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Review: Socialite

Review on December 4th, 2009 No Comments

Last week I pub­lished an arti­cle on how to man­age your RSS feeds and social media and why it was impor­tant to do so. This week, Socialite (for­merly Event­Box) has finally been released by Real­Mac­Soft­ware (the mak­ers of Rapid­Weaver) and it seems only appro­pri­ate to take a look at the new app — which has promptly replaced Tweet­deck and Gruml on my startup items list.

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spread the love

How to create a “Share This Post” section beneath posts

Tutorial on December 2nd, 2009 5 Comments

Blog­ging is shar­ing and thanks to many native Word­press plu­g­ins as well as handy code snip­pets, we can make it eas­ier for read­ers to bump, tweet, digg, or save our blog posts. The eas­ier, the bet­ter the chances for some social love. The fol­low­ing arti­cle will take you trough the steps to cre­ate a small “Share this Post” sec­tion after your blog post, easy enough for non-programmers to follow.

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elegant, yet simple

20 Thin and Clean Design Fonts

Resources on November 30th, 2009 4 Comments

As a designer, one can never have enough fonts to choose from. This Mon­day, I present you 20 clean and thin fonts.

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Rss, Delicious and Twitter: Why you should use them

Articles on November 27th, 2009 1 Comment

Infor­ma­tion over­flow” is prob­a­bly the phrase that describes our cur­rent age best. But as some­one who earns his or her liv­ing with ‘all things inter­net’, you can’t afford to ignore what is going on. But how to stay on top things, not loose focus and get new infor­ma­tion on time? In the fol­low­ing arti­cle I take a look at Deli­cious, RSS and Twit­ter and share my sys­tem of man­ag­ing information.

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in just a few words

Create a Clean One Page Portfolio

Tutorial on November 25th, 2009 8 Comments

Final Image Preview

Before you fire up Pho­to­shop and start cre­at­ing, let’s take a look at the fin­ished lay­out. We will be design­ing a one page port­fo­lio that can be used for design­ers, graph­i­cal artists etc. You can down­load the fin­ished PSD file for free at the end of the tutorial.

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Spelling out the Season

8 Free Seasonal Fonts

Resources on November 23rd, 2009 No Comments

The Hol­i­day sea­son is creep­ing up on us and if you are plan­ning on cre­at­ing some nice christ­mas cards or designs related to the sea­son, here are some free fonts that will help you with the right spirit.

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Welcome to iKreateIt!

General on November 21st, 2009 No Comments

Hello and welcome!

Yes, it’s another blog on design and cod­ing, you might have guessed it. But then, the fields of web design and cod­ing as well as print design hold a mul­ti­tude of top­ics to write about so I guess I can add my voice here.

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