How to Make Amazing Wallpapers Just using Photoshop Paint Brushes Quickly

Photoshop paint brushes are a cool thing if you know how to use them. In this photoshop tutorial I have provided a step by step guide on how to make amazing wallpapers by just using Photoshop paint brushes. I have included the paint brushes and the photoshop file (psd) that I used in this Photoshop tutorial in the download section below if you wish to download them.

Shoot better Quality Pictures by Adjusting the Exposure of your Digital Camera

First, a caveat, there are minor differences in the way different digital SLRs meter the scene so you’ll have to “fine tune” your camera depending on how it reacts.

Exposure is the balance of Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO. This sounds good in theory but seems to baffle quite a few people in practice.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Ad – Which One Should You Choose?

Pay-Per-Click or PPC in short, is an effective marketing scheme for the Internet. If you have a personal blog/site that attracts moderate to high traffic, and you want to generate some revenue from it then PPC is a very good option for you. There are many companies, including the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! etc. that offer PPC ad-serving applications for webmasters and publishers. After registering with the company, all you have to do is put some Javascript code or HTML in your pages and activate the advertisement. The company tracks how many times the ads have been viewed and clicked and makes your payment at the end of the month.

How to Add Javascript in a WordPress Post or Page

In this short post I have explained how I use Javascript in WordPress posts.

Adding javascript in WordPress post is really simple. You just have to switch to the HTML view in the editor and paste the JavaScript code and that’s pretty much it.

Two Simple PayPal Security Related Tips

If you are using any of my WordPress shopping cart plugins (WP eStore or WP Simple Shopping Cart) then chances are that you have a PayPal account and making a bit of money selling your stuff online too. Next step is to keep your money safe so you don’t loose it from hacking related issues or get fooled by some scam email.

Tips to Make Ubuntu Boot Faster

Ubuntu is pushing the Linux desktop movement forward. Since it’s inception in 2004, Ubuntu has released over 10 versions so far, each one improving on its predecessor. It remains one of those few operating systems, that boots really fast. Still, if you are one of those brave hackers who likes to tune your machine to maximize efficiency, here are a few tricks on how to make Ubuntu boot faster.
Word of caution: These tune ups have been tested on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Haron. I haven’t upgraded it as it has been pretty solid and stable release.

Basic Guide to CSS

Many people want to make simple CSS changes but do not know where to start or are afraid that they will change the wrong thing. As a result of this I get asked a lot of CSS related questions from new WordPress users. The fact is that learning CSS is not really that hard. Once you get a hang of the basics, you can quickly become an advanced CSS user if you keep playing around with it. In this article I have explained how to do simple CSS modifications, hopefully it will be of some help to some of you.

Let’s get started.

Tools for the Modern PHP Developer

If you have been working in PHP for a while, may be it’s time to go pro. This article lists a number of tools and software that will improve your development practice and boost productivity. They are absolutely free and open-source! There are alternatives for most of them, so you can feel free to do your own research to adopt a tool.

Unit Testing – PHPUnit

Unit testing is an effective practice for developing software, where you can test your functional units of your code, catch the bugs and fix them early in the project.

Tips On How To Become A Better Blogger

This is a follow up article for the How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online series that we have been publishing on this blog to help the newbie’s get started with a blog. This article covers some good practices that you should develop to become a better blogger.

1. Chose The Right Topic For Your Blog

There is usually a big debate on which path to go down when choosing the topic of your blog. Some will advice you to find a niche that people spend money in and focus purely on the profitability.

Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox

Hello, is this thing on?  Many of us who have, or are in the process of launching, e-commerce sites have wondered about this at one time or another.  The most common way of finding out is to make a test purchase of $1 or less, to see if everything works.  At about 35 cents a try (in PayPal fees), most people simply consider it a start up cost.  But there is an alternative, that costs nothing to use; the PayPal Sandbox.

6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic

Developing SEO strategies that can drive an immense amount of traffic to your site within a month is not an easy task, especially if you want your site’s visitors to convert into profits. Generating highly targeted traffic or visitors that have the intent of availing the services or products that you are offering is the best way to really earn from your website.

The good news is that there are many ways that you can do to hasten the process of having your site noticed by people who are in need of the information, services or products that you provide. Here are some of the ways that you can do to generate specifically targeted online visitors in under a month.

Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques

Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple SEO techniques if practiced properly can make a significant difference as to how my pages are ranked in the Search Engine Queries.

CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success

Action Trumps Everything is a book about a new principle called CreAction, which is how entrepreneurs balance thought and action in the face of an uncertain future. This principle can be used by anyone, entrepreneur or not, to help guide yourself though the good, the bad, and the unexpected in life.

Through extensive research, we have concluded that entrepreneurs function in a different way than people who do not define themselves as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs tend to act rather than think their way through almost any situation—a formula we call “CreAction.” Of course, this does not imply that they are impulsive and/or irrational; it does, however, emphasize the importance of action versus thought about the next step or move, or how to handle a situation.

Menghentikan Program yang Tidak Dikehendaki (Hidden Process/ Virus), Memakai Securuty Task Manager

Apabila Komputer terkena virus tentunya sangat mengesalkan. Kita kemudian akan mencari anti virus atau updatenya yang lebih baru. Akan sangat beruntung kalau anti virus tersebut dapat langsung mendeteksi dan dapat langsung membasmi virus tersebut.

Namun pada kasus - kasus tertentu, karena virus sudah aktif di dalam memory, anti virus tidak dapat bekerja. Terlebih dahulu aplikasi virus yang sedang running harus dihentikan , dan biasanya tidak dapat dihentikan dengan task manager bawaan windows.

Menormalkan Kembali Atribut Hidden Folder dan File di dalam Flash Disk yang Disembunyikan oleh Virus

Fasilitas untuk mengubah file atribut bawaan windows XP sangatlah terbatas, ada banyak software lain yang dapat digunakan untuk merubah atribut sebuah file, diantaranya febooti file tweak.
aplikasi tersebut dapat didownload disini

Filenya berukuran sekitar 467 Kb. Setelah didownload, instalkan file tersebut.

untuk menggunakannya, kita tinggal klik kanan pada folder atau file yang akan diubah propertinya kemudian klik properties, disana akan terlihat ada menu / tab tambahan yaitu Attributes.

GMail Drive, Alternatif Penyimpanan Data

Untuk anda yang belum menggunakan fasilitas ini tidak ada salahnya untuk mencoba. Gmail Drive memanfaatkan space di inbox Gmail anda sebagai tempat penyimpanan data secara On Line. Tampil di My Computer layaknya seperti drive biasa dengan nama GMail Drive. Seperti drive local, kita bisa copy paste, drag and drop ke GMail Drive ini.

Untuk menampilkan dan menggunakan Gmail Drive ini kita harus menginstalkan program kecil yang berukuran sekitar 150 KB, add-on (shell extension) untuk windows,

Menambahkan Menu Copy to dan Move to pada Klik Kanan File di Windows XP

Ketika melakukan klik kanan pada sebuah file di windows XP akan ada banyak pilihan menu, seperti : open, open with, edit, preview, cut, copy, rename, delete, send to dll..
Tips berikut adalah bagaimana menambahkan pilihan copy to dan move to pada menu klik kanan tersebut.
Berbeda dengan Send to, pada Copy to dan move to mempunyai pilihan ke folder mana file akan dicopy atau dipindah, sehingga akan terasa lebih mudah dan praktis.
Cara menambahkan Copy to dan Move to yaitu dengan sedikit mengedit registri editor.

Langkah-langkahnya sebagai berikut :

Membuat Shortcut Alamat Website

Untuk menyimpan suatu alamat Website atau Blog supaya mudah untuk memanggilnya kembali di waktu yang akan datang, kita biasa menggunakan fasilitas bookmarks (firefox,opera) atau favorites (internet explorer).
Selain itu kita juga dapat menggunakan shortcut dari alamat yang bersangkutan yang bisa ditampilkan di desktop atau di dalam folder.

Berikut adalah bagaimana cara membuat shortcut dari suatu alamat website / alamat blog:

Menambahkan Folder Size di Tampilan Windows Explorer

Untuk mengetahui ukuran/ besarnya file di dalam suatu folder biasanya kita lakukan klik kanan pada folder tersebut kemudian klik properties. Ini dilakukan pada setiap folder yang akan kita lihat ukurannya.
Tips kali ini bagaimana caranya agar pada windows explorer menampilkan informasi folder size/ ukuran folder pada masing-masing folder ketika kita membuka atau meng-explore suatu drive(C, D,..) tanpa melakukan klik kanan.

Caranya yaitu kita harus menginstalkan program kecil semacam pluginnya untuk windows XP yang dapat di-download dari SourceForge.net atau klik disini untuk download zipnya, ukurannya sekitar 170KB.

Double Desktop, Solusi Cepat Sembunyikan Layar

Keseharian kita yang bekerja di office yang selalu berhadapan dengan komputer, tentu akan merasa jenuh apabila hanya melulu berhadapan dengan file-file pekerjaan.
Biasanya suka diselingi dengan game-game ringan, buka internet, dll.

Akan tetapi, melakukan selingan seperti di atas akan berabe juga kalau ketahuan sama bos... kalaupun bos kita baik, tetep paling tidak kita akan merasa malu dibuatnya.
Cara mencegahnya ya sudah barang tentu dengan segera kita menutup jendela-jendela game atau internet kita begitu tahu bos  akan menghampiri kita.

The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet

01. screenr.com  – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages.
03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
04. untiny.me – find the original URLs that’s hiding behind a short URLs.
05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city 

06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard.
07. topsy.com – a better search engine for twitter.

Ziddu Terbukti Membayar

Ziddu.com adalah salah satu situs tempat penyimpanan file dan sharing yang gratis, lebih dari itu ziddu juga membayar kita setiap ada yang mendownload file kita, walau nilai $nya tidak seberapa perdownloadnya,  tetapi kalau banyak yang mendownload tentu lama-lama akan lumayan juga earning yang didapat.

Saya sudah bergabung di ziddu selama sekitar setahunan, awalnya sama sekali tidak berharap akan bayaran, tadinya hanya memerlukan tempat untuk penyimpanan file-file yang saya punya, supaya dapat diakses dari manapun, dan dapat sharing ke teman-teman dengan memberikan linknya, kemudian kesininya artikel dan file-file yang berhubungan dengan postingan blog juga saya simpan di ziddu.com ini.