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Comparing Hosting Plans for Starters

Host
HostGator
1&1
1&1
GoDaddy
GoDaddy
Yahoo

Plan
Hatchling
Beginner
Home
Economy
Deluxe
Starter

Disk Space
50GB
10GB
120G
5GB
100GB
5GB

Bandwidth
200GB
300GB
1200GB
250GB
1000GB
200GB

Price
$6.95
$2.99
$4.99
$3.99
$6.99
$8.96

Domains
1
20
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
1

Sub-Domains
20
25
100
25
Unlimited
Unlimited

Extras
Fantastico
1 Free Domain Name
2 Free Domain Names
$1.99 Domain Name
$1.99 Domain Name
1 Free Domain Name

 
 
These are the basic starter packages from some of the bigger web Hosts.
Ive used all of these hosts at some point of time.
 
 
My Recommendations:
 
 
I just want something cheap to host my simple static html site […]

Web 2.0 Logos in Photoshop

From HongKiat
 

 
Sometimes its nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there.
In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.
 
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PlattDeals.com - MacBook 13-inch Black $1399.99

11 Free OSX Downloads that every Mac User should have

Quicksilver I Strongly recommend Quicksilver for anyone using MacOSX its the definite MUST-HAVE from this list. Quicksilver is an application launcher which lets u type out names of applications instead of making shortcuts on your Dock. After using this app my dock has gone from maybe 14 icons to 3. Great for productivity.
 
iPodDisk makes your […]

PlattDeals.com - Student Savings Updated Daily

Its still only a week into development and not fully functional yet but here is my latest project.
 

 
Its a website where students can find deals on tech related products.
Occasionaly they will feature lifestyle and office products also.
 
Why should students shop there ?
It saves them the time looking for these deals themselves. We Search You Save.
PlattDeals […]

TigerDirect - TradeIn/Recycle program

TigerDirect - TradeIn/Recycle program
Have a old notebook PC that you dont use or is obsolete?
Help the environment by trading it in and receive a TigerDirect Gift Certificate.
Use the Gift Certificate online at TigerDirect.com or at TigerDirect retail and outlet stores.
Use the simple online estimator and get your estimated trade-in value immediately.
Once complete, you’ll […]

Links round-up

Champs. league > Manchester United 1-0 Lille
Man Utd beat Lille with a controversial Ryan Giggs freekick that almost sparked a walkout from the french side
 
Distance Education Courses from Harvard
some great FREE courses here like Fundamentals of Website Development
XML with Java , Web Development Using XML etc.
 
Check Your Blogger Templates for Existence of NoIndex, NoFollow […]

Free Japanese looking fonts

 
 
 
Preview and Download some Free Japanese Fonts at Urbanfonts.com

Static Page as Homepage

While working on the update for CashmanAuctions.com i was asked to only show one post as the homepage.Being a very simple website, they use Wordpress as a CMS.
 
At first i did this by going to Options -> Reading -> number of posts to display : 1
 
But this only showed one post even on other non-home […]

Free Photoshop Brushes

some good Photoshop Brushes availible for download at AK-Pro
  

 

  
Download more here

Tinglets - fantastic web designer resource

Tingelets are a set of bookmarklets that you can place in your browsers bookmark bar. When clicked, they highlight a certain tag or set of tags in a specific color .
 
Basically just snippets of Javascript that run on top of the currently viewed page to highlight specific objects in the markup
 
For example i could run […]

Mp3 Search

I used to use Audioseek.com to look for Mp3 songs, but it started to spam out so i switched to Singingfish.com , but they were bought out by AOL
 
now ive found a new website to look for Music
 
Elbo.Ws is a Mp3 blog aggegator, it spiders blogs looking for mp3 files posted and builds […]

Subscribe via Email

I just added a plugin that allows people to subscribe to the blog via email
Why ? Because most people on the web still don’t know what RSS is and how to use it and don’t understand the orange xml icon on your site. They can still get an email newsletter of your blog, which they […]

X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2

What’s Cool About XHTML 2
Any Element Can Be A Hyperlink
An href attribute can be added to any element to transform it into a hyperlink. For example:
1. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
This is very cool!
b, i, small, big, tt, font and basefont Are Gone
XHTML 2 said goodbye […]

Easy to Use VNC Software

When i was on vacation i tried to get a friend to setup VNC on my home PC over the phone so i could access it via internet. But the hardest part of setting up a Remote Desktop is getting the clients configured.
 
This is espically viable for anyone who has to do techsupport for grandma […]

Examples of good Favicon Design

favicon (short for “favorites icon”), also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the […]

Send Text messages for Free

 
Cingular (your 10 digit mobile number)@cingularme.com
 
Nextel (your 10 digit mobile number)@messaging.nextel.com
 
Sprint (your 10 digit mobile number)@messaging.sprintpcs.com
 
T-Mobile (your 10 digit mobile number)@tmomail.net
 
Verizon (your 10 digit mobile number)@vtext.com or @vzwpix.com
 
Virgin Mobile (your 10 digit mobile number)@vmobl.com
 
its free to send, if the reciever has a text package, they just deduct from that.
 
there is also a service by Teleflip.com […]

IconDroplet 1.1

IconDroplet is an AppleScript Droplet that takes raw icon files (*.icns) and turns them into files that are embedded with the icon. After the files are processed you can “Get Info” on the resulting files and copy/paste the icons to other items.
 
 
download (OSX)

300! professionally designed icons… FREE

from the site

 

There are more than 300 awsome icons in our package, and we welcome you to use them in your web applications, both personal and commercial. The only thing we ask is that you put a link to this website somewhere in your application (ie, the “About� screen or in the footer).
  
Download them here […]

Rss enabled ScreenSaver

Tired of seeing a green field under a blue sky as your Screen saver
 
 

Display RSS feeds as screensaver : MSN Screen Saver (Beta)
It was extremely easy to setup,
just plug-and-play with any RSS feed.
Also has ability to display weather, hotmail inbox, msn messenger details, etc…
 
 

Display Flickr images as screensaver: Slickr
Screen saver that shows images by:
[…]

Blog Redesign

heres my redesign comp, any takers???
 
  
  

Image Png Overlay Test

//< ![CDATA[
var png_overlay = \’http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/ayushsaran/roll.png\’;
var suffix = \’_over\’;
//]]>

 
 
Im testing out a method to get Png overlays over thumbnails that add a nifty zoom graphic to tell visitors that this image can be zoomed in on.
 
 
Here are the components:
 
lightbox.js for the zoom
pngfix.js for the cross-browser transparency
 
The Images
  

 

 

  
Right now the js and images are located outside and […]

Customize your BootCamp Window

here is what the default BootCamp interface looks like
 

 
BORING !! time to spice it up
 
First, download some cool icons …. (via YellowIcon)
 

 
I wanted this to show a cool OSX icon for the Mac Partition and a windows one for the XP Partition.
 
Can I make custom disk icons for Mac OS 9 and OS X?
Disks (or […]

IE 7 Standalone

You’re a web designer/developer.
You know IE7 is evil.
You know you need to test in IE7 since its reached final build and will be a mandatory windows update.
You know IE7 is the spawn of Satan.
You know IE7 doesnt roll back to IE6 too well.
You need to still test in IE6 for older systems.
  
The Solution:
IE7 Stand-Alone

Running Windows and OSX - side by side - Tips

I ordered my MacBook Pro last week and got it shipped to me from china. I had it in hand on thursday and ive been playing around with BootCamp and Parallels to see which works better.
 
For the uninformed:
 
Boot Camp is a software made available by Apple Computer that assists users in installing Windows on Intel-based […]

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