection of famous fonts from bands, tv programs, games etc.
• PsyOps
  A couple of fonts
• ShowFont
  Big collection of fonts. Heavy pageload because of the thumbnails on the left.
• Fontz
  Nice website. Ordering by name or category.

Photoshop Brushes

One of my favorite tools in Photoshop has to be the brush tool. Download brushes from the following sites to make your artwork look better.
To install, place the downloaded ABR-file in the correct Presets folder of Photoshop. With default install-settings, this folder can be found in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\Presets\Brushes.

• VBrush
  Old site with Photoshop 7 brushes. Still worth mentioning.
• Appendixsquared
  Website with a couple of brushes. Brushes will work on Photoshop CS2 or higher.
• Brusheezy Personal Favorite
  Great website with a huge amount of brushes. Easy browsing and nice previews.
• In Obscuro
  Another site with Photoshop 7 brushes. Still has some nice brushes in the collection.
• DaviantART Personal Favorite
  Great website with a huge amount of brushes, created and submitted by other designers. All kinds of styles.

Photoshop Textures

If you want a little bit more depth or relief in your images, than textures can help you out. Take note that Textures can also be images which you must add to your photoshop file, instead of it being a plug-in.

• TextureWarehouse
  Free, High Resolution Textures to Designers and 3D Artist. Textures are updated frequently.
• Amazing Textures
  Texture library, with hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps.
• TextureKing Personal Favorite
  Great website containing loads of high resolution textures. Browsing in categories.
• In Texture
  Here you will find a free texture to suit every need, with a wide range of surface, mapping, bump mapping and skinning illustrations to name but a few.
• Mayang
  Texture library has over 3400 free to download, free to use, high-resolution textures.
• Texture Archive
  Nice website with good patterns. Nice previews available.
• Image*After
  Next to a great stock-photo archive, this website also has a nice amount of texture images.
• AppendixSquared
  Small website where you can download a couple of texture packs.
• Grunge Textures
  Growing collection of quality images ready for you to download. All of our images are high resolution JPG's.
• DaviantART
  Great website with a huge amount of textures, created and submitted by other designers. All kinds of styles.

Patterns

Patterns can be used to give a nice pattern on an image. Make sure you use them wisely; They can make your artwork beautiful.

• Brusheezy
  Next to their archive of brushes, this website also lists nice patterns.
• DaviantART
  Great website with a huge amount of patterns, created and submitted by other designers. All kinds of styles.

Not much more over here since I don't use patterns much, but you can create patterns yourself.

Photoshop Plug-ins

Plug-ins can change the way that Photoshop works for you. Filters, automated actions etc. can make life a little bit easier. Make sure you install the plug-in in the right directory.

• About Personal Favorite
  This website contains a lot of plug-ins. You just have to check it out youselve.
• Free Photoshop
  Pretty old website (2003), listing plug-ins for Photoshop.
• Adobe Photoshop Exchange Personal Favorite
  Official exchange website from Adobe for Photoshop. Registration required.
• Angelfire Filterz
  Another old website containing a couple of Photoshop filters. No previews.
• Photo-plugins
  Nice website listing many photoshop plugins. Previews available.
• RedField Plugins
  This site contains a couple of plugins. Some are really nice to use. Previews available.
• The Plugin Site
  Small collection of very effective plugins can be found here.
• Telegraphics
  Another small collection of plugins. Type of plugin can be different.

Free Stock Photos

Stock Photo sites contain a lot of high resolution pictures by people around the world. You can use them in your artwork, but some pictures are copyrighted or CC'd.

• MorgueFile
  A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
• Image*After
  Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.
• Stock.xchng Personal Favorite
  Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you. Registration needed.
• PhotoGen
  The Photogen free stock photo gallery is constantly being updated with new photos and images.
• Flickr Creative Commons Personal Favorite
  One of the great Web 2.0 website with a huge amount of high resolution photos taken by users all over the globe.
• Stockvault
  Nice looking website containing lots of stock photos. Browsing by category, newest and popular.
• FreePhotosBank
  Medium size website with a couple of very nice stock photos.
• DesignPacks
  Small website where you can download category type photos in one archive.
• Free Pixels
  Another nice website with stock photos. Browsing like forum-style category types.
• Every Stock Photo
  Website collecting all kinds of stock photos around the net.

There are a lot of stock-photo websites out there, but I found these worth mentioning.

Photoshop Tutorial sites

The best way to learn Photoshop is following tutorials to learn from others. Improve your skills by doing new tutorials each time.

• PSLover
  Big archive containing listing many tutorials from other websites.
• Good-Tutorials Personal Favorite
  Great website containing many links to photoshop tutorials.
• Tutorial Outpost
  Another big archive listing many photoshop tutorials.
• Photoshop 101
  Small website with links to photoshop tutorials. Updated weekly.
• Lombergar Personal Favorite
  This site has a couple of self-made video tutorials for Photoshop. Watch and learn.
• Effectica
  Nice forum with a good photoshop tutorial community.
• Photoshop Lab
  Website with good Photoshop tutorials. Has great explanations.
• Photoshop Cafe
  Small website with tutorials. Categories: FX, Text, Photo, Texture, Web and Misc.
• Marcofolio Personal Favorite
  Also on this site are a couple of nice tutorials listed.
• Team Photoshop
  Nice teamwebsite with a couple of Photoshop tutorials.
• Total Tutorials
  Huge website collecting all different kinds of tutorials on the web.
• Fresh Tutorials
  Another website containing lists of tutorials submitted by other websites.
• EZPhotoshop
  Great website with new tutorials, so keep a close watch on this one. Pretty darn slow website though.

Inspiring sites

To get a little design-spark, let yourself be inspired by the following sites.

• Smashing Magazine
  Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for web-designers and web-developers. Especially take a look at this post.
• Worth1000
  Don't let the design of the website fool you. It has photoshop contests with real nice entries.
• Web Designer Wall Personal Favorite
  Web Designer Wall is created by the same person who made N.Design Studio. This site serves as a public blog where design ideas are posted, tutorials, and talk about modern web design trends. Also take your time to read Photoshop Secret Shortcuts.
• Go Media Personal Favorite
  Absolute must see website. Don't forget to check out the Go Mediazine, the blog from Go Media.
• deviantART
  The largest art community of the world. Get inspired by looking at what other people made. Huge collection and different kinds of art.
• Deziner Folio
  Great blog about all kinds of designing stuff.
• The Best Designs
  The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world.
• Tutorial Blog
  Another blog containing design articles from around the world.
• Brand Nu
  Take a quick look at the work of artist Radim Malinic to get some nice new ideas.
• Veerle's Blog
  Great blog with nice articles about design from a co-designer living in Belgium. Absolute worth looking.
• CGTalk
  Forum with different kinds of artists, both 2d and 3d. Some of those artists are real professionals.
• Marcofolio Personal Favorite
  Yes, this site can give you some creativity sparks too. With posts like this I'm sure you'll get a whole lot of nice new ideas on what to design.

Am tot primit de la prieteni întrebări de genul "Care-i treaba cu AdSense Referrals ?".

Răspunsul este acesta:

Atunci când un editor care s-a înscris pentru Google AdSense prin trimiterea dvs. câştigă $ 5,00 în primele 180 de zile de la înscriere, veţi fi creditat(ă) cu $ 5,00.

Când acelaşi editor câştigă $ 100,00 în primele 180 de zile de la înscriere şi este eligibil(ă) pentru plată, veţi fi creditat(ă) cu încă $ 250,00.

Dacă, oricând în această perioadă de 180 de zile, trimiteţi 25 de editori care câştigă fiecare mai mult de $ 100,00 şi sunt toţi eligibili pentru plată, veţi fi recompensat(ă) cu un bonus de $ 2.000,00.

Sună bine nu ? :)

Păcat că nu e chiar aşa de frumos pe cum sună ... Spun asta pentru că eu de exemplu am 73 de referali din care doar 12 au ajuns la suma de 5 dolari ...

De ce ? Pentru ca referalii mei se pare că sunt cam puturoşi ...

Ori se aşteptau să se îmbogăţească peste noapte din Google AdSense, ori au văzut că câştiguriile sunt cam mici la început şi s-au lăsat de treabă, ori nu ştiu şi nu vor nici să înveţe cum şi cu ce se mănâncă monetizarea blogurilor sau a siturilor ...

Daca nu ati fost inca la SIAB 2007, iata cateva poze cu (foto)modelele de la cel mai mare targ de masini din Romania.

Puteti vedea numeroase fotografii cu fetele de la SIAB in aceste linkuri:

• Poze fete SIAB 2007

• Fete SIAB 2007

• Poze SIAB.

It seems the religious right are still stamping their feet, But this time they aren't telling us what we can do or say, They are telling us what we can read.

Here is a list of the ten most banned books in America (By most banned we mean banned in most states). Thanks to the American Library Association who compile this list for giving us an insight in to what really pisses the religious off.

"And Tango Makes Three" - for homosexuality, anti-family, and unsuited to age group;

"Gossip Girls" - for homosexuality, sexual content, drugs, unsuited to age group, and offensive language;

"Alice" - for sexual content and offensive language;

"The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" - for sexual content, anti-family, offensive language, and unsuited to age group;

"The Bluest Eye" - for sexual content, offensive language, and unsuited to age group;

"Scary Stories" - for occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence, and insensitivity;

"Athletic Shorts" - for homosexuality and offensive language;

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" - for homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited to age group;

"Beloved" - for offensive language, sexual content, and unsuited to age group;

"The Chocolate War" - for sexual content, offensive language, and violence.

They sure don't like homosexuality those Christians. Makes one wonder why their god would have created them in the first place.

If i had my way the christian bible would be on this list for genocide, infanticide, murder, incest, Telling people to "rip open pregnant women" and various other horrific acts.

If you can get your hands on any of these book do society a favour. Buy a few copies and leave them in place of the bible in various Churches.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ("Dr Who")

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching. (Steve Jobs)

The service life of a cobbled up fix is inversely proportional to the time required to slap it together. (Nick Lappos)

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an idiosyncrasy. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ID 02. ID is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. (Guy Kawasaki)

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? (Brian Kernighan)

When you say: "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say: "Hey, I got those with the system -- for free." (Linus Torvalds)

In some cases, all it requires is that you rationally point out that there is a problem. In others, all you can do is turn the other cheek. At the far end of the spectrum are those for whom the only appropriate response is to carve out their still-beating heart and force them to eat it. (Marc Carlson)

The wages of sin is debugging. (Ron Jeffries)

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. (Karl Lehenbauer)

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. (Isaac Asimov)

Every program starts off with bugs. Many programs end up with bugs as well. There are two corollaries to this: first, you must test all your programs straight away. And second, there's no point in losing your temper every time they don't work. (Z80 Users Manual)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. (Bill Gates)

The honest truth is that having a lot of people staring at the code does not find the really nasty bugs. The really nasty bugs are found by a couple of really smart people who just kill themselves. (Bill Joy)

We didn't have to replicate the problem. We understood it. (Linus Torvalds)

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job. (Alan Cooper)

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. (Donald Knuth)

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program -- such as where its bugs are. (David Keppel)

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. (Steven Levy)

Act in haste and repent at leisure: Code too soon and debug forever. (Raymond Kennington)

Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. (Benedikt Heinen)

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford)

In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man. (Kong Fu Zi aka Confucius)

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. (Stephen Jay Gould)

People get annoyed when you try to debug them. (Larry Wall )

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. (Richard Feynman)

The sum of the bugginess in a system can be far greater than the bugs in the individual products that comprise it, and often exponentially. (Chad Dickerson)

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bästards. (Alexander Jablokov)

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley. (Robbie Burns)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. (Barry Boehm)

Of all my programming bugs, 80% are syntax errors. Of the remaining 20%, 80% are trivial logical errors. Of the remaining 4%, 80% are pointer errors. And the remaining 0.8% are hard. (Marc Donner)

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. (Douglas Adams)

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. (Samuel T Coleridge)

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

I am one of the culprits who created the problem. I used to write those programs back in the '60s and '70s, and was so proud of the fact that I was able to squeeze a few elements of space by not having to put '19' before the year. (Alan Greenspan)

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. (Gordon Bell)

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack. (Tom DeMarco)

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. (Leo Tolstoy)

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. (Norman Augustine)

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. (Richard Pattis)

It's not the prevention of bugs but the recovery -- the ability to gracefully exterminate them -- that counts. (Victoria Livschitz)

In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers. (Gordon Schulmeyer)

When trouble is solved before it forms, who calls that clever? (Sun Tzu)

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. ("Sherlock Holmes")

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code. (Dan Salomon)

The gods too are fond of a joke. (Aristotle)

Here are ten real animals we hope you never have to encounter in person:



the aye-aye



the blobfish



the yeti crab



the star-nosedmole



the axolotl



the pygmymarmoset



the tarsier



the saki monkey



the hagfish



thesucker-footed bat

Fulgerică imi scrie astăzi pe mess: "băh, taci că am stârnit uraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"



Se referă la faptul că Constantin Daniel Oancea, un bulangiu de la Jurnalul Naţional a scris ... defapt a dat copy/paste la un articol scris de VisUrât !

Eu sunt curios acuma, nu prea le am cu jurnalismul şi cu chestii de genu ... dar cei care administrează Jurnalul Naţional, şefii de acolo ... tolerează aşa ceva ? Părerea mea e că aşa ceva dăunează grav ziarului ! Dovadă clară de neprofesionalism !

Reactii la : oradeanul, piticu, zoso, arhi, dece, quinzelle.

How can we give up free products ? Well it's a simple new system involving a three step process, which has featured on BBC and CNN.


The advertisers want people to try out their products or services, and they're willing to pay to promote ... it's simple, less expensive for them than tv advertising and much more effective !

Laptop, Ipods and other gadgets free from World Wide Giveaway (CNN/BBC)

Here’s a birds eye view of the construction and development work in Dubai…

You must have seen this picture…yes it is Burj Al Arab in Dubai - Supposedly the only 7 Star Hotel in the World!

It was built in only 18 months and completed in 2003…

Yes, it cost a lot of money. Contrary to popular opinion, Dubai is not oil rich

Just to go in and see the hotel costs 60 Pounds. Can you imagine what it would cost to spend the entire night?

In a room like this one?

Let me tell you: A suite like this one can cost anything between $7500 and $15,000 a night!

This is the Panoromic Suite for $8,250 a night!

You have to add what it costs to dine in this restaurant.

You can have your business meeting in something like this…

And you can enjoy a drink in one of the numerous bars

Refresh yourself with a shower in a cozy & intimate place like this…

Or enjoy a swim in one of the numerous pools; if a bath is not enough.

If you are feeling bored you can choose to play a tennis match atop the hotel with Nadal (if he is around!)

Crazy isn’t it? For the price of an hours play you can buy hundreds of tennis balls!

Take a look a this indoor sky slope. You could enjoy freezing temperatures when others are sweating in 85 deg Fahrenheit or 45 deg centigrade! Don’t complain about the Sun in Dubai. It’s also in Dubai in the “Mall of the Emirates”.



Is it nice?



The mall looked like this three years ago



Now finished; it looks like this (notice the size of the palm trees)



Friends, you are seeing Dubai - The city with one of the fastest growth rates in the world.
Compare the 2 pictures above…



Now look at some of the future projects. 15% of the tall buildings being built in the world are in Dubai. It is said that around 15% of the major construction equipments like Cranes etc are in use at the moment in Dubai.



This is a virtual model of “Burj Dubai” which will be the tallest tower in the world by end 2008. It will exceed 800 meters in height.



Compare it to the closest competitor…



Here is how the Burj Dubai currently looks like…



This is the biggest theme park in the world and it will be finished by 2010. Project has taken off. It will be called “Dubailand”



You can see Dinosaurs come to life - In real size!



The above is the “Jumeirah Beach Residences project” which was just completed. It is a block of 40 buildings.



Work is done day and night.



This is the design plan of the “Dubai Marina” zone showing views of 2 Palm Projects - Palm Jumeirah and Palm Jebel Ali and third one “The World” project. The middle one, the Palm Jumeirah is the smallest and the island is 5 kilometers by 5 kilometers and will add 78 kms to the coastline.



These are the villas on the leaf of the palm.


A Third Palm Project called “Palm Deira” is also coming up. Palm Deira will take 10-12 years to complete and will be bigger in size than the city of Paris!



This is an aerial view of the Burj Al Arab and the Palm.



Between the three islands there will be over 100 luxury hotels, exclusive residential beach side villas and apartments, marinas, water theme parks, restaurants, shopping malls, sports facilities and health spas.


The Palm Islands will add 520 kms of beaches to Dubai coastline. Indeed this is the “Eighth Wonder” of the World!



This is the “World Project” shaped like a world map, another man made archipelago of 300 islands. The development will cover an area of 9 km in length and 6 km in width, surrounded by an oval breakwater. Transport between the islands will be by boat and helicopter! Island prices range from $15 million to $45 million! Think you can have one?