Here it is, our winners for ShortrunCard custom-printed plastic cards contest. Sorry for the slight delay!

A little recap of what the winners will be getting before we announce the list. 3 winners, each getting a 0 gift card, 0 gift card and gift card, courtesy of ShortRunCard. These gift cards can be used to order customized plastic cards.

Some of you raised the concern whether this includes the shipping fees – the answer is yes/no. Assume you won the 0 gift card, and your total bill plus shipping is 0; after redeeming with your gift card you will only pay extra.

Without further ado, here are our winners!

• Ebta (0 gift card)
• Swat Chap (0 gift card)
• Shawn ( gift card)

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The amount and diversity of technology available today is unbelievable. Apple per se have made remarkable achievements over the years and today we are featuring iPad. To a certain extent, an iPad changes the tide of web designer’s routine. iPad enables the potential for designers to accomplish their task and project on time because it is a portable workstation that allows designers to work on the dot. With a touch of a your finger, the magazines apps springs into life and whats more, the pictures are vivid and it satisfy the sophisticated taste for every designer. Now reading articles can be fun, immersive and inspiring.

Given that an ipad delivers the joy of convenience, the designers now can anytime kick their creative juices into high gear. In order to accompany a designer’s muse factory, an ipad is packed with thousands of creative apps that can enhance and assist web designers on their project. Here’s a collection of iPad Apps for your designing needs.

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Sketch & Illustration

SketchBook Pro

Free your creativity. Sketch and communicate your ideas digitally. SketchBook Pro combines high-quality digital pencils, pens, markers, and airbrushes with a Multi-Touch gesture-based user interface.

SketchPad HD

SketchPad HD is like having a new plain white sheet of paper ready to take note and share your thoughts via email.

TypeDrawing

If you love typography, this poetic visual art app is absolutely yours. Start by typing a sentence you want to say, and then just draw with your finger.

Freeform

Drawing tool for creating vector-based illustrations, sketches and doodles.

Adobe Ideas 1.0

A free app featuring vector-based drawing tools, zoom control, sizable brushes, layers, and the ability to email PDF documents for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Draft

A simple way to get ideas out of your head and into a quick sketch.

iMockups

Quickly create wireframes and layouts of interfaces for Web, iPhone and iPad applications. iMockups has taken the process of ìmockupsî to the next level.

Productivity

iThoughtsHD (Mindmapping)

Start with a blank slate. Keep the creative process flowing by moving your ideas around the map and relink them through this application. Capture topics in a free form and then record your ideas and thought in the form of topic bubbles.

OmniGraffle

Magically organize diagrams so your ideas come to life. With OmniGraffle, quickly create superior documents and a perfect diagram layout.

FontShuffle

A great source of typographic inspiration. Hundreds of font families are sorted by visual similarity.

Penultimate

A note taking app where you write with your finger right on screen. The app gives you a pen type interface to write with and options for paper type.

Evernote

An ultimate cross-platform note taker that makes you remember just about everything. It’s an extension of your brain.

Font Book

If you’re thinking of a font to use for your next project, this app will let you preview fonts for your inspiration.

FTP On The Go PRO

You can change your website from anywhere and transfer files via FTP daily. Just browse, upload, and download from your FTP server with this intuitive FTP program.

Dropbox

If you’re always on the go and needed to edit some of your design projects, a Dropbox account will help you access your uploaded files and share it online.

Markup for iPad

With this app, you can connect to your website’s FTP, edit text files wthin them, and organize with greater speed.

Keynote

Keynote allows you to create, edit, and share multimedia presentations with graphics, animations, and charts.

Photo and Imaging

Photogene

Tons of photo editing features in a very easy to use app providing you access to all your photos in your library.

FlickStackr

FlickrStackr lets you mark photos from you or any other people and save on your iPad to review photos later.

Masque

Edit your image with this amazing app and apply creative effects to your photos. Use your creativity to make your pictures even better.

Adobe Photoshop Express

This app is free and has some of the features of its expensive big brother. You can redesign online, edit, and upload your work instantly. You can also work on multiple photos in sequence from within a single workflow and upload it to Facebook.com simultaneously.

Reading Tools & Magazines

iPDF Reader

The worldís slimmest eBook and PDF reader.

GoodReader for iPad

A PDF file viewer that offers wonderful reading experience with horizontal page turning for PDF files and support for VGA monitor.

Flipboard

This app is your personal magazine. You can check out your status updates, links, videos, photos and what your friends have shared via Facebook and Twitter. It has a huge amount of news content that is shared through social media networks.

Wikipanion

A simple way of navigating through Wikipedia’s website.

Dictionary and Thesaurus

Reference for words, synonyms, and antonyms for your creative process.

Phaidon Design Classics

Phaidon Design Classics is a design encyclopedia with access to an endless illustrated history of design concept with precise information and historical context.

Cool Hunting

Cool Hunting is a daily buzz on ideas and products in the crossroads of art, design, culture and technology, plus inside looks at the people who produce them.

Web Designer Magazine

Get updated with what’s new with Web Designer, an online magazine defining the internet through beutiful design.

Computer Arts

Browse through Computer Arts Magazine straight from your iPad and learn what’s new in digital design and computer graphics.

Social Networking

StumbleUpon

Discover great websites and share it. Boost your creativity and be inspired with millions of ideas just by browsing your iPad thru StumbleUpon.

Twitterrific

An excellent social networking app for web designers to stay in touch with your blog followers in twitter and post your tweets with ease quickly.

IM+

Be notified of new email in Hotmail, Yahoo, or GMail accounts, as well as sending push notifications of new IMs on all supported networks to keep in touch with your fellow designers and your clients.

More Tools

WordPress

Connect to your wordpress blog using this application. Take advantage of the huge widescreen and large on-screen keyboard while skimming through and moderating your comments.

Analytics HD

A very powerful iPad app that offers almost everything a blogger needs to keep track of traffic, referring URLs, exit points, and all that jazz.

Gusto

Combines code editing and FTP access that lets you produce various projects for all your website.

World Atlas HD

Tons of country information and geography for your creative work.

Craigslist

Great for scouting for design projects and gigs.

Graphics Designer ToolBox

For calculations and print sizes, this app will help out designers who are always on the go.

PCalc Lite Calculator

Get exact measurements with your designs.

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Google is taking site’s loading speed into consideration in determining its ranking. Even though this will not land a big impact, it is still something we (webmasters) should really look into. The reason is pretty simple – majority of visitors are usually in rush and no one is fond of waiting half a century before the website finally load its content or failed to load.

In another words, if your site is slow, you are subjected to lose a lot of visitors. Visitors are traffic, traffic affects reputation and they can potentially generate revenue. It can be a domino effect if one ignore the consequences of a slow-loading site.

It is essential to identify what builds up your website before you jump into the codes trying to speed things up because it cannot be done without knowing the culprits that are slowing down your website. This article compile a collection of useful web service and tools that will help you to diagnose and analyze you site, allowing you to understand your site better.

Web Services

Pingdom

Test the load time of all Website objects (html, images, Javascript, css, iframes and others). You can also check how fast every element of your Website load and improve the slow-loading items. At the summary of test results, you see the report of the site loading time, loading time of each element, element sizes and the total number of elements.

GTmetrix

Combines two of the most popular Firefox performance add-ons – Yslow and Google Page Speed. Gtmetrix gives you suggestions what you need to improve your website. Although Yslow and Google page speed are recommended for Firefox, it can also be applicable to other browser.

Light Speed Now

Test your website speed performance, and get the report sent to your inbox.

Load Impact

Loadimpact is a very important tool for large Website visited by tens of thousands visitors each day. A free account allows you to check the loading impact with 50 simulated users, anything more you’ll have to upgrade to a premium account.

Site-Perf

Site-Perf fully emulates natural browser behavior downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular visitor and on the report you can see Website page loading what files start loading at first and how fast. It as very useful performance report to find elements that you need to improve your Website loading time.

WebWait

Benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection.

Gomez Networks

Conduct a real-time Instant Test for an individual Web page to test its performance from an external node location.

OctaGate

Allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages.

Webslug

Allows you to compare your website’s speed against your competitors.

WebToolHub

Gives you the option to understand how your page is loading with different visitor’s Internet connection speeds. With Webtoolhub you will get information about page size, loading time with different Internet connection speeds and will get information about all Css, Javascript and Images that are used on page. Nothing more nothing less: all that you need for basic page speed test.

IWebTool

Iwebtool gives you the option to compare up to ten pages in same time. You also can check homepage, categories or posts loading time with just one click.

Searchmetrics

Shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

BrowserMob

Get performance data on any website on the fly without having to create a test script.

Applications

Pylot

Open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

Google Page Speed

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.

PageTest

Internet Explorer plugin that visually displays the underlying requests made by the browser for content. It also provides suggestions on how to improve the performance of the measured page.

Multi-Mechanize

Multi-Mechanize is an open source framework for web performance and load testing. It allows you to run simultaneous python scripts to generate load (synthetic transactions) against a web site or web service.

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Apple has just announced the looming release of the iPad, a touch screen device that could revolutionize the electronics industry. Apple says the Touch was meant mainly to present typical iPad features, not to replicate the iPhone, and it included the Web browser only so users could get onto Wi-Fi to use the mobile music store in certain places that required a log-in screen.

However, maybe it won’t but there is already an extremely bi-partisan view when it comes to liking the new iPad device. Here is a quick overview of what it will be all about. The iPad is essentially a moveable entertainment system. It allows you to watch movies, read ebooks and news stories, play games, listen to music, and also send email. It is sort of a souped up version of the iPod Touch, apart from a significantly larger display. With its full-color 9.7-inch screen, it matches the size of the Amazon Kindle DX (one of the largest-screened ebook readers at present on the market). The iPad weighs 1.5 pounds and, according to Apple, has 12 hours of battery life. The iPad can run most App Store apps, and its interface is similar to that of the iPod, so it’ll be an easy tool to use if you already have some familiarity with Apple’s latest products. If you like the iPod Touch and iPhone, you must like the iPad.

However, there is an additional feature that lets it act like a new type of ebook reader as well and now Apple has joined the battle of the eBook Readers. The iPad will allow you to read, download, and purchase publications and books in full color. That means you can read your favorite magazines and publications within full color. Like earlier iPads, the Touch is stylish and capable, and works smoothly with Apple’s free iTunes software for Windows and Macintosh PCs, as well as with its computer-based online iTunes Store, which sells far more downloaded songs and TV shows than any other legal outlet. This doesn’t mean that anyone in the market for an ebook reader will automatically select the iPad, though. The iPad kind of makes ebook readers on the market look ridiculous; however, they are totally different devices. IPads are computers that can dual as an ebook reader. It may be a tough sell to the person who just wants an ebook reader to spend the extra money for a “fantastic device”.

Getting to view all your videos, read all your books, listens to all your music, and play with all your games and apps. IPad will win several of fans. You can also download stuff with Wi-Fi connectivity; however the 3G capability is not available yet on the devices. In fact the iPad will work while others have failed. The touch screen tablet PC is not a new thing and In fact, many companies have failed in the past trying to make profit on these. In spite of these downsides, the Touch is a great media player, and the iPad remains the best end-to-end portable solution for playing and purchasing music and video.

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Nowadays technology has expand their market tremendously in web world and just like the technology suppliers have also finding the ways for rental software product for the purpose of easier to use. Biggest benefit is “abstraction” now here we talking on the meaning of abstraction is where online rental software can efficiently handling such kind of task like managed inventory, inward invoice systems, Data base manipulation and as well as coordinately work with another software may be these are the tax programs, accounting software and other adaptable software’s.

One famous personality who is Steve kohn, president, Miller’s Rentals, Edison, N.J says that “Software has come a long way”. Most of the manufacturers are try to convert their window based product into the more user friendly system.

Basically according to current trend most of the developer is try to connect their program with other software’s as well as also makes compatible with different or new hardware and also try to present their information with other and attractive ways. Abstraction of the rental software with the other technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), bar coding and global positioning system (GPS) they say that most of the try of their people is fully automate the rental software so employees of the rental software company spend more time with the helping of customers not only feeding data in to the system.

Same in mobile technologies if we can add abstract rental software with mobile then it can also give the real out put time information, capturing real time information and saves most the time of the customers as well as also enabling in real time routing and scheduling. The main benefit of the abstract rental software is if we can use it in internet technologies then enable rental Software Company gives the online display of the output to their clients they can view invoice, account details, balance and their rights.

The reason behind is expectation nothing else. In today’s market the expectation of the customers are rise tremendously. Customers want more with their service provider they arrange all outcomes anywhere in the world over the web as well as by telephone, fax. According to the varies industry have produced different kind of transaction for their customers. Even though they also don’t want o give more information to create a rental contracts and want more and more higher personal services. Where suppliers here also expect to deal electronically with the rental software like order placement, confirmation and settlement.

Property Rental Software

This script is an extension of the Commodity Rentals system. It allows for a full E-Commerce ready, property rental management system with a facility for renting Vacation properties also. It comes with a option for allowing the agents to plug in and own/distribute memberships to other agents and much more. You can check the entire feature list of this system by clicking here. You can also view the working demo of this script by clicking here.

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Innovation is not necessarily the time saver and the great simplifier people try to make it out to be.

Take for example the picture frame and the gradual conversion to the digital frame, and the added complications it has added to our lives.

Like digital cameras, the digital frame has cut down the cost of photography (remember how much money you used to drop on the cost of buying and processing films every month). However, the digital picture frame hasn’t helped people whose basic grasp of photography is limited to not much more than ‘the big button is the one that makes the picture’.

And let’s face it, that group includes you, me and much of the human race. This doesn’t make life easy for anyone selling wholesale digital photo frames.

The size doesn’t seem to be a factor in how confused we can get when it comes to digital screens and getting the images that are right for them. Someone with a 7 digital photo frame can be just as confused as someone with a 8 inch digital photo frame and heaven help the poor person with the 10 digital frame.

And as gadgets gradually converge into one and people can do more and more with one thing things are going to get more complex too with people having to grapple with photo frames that are also a digital TV receiver, might work as a digital video frame or could even play music.

So before we get into the wiz-bang wizardry that has turned cell phones and media players into incomprehensible devices let’s have a look at a couple of questions:

Do you need to re-size the pictures?
What formats do pictures need to be in?
What should I do to photos look good on digital picture frames?
How can I transfer old pictures to digital frames?

Do you need to re-size the pictures?
This question can be especially tricky for people trying to source wholesale digital photo frames. The answer to this question very much depends on what type of digital photo frame you’ve got. Home digital frames and larger-sized electronic picture frames won’t be a problem, regardless of whether they’re 7 digital photo frame or 10 digital picture frame. However, keychain digital picture frames tend to be a little more difficult and you may need to resize these.

What formats do pictures need to be in?
Depending on what digital picture frame you buy and the digital picture frame you have the format could be quite different.

Regardless of whether it’s a 7 inch digital frame, or any kind of digital frame most of the common picture formats should work on it. These are usually JPEG, as well as the occasional digital picture frame that plays Tiff and BMP as well.

While JPEG is the most common digital photo format a digital photo frame will show there’s no need to get concerned as this is the digital format used by most digital cameras and image devices.

If you’re trying to get wholesale digital photo frames then you might want to make sure it at least displays the JPEG format, as it is the one that most people are most likely to be operating in.

However, where some people run into trouble is when they use their cell phone or their MP4 to take a photo in an unusual format and then put it onto their LCD digital frame.

Thankfully there are several sources of open source converters that are free to download and will get most formats working. These include sites like CNet and Sourceforge. So it’s even possible to get a digital photo from your unlocked cell phone onto your LCD digital frame.

What should I do to photos look good on digital picture frames?
Again this question depends very much on the digital photo frame that you’re using on how to make your digital photo look good. And it’s always good to take a closer look at the digital photo frames digital or paper instructions and manufacturer tips.

However, as a general rule the best way to get the best effects out of your digital picture frame is to make sure the picture is close to the same size, if not bigger than the frame you are trying to put it on and to make sure you have a decent resolution on the photographs.

So what does all of that mean when it’s at home, why does it help if the picture is bigger and picture resolution… whaah?

I think, even people trying to find wholesale digital photo frames would be going huh…

It wouldn’t come as a surprise to many people that you get a better result of making something bigger smaller than you do of making something smaller bigger… with the possible exceptions of bureaucracy and the most common form of plastic surgery of course.

So as a result if you try to take a picture from a keychain digital photo frame, one that might be sized 128 pixels by 128 pixels, and throw it on a 7 digital picture frame then there’s a good chance that that on the 7 digital photo frame that digital photo might look, at best like a Georges Seurat work. Or, at worse, a ‘find the hidden picture’ image or color blindness test.

Same goes for pictures being shifted from a 7 digital picture frame to a 10 or 15 inch digital picture frame, but with less severe results.

The second important consideration to factor in when trying to get the best results for your images on a LCD frame is the frames digital resolution compared to that of the image you’re getting the picture off.

If the image is from a website, it’s a cell phone creation or some digital creation that looked fantastic on the computer screen then get ready for a shock when you throw it on some high res digital frames. While a large number of digital photo picture frames still work on the 72 pixels per inch resolution more and more work are working on the 300 pixels per inch resolution.

What is more when it comes time to print them out to give to Cleatus your computer illiterate cousin “It’s not gonna look all cloudy and muddy like”. This is likely to apply more to larger frames than digital frames that are smaller. A 7 inch digital frame shouldn’t give you too many problems for example.

But it still is a worthy question for people sourcing wholesale digital photo frames as it will help you give your customers a better experience and stop customer complaints and questions before they happen.

How can I transfer old pictures to digital frames?
This question is turning up more and more online as people start to realize the benefit of having a LCD frame that can show off 50 or so photos at once as opposed to a wooden photo frame that will only show one, and which may cost a considerable amount to fill.

Thankfully it’s fairly easy to get older photos from their non digital frames into digital formats that can be loaded onto your computer or onto a 7 digital photo frame.

The first thing to be done is to convert your picture from the physical to digital. This is done with a scanner.

These are fairly common and quite cheap. If you’ve got a computer then it can be a useful tool but even if you’ve decided to go without then photo shops and computer shops will have one that they’ll let you use for a nominal fee (usually just a couple of bucks or a handful of corn or, in some circumstances, a fluttering of the eye and a raising of the lips).

Once the pictures are digitalized they can be put onto a TF card or USB and transmitted to the digital photo picture frames directly or put onto a CD and transferred from the computer via a USB cable.

The normal rules apply when it comes time to save these images, make sure they’re the right dimensions, file type (JPEG nine times out of 10 but check you photo frame) and resolution.

So, it appears that putting images onto digital frames isn’t as hard as you’d normally expect and even shifting a physical picture from a photo frame to LCD digital frame isn’t as hard as you’d think it would be.

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