I was initially envious of my coworker’s iPhones. I had a Blackberry of the Pearl and Curve generation, and it was outclassed in every way. But then I heard about the iPod touch, and realized I could save about $600 per year (in data fees) by buying this $200 device and cutting off my data on the Blackberry. Now I’m not connected all the time mind you, which is sometimes frustrating, but I like to think it keeps me sharp.
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Canteen Magazine is an online publication dedicated to finding artists who want to reveal their creativity, and then pair those insights with the best new work in fiction, poetry, art, and photography—all designed to look more like a fine art book than a dusty journal. They have just announced their 2010 awards contest for photography, in which you can win a web spot on amazing publisher Powerhouse Arena, as well as have your work displayed in Canteen’s own magazine.
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The genius of Photoshop is that it helps you create something from (almost) nothing.  We’re going to look at how modern day alchemy works and create some sparkly gold that can be used for any number of purposes on printed projects. This will be a short and sweet tutorial that requires only a beginner’s knowledge of Photoshop.
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On every Wordpress site we draft up, we’ll need to extend the basic functionality. It’s a great system, but it isn’t intended to provide a full website out of the box. We use these free plugins to kick it up a notch, hopefully you’ll find one of our magic bullets useful.
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Promoting your online business to customers through social media is a great way to involve potential clients and associates in your work. While exploring these (usually) free avenues of creative marketing, don’t forget about flicker. While its not a waterfall of to the minute status updates, you can connect to others with groups, tags, and followings. Here is an excellent article with some useful tips on how to maximize the potential of your new free photogenic outlet.
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Drew and I live 2 1/2 hours apart as the plane flies, or 20 hours as the car drives. This means we need smooth communication, and the surrounding technology we’ve come to use is key to that.
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Craigslist has a wealth of big dreaming potential clients who all have the next big idea and want you to help them bring it to market. I will recount my experiences, as well as a few lessons I have learned.
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When I first joined AllExperts, I was by no means an expert in any field, but had a good understanding of business, web design, and customer service. I found that most of the questions I was initially asked were mass posted to all other experts in my category. Aside from feeling slightly used, I can say that I have learned a lot by being a part of the community and helping users out.
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A modified version of this trick to get badges to run after the page loads. A bit hacky, but it works wonders.

We need to specify a place for the code to be injected. This div is what twitpic’s java looks for, and will be where your badge is written.
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Update: Mootools is now on 1.2, with changes that break this script. What really needs updating is the scroller.js, you can download it from mootools, or here from us. Just update to the current version of mootools, and replace your existing scroller.js with the new one.
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