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Create a Favicon for your website

By Arjen • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: How to, Technology, Webdesign, Weblog


When you visit a website you might notice a small icon in the left side of the address bar. This is called a favicon and it can help you to brand your website or blog. The favicon doesn’t only show up when you’re on the website, but also when you save the website to your browser’s favourites, the icon will be shown. It’s easy to create a favicon.

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10 Photoshop Poster tutorials

By Arjen • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: How to, Technology, Weblog

Learn how to create stunning posters in Photoshop with these 10 tutorials.

Vintage movie poster effect

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How to stop hotlinking and bandwidth theft

By Arjen • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: How to, Technology, Webdesign, Weblog


Image by Ligadier

Hotlinking, also known as remote linking and direct linking, is a technique used to show your images and documents on someone else’s website. This means they use your bandwidth to show these images. They do a simple right click on the image, select properties and copy the URL of the file. Especially when your images rank high in Google image search, people start hotlinking them without permission. It’s easy to prevent hotlinking on your website, it can be done by uploading one simple file.

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How to set up your computer for high torrent speeds

By Arjen • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: How to, Technology, Weblog

Pretty often people ask me how to download movies and music using torrents. They complain about slow download speeds, while everybody around them seem to have no problems. For most of them, their router doesn’t forward the traffic to the correct computer.

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Learn how to use Photoshop with tutorials

By Arjen • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: How to, Technology, Weblog

Adobe Photoshop is the best software to edit and enhance images and creating website designs. I haven’t worked a lot with Photoshop, as I always use Adobe Fireworks for my designs, so my skills with this software aren’t very impressive. Luckily there are tons of good tutorials on the web, so if you’re like me, and you’d like to improve your Photoshop skills step by step, read on for some great links.

20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop effects

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How to Watch TV Online for free

By Arjen • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features, How to, Technology, Weblog


Photo by Ambimb

Now almost everybody has a high-speed Internet connection at home, watching TV over the Internet gets more popular every day. Dozens of websites are offering worldwide TV channels in many languages you can watch instantly.

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