Identify and Deal With Different Types Of Clients
"In today’s digital age, the arena has shifted to the Web, and the online office space that most freelancers inhabit limits personal interaction. Though sussing out a client’s personality via online communication is difficult, it still remains an invaluable tool in your arsenal."[via smashing magazine]
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Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good
"Everyone and their grandfather (and dog) seems to have a website these days. The Web is getting more crowded by the day, with literally dozens of websites being added as you read this article. It is becoming harder and harder to get noticed among the masses."[via noupe]
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2010 Olympic medal design unveiled
"The official medals for the 2010 Winter Olympics were unveiled Thursday morning in Vancouver, featuring original West Coast aboriginal designs of an orca and a raven. In an Olympic first, each medal will be unique, featuring part of an image cropped from two large master artworks by Corrine Hunt, a Canadian designer and artist of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage based in Vancouver, B.C."[via cbc news]
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Things You Didn’t Know about the Large Hadron Collider
"It's essentially an expensive ($10 billion) tunnel that runs for 17 circular miles deep underneath the Franco-Swiss border. Within this tunnel, 10,000 scientists and engineers from almost 100 countries have built a machine that will accelerate two beams of protons in opposite directions, then smash them into each other in the hopes that the results will give them a glimpse of the universe less than a billionth of one second after the Big Bang."[via ask men]
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Sci-Fi’s Coolest Worlds
"With James Cameron's long-awaited return to genre filmmaking, Avatar, hitting screens just two months from now, we're starting to get a sense of what the top-secret film is going to look like. And one thing that seems certain is that the alien world depicted in the film, Pandora, is poised to join the ranks of sci-fi's best designed and most epically memorable planets. "[via ign]
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Defending Against A DDoS Attack
"DDoS victims can "tarpit," or force the attacking bot to drastically scale back its payload, enlist the help of the botnet hunter community, or even get help to wrest control of the botnet. Joe Stewart, a researcher with SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit, says these self-defense techniques are little known or used today by victims of DDoS attacks, but they offer an alternative to purchasing a commercial DDoS product or service and working with ISPs to try to stop an attack. "[via dark reading]
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Revival of SMS Tax Proposal Attempted While Attention on Typhoon Relief Efforts
But don’t take our word for it! Here’s what Victor Villanueva wrote as part of his article entitled “Abusing the people’s tragedy “.
A few days ago, I attended a Congress committee hearing on what we all thought to be was a junked proposal to tax SMS messages. Without as much attention as the previous hearings, and with the public focused largely on the relief operations, pro-tax congressmen actually revived the proposal, and even had the gall to use the calamity to justify...
Source: Technograph
Gundam Tieren Ground Type Part 2
During the last post of my work-in-progress build report for the Gundam Tieren, I showed you how I assembled the model kit and did the initial coat of paint.
Now, it’s time to go through how I did the decals, followed by the wash and (my favorite part) doing battle damage, paint chips, rust and over-all [...]
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Mega Magazine Gives Katrina Halili the Mutant Arm & Hand
Some art designer must’ve thought Katrina Halili was too short for the cover of Mega Magazine, and most likely directed the resident Photoshop guru to stretch her out a bit, make her taller—and do something with her hands.
(Click on the photo below to examine the results up-close)
A tip of the hat to ferdielicious, and another to Photoshop Disasters.
Related posts:The Katrina Halili + Left 4 Dead Connection What’s a sign So Who Leaked Those Hayden Kho Videos? Well, according to...
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Artes de las Filipinas: Private Collections Book Launch on October 20, 2009
On October 20, 2009 we are celebrating the book launching of Artes de la Filipinas: Private Collections at the Edsa Shangri-la Hotel Isla Ballroom. Private Collections is a book about private art collecting and collectors in the Philippines written by Ms. Christiane de la Paz, Marketing Director of EACOMM Corporation. It tells the passions and visions of thirty Filipino collectors and follows their tastes in art – whether in the masters or the contemporary. This coffee table book is the...
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