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Lomo style images with Photoshop

WDMAC — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:19:47 +0000

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

WDMAC — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:26:11 +0000

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 [...]

Code Snippets for WordPress

WDMAC — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:00:21 +0000

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 [...]

Google’s 200 ranking factors

WDMAC — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:47:25 +0000

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 [...]

Usability Issues in Designing for Kids

WDMAC — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:14:20 +0000

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 [...]

Compress CSS and JavaScript Using PNGs and Canvas

WDMAC — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:49:23 +0000

This article authored by Craig Buckler was originally published by Sitepoint.com This is a sneaky trick. It was devised by Jacob Seidelin at Nihilogic.dk and has been used by some participants in the 10K An Event Apart competition, though there is some contention as to whether it’s in keeping with the spirit of the event. [...]

HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference

WDMAC — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:45:40 +0000

Sometimes you need to encode special characters in your projects. – I often do, while writing in Portuguese that uses “special” Latin characters. For those cases there is a standard rule called ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 is the default character set in most browsers. The first 128 characters of ISO-8859-1 is the original ASCII character-set (the numbers [...]

How to use custom styles in the WordPress post editor

WDMAC — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:24:35 +0000

Every-time I created a word press theme, I felt the need to allow my theme users to use on their contents, the CSS styles that I had created to the theme itself. They were especially created in order to maintain a visual identity between the layout and the contents, and should be directly applied at [...]

Formatting print_r(); to be readable

WDMAC — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:02:10 +0000

User friendly array listings, by formatting print_r(); When you wish to see the contents of any PHP array, typically you use the print_r() function. This will print all the array contents in a very messy text block, without any line-breaks whatsoever, wich is quite difficult to read and browse trough. Wouldn’t it be so much [...]

How to Make a People-Free Photo in a Crowded Place

WDMAC — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:20:31 +0000

How to Make a People-Free Photo in a Crowded Place By Alexey Stiop, Shutterstock Contributor, published in: submit.shutterstock.com/newsletter/217/article2.html (original post images featured) Have you ever wanted to photograph a landmark or historic site or an interesting piece of architecture, and wished you could do it without including hundreds of tourists in your shot? This [...]