Webdesign, CSS, Social Media, Tech & Geek Stuff

Amazing Gallery by Deviant art user Benjamin Carré:

http://ornicar.deviantart.com/gallery/

A bounty hunter and the Sarlacc pitt

ATAT attack on Hoth

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Dropbox is a neat service offering free online storage including a file syncing and sharing  client. By registering you’ll receive 2,25 GB, but you can expand that up to 16 GB.

You gain more web space by baiting new people to register to dropbox by sharing your referral link, which is a clever mechanism as they make their users advertise dropbox for free.  So after registering you’ll start annoying your friends and family to register at dropbox.com to grab the bounty of additional 250MB per active user. Students with a valid school email address get a whopping 500MB for each person they invite to Dropbox.

Unfortunately this is a hard and slow method to boost your storage, to accelerate the process, you’ll have to throw (a little bit of) money at the problem.
Simply start a google adwords campaign promoting your own referral link. Usually this shouldn’t cost you more than 25-30 Bucks, which is a good deal I think…

If you are in need a huge amount of space, you’ll have to consider the premium services of dropbox, which start at 9,99 per month, full price list here.

Android users may snatch another free 500MB easily by installing the beta client for Android devices and using the photo uploader!
But be quick as it only works for the beta version, nobody knows how long it will work out!

Grab the APK directly from here:

http://db.tt/1gBXGvgi

or scan this QR Code:

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.tt%2F1gBXGvgi

If you want to support me, here’s my referral link:

http://db.tt/VSdXwTt

As usual Google first ignored my begging for an invite on the official page, but Florian Rohrweck (http://www.stilbruch.at) somehow had pity with me and sacrificed one of his invites for me. Thanks a lot, Florian!
After one minute on google+ I knew this would  be a long night and way too little sleep.

The startpage reminded me a little bit of another social network, just less blue…

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Some time ago I created this set of social media icons and decided to share them with you, they were not a creative revolution, but hey, they are for free! As I got some positive feedback, I now revamped them a little bit, updated and added some new companies, like amplifiy, picasa, bebo, diigo, Google buzz, Google Plus and xing.

Same issue as before feel free to use them, if you want to give me credits, it would be nice, but you do not mandatorily have to.

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Social Media Marketing Report 2010

Fullscreen view

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Thinkup is a open source software you can install on your webserver, requiring php 5.2 or higher and a MySQL database.
Fine. But want the heck is it good for?
Thinkup gathers your social media activities, plus their reactions, like comments, retweets or likes and stores it in your database, so you can sort, export, analyse or display your very own social media footprints as you wish.
It comes with features like wordpress integration and an easy-to-use web installer.
The benefit is you do not have to dump you data to another third party analysis applikation/software/webservice so you are able to do that on your very own server under your control.
What I am really interested in, are the analysis functions. I’m already hooked,  so let’s check it out.  Will keep this post updated!

Thinkup is created by Gina Trampani (she also made the Better Gmail2 FF Addon, which I can only recommend to use) in cooperation with Expert Labs.

Dragos Jieanu a highly skilled CG-generalist from Romania, check him out:  www.jieanu.com

Conceptual Artist Alexey: http://karanak.deviantart.com:

Thang Le, designer and conceptual artist: thangle.com:

Christopher Rabenhorst: his blog:

via conceptships.blogspot.com

As I had been occupied most of my time by this great open source CMS lately, I would to share my experiences withyou. If you use, you will learned to value drupal at least for its vast amount of extremly useful modules, flexible user management and easy-to-handle content editors.

As basic requirements one needs a hosting account which has php (version 5.2 or higher) and mysql installed. Download the latest versions here, I’d recommend to choose version 6.x as most of the modules and themes are not available for 7.x, which is still in development status, but will come up with neat features.

On first hand you will have to set up a mysql database, no worries you will just have to specify just the database name, a username and a password! Now you upload the drupal core file into a folder in your webspace. After doing so you reach your drupal installation via www.yourdomain.com/[drupal installation folder]/install.php .

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