WE may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans’ brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found.
Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the number of meaningful friendships is the same as it has been throughout history.
Find the entire article at TimesOnline http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6999879.ece
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A good color combination has the tendency to communicate with the users and let them perceive the design in the correct way. That is the basic reason why you need to pick the right color for your design. So, here we are bringing 50 varieties of useful and valuable color tools that would help you choosing the right color palettes for your designs.
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A Stunt Cyclist’s Tour de Fence
Published in the NYTimes
By CAROL WALLACE
Published: December 28, 2009
EDINBURGH — Like his fellow Scot Susan Boyle’s entry into show business, the stunt bicyclist Danny MacAskill can divide his life in two: before his YouTube video and after.
Read the entire article on the NYTimes @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/sports/global/29cyclist.html?_r=1
In Preparing CMS Web Graphics and Layouts Using Open-Source Tools, Jen Kramer shows how developers and graphic designers can collaborate to create a great site design that integrates with a content management system (CMS) like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla!, all using open-source software. This workflow is based on two existing open-source design tools, KompoZer and GIMP. Jen shows how to modify web graphics and create slices with GIMP, and then place these in an HTML page integrated with CSS in KompoZer. Along the way, she discusses web design best practices and special challenges that might arise when designing for CMS software.
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From SmashingApps
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/11/30/21-free-web-apps-that-can-make-your-lives-easier.html
This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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Muvizu
Welcome to Muvizu, a website set up to facilitate collaborative film, audio and drama projects, providing users with the right tools for the job and a shop window to exhibit their work.
The big enchilada is Muvizu 3D, free software designed to let anyone create compelling animations without expensive kit and years of training. The videos on this site were made in Muvizu 3D, mostly by people with no animation experience. Our mantra is: “Direct – don’t animate.”
Muvizu 3D is an alpha product and supplied “as is”, so take note of the known issues listed on the download page.
Podcasting redid the standard “Create your own multi-track ringtone” project using the tool Aviary just released last week: an online audio editor call Myna. http://aviary.com/tools/myna
The class voted it extremely easy to use, and useful for basic audio editing. No doubt as more filters get added, we will find it useful for even more. Additional comments indicated it had a clean, intuitive interface and was fun to use. The exported MP3s after using the “mixdown” feature, the project results indicate it is another first class online tool from Aviary.
From the website: Use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments!
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