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10,000+ Phototshop Tutorials on DaTutorials.com

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

DaTutorials reached the 10,000th Photoshop tutorial in its tutorials database!

Thanks to all who submitted their tutorials! With your help people, we now provide over 25,500 web technologies tutorials.

All this IS and WILL REMAIN for free!

Thank you you for your continuing support!

 

Best Regards,
Yasen and Georgi, DaTutorials Team

Download for free Camtasia Studio and SnagIt !

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Yes, there is no mistake :) The TechSmith’s best seller products can be downloaded and licenced for FREE!

Of course there is a little catch :) The free download is for the old versions of Camtasia and SnagIt. However they are both brilliant products and even the old version could do a lot of useful and quality work for you.

For those of you who are not familiar with TechSmith’s products:
  - Camtasia Studio is “the” software for creating full-motion movies of all your desktop activity (also known as screencasting).
  - SnagIt is for capturing a screen area and then enhance the capture with Annotations, Arrows, Titles, Borders, Watermarks.

Download Camtasia Studio 3 from HERE and get licence for it HERE.

Download SnagIt 7.2.5 from HERE and get licence for it HERE.

More links:
  SnagIt 7.2.5 German version
  SnagIt 7.2.5 French version
  Camtasia Studio 5 Review - The Best Screen Recorder Ever
  SnagIt 8 Screen Capture Software Review
 

Hope you guys are as nicely surprised as I was :)

 

We are testing a new Ad system

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

As a free content website DaTutorials.com is depending on the ads income for maintaining and development. Since the start we are using Google Adsense for displaying text-based ads of websites relevant to the content of the page, where the AdSense ad was displayed.

We are fine with AdSense, but recently a new PPC program was introduced to the Ad marked: WidgetBucks.com  (aff).

I’ve decided to check it out (OK, I’m a very curious when earning money is involved ;) ).

So, I’ve signed up for account on WidgetBucks.com. The registration was easy and not only basic information was required, like name, email, website, and preferred payment type - Check or PayPal options were available. Also, upon signup, there is a $25 bonus added to the account :) I’ve already fall in love with WidgetBucks.com - my kind of PPC program ;)

OK, seriously, you get a free $25 bonus and you can withdraw you funds as soon as you reach $50. Very cool, but there is a little catch - you can withdraw 45 days after the date you reached the $50 level in your account. Fine with me, no problem waiting for the funds a month and a half.

So far, so good! You can choose from various ad formats - 160×600, 120×600, 300×250, 728×90, 468×60, 160×300, 660×330. You can also choose a color for the ad which will fit your website color scheme. The ad design is very cute and eye-catching. Check it at the right side of this blog or at the bottom of each blog post.

WidgetBucks Ad Screenshot

There s also a plenty of categories for the ads or if you prefer you can set the ads to be auto-selected by a WidgetBucks module called MerchSense (MerchSense Demo).

OK, enough of the general stuff. Let’s get to the more interesting aspect of WidgetBucks program - the price of a click. Well, so far we are very happy with the program, the lowest click price we have is $0.28 and the highest $0.56 and not a single click for $0.01 like we have from … “you-know-who” ;) Not bad for a PPC program :)

The only cons is that the payment process is still to be tested. Meanwhile I’ll keep you updated about how things are going on with our new ad program from WidgetBucks.

You can also sign up for an account and give it a try. We’ll be very happy to hear a feedback from other website owners.

Repair dead pixels on your TFT/LCD screen

Monday, March 26th, 2007

You can fix the stuck pixels by changing its color rapidly. To get the healing effect, you need to run the program for few hours.

http://udpix.free.fr/

Photoshop tutorials section updated

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

We manually checked all the links in the Photosop tutorials section of DaTutorials. Actually it was all acomplished by George, the other developer in our team. We regularly make a check and remove the broken links, so we keep our database clean and with good links.

We are moving DaTutorials to a new web host

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

A new update from DaTutorials HQ ;) We moved to a new web host to get more web space, more bandwidth and better support.

Our previous hosting company was Layered Technologies. A good hosting service but very basic support and almost 100% self-managed. And the price was way too high for a non-commercial website like DaTutorials.

Our new host is LunarPages. I bet most of you have heard of it as they have a very good reputation at WebHostingTalk - the biggest web hosting related community. We’ve also signed for the affiliate program of LunarPages which is a good deal and we hope to get some additional income from it and use it to further develop DaTutorials.

On my side the web site is loading prety fast, no complaints by me ;) However I would like to hear some comments from you guys, is it fast on your side too?

Oooops, it also seems that this is my first post this year, sooo … HAPPY NEW YEAR :) AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU :-P

Wow, a guy makes a sportscar using MS Paint! (MUST WATCH)

Monday, December 11th, 2006

This guy is 21 years old and definitely got the feeling … and the touching as you’ll see ;)

Need free, cute icons for your website or software ?

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

 

Sweetie Free Icons

 

You get it from http://sweetie.sublink.ca

150+ clean and clear icons to use in your nifty web application. They are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, so commercial use is fine. Also feel free to make derivatives with the included Photoshop documents.

Did I mentioned they are all free ;)

Get a free Windows Vista or Office 2007

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

That’s right, you can get a free copy of Windows Vista Business Edition or Office 2007 Pro.

It is still not officially announced by Microsoft, but it will be soon. So, hurry ;)

This is a cool offer for developers to get them excited and ready for Office and Vista. In a word, watch 3 or more webcasts and get a free copy of Vista Business or Office 2007 Pro.

Learn more here: http://www.powertogether.com/

However it is not for international developers, only for US developers :(

Windows Vista development PC

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

So you are a developer, right? And you want to to work in Windows Vista environment, right? If so, here is the PC you want ( well, at least I desperately want it ;) ):

  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Processor
  • 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
  • 4GB RAM Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM @ 667mhz
  • 1Terabyte RAID0 SATA HDDs (2×500MB)
  • 48x Combo + 16x DVD+/-RW Double Layer Burner
  • Dual TV Tuners (Analog)
  • Dell 30″ Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
  • Full 5.1 Surround Sound

This PC screams — it has a Windows Experience Index rating of 5.2!

Microsoft and Dell recently partnered up to create this super-cool custom PC in celebration of Microsoft releasing Windows Vista to manufacturing earlier this month.

Here are some pictures:

Windows Vista Custom PC 1

Windows Vista Custom PC 2