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Archive for March, 2008

Japanize your name!

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Hey peeps,
I’ve found an interesting site today: Japanize your name. I hardly believe that this thing actually displays your real japanese name but it’s fun so you all should give it a try

My Japan name is Rikumichimoshi. And yours?

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Hypens in domain names?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Hi peeps,
“What do you think about having hypens in domain names?“. This question keeps popping up in every SEO-related site/forum I’ve visited. Some people said that in terms of usability it’s best to use domain names without hypens to make your site’s URLĀ easier to remember for your visitors. Others said that it was best to [...]

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Animated GIFs and Photoshop CS3

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Hi peeps,
Not too long ago I believed that it was impossible to create animated GIF files using Photoshop CS3 due to the fact that this Adobe product no longer supports ImageReady so everything had to be done using Fireworks. How wrong I was.
Today I’ll share with you a quick tutorial (made by me) on how [...]

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SearchMe - Search Engines evolving!

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Hi peeps,
Have you ever heard of SearchMe.com? It’s what I would call the next-gen Search Engine (or SE v2.0 maybe?) Take a peek:

A group of ex-googlers have launched SearchMe, the first visual search engine ever! SearchMe lets users view images of the webpages while browsing the results. No more long lists of text-links [...]

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