64 Photoshop Tutorials For Icon Design

I really love to make Icon for my website. Because it can give more beautiful looks to a website or blog specially if your design is made from WEB 2.0 design.

Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. A website or blog with beautiful icons will definitely attract visitors’ attention.

This list of Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Design was gathered by Web Design Booth and I like to share it to you. I'm sure you will become a good icon designer after reading these tutorials.

1. How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop

2. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

3. Design a 3D Box Icon in Photoshop

4. iTune Icon

5. Adobe Bridge Icon

6. Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop

7. How To Draw The Billings Application Icon

8. CD Dock Icon Tutorial

9. Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop

10. Designing Security Icon

11. Create a Glossy Home Icon in Photoshop

12. Photoshop design sell MP3 digital player logo icon in Photoshop

13. Photoshop Gold Ipod Shuffle Icon

14. Photoshop Ipod Portable Speaker Icon

15. Photoshop design bluethoth logo icon in photoshop

16. Photoshop design USB portable speaker logo icon in Photoshop

17. Photoshop 4GB Card Icon

18. Create an Adobe Box Icon in Photoshop

19. Create a Dock Icon Folder in Photoshop

20. Glossy Silver Web 2.0 Icon Tutorial

21. Glossy Black Button Icons

22. Photoshop Tea Cup Icon

23. Crystal Clear Bubble Icons

24. Red and White Pearl Download Icon

25. Monitor Icon Design – Photoshop Tutorial

26. Yellow Road Sign Icons

27. Draw 3D Crystal Icon in Photoshop

28. The Making of an Icon

29. Christmas Icon Tutorial

30. New Quicktime Icon in Photoshop

31. Skype Buddy Icon Photoshop Tutorial

32. Crystal Ladybug Webbie

33. Stylish Search Icon – Photoshop Tutorial

34. Create A Mockingly Smiley

35. Glossy RSS icon

36. Create a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design

37. Create a Detailed Vault Icon in Photoshop

38. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Style Icons

39. How to Make a Folder Icon

40. Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop

41. How to Design Mini Icons

42. World Icon Tutorial

43. XP Style iPod Icon

44. Create a Speed Gauge and Watch Icon in Photoshop

45. Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design

46. Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon

47. Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon

48. Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

49. Custom Hard Drive Icon

50. LG LCD Monitor Icon

51. 3D Mp3 Player

52. Vista Error Icon

53. Photoshop website skype icon design in photoshop

54. Create an ESRB look a like icon

55. Sleek Icon Design

56. USB Stick Tutorial

57. Share This Icon

58. Orb Site Icons Tutorial

59. Carbon Style Icon

60. Thermometer Icon

61. How to Create A Swanky Coffee Table Icon in Photoshop

62. How to Create a Van Icon in Photoshop

63. How to Create a Moka Express Icon

64. Design a Glossy Download Icon

A List to Watch Free Movies Online

When you think free movies online? first thing comes to your mind is search to search engine especially if you don't know the exact url you looking for? Well, well, well here's a list that listed by http://www.exchange4green.com so you can choose what online free movies that fit's to your need whether Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies — they’re all here.


General Films/Movies

Internet Archive – Feature Films: This archive of feature films contains some important classics from the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. We’ve featured ten good ones in a previous post. (You’ll find here films by Elia Kazan, John Huston, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks and others.) We’ve also mentioned that the Archive hosts a nice collection of film noir flics. You can access the Archive’s full movie library here.

Australian Screen Archive: The Australian National Film and Sound Archive provides free and worldwide access to over 1,000 film and television titles – a treasure chest of down-under video 100 years in the making. Thanks Peter for that tip.

BestOnlineDocumentaries: As one reader previously told us, “This site is a bit out of date and some of the links are broken, but it’s still a great compilation of online documentaries.” For more documentaries, you should also see Snagfilms mentioned below.

Classic Cinema Online: This site nicely pulls together hundreds of classic films, ranging from Action to Westerns and even old cinema shorts and news reels. A good tip from Lifehacker.

Crackle.com: If you’re looking for mainstream movies, here you go. This is Sony’s online movie play. You get free films here. But my guess is that there’s some geo-blocking that comes with this. Can anyone verify? (Note: one of our readers has also suggested the UK-based Blinkbox, which seems to offer another platform for more mainstream films.)

Creative Commons: The folks who gave us the Creative Commons license host a wiki where you can find a good number of freely available films. Handy and worth keeping an eye on. I’d also suggest keeping tabs on CC’s Video blog.

Europa Film Treasures: Thanks to Europa Film Treasures, you can spend hours looking back through an archive of European film. Theses films range from “comedy to science fiction, from westerns to animation, from erotic to ethnological movies.” Highly recommended by our readers.

Film Annex: This site has one of the largest selections of online films for you to watch or download. See films from independent filmmakers and directors from all over the world, and download or stream to your PC, laptop or iPhone. The films are ad-supported. If you click here, you can watch Charlie Chaplin’s 1918 film, Shoulder Arms.

Free Documentaries Online: The name says it all.

Free Documentaries.Org: Specializes in showing provocative documentaries for free…

Hulu: Unfortunately Hulu limits its programming to a US audience (a policy that really needs to change), but it’s the 800 pound gorilla in the US, and there are some decent films here (see some picks here), so I’m grudgingly listing it. Sorry in advance Stephen…

Legal Torrents: Pretty much what the name says. Legaltorrents.com hosts high quality open-licensed (Creative Commons) digital media and art. This link takes you to their movie section.

NFB.ca: NFB.ca is a web site where you can watch films produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It offers access to 100s of documentaries, animated films and trailers. You can also access this collection via a free iPhone app.

QuickSilverScreen: This site essentially puts torrents online and lets you watch films posted by other users, including many new films. It’s hard to believe that this site is entirely kosher, but it’s very popular (one of the top 3,000 sites on the web) and hardly a closely held secret.

SnagFilms: SnagFilms “finds the world’s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and makes them available to a wide audience.” You can watch full-length documentary films for free. Currently includes over 550 films. And, as one reader notes, “The best part … is you can give back to the charitable foundations behind each one of the documentaries.”

Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive: This online catalog “provides access to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. The Archive serves as a comprehensive informational and archival resource worldwide for moving image materials pertaining to the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II. ”

The Auteurs.com: Though this site typically offers arts films on a pay-per-view basis, it does
feature a series of free films. Each month, a free film is featured (see example here). The site also hosts free international films restored by Martin Scorsese’s Word Cinema Foundation, mentioned right below. And you can find another set of free films here.

World Cinema Foundation: The WCF, created by Martin Scorsese in 2007, has restored a
series of classic international films. You can watch them for free online.

YouTube Movies: YouTube hosts a series of full-length movies. Right now, they’re showcasing Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which you can watch here. There are likely some geo-restrictions here.

YouTube Screening Room: The Screening Room presents high quality, short independent films to YouTube users and promises to roll out four new films every two weeks. The collection includes some Academy-Award winners and other quality films.


And this are my added website for free online watch movies:

www.watch-movies-online.tv

www.watchonlinemovieshere.com

www.blinkbox.com

www.movieyay.com

www.moviefather.com

www.onlinewatchmovies.net

www.momomesh.com

www.mymovees.com

www.moviesplanet.com

www.moviewatchlist.com

10 Important Tips to Optimize Wordpress for Search Engines

Well of course this tutorial is original posted in "www.1stwebdesigner.com" and I would like to share it too to all my fellow Filipino wordpress developer out there. As a webmaster by profession, I also have so many kind of tools for SEO just to hit the top page of any search engine on the web. But as I search for an easy to understand technique to optimize your wordpress site for any search engines, I found this tips of 1stwebdesigner.com and I'm impress because some of this technique is unknown for me before but of course now I can say it's really works.

There is a wide concept in publisher’s mind that using wordpress means getting maximum traffic from search engines because wordpress is a very good CMS which hardly requires Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Well this concept is not as correct as it sounds. Wordpress also requires some optimization to get max out of search engines. For this purpose i made a list of 10 Important Changes which should be a part of your wordpress blog.

1. Use a sitemap generator and generate XML sitemaps like twice a week.


2. Use an Ideal Robot.txt File which do the following:

Points to the sitemap in first line.
Disallow unnecessary pages, folders so search engines get to your content instead of wasting time and getting less important stuff.
Here is a sample : http://www.designzzz.com/robots.txt

3. Using rel=”nofollow” Attribute in outgoing or less important links.

This Attribute tells the search engine bots not to follow the specific link or do not share that page’s Rank with this link. This is a very important tip , you can control your site’s SEO and Page rank by just using proper nofollow attributes. Here is a post i wrote earlier which can show you how to control your page rank and seo by using nofollow. Ok, the Less Important links includes links like Read more.. , Click here etc. This can be done by editing the template files easily.
Some plugins which we use in Wordpess blogs requires a must nofollow and we never thought about that. Here is a very cool example. You are using the easy retweet plugin and Retweet buttons are shown on start of every post even on your homepage. Lets say you have 10 posts blocks on your homepage and have 10 retweet buttons on it link to twitter.com !!! that means there are ten outgoing links, you are sharing your site’s page rank and getting lesser visibility in search engine. it can be nofollow from its settings.

4. Proper URL and Title Structure

It is the most important part which we neglect while publishing a post. Lets take a simple example. I am about ot publish a post lets say.
10 Awesome Graphics Designs and Digital Artworks the URL would be :
www.yoursite.com/category/10-awesome-graphics-designs-and-digital-artworks

Seems pretty much alright, right? Well..here u miss about 30% of your visibility!!
A simple reason using STOP WORDS in title and URL are the worst idea u can think up of. !! AND is a stop word. About the url why make it so long using extra stuff in it like the word 10 , and etc. Trust me no one will search for your content in search engines with these words 10 graphics design. If they look for that they will search graphics designs etc.
So get rid of 10 , and from your URL. Here is how they should be:

* Title: 10 Awesome Graphics Designs n Digital Artworks

* URL: www.yoursite.com/category/awesome-graphics-designs-digital-artworks/

Makes sense? well i don’t even use the category name in the URL structure to make it smaller and more powerful!

5. Using Keywords and Meta Description:

Ok, i have noticed that most of the bloggers use very tiny keywords. Well, guys small get a habit of using long tail keywords,because with them u get traffic for life time. Lets take the example of that above title post. keywords/tags which bloggers normally select are: graphics, design, digital, artworks. Why don’t you spice them up a bit to get even more traffic? If i would do it , I would use these keywords:

Graphics, Design, Digital Artworks, Graphic Designs, Digital Graphics.

I actually spread the same keywords with order and words variation!!

About meta description keep it below 160 characters and add your keywords in it as well as possible like each keyword should be mentioned at least once.

6. Automatic SEO Plugin for Wordpress

Well, I have used several plugins to test which one is good and the only plugin which satisfied me is Headspace2 SEO. I Recommend it.

7. On post page title of post should be written in Heading 1 (H1). and its very important to use your keywords in h2, h3 and h4 if possible.

8. Title and ALT Attribute in Links:

Ok, this is an important part which none of us actually look at. Title and alt attributes in links plays an important role in telling search bots that what this link or image is about.
Title and alt attributes are written like this if you are unaware of it:

* Keyword

*

My site gets 10% of its traffic from Google image search!! Because I use proper alt attribute.
Consider this example!! Like the graphics design post we discussed above. Your post consists of 10 Images. That means not much text to get good ranking and visibility in search engines. So why not use alt attribute in an optimized way!! in 10 images add alt tags with picture name + keyword/tag.

For example, the image name is abcd. i will add the alt attribute as alt=”abcd design” or abcd graphics etc. That means in 10 places on your page’s source code your keywords are used! I think you get my point.

9. Avail Wordpress ping facility to get max exposure and inbound links

Here is a list you might consider putting in your ping section in admin>settings>Writing:

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

10. This might sound odd!! No follow Home Page !!

See this post for proper info about no-following homepage and why is it important.

Hope this helps! Maybe you have some more tips you would like to add? Feel free to write them in comments! Thanks and enjoy!

How to pimp twitter profile?

A minute ago I decided to make my twitter profile look different and great. So what I did is to contact my friend "google" to teach me how to make it great in my own sight.

I search and I found this article of sitemasher titled "Pimping Out Your Twitter Profile Background ". I really appreciate what she said on her article like this one, "pimping out your Twitter profile background can help your personal branding and marketing efforts", I'm agree with her promise.

So before you decide to close this tutorial, I'll better start this tutorial so you can achieve your desire design layout for your twitter profile.

First you need to open your Adobe Photoshop or any graphic software you have so we can begin. Of course the design is up to you and I'm only gonna give some tip of what you must put in your design.

You must not forget to put the link word of your blogs, website or any link you want to share to your followers in your design. And don't forget to place it to left part or right part of the designed.

Then make it sure that your design template sized in 1280 x 1024. why? because I like it but always remember to make your design background color the same to the background color setting in your twitter account so that if the resolution gets wider, the designed of your twitter will not look short or not fit.

If you already done with your designed. Just log in to your twitter account and go to the setting menu. Then find the Design Navigation menu there. If you found it just click it and look the " Change background image » " so you can browse your own designed from your computer then if your done just click the "Save Changes" Button. After that you can it clearly you designed upload and already set in you twitter background.

Like what I did to my twitter profile http://twitter.com/csseyahcool All you need to do is to follow me. Thanks for your time reading this obvious tutorial about pimping your twitter profile.

dNeero Flash Embed V2 Test

More exciting and fun while using dNeero Flash Embed. Very useful to those who always using it to their blogs. Take your time to explore it and you will find the new and excitement of using Flash Embed V2 dNeero.

Easier Ways to Enjoy Youtube Videos

Well guys, obviously when you search for a video and you find it good, the first thing that you want do is to save it or keep it. But what if you find it at the Youtube.com how you gonna save or keep it? Of course there's a lot of third party software out there whose willing to give their free services, like how to download the video at the youtube.com

But recently while searching for the tech topic here at my blog I found this site http://kickyoutube.com, where the main objective of this site is to make your youtube video easier to enjoy where ever you go.

Yes, where ever you go because you gonna download your favorite video in any format you desire. Like FLV, MP3, HD, 3GP, Iphone and even GIF. All you need to do is to search the video you want and if you done just put the word "kick" at the beginning of the url of the said video. just like this "http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch?v=E62IYhpBu90" and the rest leave to http://kickyoutube.com. Okey! That's all folks I hope you enjoy for this simple yet very helpful technique.

Ballmer: Are you strong enough for more competition?

Recently Cnet.com News discuss with the Microsoft CEO about Microsoft competitor software company which developing a new and stable software for this coming years, namely, Linux, Apple and the looming threat from Google's Android and Chrome OS. But Ballmer the Microsoft CEO said ""Right now I just put it on the list for competitive completeness.". We're all know that Steve Ballmer is the new Microsoft CEO and the Microsoft's biggest economic engine, its Windows business.

And Ballmer added that "Any business that is as big...as Windows deserves competition." Well I think he have the right to say that but for me He is so chesty as a peacock enough to be fall. The Windows System will get more competitor right now and it will held it into deep deep down and never to get out from the mess that Ballmer started.

However, he noted that the company still had work to do with the analysts, counting up the significant number of Macs in the crowd. "Don't hide it," he said. "I've already counted them. I've been doing it since we started talking...Feel free. As long as you are using Office go right on ahead." So Ballmer assumed that all computer savvy in the world still using his Golden Windows.

Earlier in his talk, Ballmer also walked through the economics of the search ad deal with Yahoo, highlighting its benefits to both companies, calling it a win-win.