Welcome back to part five of my series on ripping CD’s like a professional. We’re going over all of the options for setting up your CD drive. This is a fairly odd thing to have to do you would think, but it is important to do so to ensure the quality of your rips.

If all you do online is check your email a few times per week, or if you use the web only to shop, read the latest celebrity gossip, or surf your favorite site, then any kind of browser would work for you. However, if you are a professional web developer or designer, picking the best browser and several useful extensions would greatly increase your productivity, give you competitive advantage, and help you finish your projects on time, every time. Listed below are some precious Chrome and Firefox extensions, which every designer should look into.

Holy crap, this CD ripping guide is going on forever! It seems like a while ago I started this guide and were getting to the actual ripping part! We’ve gone over setting everything up in the settings to rip your disk to FLAC files and form this point we’re going to let you know how to save those settings to a profile and the starting steps in ripping the files. So let’s get to it!

This tutorial will show you the steps to compose a dark, gloomy, and spooky background with a distinctive neon sign at a dead end. Basically, it is a composition using two techniques in Photoshop namely the Neon Lights effect and Creating a Wall Landscape. Combining these techniques can create many dark themed scenes with the help of textures, lighting, and some spooky brushes.

In today’s digital-first world, social media marketing is an essential driver of brand growth and sales. With billions of people scrolling through their feeds daily, …

It’s that time of year again. Temperature on the rise, pants getting pleasingly shorter, free time increasing, money situation low. Well “Snoop Doggy Dogg”, it’s time you got yourself a “jobby job”. It’s not the best of times out there, especially for youngins on the come up. Unemployment for teens and young folk, students, is something like three times the national rate. Which is hovering in the crapper as is, something like 8-9%. Options are few and there are a lot of people out there aiming to take the jobs that you would normally be able to get during the summer to help pay for your long break from reality. Hopefully I can drop some knowledge on you with a few tips on how you might be able to land a summer job or internship to get you through til the shroud of school blankets you from the real world that us folks get to deal with all year full time.

For a long time already, we have been enhancing and altering photographs using the settings found on Image > Adjustments. This method is what we consider as the destructive method of editing photographs and images. we may have also discovered a way that could prevent accidental manipulation or changes done upon a certain photo by making a backup copy of it located on another directory, or we made a duplicate layer of that photo and hidden on the same Photoshop document (*.psd file).

While Google has been the unquestionable search engine leader for quite some time, it is not without its alternatives. A number of (other than Google) search engines, some of which have been around for years, and some that have just started up, are well worth using and might surprise you with their functionality and accuracy. Yahoo! and Bing are the two names that might come to mind to anyone, who is Internet and computer savvy, but there are others, which are smaller, regional, specialized, or haven’t gained popularity yet, but could prove useful to anyone that is frustrated with Google or is after more targeted results.

TGIF. Since I couldn’t post all the awesome links I wanted to last week I thought I would follow-up this week with another huge list. …

Even though WordPress 3.1 was released only in February, WordPress 3.2 Beta 1is already available for download and it comes with a number of new features. The most notable of them are the new admin layout, the Full screen editor, which facilitates destruction free writing, the new Twenty Eleven theme, new PHP and MySQL requirements, the enhanced admin bar, and the faster loading speed. What else has changed in WordPress 3.2 and are these changes going to make the most popular Content Management System even better?

We may have already a similar effect and tutorial for this on the same site, but I would like to share a much magical and …