Web Design Ledger has a great post listing the 20 Do’s and Don’ts of effective web design.

The introduction goes like this: When you are creating a website (or hiring a web/blog designer to create one for you), there are specific items you need to be aware of. Things that normally wouldn’t cross your mind. For the average person who wants a website or blog for their business, they are after one very important thing – sales. Now, they may tell you that they want the big flashy logos, or the …

Here are couple of Firefox desktop wallpapers taken from a collection of 25 (see link at the bottom).
What do you think?

Read more here: Download 25 Most Beautiful FireFox Desktop Wallpapers
(Via TechTreak.com.)
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Maxon has unveiled the latest version of its professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering application, Cinema 4D R11.
New features include the ability to render projects with Pixar's RenderMan Pro Server and the Projection Man tool.
The Projection Man tool allows artists to project a painting onto geometry in a scene. This means that an artist can focus more of their time on imagery and worry less about how to bring it together later on.
Read more here: Maxon unveils Cinema 4D R11
(Via Macworld.)
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The clever guys at the digital ethnography working group (a team of cultural anthropology undergraduates at kansas state university) have put together a neat little video Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
Michael Wesch says “I was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, I decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it”

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This one came in the mailbox, the post_mail_box, of course. Mediagalaxy included this cutie in their latest advertisement paper. We’ve been watching it for a while, now that it’s here it seems unbelievable! Intel Mobile 900MHz, 512MB DDR2, 4GB storage, webcam, Wlan, card reader, built-in speakers and mike. It comes with Linux and – this one made me giggle – is Windows XP compatible! It is sold as being the lightest laptop (in Romania perhaps), only weighing 0,9 kg. Now all we have to do is go and get one …

If you were with your eyes on this, you may already know that on the compiz community forum the first stable version of Compiz-Fusion, that is 0.6.0 has been released. But if you happen to use debian unstable, aka sid, you may want to add to your repositories that of “shame“, whose packages work well, in my case with the speedy, shiny, always up-to-date rolling-release distro called sidux.
This release includes:
Compiz Plugin sets (plugins are split into three packages according to their
usefulness and stability):
compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
This is the main plugin set, fully supported …

We’ve been waiting for it, tomorrow it will happen: the small beauty from Asustek, Eee PC is to hit the Taiwan market with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the product through Best Buy and Newegg in the US by the end of this month, while availability in the China market may arrive by the end of the year, the company added. Asustek, on June 5, unveiled its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, at Computex Taipei 2007. The …

Seems all the shopkeepers are revamping their shop windows right before Christmas. As the holidays are coming, Barnes and Noble have followed the Amazon example and redesigned their website. Well, it looks like it has more of that web 2.0 stuff we’ve come to expect such as tag cloud, podcasts and flash scroller thingys. What? Oh yes, no RSS Feeds.
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Have you ever played with the thought of owning one of the worlds smallest and yet usable notebooks? You must have at least heard about Asus’s Eee PC. You probably know that it will not make the $100 price limit, nor will there be more than 2Gb Flash, replacing the hard drive that’s normally in a notebook. You will also be a little upset that it will only be sold in Hong-Kong first, probably at the end of September – beginning of October.
There are good news though, the RAM …

It looks like Amazon is messing with a new interface design. It does not show up for all visitors, so I am not among the ones to see it, but my brother is. Check out the screenshot. Also, here’s a really nice article about Amazon’s tab bar and its’ evolution in time. The new design does not look awfully different from the previous one, but it has more main categories tucked on the left side and seems to emphasize “me”-related features on the top bar, across the page. Now don’t …