Here’s another one to help you with your design woes. As I’ve mentioned for a few posts, one of the best ways you can design your site is through proper color schemes. However, even if you have web tools and palette generators, you might still find it hard especially if you aren’t a pro designer. [...]

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I helped out in my former company’s headhunting efforts and reading resumes had always been a treat for me. While I really don’t find them on one’s resume nowadays, I’m still interested in knowing what a person does on the side. Don’t get me wrong, I think that those information will stick out like a [...]

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Subscriptions are sometimes the better route than to buy magazines off the stands at full price. Subscriptions can sometimes save you a couple or so copies a year or get some value-added gifts for your troubles. But magazine subscriptions can be quite expensive in the long run. If you’re only out for a great reads [...]

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Antique furniture may give at out one time or another. And these breaks usually happen in the joints where they take much of the stress over the years. If you are planning to repair the joint, it will be a lot easier if you get down into separating the joints. Here’s a great tip on [...]

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There have been plenty of sitcoms featuring couples bickering over paint jobs at home. Usually they end up wrestling over buckets of paint for a whole messy finale. But seriously, picking colors for your home isn’t just about who likes what. If you end up not getting to decide because of preferences, then try deciding [...]

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If you ever done a paint job and cleaned all your brushes, you would probably have sent your used paint thinner down the drain. I mean what would you have to do with paint thinner with all sorts of colors in it, right? But anything you’ve discarded would definitely have some dollar values to it [...]

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It’s a weekend and with nothing much to do, I’m just checking out random sites and found this one. It’s a nifty trick that you can do out of boredom or out of sheer desperation. Here’s how you can get one last light from an empty lighter.

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Designers often have a keen eye on fonts. Some can even identify the font and its details down to the name, size and style. Pretty amazing if you ask me. But how about the rest of us normal people who’d just want to know what a certain font’s name is so that we could download [...]

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Motivator posters can try too hard at times. I often found them a bit too much when hung at workplaces. Honestly, when I see one of those on the wall of a boss’ office, it comes to me as something insecure. Haha. Especially the one with “Leadership” on it. But don’t get me wrong, these [...]

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ASCII art has been around for a long, long time. And generators have been around too. And here’s one of them – Photo2Text. It’s an online conversion site that lets you upload an image and download a TXT of the generated ASCII art. I could’ve featured this as a web raid. But since it’s got [...]

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I remember our dad buying my sister a piano. Just a simple upright piano great for kids who were just about to learn playing. It’s still around even if no one really plays it anymore. In playable condition. Now I’ve been thinking if we only took better care of it. In any case, if you [...]

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Creating logos for your small club or organization can be a tedious process. Hiring a could put a dent on your finances (logo designs can go as much as a couple hundred dollars easy). So if you’re just a casual organization looking for a decent enough looking logo, then you might want to head over [...]

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I’ve featured a couple of web resources for color scheme picking for design purposes. And I do have a bias for ColorJack:Sphere ever since I started using it. But for those of you who are looking for other resources on color schemes (whether you’re an advanced designer or a fledgling), here’s a massive resource of [...]

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You just got to love sketch web applications. Being not too much of an artist, I just got to love them. So far I’ve featured one for realistic sketches and another for caricatures. Now, we’ve got one for the cubist himself, Picasso. Mr. Picassohead work like the two tools I’ve already featured. You got a [...]

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Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and chances are (guys…) that you haven’t given it much thought just yet. Oh know, you’re probably just planning on grabbing some flowers, or letting the kids give her stuff they made at school. Heck, you might not have thought about it at all yet…but you should. Why? [...]

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