How to Make a Realistic Planet in Photoshop

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Using the 3D Sphere effect available in Photoshop, including Photoshop CS5, even a beginner can create a realistic planet. Here are five easy steps to make a planet in Photoshop like the one pictured here. 1. Create the Ocean Launch Photoshop and create a new file by pressing “Ctrl-N” (“Command-N” on a Mac). Set the [...]

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How to Embed HTML Codes in WordPress

WordPress has a habit of automatically filtering and transforming any code that you type in a blog post or WordPress page. In almost all situations, this is simply convenient. However, it can be frustrating when you’re trying to embed HTML code so you can show your readers what the code is supposed to look like. [...]

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How to Merge Outlook Contacts with an iPhone

Use iTunes to copy contacts between Microsoft Outlook and your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Just like your music and movies, iTunes will let you specify whether or not to sync all of your contacts, or only some groups of contacts. Once you have specified how you want your contacts synced, if you later make [...]

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Adobe Drops the Ball on ePub

Much has been written in the past year about publishers responses to the Ebook revolution. Little has been written, in comparison, of the software developers behind the books. A case in point is Adobe. Anyone with a web or publishing background looking for a good software program to make digital books, would quite naturally take [...]

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Google Analytics: Why Visitors Spend 0 Time on Your Site

I received an email recently with a good question about Google Analytics stats on the amount of time people spent on her website. She has been getting some good traffic, however, according to Google, everyone who visited from a search engine was not spending a single second there before leaving. This has to do with [...]

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Creating Your Own Website Email

Free email services like Hotmail and Gmail are useful, and easy to use. But having an email account associated with your own website can be important when trying to present yourself credibly and professionally. Most web hosting services offer the tools you need to set up your email free of charge. Getting Started If you [...]

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Becoming a Writer

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Becoming a writer is easy. Staying with that decision requires years of dedication and a lot of hard work. Becoming a successful writer… well that requires even more work, and depends upon your definition of success. When I was sixteen, one of the first things I did when I got my driver’s license was to [...]

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Got Script?

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This is cool. If you’re a screenwriter, or hoping to become a screenwriter, there is a group on Twitter you need to check out – #scriptchat. It’s a place where writers from all over the world talk about screenwriting, and discuss screenplays. New York City screenwriter Jeanne V Bowerman started #scriptchat in October 2009 and [...]

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Free SEO Tips for More Web Traffic

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Here are ten free SEO tips to help prevent you from making some of the most common mistake when it comes to getting more web traffic from search engines to your website or blog. 10. Poor Content: All the optimization in the world is not going to help a web page that no one wants [...]

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What is SEO Anyway?

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SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. An SEO specialist is someone who optimizes web sites to increase their rankings in search engine listings. While I have consulted for dozens of organizations in the past decade on generating web traffic, including search engine optimization, I have never classified myself as an SEO specialist. Yes, [...]

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