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As you may or may not have noticed my site has experienced quite a bit of down time lately. This is due to the fact that Wordpress is a bit of a CPU hog. This seems to be a very common problem if you’re on a shared hosting server. There are a few things you [...]
This is the greatest game since Left For Dead the original. I’m such a sucker for anything zombie that this game was a, pun intended, a no brainer.
From Wikipedia:
Set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, the game pits its four protagonists—dubbed the “Survivors”—against hordes of the infected. There are four game modes: a [...]
I didn’t have any luck finding info online anywhere so I decided to post this here for future reference. The process below comes from Emily F. @ Authorize.net.
1. Log into your Merchant Interface at https://account.authorize.net
2. Click the Account tab.
3. Click User Administration on the left side menu.
4. Click + Add User on the User Administration [...]
Photoshop blending options give your images and text some extra impact. Drop shadows, gradients, outlines, bevels and more will give your graphics that professional look you are striving for. Below I’ll be explaining the, “Blending Options”, Pallet in Photoshop.
First off to get to the, “Blending Options”, pallet right click on the layer you wish [...]
So you have a folder with 100 images in it that need to be resized and have a watermark added. Doing this one at a time would take you all day, but with the use of Actions in Photoshop this repetitive task is as simple as editing one image with just a few extra steps.
Let’s [...]
I was bouncing around dropping some Entrecards this morning and ran into a few things that I absolutely hate to see on the web. New designers should be taught to avoid these practices in web design 101. I know I’m not alone here so any newbie bloggers out there please take heed to these, “what [...]
Screen shots from my latest obsession Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare. Set in modern times utilizing technology used today by our armed forces this game is hard to stop playing. It’s unfortunately short, but once won cheats and arcade levels become a menu option. There are also new maps in the works as well.
New [...]
If you’ve never used blending effects in Photoshop you really need to hop on board. Blending effects can be particularly handy when creating the same effect over and over. This is especially beneficial when making graphics for a website that holds a set standard. Save a psd with layer effects applied to it and you [...]
This is my friends pitbull Guns. He’s a cool pooch. And these are what happens after a few heady Bells beers.
Pit Bull Daisies
Superguns
Gunnyangelo
And my Personal Favorite…
David Gunford Beckam
The Original Pic
With the new incarnation of NateBal.com one of my many upgrades were custom error pages that didn’t just have redirect code that spit you back to my homepage. My custom error pages are set up with links to some of my more popular posts and categories. Rather than just spitting my users back to my [...]
I recently had to remove some development pages from Google’s search results pages and I used Google Webmaster Tools to do so. Google Webmaster Tools doesn’t automatically stop GoogleBot from crawling your site, it does however provide options for alerting Google that you no longer want to have a page indexed for whatever reason.
1: Choose [...]
I recently finished a project at work that required some 3D animation. Being a Flash designer I opted for Swift 3D. Swift 3D is a fantastic program that works hand in hand with Flash. They even have a 3D Extension plugin for Flash which you can get here.
For those of you that have never used [...]
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