Tools

25 Excellent PHP Tools That Enhance The Way You Develop

7 Comments 06 February 2010

PHP has grown to become one of the most wide-spread server-side scripting language that’s used on a daily basis in a variety of ways. For the most part, almost every developer that’s introduced to this programming language uses it and becomes fond of it at some point. With the support of a very large community, this incredibly fast technology is taking over other server-side scripting languages. If you conduct a quick search on the subject you’ll find countless ready-to-use scripts and a fist-full of quality frameworks.

Here you can see we’ve complied 25 Excellent PHP Tools That Will Enhance The Way You Develop in detail. Take a look at a few of these tools, assess which ones address your needs, and take advantage of them. After all, they’re there for us to use.

PHP_Debug

PHP_Debug is very useful open-source tool that allows you to output processing times of your PHP and SQL, check the performance of specific code blocks and get variable dumps in graphical form.

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Quick and Informative Review on Apple’s iPad

4 Comments 05 February 2010

Recently there’s been a lot of buzz surrounding Apple’s long-awaited and upcoming “phenomenon”, the iPad. If you’re wondering what the iPad is, it’s a tablet with a touch screen that operates on Apples entirely new (not OS X, but similar to the iPhone) platform. Let’s go a bit further and imagine an iPod touch that has a 10-inch screen, and with the capability of fast Internet surfing speeds, giant app icons, and versatility. That’s pretty much the iPad in a nutshell.

Within this article, we’ll touch base on a variety of features that may make or break the iPad. We’ll layout the facts and leave the rest to you. Let us know what you think!

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Photoshop

35 Amazing Custom Photoshop Brushes

3 Comments 04 February 2010

Brushes are a main part of every Adobe Photoshop user. They give you the ability to create awesome designs where they’re used in logos or wallpapers. Presenting a collection of 35 of the best free custom photoshop brushes that will surely help you in your upcoming projects.

How to Install A Custom Photoshop Brush:

• Start Photoshop (We’re using Adobe Photoshop PS4 Here)
• Right click on the Brush Tool

• On Top, you’ll see Brush. Click the arrow and it will bring down the brushes.

• Click (>) and a small menu will pop up. Click Load Brushes and select the download file (make sure you’ve unzipped it if it’s in the zip format). Select and it will load all the brushes in that pack and you’re done.

Amazing Custom Photoshop Brushes

1. Tree Brushes (8 Brushes)

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Tutorials

New Photoshop Tutorials : January 2010

5 Comments 01 February 2010

Adobe Photoshop, probably one of the most demanding graphic editing program used extensively. Using Photoshop is fun for some and the earning source for thousands out there. Web, obviously one of the best source to learn software like Phtoshop and we have new tutorial up there almost every day. It’s always good to stay updated with new and inspirational stuff to come up with incredible results in your profession.

In today’s post, you will find a showcase of 12 new and best photoshop tutorial out in January 2010 that others have freely contributed to design community and will definitely help all Photoshop lovers. So, please have a look and share your comments. Thanks!

Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop

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Tips For Choosing A CMS For Your Website

3 Comments 29 January 2010

Choosing a CMS (content management system) is an important first step to building your own website. The CMS provides a simpler way to manage website content without much prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, or other web programming languages. As using the web continues to grow quickly, new CMSs arrive to handle websites in different ways. Below are a few tips on picking the right CMS for your website.

Choose the CMS that fits your websites purpose.

Not all content management systems are created equal. You need to look at the main functions of your website to find the CMS that is right for you. If you are going to be working with a blog, one that provides a quick easy publishing from anywhere maybe good for you. Systems are available that allow users to make new blog post through the usual backend interface, but also by email and through applications on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry devices. Alternatively some CMS’s are designed with multimedia in mind. These CMS are aimed at providing the best tools for audio and video sharing, but do not provide the robust text authoring tools that blogging platform would provide.
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