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Author: Eric Brooks
Web & Graphic Designer, Blogger, Musician, Evil Clown. I also code websites and promote people for a living. Still kind of a jerk, though. Approach with food.
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Did you know the tilde key has magical powers in Adobe Illustrator? Yes, the humble, unassuming tilde key that sits near the top left of your keyboard. By pressing and holding it as you drag with any of Illustrator’s shape tools, you can draw instant abstract art. When the tilde key is pressed, Illustrator creates a new shape each time the screen redraws. So if you move your mouse or pen tablet slowly, you get a lot of densely packed shapes. If you move it faster, you get fewer shapes spaced farther apart. The results look a little bit like an old school Spirograph (if you’re a child of the 70s-80s). Experiment with different strokes and different starting shapes, like polygons and stars…
The JavaScript Web Notification API allows both desktop and mobile browsers to display notifications with custom content. Although it’s support used to be quite inconsistent, the API is now compatible with most modern browsers and we are already seeing it implemented in many websites and apps. In this article we will show you the quickest way to set up browser notifications using the open-source Push.js library.
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Most bloggers make building a blog look easy, but the truth is it actually requires a lot of careful planning to successfully launch a blog. Everything from choosing a great web hosting plan to host your website to finding a theme with a beautiful design requires a great amount of research and strategy. Most people who rush into setting up a blog always end up making lots of expensive mistakes, like spending too much on horrible web hosting or buying a theme that takes forever to load… ”
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Photography begins with the camera and the multitude of precise decisions that must be made with it. Making food photography look effortless isn’t easy, but here are some steps to take towards that go…
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Avengers: Infinity War has started shooting in Atlanta, and with it set to film back to back with the currently untitled fourth installment of the franchise, it's going to a long few months of various actors from across the Marvel Cinematic Universe making their way to and from the set. When Marvel will reveal some official details remains to be seen, but chances are it won't be for quite some time. However, there are lots of rumors and fan theories out there, and what you'll find here are my thoughts…
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In today’s world where plagiarism and intellectual property theft have been on a high rise, it has become more than important to copyright everything that one does.
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CSS flexbox is an incredibly useful tool for layout without using floats or positioning. Currently almost all current browser version support flexbox, making it a go-to standard for web design. It can solve a number of problems efficiently, such as vertical alignment, space distribution, ordering of elements and sizing. It offers more freedom to arrange…
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