Vodafone is challenging F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, to race against the speed of it’s improved mobile data network in The Netherlands. To make it an actual challenge, Vodafone calls for 28.800 Facebook users to join the race in a virtual car on Facebook.
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Facebook vs Hamilton
Canada Type has four new releases this week. One, Neil Bold , is a revival of a wonderful old Typositor face, originally designed in 1966 by Wayne Stettler ; Sol Pro is a reworking of that classic science-fiction favorite, originally designed by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith in 1973, and the other two – Slinger and Marvin – are original designs
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Four New Releases from Canada Type
For anybody who may have missed it, last week we announced on the WPBundle progress blog that we were joining forces with the awesome WooThemes on our latest project, the WordPress Bundle, or WPBundle . The new partnership means an even more exciting future for the project that we’ve put so much love into.
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We’re Joining forces with WooThemes for WPBundle
To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days. Every day, we’ll highlight each 20 Year Anniversary FontFont Selection by sharing additional product information, including comments from the designer.
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Font of the Day: FF Instant Types FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
I recently developed a site for a client who requested their product listings be displayed similar to how Johnny Cupcakes (Street wear brand from Boston/Los Angeles) lays out their products (columns laid out in a zig zag pattern).
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Advanced Columns using the :nth-child(N)
To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days. Every day, we’ll highlight each 20 Year Anniversary FontFont Selection by sharing additional product information, including comments from the designer. Join the celebration.
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Font of the Day: FF Quadraat FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
When it comes to logo designing , different rules apply for big and small companies respectively. Normally big companies enjoy a much bigger budget allowing them not just create a logo but have it tried and tested in the market. But for small businesses, choosing a logo properly in the first place is very important as they are prone to more competition and do not get to enjoy big budgets
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Importance of a Great Logo Design in Branding
Latest Version: 3.00 Updated on: 2010/08/25 The Eco style of the Watercolor theme was originally created for a nature related site. I made it a point to update my existing themes to ver. 3+ and give upgrade priority to the sub themes that are pending release.
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Watercolor (Eco)
A Security Bulletin was posted today addressing critical security issues in Adobe Shockwave Player. Adobe recommends users of Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions update to Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.8.612, using the instructions provided in the Security Bulletin . This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties and confers no rights
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Security Bulletin – Adobe Shockwave Player
Today we feature the amazing works of James White who mainly focuses on retro futuristic designs. His style is very distinctive and great to gain inspiration, as I’m sure you will all agree. Living and working in Nova Scotia, Canada James has over ten years experience as a designer and has worked on an array of personal art projects and with clients ranging from Toyota to Wired & Computer Arts magazines plus various other publications.
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Retro & Futuristic Digital Art Inspiration: James White
Stefan Willerstorfer ’s Acorde is a sans text and display family with some interesting humanist touches that give it real character when used large. Perfect for large projects where a wide range of settings will be required, Acorde includes over 925 glyphs in each of the 14 styles (7 weights, each with its own italic), and the wide variety of accents, figures, small caps and other niceties are made especially usable by its Opentype functionality. This is the first commercial release from Willerstorfer, a freelance designer living in Vienna
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Stefan Willerstorfer’s Acorde: A New Humanist Sans
Summer is inevitably coming to an end and all of us are going to miss it. FlashMint has something very special for you, something that will make this remaining summer days ever more enjoyable… that’s up to 80% off on flash templates, flash CMS templates, PrestaShop templates, WordPress templates and almost everything that we have on FlashMint! Hurry up, the Last Super Summer special offer will end on September 1st! You have only 9 days left since now to get the template you have been dreaming of with the 80% discount! Have you ever seen a professional flash XML template worth $15 only
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Super Summer Sale – Up to 80% OFF!
Microsoft, in a latest series of development, has got caught up in a logo design controversy on the blogosphere. The mystery developed when a video leaked on YouTube from the Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) conference presumably presenting Microsoft 2011 brand logos. While the original video cannot be accessed after being pulled down, some snippets are still available that reveal new conceptual logos for Windows, Windows Phone , Xbox , Bing and Office
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Microsoft 2011 Logos Controversy – Real or Fake?
Orla Keily a textile and fashion designer know for her fun sixties inspired prints has recently released her own perfume line. The packaging is a great fit for her brand and also has a mix of modern and vintage elements. The round top brings back memories of playing with all of my grandmothers beauty products.
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Orla Keily Perfume
Fan Script Typeface To license the font please visit Fan Script Font – Veer.com Fan Script contains over 1000 glyphs, including ligatures, swashes, contextual and discretionary alternates, Western and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Maltese, Celtic/Welsh Language support.
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Fan Script Typeface
At Curvine, we’re always keeping an eye on trends in Web site browser software. We’ve noticed an important trend that will speed up Web site development in the months and years to come that we wanted to share: Internet Explorer 6.0 usage is on the way down. First, some background: All Web sites are developed using a mix of HTML and CSS — many also use Javascript.
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Is it necessary to test Web sites using Internet Explorer 6.0?
We’ve got a lot of new faces around here this week, and several really stand out. Whether you’re looking for a modern calligraphic script, an Arabic and Roman sci-fi fusion , jazz-inspired doodles , a chunky, masculine display face inspired by the casual display lettering of the early 1960s (also in Cyrillic!) we’ve got something for you.
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New Type This Week
Although the hype is gone…, you still remember of Chatroulette , don’t you? If not, let me tell you that it’s still alive and yet there are some brands (a couple of examples here) using its random nature to connect with people out there. The first one is this action to promote “The last exorcism” movie:
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Chatroulette strikes back
Jan Smoeger ’s Tenby , a 10-font modular geometric sans display family, is on special right now, with three weights free and all others marked down to $8 each from the usual $12.
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Paragraph’s Tenby Now on Sale!
Our support folks have created a tool that enables you to remove permanently offline computers from your FCS database. Client computers go offline for many reasons, including decommission, re-tasking, and re-imaging. After a day, these computers are shown in the “Not Reporting” section of the Client Security console
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Forefront Client Security Offline Asset Removal Tool available