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Powerpoint…. pfft, that’s old school! The new way to give presentation is to print out screenshots and put it on the table! This video is creative and funny. If it was done in PowerPoint, I wouldn’t have watched the entire clip. Here’s the video explaining what social bookmarking is using Delicious.

I love creative presentations. Here’s another one I saw a long time ago:

I don’t usually check my “adsense” or “analytics” account to see how much I made or how many people are coming. I check it about once a month. Recently, something came to my attention. I was featured in so many CSS galleries. Here is the list: cssmania.com, cssimport.com, screenfluent.com, designshack.co.uk, mostinspired.com, cssbased.com. These sites brought in tremendous amount of traffic, my RSS subscription increased about 30%! There was also a lot of traffic coming from StumbleUpon. Thanks to those who submitted this site!

I remember reading an article on Random Jabber about submitting your site to CSS galleries. I did try to submit my old design which didn’t get accepted in many places, so that motivated me to design a better theme! I take constructive criticism as a motivation to do something better. I noticed that my feed count increased (almost doubled) when I launched this design. The lesson: make sure the look and feel of your site look decent.

Photoshop has been around for decades and has proven to be the best product on the market by continuing improving and scaling it’s ability to do things. Photoshop started as a side project of a Michigan Grad Student.

In the fall of 1987, Thomas Knoll, a doctoral candidate in computer vision, was trying to write–as a diversion from his doctoral–computer code to display grayscale images on a black-white bitmap monitor. Because it wasn’t directly related to his thesis on computer vision, Knoll thought it had limited value at best. The code was called Display. Knoll wrote it on his Mac Plus computer at home. Little did he know that this initial code would be the very beginning of the phenomenon that would be known as Photoshop.

Continue Reading: Adobe Introduces A New Logo for Photoshop

If you haven’t heard about it, read my post on custom WordPress theme contest for one lucky blogger. I’ve reviewed and found about 22 blogs so far that I think qualify for the contest entry. Some bloggers just said “pick me” and that’s just simply not enough. If you haven’t entered yet, it’s still not too late! The contest ends September 30, 2007, so enter today! The voting will begin on October 1^st, 2007. I have read all the blogs that were posted in the comments, and here are the blogs that qualify: Continue Reading: Custom Wordpress Theme Contest - Update 1

I don’t usually do the sidebar widgets, and buttons (e.g. MyBlogLog, Alexa, Technorati, and many others) mainly because they are cluttered and ugly. But today, I decided to give Blogrush a try, simply because it looks promising enough and also, I like giving exposure to other bloggers. StumbleUpon is also a great way to give/get exposure. Instead of telling you what Blogrush can do, I’ll let this video explain it:

I’ll see how it does on this blog, so far I like it. Give it a try, and let me know if you like it.

The almighty Amazon.com will get a makeover in the coming days. Here’s a preview of what the new site will look like.

I am a huge fan of the usability and simplicity that Amazon offers. Many web designers have a great deal to learn from their website. There are very few companies out there who invest their great deal of time and money into making things easier for their customers. Here are some FAQ about the redesign. They are always such an inspiration. Speaking of inspiration, check out different types of showcases on Elements of Design. Good stuff.