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Happy New Year!

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It’s about 90 minutes to the NY2007 here in KL, Malaysia. Wish you all Happy New Year! Have a good celebration everybody. I hope that the new year will be a year of Peace, Happiness and Prosperity. I hope those of you who celebrated Christmas had a great time with your family and friends. I also would like to wish Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim brothers and sisters.

Free SMS from VoipCheap.com for New Year!

Posted in » Free Calls - by Ades

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VoipCheap.com is offering free sms service for the New Year Celebration, you can pre-enter your New Year message to your friends and family in the program, and it will send it exactly at 12:00 to them! This way you don’t have to type your sms when the countdown strikes zero, you can enjoy the fireworks instead ;)

At the moment VoipCheap.com is also offering FREE calls to these countries (landlines unless stated otherwise): Andorra , Argentina , Australia , Austria , Belgium , Canada , Chile , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , France , Germany , Hong Kong (+mobile) , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , Malaysia , Monaco , Netherlands , New Zealand , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Puerto Rico (+mobile) , Russian Federation , Singapore (+mobile) , South Korea , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , United Kingdom , United States (+mobile) You can download the program at www.VoipCheap.com

Free Templates Providers - Roundup

Posted in » Links - by Ades

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Free Templates Providers is a site with collection of links to free templates. Currently it links to 19 sites that offer the best free templates on the web. It’s a one page website that displays the logos of the sites with a small description of what they have to offer. I am glad to see my free templates in the list.

Google Zeitgeist 2006 - what people searched in 2006

Posted in » Google - by Ades

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Google.com - Top Searches in 2006

1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

See more keywords according to different categories for 2006 at www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2006.html

Krugle.com - Search engine for programmers

Posted in » Scripts, Search Engines, Software - by Ades

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Krugle is a search engine for programmers, it contains almost all programming language codes. Programmers can find and review source codes, also save and share it with others. For example if you are looking for an upload script in php then you can can just search and get this. So next time if you are developing a new script you might want to search Krugle first, you can get the code and modify it according to your needs. www.krugle.com

UrbanFonts - over 8000 free fonts and dingbats

Posted in » Fonts - by Ades

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UrbanFonts.com is a great new free font archive but with a twist…. It’s organized as a commercial font foundry with plenty of interactive features. The site carries over 8,000 free fonts and dingbats for PC and MAC without annoying pop up ads or obtrusive advertisement. Fonts and dingbats are neatly categorized with large custom color previews. The site also has a blog, a forum, and an articles section where you can read about fonts and typography. It’s neatly packages in a web 2.0 style with tags to find the top searched fonts. You can also submit your fonts. Read more »

How to design Web2.0 sites - Design Guide

Posted in » CSS, Usability - by Ades

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Summary of features covered

1. Simplicity
2. Central layout
3. Fewer columns
4. Separate top section
5. Solid areas of screen real-estate
6. Simple nav
7. Bold logos
8. Bigger text
9. Bold text introductions
10. Strong colours
11. Rich surfaces
12. Gradients
13. Reflections
14. Cute icons
15. Star flashes

www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm

DivShare - new file sharing site

Posted in » Links, Online Tools - by Ades

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DivShare is a new file sharing site. Some of the main features of the site are: Upload unlimited files, Serve unlimited downloads, Files stay online forever! NEW!, No pop-up ads or spam, Incredibly fast, reliable servers. In addition to that if you are uploading pictures you can create your own galleries.

www.divshare.com

Publishers can’t place images near to AdSense ads

Posted in » Google - by Ades

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Google has clarified that lining up images near to AdSense ads [see above image] are against the Google TOS. Now, publishers cannot exploit these strategy and persuade their users into believing that they are not ads. You can read the Google explanation here.

Grab Google Adwords’ Free $50 Coupon!

Posted in » Google - by Ades

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This Free $50 Coupon from Google Adwords is for those who have not tried AdWords yet. If you already have an account (like me) then unfortunately you can’t use this coupon. Thanks to Arstan for letting me know about this offer. Grab here.