Lomo style images with Photoshop Published on November 15, 2011
Create your Lomo style images with Adobe Photoshop
Lomo images have a typical look: vignetted, highly contrasted and “overlayed-like” colors, this look was caused by the characteristic C-41 as E-6 cross-processing.
In this tutorial we’re going to try to achieve the same results using Adobe Photoshop and a modern digital picture.
Using Google Search tips and tricks Published on December 15, 2010
The following techniques are examples of shortcuts to getting the most out of Google Search and Voice Search. For the latest list of tips and tricks, visit the Google Help Center.
| What you want | What to type or say | Examples |
| Sports information | [team’s name] | San Francisco Giants |
| Pictures | Pictures of [topic] images of [topic] | Pictures of San Francisco Images of cats |
| Convert measurements | [original measurement] in [new measurement] | 30 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit |
| Movie showtimes | Movie Movie [location] [movie name] | Movie Movie Chicago The Horse’s Mouth |
| Word definition | Define [word] | Define campanile |
| Weather forecast | Weather Weather [location] | Weather Weather Detroit |
| Identify an area code | Area code [###] | Area code 215 |
| Identify a Zip code | Zip code [#####] | Zip code 46202 |
| Time | Time Time [location] | Time Time in London |
| Flight information | [Airline] [flight number] | American airlines flight 390 |
| Translation | Translate to [language] [phrase] | Translate to Spanish, Where is the Palace Hotel? |
| Calculator | [A math phrase] | 75 divided by 6 |
| Food | [Type of food] [Type of food] in [location] | Mexican food Mexican food in Urbana, Illinois |
Code Snippets for WordPress Published on September 27, 2010
If you are a pro or amateur developer editing or upgrading your WordPress plugin or theme, if you are short of time (or knowledge) and you need a handy repository of code snippets, WordPress Snippets is the place to get them!
Save your precious time. – Don’t reinvent the wheel.
The idea behind WordPress Snippets is simple; to provide small snippets of code, helping you to create a magic WordPress Theme. The original documentation of WordPress is excellent, but not as straight forward as you may want. Straight forward is the lead word for WP Snippets. No talk, just Snippets.
Visit their website at: wp-snippets.com/
Google’s 200 ranking factors Published on September 21, 2010
1. An insight into Google’s 200 ranking factors
Last week, Google’s Eric Schmidt said that listing Google’s 200 ranking factors would reveal business secrets. Although Google does not officially publish their ranking algorithms, there is something that you can do to crack Google’s secret algorithm.
Google’s 200 ranking factors
Google uses about 200 ranking factors to determine the position of a web page in the search results. Unfortunately, Google does not reveal the list of ranking factors and how exactly they are weighted.
Google’s ranking formula is a business secret. The problem is that your web pages must have all of these 200 elements if you want to see your pages on Google’s first result page.
Which factors are important to Google?
Usability Issues in Designing for Kids Published on September 20, 2010
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 13, 2010:
Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids
Summary:
New research with users aged 3–12 shows that older kids have gained substantial Web proficiency since our last studies, while younger kids still face many problems. Designing for children requires distinct usability approaches, including targeting content narrowly for different ages of kids.
Millions of children use the Internet, and millions more are coming online each year. Many websites specifically target children with educational or entertainment content, and mainstream websites often have specific “kids’ corner” sections — either as a public service or to build brand loyalty from an early age.
Despite this growth in users and services, little is known about how children actually use websites or how to design sites that will be easy for them to use. Website design for kids is typically based purely on folklore about how kids supposedly behave — or, at best, on insights gleaned when designers observe their own children, who hardly represent average kids, typical Internet skills, or common knowledge about the Web.
To separate design myths from usability facts, we turn to empirical user research: observations of a broad range of children as they use a wide variety of websites.
This research covers users aged 3–12 years. (Guidelines for sites targeting 13- to 17-year-olds are available in a report from our separate research with teenagers.)
Read the study here: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids – www.useit.com/alertbox/children.html
