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Baby car logos 2008-03-19 14:00:18 Everyone started out small. When you were born, you looked totally different than how you look now. This doesn't only count for humans, but (apparently) for cars too. Do you recognize this little fellow?
Just look how much he has changed! And he even had more friends to play with.
Show your feedcount the way you want 2008-03-22 12:58:53 Feedburner () is a great tool / website to manage and control your RSS feed (). I've already written an article before on how you can promote your feed to the max using a signature (). Today, I'm going to show you how you can show-off the number of feed readers subscribed to your feed in your own, beautiful way.
Many bloggers use the FeedCount from Feedburner to show how many readers are subscribed to their blog. I'm pretty sure you'll have seen the following image around the net (several times):
Feedburner () and a webhost that supports PHP () and GD ().
Marcofolio.net goes v1.5 2008-03-21 08:31:22 Hi! I passed the "600 (stable) feed readers ()" border last week, so I decided to give my beloved visitors an update of the website. I changed a couple of things to improve the site. One of the things you probably noticed already, is the different kind of lay-out.
Here is a list of the changes made on Marcofolio.net. Feel free to give me some feedback about the changes. If you found some bugs, please leave a comment or contact (contact.html) me.
[Imagedump] March 2008 - Part 2 2008-03-24 13:45:30 Yes! Another montly imagedump from Marcofolio.net. Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from March
2008.
Remember to check out part one ().
iPhone Dev Team delays release of iPhone PWNED 2008-03-31 18:07:04 I'm one of the iPhone
users from the world that are really looking forward to the iPhone 2.0 software release (). The update will be available in June (-20-update-available-for-free-in-june-touch-users-get-to-pay-up-again), but the iPhone Dev Team () already got their hands on this fine piece of software. Better yet: They hacked it to let it run 3rd party application. And the best: It will be released this week.
A downside: It was going to be released on the 30th of March, but it had a couple of delays. They're improving the script & making a Windows version of the application.
Download movies from YouTube and other streaming media websites 2008-03-30 12:05:29 Did you ever came across movies
/ films on YouTube
(), Google Video (), MySpace () or Break () that you wanted to store on your local machine? You can have several reasons for this; Being afraid that the movie / film will get deleted by the host or user, placing the file on your iPhone or an other mobile video player and so on. Of course you can dig through the source code finding the source files, but that's a lot of time-consuming work. Here's a list of services that'll allow you to download any streaming video file from popular websites.
The list is placed in random order and feel free to place any services not listed here in the comments, or which one you liked the most. Of course these services can be used for free.
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, media
The browser that destroyed my April fools joke: IE 2008-04-01 17:43:36 "Your website has ben hacked! Everything is turned upside down!". One of the more common e-mails that I found in my mailbox today. I think many people actually forgot which day today was: April
Fool's day ('_Day).
For those people who have contacted me with the message above (or a like), a big thanks for you. You're showing some real appreciation for my website. But let this be a lesson for everyone: Be aware of and don't believe everything on April 1st. And which hacker / defacer would take the time to turn all article upside down & add a nice CSS floating corner ()?
I got the idea of this joke from flip () and the upside down ternet (~pete/upside-down-ternet.html) router hack. It wasn't that hard to make, but the results were pretty funny. I used some unicode characters (~mvcorks/code/c Read more:browser
Fun with the sleeves of vinyls 2008-04-03 16:29:07 A vinyl (or Gramophone record ()) is pretty big and normally comes in nice sleeves. Here are a couple of examples what you can do when the sleeve has a face from a person on it.
Too bad that vinyl, just like the tape and even CD are history already. You can't do this fun stuff with a MP3 file.
[Imagedump] April 2008 - Part 1 2008-04-07 16:31:26 Another month, another imagedump! Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from April
2008.
Don't forget to check out part 2 that will be released later this month. Enjoy!
mfDropCaps: Add your own drop caps to your Joomla articles 2008-04-10 10:17:17 A drop cap is an effective way to jazz up articles on your website. It'll make your site look a bit more professional. There are several CSS techniques () to achieve this, but some are not cross-browser compatible and it doesn't support every font.
mfDropCaps replaces every first character of your article or paragraph with a beautiful drop cap by showing an image of the character. This technique is SEO-proof and you can create your own font by changing the images provided by mfDropCaps
mfDropCaps works with jQuery ().
mfDropCaps Download
mfDropCaps for Joomla
! 1.5 Download
Create a frog logo in Photoshop 2008-04-13 11:43:42 For a school project, our project team was in need of a logo. I created a simple frog logo, because it has something to do with the project we'll be working on (sorry, can't give you any more details). I'll explain here how I created it. You can also see this logo as an icon that can be used in documents.
In this tutorial I'll try to teach you the basics of the 'Pen Tool', since many people will find it hard to use it for the first time. Of course you can use this technique with other animals to create logos or icons.
To create a nice logo (or icon), most of the times you want to create it as a vector image. Adobe Illustrator is always good, but the Pen Tool from Photoshop
allows you to create vectorized shapes too. So get your Pen Tool and let's start.
mfSlideBar: Sliding sidebar for Joomla modules 2008-04-17 06:26:16 A common problem in web design is having a lack of space. mfSlideBar gives you a fancy Web 2.0 solution for this problem. Simply place modules in to a nice sliding side bar on your Joomla
! website.
You can place any module in to this sliding sidebar and you can set your own theme / style. mfSlideBar is very flexible and comes in sliding from the left or the right of the page.
Want to have a nice Web 2.0 sliding sidebar showing your modules on your website? mfSlideBar is your solution.
mfSlideBar works with Prototype.js ().
mfSlideBar Download
mfSlideBar for Joomla! 1.5 Download
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RapidShare: Cutest but lamest CAPTCHA 2008-04-19 05:36:28 A while ago, John Willis posted an article with 10 worst forms of CAPTCHAs (-10-worst-captchas/). Yesterday, I found another form of CAPTCHA that could be added to his list. This is an image from file hosting service RapidShare.com ()
What do you think the four letters are?
Have you ever encountered such an aweful form of CAPTCHA like me? Show them. The Spanner created an innovative CAPTCHA called CODETCHA (-update/) but is mainly focused on programmers.
Flying Vector Stars: Free high res Photoshop brushes 2008-04-20 09:53:05 As you could have guessed, I'm () a programmer. But sometimes (), I really like to get creative & design things using Photoshop
().
For all those Photoshop lovers out there, I created a free high resolution brush pack for Photoshop. It contains 12 super-size brushes
, showing flying vector stars.
The Photoshop CS2+ version has a resolution of almost 2500 px, the CS1 and lower version are just under 1000 px. Both use the same settings as Bittbox (-to-make-a-photoshop-brush/).
You can use these stars in your striking Photoshop artwork.
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, Vector
[Imagedump] April 2008 - Part 2 2008-04-23 05:29:12 Part 2 of this months imagedump! Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from April
2008.
If you liked this one, don't forget to check out Part 1 () or any other imagedump ().
Glowing and sparkling intense light 3d logo 2008-04-26 13:02:43 After my previous tutorial on how to create a frog logo in Photoshop (), I'm now going to teach you how to create a glowing and sparkling intense light
3D glow logo. This tutorial shows different techniques that I learned in the past couple of weeks and it'll surely blow others away.
Most of this tutorial is done in Photoshop, the 3D letters are created in Illustrator. If you don't have Illustrator, you can also try making 3D letters in Photoshop (-letter-text-photoshop.2776.html).
I'm creating the word "QPoit", which actually is a fun word (and non-existing) used between my friends and me (Don't ask me why). Get ready to make some amazing artwork.
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I got RickRolled on Queensday IRL 2008-05-01 11:18:54 Just a short, personal, non-techie post from the person behind this blog / website. I just got a new (parttime) job as a PHP () programmer at WIWI Websolutions (). The CakePHP framework () they're using is pretty cool and I'm learning it now.
Yesterday, it was Queensday () in the Netherlands. It's a national holiday, celebrating the birthday of the Queen. This simply means: A free day with loads of partying.
In the morning, there was a flea market () down town which I visited. When I was going through some old vinyls (), checking for some "good old songs", I stumbled upon the following record.
I laughed, thinking that I got RickRolled () in real life. I know it's pretty geeky, but seriously: When you listen to Rick Asteley's Never Gonna Give You Up ( it'll be stuck for the rest of the day
Protecting an image with the use of Flash 2008-05-02 16:29:59 It's been a while since I wrote my last Flash
/ Actionscript tutorial (). But lately, I got several requests on different Flash tutorials so I decided to start up the program once again.
Many websites don't want their images to be copied. You can add a (hidden) watermark (), slamming your logo several times on the image or let it carry a secret file (), but I wanted a totally different approach. I wanted to protect my images using Flash and more important: It should be done dynamically.
Before I'm going to start with this tutorial, I recommend you to check out download the source and demo code () if you don't feel like following this tutorial. You'll only need to change the XML file and you're done.
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Being #2 top blogger under 21 2008-05-04 18:02:21 Michael from RetireAt21 () released a list of top young bloggers under 21 (-young-bloggers-under-21/). I was pretty happy to hear that I made it to his list, but did't expect to get listed that high: I'm listed as number 2 top blogger under 21.
Rank
Name
Website
Age
Alexa
Technorati
1
Thilak Raj Rao
()
18
21,749
20,499
2
Marco Kuiper
()
19
32,712
14,278
3
Eli Burford
()
17
36,526
21,714
4
Carl Ocab
()
14
90,186
6,138
5
Ahson Rafiq
()
18
43,137
17,285
The full list (-young-bloggers-under-21/) contains 30 of the most top-ranked blogs by authors under the age of 21. Some of them are really great!
I would like to grab this chance to thank all you readers / visitors out there. Many comments and seeing the subscriber count () rise every day keep
Presenting gadgets in a superb, grungy way 2008-05-05 14:52:02 Time for all those Photoshop lovers out there to follow another tutorial. This time, we'll learn how to present technology gadgets
in a superb
, grungy way. I was inspired by the artwork from Eric Oosterhof ( and wanted to created something looking just as amazing as that.
My PSD file was too big to put to download because of the smart objects (26 MB), but you can download a wallpaper pack containing my final result in high resolution in 3 different sizes () (320x480 (iPhone), 1440x900 (widescreen), 1600x1200 (normal)).
[Imagedump] May 2008 - Part 1 2008-05-07 05:58:35 Another month, another imagedump! Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from May 2008.
Don't forget to check out part 2 that will be released later this month. Enjoy!
Happy 1st anniversary Marcofolio.net 2008-05-09 12:44:07 Whoohoo! Party time! Today (9th of May, 2008) is exactly one year after I bought the Marcofolio.net domain. Meaning, today is the first birthday of this website.
I'm pretty satisfied with what happened the past year. The first couple of months, this website was nothing more than my personal portfolio. After a while I started blogging and even made a pretty nice list with my favorite articles from 2007 and even made an april fools prank.
Because of the increasing number of readers, I updated my layout for the website to version 1.5. Recently, I became #2 top blogger under 21. For all my articles, you can go to the sitemap.
As a little present for you, I added Gravatar support in the commenting system. This way, your comment will be more personal with your own avatar.
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Enable Gravatar support in !JoomlaComment 2008-05-11 04:50:27 !JoomlaComment is one of the leading free commenting components for Joomla!. I've been using the component since the beginning of my website.
Still, !JoomlaComment isn't perfect (yet) in my opinion (And I'm not the only one). I would really like to see Trackback support and the ability to edit your own post in 120 seconds. For my website, I wanted to add Gravatar
support, so I went editing the !JoomlaComment code to show those globally recognized avatars.
One of the strangest things is that !JoomlaComment already supports most things needed for Gravatar. There is already avatar support for Community Builder. The only thing needed for support Gravatar on a PHP platform is an email address. !JoomlaComment has the build-in functionality to ask the user for his email.
So let's edit the PHP co
Expanding a HTML form using JavaScript 2008-05-14 16:24:03 Using forms in a website to let the user register is pretty common these days. But what happens when you want several input values of the same subject? It's pretty ugly to make 20 fields with "I can speak the following languages:". Those users that can only speak one or two languages would leave a big empty space and would have to scroll down a lot. Those users that can speak more than 20 language Read more:JavaScript
22 signs you're NOT addicted to design 2008-05-15 12:12:51 I guess you've seen them all. Articles like 25 MORE Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer,
You Know You're Addicted To Photoshop If...
and 24 Checkpoint Signs You're Obsessed With Web/Graphic Design. All are great (and somewhat funny and true) articles, but how do you know you're not addicted to design
?
So you think you're not addicted to (web)design? Here's a check-list in rando Read more:signs
A parallax illusion with CSS: The Horse in Motion 2008-05-17 05:28:29 Time for some fun with CSS and optical illusion
s. For those people that are feed subscribers for a while, will know that I really love optical illusions. I already wrote several articles with optical illusions (15 cool word illusions, Illusion of a 3D dragon and more), and now it's time to create one myself with the help of CSS.
One of the optical illusion video's that I saw a while ago, was the e Read more:Horse
, Motion
Your own CSS parallax illusion 3d image 2008-05-19 13:43:45 A couple of days ago I placed an article about a parallax illusion
with CSS: The Horse in Motion. Today I'll show you how I created such an image so you can do it yourself.
In this example, I'm going to use Photoshop for the actual image and Illustrator for the 3D effect. I wanted to try something else instead of the "frame by frame" (Like the Horse in Motion). Be creative! The final example (dem
[Imagedump] May 2008 - Part 2 2008-05-22 11:44:20 The end of the month is coming closer and you know what it means: Part 2 of this months imagedump is there! Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from May 2008.
Don't forget to check out part one in case you missed it. Enjoy!
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A simple starry Web 2.0 ad 2008-05-25 03:50:34 A couple of days ago I recieved an advertisement from a store that has just opened his doors. Normally, I would throw those things directly away, but the simplicity of the design did draw my attention. I wanted to recreate the Web 2.0 looking ad and here I'll show you how.
So start up Photoshop, it won't be a long ride. There's no shame in always improving your Photoshop skills, so get ready to c
Photoshop freebies: 2x High resolution textures 2008-05-28 16:42:07 On the 9th of May 2008, Smashing Magazine announced a Smashing Textures Contest. The goal was set to let all readers take beautiful pictures that can be used as textures.
It was one amazing contest. They received in an enormous amount of e-mail from over 600 participants. The results speak for themselves: The Smashing Texture Gallery is one great Photoshop
Resource.
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