How To?

Don't Judge Women Wrongly.

noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30:16 PDT

For further information, visit this site Blog for Women's Equality!"

Thanks to God as I be a Malaysian, women can spread their mind, can do what they want as long as they don't override Islam and Muslims believe.

As can be found at Wikipedia.com, Muslim-majority countries give women varying degrees of rights with regards to marriage, divorce, civil rights, legal status, dress code, and education based on different interpretations. According to Islamic studies professor William Montgomery Watt, Islam improved the status of women by "instituting rights of property ownership, inheritance, education and divorce."

I feel sympathy to those women at other countries that cannot live and do things as they want.

They are left behind with old technology and just do what their husband or parents said.

Based on Women's Aid Organisation, women always be abuse mentally and physically that bring a negative impact to them.

Women just need a fair thought from society and they shouldn't just have to be at kitchen preparing food although that the best way to produce a quality family.

Updated multiple word Technorati tag creator for Blogger (Firefox 1.5, Greasemonkey 0.6.4) with added features

noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:46:26 PDT

This post explains version 1.0 beta of the Magical Sheep userscript for the free Firefox browser (also works with Firefox 1.5.0.6) with the Greasemonkey extension - updated 20 August 2006 to work with Blogger Beta (reviewed in this post).

It's a tool designed to help Blogger users add code for the Technorati tags of choice to the end of their blog post easily and quickly (what are Technorati tags?), with various extra features.

(Note: this post was heavily rewritten in April 2006 to explain from scratch all the features of version 1.0 beta of this script, which Kirk has substantially improved, all power to him! A summary of the latest changes he's made plus technical details is at the end of this post.)

- How to install Greasemonkey and other Firefox extensions. For those not familiar with Greasemonkey - it's an extension for the free Firefox browser (). You have to first go to the Greasemonkey site and install the Greasemonkey extension (Firefox users should be familiar with how to install extensions - click the installation link e.g. the "Install Greasemonkey" link. If nothing happens and you see, just below your Firefox tab titles, a message in horizontal bar that "To protect your computer, Firefox prevented this site (greasemonkey.mozdev.org) from installing software on your computer", then you should click "Edit Options" at the end of that line, then "Allow" and "OK"/"Close" to allow that site to install software, then click the Greasemonkey or other extension link again, give it a few seconds then click "Install now". Close and re-launch Firefox.)

- How to install a user script. Greasemonkey won't do anything without a user script. To install a script (which is a text file whose extension ends with ".user.js"), you click on the link to the script. You should get a popup box - wait a few seconds if necessary for the "Install" button to stop being greyed out, then click Install to install it. [Updated for newer versions. For older versions: When you're on that page (which looks like just a bunch of text), click the Install button at the top right, or in your Firefox Tools menu choose Install This User Script. Alternatively you can just rightclick on the link to the script and choose Install This User Script].

- Beware though, not all scripts will be innocent - some could wreak havoc if malicious. Only install if you trust the originator of the script. You can use the "Show Script Source" button in the popup to check the script's content before installing it (or for newer versions of Greasemonkey rightclick the link to get the View User Script Source option), if you understand Javascript/Greasemonkey.

- How to update the Magical Sheep script for Blogger Beta, now known as New Blogger. The downloadable script has been updated already but if you're already using the script and don't want to download the updated version (it'll preserve your settings), here's how to do it the manual way.

IMPORTANT: if you are already using the Magical Sheep script, this version is not compatible with previous versions of the script so you MUST uninstall it first from Firefox - Tools, Manage User Scripts, click on the script name (Technorati Multiple Word Tags for Blogger), FIRST tick "Also uninstall associated preferences" THEN click the Uninstall button. Then install the new script as above. You will then have to re-enter your "MeTags" and own choice of separator, but that should only take a few seconds.

Get the userscript (version 1.0 beta) from Userscripts.org (UPDATED 17 Dec 2007 to fix a Blogger Post Editor change on 14 Dec which broke the script). If that site is down or slow, try rightclicking on the link for the following alternative location and then choosing "Install This User Script" (that's important - if you leftclick it, you'll have to save it to your computer then open the script from there, which takes longer; this is because of the way Google Pages handles Javascript files hosted there, unfortunately):

* Improbulus Google Pages
* Improbulus Ripway pages
* Kirk's Google Pages

Third update of Jan 2007. There seems to be an issue with Technorati's tag pages (yes, another one! or rather, with the way their tag searching works) and multiple word tags don't work quite as expected. In brief, you might think that if you insert the tag "consuming experience", clicking on that tag should bring people to the tag page listing all posts with the tag "consuming experience". In reality, it takes them to all posts which have a tag (whether single or multi-word) with "consuming" in the tag, AND which have a tag with the word "experience" in it. Not the same thing. And they might get some irrelevant results because of that. However, if you put quotes round your multiword tags in the href bit to make it better for users who click on the tag links, your post won't appear on Technorati or other search engines' tag pages at all. See this post. So don't do it. But do lobby Technorati to tweak how their searching works!

You can read the rest at Consuming Experience

How to : Use jQuery to "turn off the lights" while watching videos

noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:30:00 PDT

Some videos on YouTube have a cool feature called "Turn the lights down". Basically, when you turn lights down, the entire page darkens and let you watch video as if you are in the cinema. This tutorial will show you how to implement this simple effect.

The problem

Our example is simple - it consists of header, the video, "turn off the lights" link and sidebar with some information about the video.

At the code below you can se the "command" div that contains lightSwitcher link, "movie" div that contains the video and "description" div that acts as a sidebar:


    <div id="container">

        <div id="header">

            <h1>Janko At Warp Speed</h1>

            <h2>Turn off the lights - demo</h2>


            <div id="command">

                <a class="lightSwitcher" href="#">Turn off the lights</a>

            </div>

        </div>


        <div id="movie">

            <object width="560" height="340">

                <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mlahvvymkxc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" />


                <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />

                <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />


                <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mlahvvymkxc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"

                    type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340">


                </embed>

            </object>

        </div>

        <div id="description">

            <p>Some description ges here</p>


        </div>

    </div>


CSS for this is simple:


body {font-family:Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size:13px; text-align:center; margin:0px; }

#container { width:960px; margin:0px auto; text-align:left; overflow:hidden;}

#movie {border:solid 1px #dcdcdc; float:left; width:560px; text-align:left; margin-right:20px;}


#description { float:left; width:320px;border:solid 1px #dcdcdc; padding: 10px 20px;}

.lightSwitcher {background-image:url(light_bulb_off.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left;

                       padding: 0 0 0 20px; outline:none; text-decoration:none;}

.lightSwitcher:hover {text-decoration:underline;}


Let there be... dark



When link "Turn off the lights" is clicked, we need to darken the entire page. All except the movie. This can be achieved using a div that has to have the exact dimensions as the current document and semi-transparent black background. This div needs to be positioned absolutely inside its relatively positioned container (and that is BODY) and to stretch from the upper-left to the bottom-right corner.

Let's add a div to the end of our markup: 


Let's add a div to the end of our markup:


<div id="shadow"></div>


Now let's style it:


#shadow {background-image:url(shade1x1.png); position:absolute; left:0; top:0; width:100%; z-index:100;}



Important thing here is z-index. In order to make it cover the entire page, it has to have the largest z-index. Embedded element will be seen, anyway. It's easy to position a div to the top-left corner and set the width to 100%. But what about the height? If we set the height of our shadow div to be 100% it will cover the entire page only if contains larger than a window, or - if we have scrollbars. Otherwise, it will cover just the content.


Let's involve jQuery


$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#shadow").css("height", $(document).height()).hide();


}); 


Aaaaand.... Action!


This code set the height of shadow div to the same value as document height and hides it. Of course, we want this div visible, only when we click on "lightSwitcher". Now we need to ad a click handler for lightSwitcher:


$(".lightSwitcher").click(function(){

    $("#shadow").toggle();


}); 


If you try to run this now you will see that it works. LightSwitcher will toggle shadow div visibility and that will simulate turning lights on and off. The only problem is that the link itself will be "in the dark", and you won'ta be ble to click on it again, once you turn the lights off. 


The solution is simple; LightSwitcher has to have z-index higher than shadow div. In order to do that, we have to position the link absolutely inside the relatively positioned container and set z-index to 101:


#command { position:relative; height:25px; display:block;}

.lightSwitcher {position:absolute; z-index:101; background-image:url(light_bulb_off.png); 

                      background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left; padding: 0 0 0 20px; 


                      outline:none; text-decoration:none;}


Now it will work. If you look at the demo you will notice that while you toggle the lights, link text and icon changes. In order to do that we have to extend our CSS and jQuery a little bit. When you turn off the lights, light bulb icon and text changes, and link color turn to yellow. We need to define a CSS class that will style the link and add some jQuery to change text and toggle this CSS class.


.turnedOff {color:#ffff00; background-image:url(light_bulb.png);}


We'll extend the click handler a little bit to get this result:


$(".lightSwitcher").click(function(){


    $("#shadow").toggle();

        if ($("#shadow").is(":hidden"))

            $(this).html("Turn off the lights").removeClass("turnedOff");


        else

            $(this).html("Turn on the lights").addClass("turnedOff");

}); 


Now we have fully functional light switcher functionality. In the end, the complete code will look like this:

CSS



body {font-family:Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size:13px; text-align:center; margin:0px; position:relative;}

#container { width:960px; margin:0px auto; text-align:left; overflow:hidden; position:relative;}

#movie {border:solid 1px #dcdcdc; float:left; width:560px; text-align:left; margin-right:20px;}

#description { float:left; width:320px;border:solid 1px #dcdcdc; padding: 10px 20px;}

#command { position:relative; height:25px; display:block; margin: 25px 0 0 0;}

.lightSwitcher {position:absolute; z-index:101; background-image:url(light_bulb_off.png); 

                      background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left; padding: 0 0 0 20px; 


                      outline:none; text-decoration:none;}

.lightSwitcher:hover {text-decoration:underline;}

#shadow {background-image:url(shade1x1.png); position:absolute; left:0; top:0; width:100%; z-index:100;}

.turnedOff {color:#ffff00; background-image:url(light_bulb.png);}


jQuery


$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#shadow").css("height", $(document).height()).hide();


    $(".lightSwitcher").click(function(){

        $("#shadow").toggle();

        if ($("#shadow").is(":hidden"))


            $(this).html("Turn off the lights").removeClass("turnedOff");

        else

            $(this).html("Turn on the lights").addClass("turnedOff");


    });

});


Tutorial by Janko



How To : Boost Your Twitter Productivity
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:16:00 PDT
If you haven’t heard of Twitter by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools available has become extensive. So, in this post we have filtered them down to a respectable 99.

Below, we present 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications, split into the following categories: Tools and Productivity Apps, Statistics and Analytics, Find New Twitter Friends Apps, Search Twitter Apps, Web-Based Mobile Apps, WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins, Adobe Air Twitter Apps and Firefox Twitter Extensions.

Twittercal
Twittercal is a service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar and lets you add events easily, directly from your Twitter account.


Twitpay
TwitPay is a simple way to send payments via Twitter.


Twibs
Find, follow and interact with businesses, apps and services on Twitter.


Twittermail.com
Users can post to their Twitter account by sending a message to their own unique email address.

Twitzu
Promote your business, special offers, promotions and events with Twitzu.


Twuffer
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets and schedule their release.

Tweet Later
This app allows you to post Tweets at a later time and date.


Group Tweet
Send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends.

Tweetbeep
Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company and anything else, via hourly email updates.


Twitpic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, the TwitPic home page or your Twitter account.


Twitter Karma
Twitter needs a decent page for your followers, with the functionality to sort them by type. This Web app does that.


Mr. Tweet
A personal networking assistant for Twitter, helping you identify relevant followers, recommending you to other users and regularly computing your Twitter usage statistics.

Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk keeps track of your tasks. Simply add Remember The Milk as your friend, and you can add and interact with your tasks through direct messages and get reminders, too.

Straw Poll
StrawPoll is the coolest way to follow the opinions of people on Twitter. With this app, you can create your own poll.

Twiddict
If Twitter goes down and you start to feel withdrawal symptoms, use this service to continue using it. Twiddict makes sure all your tweets end up going to the proper place.


Twitter Friends Network Browser
Browse through your Twitter friends, your friends’ friends, your friends’ friends’ friends…

Twitterfeed
Post your RSS feed to Twitter automatically.


Twitturly
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about, as they talk about them, on Twitter.


Twittonary
The Twitter Dictionary, aka Twittonary, provides explanations of various Twitter-related words.


TwtQpon
Enhance your social media marketing by offering discount coupons to the Twitter-sphere!


Twenglish
Twitter translator: Simply type in your tweet, and twenglish will twanslate your tweet for you.


Twtcard
Send a greeting card, a surprise message or an invitation on Twitter.


Tweet What You Spend
Cash-tracking made simple with Twitter.


Twittertise
Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of your branded communications with customers.


Twitwall
With TwitWall, you can embed your favorite videos and widgets and upload your photos, MP3 music, podcasts, you name it.



By Paul Andrew, Speckyboy - Design Magazine






How To : Find WordPress Plug-Ins For Twitter
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:51:01 PDT
1. Twitter Updater
Are you using Twitter to notify readers about your new blog posts, or even old ones that you’ve updated? If so, then Twitter Updated is definitely something to consider. The plug-in automatically sends an update status request to Twitter when you create or modify a post. Text is customizable, and the plug-in provides many options.

2. Twit this
The Twit This plug-in makes it easy for readers to tweet about your blog posts by creating a “Share on Twitter” link on your blog. When someone clicks on it, your blog post’s URL is automatically sent to Twitter, and the visitor can enters a description before sending the tweet to his or her friends.


3. Twit it up
Twit it up is a simple AJAX-powered WordPress plug-in that basically does the same thing as Twit this: allows readers to tweet one of your posts directly from your blog by clicking a simple link.


4. Twitt Twoo
Twit-Twoo is a very useful for bloggers because it allows you to tweet friends directly from your WordPress dashboard. Particularly great if you spend a lot of time on your WordPress dashboard!


5. Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools, created by Alex King, is one of the most popular Twitter plug-ins for WordPress. It completely integrates Twitter in your WordPress blog, allowing you to archive your tweets, create a blog post from each of your tweets and post tweets from your admin dashboard or sidebar. It also allows you to create a daily digest of tweets; very nice if you tweet a lot!


6. Twittar
Twittar was released here on Smashing Magazine back in January. Remember it? This plug-in integrates Twitter avatars in the comment template of your WordPress blog. Definitely a plug-in to consider if you and your readership often use Twitter! And don’t worry if any of your readers don’t use Twitter (yet), Twittar automatically displays gravatars if no Twitter avatar is available.


7. Tweetbacks
Since its release only one month ago, the Tweetbacks plug-in has created a mini-revolution in the blogging world. While your WordPress blog can automatically notify you when bloggers discuss your posts on their own blogs, via Trackbacks, it can’t notify you when people discuss your posts on Twitter. That’s why Tweetbacks is so great: it automatically imports tweets about your posts and lets you display them either as comments or separately.


Others : 
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers

8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter

Taken from : A post written by Jean-Baptiste Jung, a 27-year-old blogger from Belgium who blogs about WordPress at WpRecipes






Missing Children's Day
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:58:11 PDT
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25th to be National Missing Children’s Day, and this day has been observed by every administration since. May 25th marks the anniversary of the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz who went missing from a New York street corner on his way to school.

National Missing Children's Day is an annual reminder to the nation to make child safety a priority.

This entry are dedicated to childs that disappear from their family or guardian. Parents please protect your child from strangers and do keep in mind that children safety seriously important today.







How To : Using Twitter avatars in comments without Wordpress plug-ins
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:35:00 PDT


I was pretty interested in the Twittar plug-in when it was first released and decided to look at the source to see how it works. Being a die-hard WordPress hack fanatic, I decided to create a hack using the Twittar code.

Follow these simple instructions to use Twitter avatars in your blog comments without a plug-in:

1. The first thing is to get the functions file here.

2. Once you have it, unzip the archive and open the twittar.php file. Select all of its contents and paste it in the functions.php file in your theme.

3. Now, open your comments.php file and find the comments loop. Then, just paste the following line where you’d like the Twitter avatars to be displayed: 



Source: How to: Use Twitter avatars in comments






How To : Create a Twitter page on your WordPress blog
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:32:00 PDT
Jean-Baptiste Jun already showed you how to display your latest tweet on your blog, in your sidebar for example. Another good way to introduce readers to your Twitter updates is to create a dedicated page for displaying your tweets, using the powerful “Page template” WordPress option.

To perform this hack, you need to know how to create and use page templates. If you’re not familiar with this, this article will tell you all you need to know.

Here’s the code to create a Twitter page template. Paste it in a new file, name the file something like twitter-page.php, for example, and then add it to your blog.

/*
Template Name: Twitter page
*/

get_header(); 

include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/rss.php');
wp_rss('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15985955.rss', 20); 

get_sidebar();
get_footer();
?>


This code uses the wp_rss() function from WordPress core, which is an RSS reader. In the first argument I pass my Twitter RSS feed, and in the second argument I determine the number of entries to display.






How to : Download Royalty-Free Stock Photos and Textures
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:27:00 PDT
Royalty-free stock photos and Textures are very useful in every graphic project for web or print, especially if they are free. There are many websites where you can find royalty-free stock photos and textures, but the problem is most free stock photos are of poor quality and low resolution.

Where can you find royalty-free stock photos and textures?

Here is a list of 25 of the best sites to download royalty-free stock photos and textures.
Adigitaldreamer


sxc


MorgueFile


Pixelio


Photogen


Freephotosbank


Stockvault


Freerangestock


Nationsillustrated


Pixelgalerie


Photocase


Freefoto


Vintagepixels


Turbophoto


Freedigitalphotos


Grungetextures


Urbandirty


Textureking


Texturez


Amazingtextures


Texturewarehouse


Free3dstextures


2textured


Textures.z7server


Freemediagoo


by BlueBots







How to edit your Text Online
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:54:08 PDT
I don’t only love reviewing online web services but I also use them all the time. If I find anything practical enough for me I’d definitely give it a go and see how useful it can be for others. An online rich text editor usually presents a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” interface for editing rich text within web browsers. This may include editing tools for HTML, simply text or Wordpad featured editors. Following are some of the most useful online text editors you can use to get things done.

I personally like CopyPaste and HTMLEditor.

Edit Pad
Edit Pad is a free web application that allows you to edit and save your documents online. The coding of this website is intended to protect you from losing any text that you may be in the process of editing, even if you lose your internet connection or go offline in the middle of editing something.



JotDown
JotDown is very simple web-based application that lets you save temporary notes, text files or manage to-do lists online. To get started simply start typing your text and it will save them automatically when you stop typing. You can easily save your documents by clicking “Save” link.

You can access and edit your text later at the permanent link provided in the address bar of your browser (ex: http://j.otdown.com/17May09/eb46sm/2au) or share the read-only version of the text with others by clicking the “Share” button.



NextEdit
NextEdit is an online website editor that makes editing of websites easily and quickly. Enhance the look of your website with this user friendly web based tool. No training required. No installation or setup required. Sign up Today! And within a matter of minutes you are ready to start editing your website. 



CopyPaste
CopyTaste enables you to create your own private URL with the data you wish to share with your friends or colleagues. In addition to all the regular Word features it also offers a Firefox extension that lets you post any selected content on CopyPaste.  There is no registration required in order for you to edit your content online. But it makes it easy to share content and let others comment on it if you sign up for a free account.



HTML Edit
Last but not the least HtmlEdit. Probably one of my most favorite online editor. Not only it allows me to text but I can design an entire web page using this online tool. It definitely saves a lot of time by helping me to view the results right on the same page.



by Umar Anjum





How To : Detect a visitor from Twitter
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:28:00 PDT


Visitors coming to my blogs from Twitter now represent something like 10% of all my traffic, which is quite a lot. Because many Twitter users re-tweet blog posts that they like, it may be a very good idea to detect Twitter visitors, welcome them and, of course, remind them that their re-tweets are appreciated.

To do this, open your single.php file and paste these lines where you’d like your “Welcome Twitter user” message to be displayed.




This code will detect readers coming from Twitter and display the message only to them.






How to : To Get Design Inspiration
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:42:05 PDT
Written by Jacob Cass

I have recently noticed a multitude of blogs and websites offering design inspiration and I have decided to collect a list of the best posts and websites out there that really got me inspired.

If you have limited time, I would tell you to check out these picture based posts that load all the images on one page. Inspiration from 2007 and 32 Inspirational graphic design pieces. ShinyBinary and 57Even and UrbanCowboy and DeviantArt are also good choices.
Inspirational Collections

DesignFlavr - A gallery full of hand chosen design. 100% quality.

60 More Places To Get Design Inspiration - A list like this of 60 more websites where you can get design inspiration. All quality.

34 Places To Get Design Inspiration - 34 more websites of where to get design inspiration.

12 Links for Web Design Inspiration - A great list of where to get web design inspiration.

Great Illustrator Designs - A great pictured post of great illustrator designs.

32 Inspirational graphic design pieces - Another great pictured list of great graphic design. 

The Best Inspiration from 2007 - A huge collection of awesome graphic design pieces from 2007.

Thinking For A Living - This is an awesome collection of only high quality websites and resources that have been broken down into smaller  categories. Not so much visual inspiration but a list of good places where to get it.

Design Inspiration Galleries:
Design you trust
Siti webdesign 
Best web gallery
One star gallery
HOWDesign.com Design Inspiration Directory
Faveup
Unmatched style
CSS Artillery
CSS Vault
Link Creme
Splench
Muse
FormFiftyFive
CSS Creme
Netdiver
AIGA Design archives
Cool Homepages 
Pagecrush
Beautifully
Moluv’s Picks
FWA
CSS Beauty 
Light on dark 
Stylegala
CSS Mania 
Design Shack 

Design Studios / Artists

OkapiStudio
Cecilia Lindgren
Robert Scully
Shinybinary - Nik Ainley - Must check this guy out.
ISO50 - Scott Hansen
Non-Format
Hulsbosch
Transistor Studios
Faceless
Adhemas Batista
Antonelli
Edwin Tofslie
Kouri Design
IN8 Design
Frost Design - Vince Frost
57Even - Must check this guy out.
UrbanCowboy - Must check this guy out.
Build
Syrup Helsinki
Pioneer10
Jop Quirindongo
GrandPeople
Gui Borchert
Spike Press

Blogs (Resourceful Articles + Inspiration)

Design Inspiration Blog
Freelance Switch
You The Designer
AbduzeedoSpoon Graphics
The Tutorial Blog
Web designer Wall
N.design Studios
Silentbits 
Smashing Magazine Blogperfume
David Airey

Others

Try Googling ‘Design Inspiration‘. or anything else that tickles your fancy.

Use Digg and their design search
Use StumbleUpon and their design search
DeviantArt - A quick search will find many results.






How To : Display your latest tweet as an image
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:01:00 PDT
Because of Twitter’s success, a lot of third-parties have started promoting additional Twitter services. TwitSig is one of them. This website is very ugly but also very cool because it allows you to get an auto-updating image that displays your latest Twitter entry.

While using this image as a signature in forums would be good enough, integrating it in your WordPress blog, under your posts for example, would also be great.

Go to Twitsig.com. You don’t have to register: very nice!
Simply enter your Twitter username in the text field.
And your Twitter image is ready, displaying your latest tweet. The image is automatically updated when you update your Twitter status.
Open any of your WordPress theme files and paste the following code.


[a href="http://twitter.com/yourname"][img src="http://imageURL.jpg"]


p/s : Please replace [ with < and ] with >
p/s/s : Please replace yourname with your Twitter account name and imageURL






How to : Automatically create TinyUrls for your blog posts
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:50:00 PDT
Because of the restriction on character numbers in Twitter, you have to use a URL shortener when tweeting URLs. So, to help your readers tweet about your posts, you should definitely provide short URLs for all of your posts.

Here’s how to automate that task:

Open your functions.php file and paste the following code:

function getTinyUrl($url) {
   $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
   return $tinyurl;
}

Once done, paste this in your single.php file, within the loop:

$turl = getTinyUrl(get_permalink($post->ID));
echo 'Tiny Url for this post: '.$turl.''
?>



To see this in action, visit WpVote, and look at any post.

Source: How to: Automatically provide TinyUrls for your WordPress blog posts






How to : Display your latest tweet without a Wordpress plug-in
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:56:56 PDT


If people like your blog, they would probably also enjoy your tweets. Displaying your latest tweets on your WordPress blog is a good way to gain new subscribers. A plug-in can do that, but for such a simple task, I prefer a hack. This one grabs your latest tweet and displays it on your blog.

This ready-to-use code can be pasted anywhere in your theme files. Just don’t forget to change the value of the $username on line 4. The $prefix and $suffix variable can be used to insert a title, and the div element can be used for further CSS styling.

My last Tweet";

// Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.)
$suffix = "";

$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1";

function parse_feed($feed) {
   $stepOne = explode("", $feed);
   $stepTwo = explode("", $stepOne[1]);
   $tweet = $stepTwo[0];
   $tweet = str_replace("<", "<", $tweet);     $tweet = str_replace(">", ">", $tweet);
   return $tweet;
}

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>



Source : How to: Display your latest twitter entry on your WP blog






How to reduce cough? #2
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:17:49 PDT
If you have tried "How to reduce cough? #1" but unsuccessful to reduce your cough, might be you can try another method.

You mix a table spoon ricewith a small spoon of sugar and eat it every morning and night before you sleep.














How to remove jackfruit rubber from your hands?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:17:00 PDT
If you love eat jackfruit but afraid to peel jackfruit's skin because of it's rubber, you don't have to worry anymore.

Jackfruit's rubber will come out when you peel off it's skin using chopper or other things.

You can remove the rubber that stick to your fingers by applying some cooking oil after you have finished peeling the jackfruit's skin. The rubber will automatically off.



But if you buy a wrapped up jackfruit, you don't have to worry about that rubber. You can just eat it happily.








How to chat with others? Just Tweet.
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:37:00 PDT
You already know that you can use Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Meebo, Skype and else when you want to chat with others. But do you know the most popular application now? 

Please forget about sending SMS in your mobile when you want to chat such as Windows Live Messenger for DiGi subsriber because you have much better option.

It definitely is Twitter. You can find artists, photographer, geek, new friends, old friends. Just follow them. Don't feel sad if they don't follow you back. Give them some time and unfollow them when you think it's quite long period you are following them.


TwitterFox is a simple to use Firefox add-ons.

This is the best way to unfollow in Twitter. You can found out who doesn't follow you http://friendorfollow.com/.

And you asked what about mobile phone? How to connect and update your Twitter? You can explore it here http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/04/16/20-ways-to-use-twitter-on-your-cell-phone-or-mobile-internet-device/








How to reduce your cough? #1
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:47:42 PDT
When you had a cough, I think definitely your solution just simple. Cough medicine. Do you that you can reduce your cough in natural way?

How to reduce your cough?

It is very easy step and it's simple as you eat the peas, as Malay proverb said.

You only need a small spoon of soy-bean sauce and musky lime. Mix it together and just make sure you eat it ASAP.



Image : http://shekh-faisal.blogspot.com


Image : http://hanieliza.blogspot.com

Have fun trying this.






How to create your own caller ringtone?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:54:39 PDT
Yes, it is true. You can make your own caller ringtone. Most important factor is it's suitable for those Maxis, Celcom, Digi subscriber.

Forgot the scene when you was tired or frustrated searching for your favorite song to be the caller ringtone and you found out it was not available.

Believe it or not, you need to try it first.

Please log on to http://www.penguin.com.my for further information.

And do give me some comments or feedback after you have try it!







How to Get Rid of Ants?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:22:00 PDT
If you have ants in your house, there are a few ways to get rid of them:

    * Make an ant trap by dissolving 2–3 teaspoons of sugar in one cup of water. Moisten paper towels or sponges in the sugar water and set out overnight. The next morning, sweep the trap and the ants into a dustpan.

    * You can also spray windowsills, door thresholds, counters, cabinets and other surfaces with a mixture of equal parts white vinegar and water.

    * Sprinkle cayenne pepper and cinnamon on surfaces where ants gather.

    * Spread grits, flour or ashes over ant trails and ants will soon find somewhere else to walk.

    * Outside the house, pour lemon juice on thresholds, sills, cracks, and holes where ants can enter. Scatter lemon rinds around door entrances. You can use borax, powdered chalk, salt, talcum power, cream of tartar, powdered sulfur, or oil of clove in the same way.

    * Apply petroleum jelly around the rims of pets' food bowls to keep ants at bay.

Taken from : www.howstuffworks.com






How to make shrimp paste salt (Garam Belacan)?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:11:00 PDT


Malaysian especially Malay really love to eat mango, guava and others with shrimp paste salt or better known in Malays as "Garam Belacan". It is totally delicious to smudge a slide of mango into shrimp paste salt at the evening outside or inside the house. Malays do this often.

How to make the shrimp paste salt? It is very easy and everyone can make it.

The important thing you need is a dry blender, salt, sugar, soya-bean sauce, chili and shrimp paste.

1. Blend sugar in dry blender.

Important info is to know the balance between salt, sugar, shrimp paste and chili. If you want to make shrimp paste salt (Garam Belacan) in a huge quantity so you can keep it in refrigerator and eat in future,  you need to know that 6 tablespoon of sugar are good to mix with 1/4 small spoon of sugar, 4 chilies, and 1/2 small spoon of shrimp paste.

2. You need to punch chilies, salt and shrimp paste inside this lesung batu.


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3. Mix the result from No. 2 with the blended sugar and soy-bean sauce. Serve it.

Sorry for any inconvenience occur for my English 







How to reduce Chikungunya symptoms?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:26:00 PDT


Before H1N1 blasts the world, Chikungunya appears from no where. My villagers also effected by that disease. They suffered and it's appearance can be look to their health
reduces dramatically. Their eyes, appetite, body shows us how unhealthy they are.

One way to reduce the symptoms as told by my mom is you can make a blue crab soup.


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When this secret spread at my district, the crab price increase and people have to search it at the nearby market and town.

The second method is you can take 3 to 5 a bundle of pandan leaves and place it inside the tab or pool where you are took your bath.


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Do make sure you tied all the pandan leaves as shown below.


Image : http://www.rasamalaysia.com/

From Wikipedia, Chikungunya (in the Makonde language "that which bends up") virus (CHIKV) is an insect-borne virus, of the genus, Alphavirus, that is transmitted to humans by virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes.[citation needed], there have been recent outbreaks of CHIKV associated with severe morbidity. CHIKV causes an illness with symptoms similar to dengue fever. CHIKV manifests itself with an acute febrile phase of the illness lasts only two to five days, followed by a prolonged arthralgic disease that affects the joints of the extremities. The pain associated with CHIKV infection of the joints persists for weeks or months.





How to reduce Maggi Tomyam MSG ingredients?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:32:15 PDT


Malaysian love to eat instant noodle and everyone's favorite is Maggi Tom Yam. We all know that it contains a very high ingredient of MSG. From Wikipedia, Monosodium glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate and MSG, is a sodium salt of the non-essential amino glutamic acid. It is used as a food additive and is commonly marketed as a flavour enhancer.

So how to decrease MSG in Maggi Tom Yam and you still can enjoy it happily?

Here is the method for you to follow.

1. Have a packet or two of Maggi Tom Yam instant noodle.

2. Boil a water in a pot. When it is purring, do insert Knorr Tom Yam paste (I love this paste)


3. Insert Maggi Tom Yam noodle only. Don't add the MSG.

4. Do add salt if you want more tasty Maggi Tom Yam.

You still can enjoy Maggi Tom Yam in a healty way.









How to pull leech from your skin?
noreply@blogger.com (Nazra~) — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:54:50 PDT


If you are planning to visit rain forest,there have some info that might be useful for you. 

Leeches are annelids comprising the subclass Hirudinea. There are fresh water, terrestrial, and marine leeches.

I may want to tell you that if you just panic and couldn't find anything such as lit cigarette, salt, soap or others, you can use your own saliva. Spit it to your finger and pull leech away from your skin (legs, hands, etc.) Or you can make a tobacco water (please don't use cigarette) and sweep to your legs, hands, etc.

From Wikipedia, one recommended method of removal is using a fingernail to break the seal of the oral sucker at the anterior end (the smaller, thinner end) of the leech, repeating with the posterior end, then flicking the leech away. As the fingernail is pushed along the person's skin against the leech, the suction of sucker's seal is broken, at which point the leech should detach its jaws.

A common but medically inadvisable technique to remove a leech is to apply a flame, a lit cigarette, salt, soap, or a caustic chemical such as alcohol, vinegar, lemon juice, insect repellent, heat rub, or certain carbonated drinks. These cause the leech to regurgitate its stomach contents into the wound and quickly detach. The vomit may carry disease and increases the risk of infection.