Most of us here are self taught designers who never attended any design schools. Four Years Back when I started of as a teenage designer who knew little bit of coding the main challenge was to step into this alienated world of coding our own designs. We had very little resources online then to learn from. So here we have gathered some useful tutorials you can learn from. The articles are sorted up for all levels from Beginner to Expert Level Tutorials. We hope this is helps you transform from a creative person to a rockstar designer and coder.
Converting a Photoshop Mockup
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You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone, Iphone 4G. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details.
While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here’s the detailed list of our findings:
What’s new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic
What’s changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery
How it was lost
Here is a detailed account of how the phone was lost.
Why we think it’s definitely real
We’re as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and disassembling this unit, there is so much evidence stacked in its favor, that there’s very little possibility that it’s a fake. In fact, the possibility is almost none. Imagine someone having to use Apple components to design a functioning phone, from scratch, and then disseminating it to people around the world. Pretty much impossible. Here are the reasons, one by one.
It has been reported lost
Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:
So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.
Obviously someone found it, and here it is.
The screen
While we couldn’t get it past the connect to iTunes screen for the reasons listed earlier, the USB cable on that screen was so high quality that it was impossible to discern individual pixels. We can’t tell you the exact resolution of this next-generation iPhone, but it’s much higher than the current iPhone 3GS.
The operating system
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4G.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore because each firmware is device specific—3GS firmware only loads on 3GS devices—and the there are no firmwares available for this unreleased phone. Which is another clue to its authenticity.
It is recognized as an iPhone
This iPhone behaves exactly like an iPhone does when connected to a computer, with the proper boot sequence and “connect to iTunes” restore functionality. Xcode and iTunes both see this as an iPhone. Mac OS X’s System Profiler also reports this as an iPhone in restore mode, which is a natural consequence of remotely wiping the phone, but report different product identifiers (both CPID and CPRV) than either the 3G or the 3GS.
It uses micro-sim
The fact that it uses a micro-sim is a clear indicator that this is a next-generation iPhone. No other cellphone uses this standard at this point in the US.
The camouflage case
The case it came inside was a fully developed plastic case to house this phone to disguise it like a 3GS. This wasn’t just a normal case; it had all the proper new holes cut out for the new switches and ports and camera holes and camera flash. But it looks like something from Belkin or Case-Mate. It’s a perfect disguise.
The fact that it’s in the wild right now
Logic can also narrow down why this phone is this year’s iPhone, rather than next year’s model or one from the previous year’s, just because it was found in the wild right now. It makes no sense for Apple to be testing 2011’s model right now, in super finished form—they wouldn’t be nearly finished with it. The phone also can’t be last year’s test model, because last year’s model (based on the iPhone 3GS teardowns) components were way different. No micro-sim, much bigger logic board, no flash, no front camera, smaller battery and an inferior camera. That only leaves the 2010 model.
The guts, the definitive proof
And finally, when we opened it up, we saw multiple components that were clearly labeled APPLE. And, because the components were fit extremely well and extremely conformed inside the case (obvious that it was designed FOR this case), it was evident that it was not just a 3G or a 3GS transplanted into another body. That probably wouldn’t even be possible, with the size constraints of the thinner device and larger battery.
The New Industrial Design
At first sight, this new iPhone’s industrial design seems so different from the previous two generations that it could be discarded as just a provisional case. Even while the finish is so perfect that it feels right out of the factory, some of the design language elements that are common to all Apple products are not there. Gone is the flushed screen glass against the metal rim. Gone is the single volume button, replaced by two separate ones. Gone is the seamless rim, and gone are the tapered, curved surfaces.
Despite that, however, this design is not a departure. Not when you frame it with the rest of the Apple product line. It’s all the contrary: This new iPhone gets back to the simplicity of the iMac and the iPad. In fact, you can argue that the current iPhone 3GS—with its shiny chrome rim and excessively curved back—is out of place compared to the hard edges and Dieter-Ramish utilitarianism of the iMac and the iPad. Next to the iPad, for example, the new iPhone makes sense. It has the same feeling, the same functional simplicity.
But why the black plastic back, instead of going with an unibody aluminum design? Why the two audio volume buttons? Why the seams? And why doesn’t the back have any curvature at all?
Why the plastic back?
The plastic back is the most obvious of the design choices. The iPad, with its all aluminum back, has seen its Wi-Fi reception radius reduced. The 3G version comes with a large patch on the top, probably big enough to provide with good reception. But the new tiny iPhone doesn’t have the luxury of space: It needs to provide as much signal as possible using a very small surface. I’m sure Jon Ive is dying to get rid of the plastic back, and go iPad-style all the way, but the wireless reception is the most important thing in a cellphone. A necessary aesthetical-functional trade-off.
Why separate volume buttons?
This new iPhone uses separate buttons for the volume instead of the single button that you can find in the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. It’s one of the factors that may indicate that this is a provisional case, until you think about one of the most requested features for Apple’s phone: A physical button for the camera. The new iPhone has a bigger sensor and a flash, which means that the camera function keeps gaining more weight. It’s only logical to think that Apple may have implemented this two-button approach to provide with a physical shutter button. It makes sense.
Why the seams?
The seams are perhaps the most surprising aspect of the new design. They don’t seem to respond to any aesthetic criteria and, in terms of function, we can’t adventure any explanation. But they don’t look bad. In fact, the whole effect seems good, like something you will find in a Braun product from the 70s.
It’s doubtful that the seams are arbitrary, however. Either they will disappear from the final product, or they have a function we can’t foresee at this time.
Why no tapering or curves?
As you will see in a future article, the new iPhone is so miniaturized and packed that there’s no room for the tapered, curved surfaces. Everything is as tight as it could get, with no space for anything but electronics.
The hardware specs
The phone measures 4.50 by 2.31 by 0.37 inches. It weighs 140 grams. The 3GS weighs 137 grams on a postal scale (and 135 on Apple’s official measurements). So, in comparison, it’s 3 grams heavier. The battery is 5.25 WHr at 3.7V, compared to the 3GS battery, which is 4.51 WHr at 3.7V. On the back of the phone, it said it was XX GB, but since we were unable to get the phone to a running state, we couldn’t see exactly how large it was.
How it feels
Freaking amazing. As a person who never really liked the round mound of a back in the 3GS, the sleeker, flatter, squarer design is super welcome. It feels sturdier than the 3GS, and much less plasticky. The metal buttons give it a heftier feel—less of a toy—than all previous generations. The closest analog to it would be the original iPhone, which is more square and heavy than its newer brothers.
It feels completely natural up to your face, and the fact that both the front and the back are glossy makes no difference on how well you can hold it without the phone slipping. And because it’s thinner, it feels even nicer in your pants.
What all this means
Apple has updated the exterior drastically different from the 3G and 3GS. That design is old, it felt out of place compared to the rest of their products and needed desperately to be killed. Now you have a thinner body, a much more pleasant form factor with no wasted space and lots of hard lines. But the design isn’t the most important part that’s changed.
They’ve delivered many of the features people have been waiting for—that damn front camera!—while at the same time upgrading everything else. Flash, better back camera, better battery life and another microphone for better voice clarity. People who bought the 3G two years ago and are now in the perfect position to upgrade and get a dramatically different, and better, phone. If confirmed this summer, and if it performs as we expect, this next-generation iPhone looks like a winner.
We accomplish this via the many social bookmarking services (digg, delicious, twitter…) that are available. Finding a bookmarking iconset that fits into your theme can be difficult or maybe you don’t want the boring or the bland, but you want an iconset that has been designed by a high quality designer and has something distinctive and original. Below you will find such iconsets.
We often associate the word “amateur” with negative connotations, as if something amateurish were less desirable or not worthwhile. But how many of us would want to fight the World Amateur Karate Champion, or play against the World Amateur Chess Champion?
Amateurity is contextually denoted with both respect and disrespect. In some contexts, particularly sports, immense respect is accorded to the amateur leaders and champions.
I suspect that many people in the SEO community secretly or subconsciously strive to distance themselves from “amateur SEO”. I can think of a few movies, however, where some bad guy who is big on brawn and martial arts sneers at someone else, mutters “amateurs“, and then proceeds to get his butt kicked by the amateurs he dismissed so casually.
Oft-times in real life the difference between an amateur and the professional is the type and amount of support or compensation one receives for performing a set of tasks, not for the quality of the effort one had made.
Many amateur SEO techniques may indeed lead to search penalties and filtration, but there are still good practices that non-professional SEOs quickly adapt. These practices are still used (and are sometimes refined) by the pros. Here are a few examples:
Writing – Just writing a few paragraphs of text on a Web page is sufficient to get started with search engine optimization. Some amateur SEOs are far better writers than many professional SEOs. A good SEO wants to improve his or her writing as much as possible.
Website Publishing – You have to throw your bread upon the waters if you want it returned to you a hundred fold. Some amateur SEOs just love to create Websites. Many professional SEOs sort of take to the task like cats take to water. Truth be told, you should try to publish as many useful sites as possible in order to hone your SEO skills.
Engaging in the conversation – The most successful amateur Website operators are tuned into the conversation in whatever topic they invest themselves in. They don’t just know who the players are, they play with the players, eventually becoming players themselves. These heavyweights of the amateur Web oftentimes cross over into the professional markets, but their expertise becomes stale if they don’t stay engaged.
Many of us old-time SEOs came into the professional markets from amateur markets that grew competitive as the Web figured out ways to monetize itself.
Treat people with respect – This is one of those intangible factors that affects everything you do. Some people in our industry try to make themselves look good by making others look bad. That approach only works with gullible and immature people. Eventually you hit the wall and can go no further with this tactic.
In the amateur side of nearly all endeavors RESPECT is the main currency of exchange. People who don’t treat their peers with respect rarely go far in amateur circles. Professional SEOs should not devote their time to trying to make other people look bad.
There is a difference between offering a critical opinion that may offend someone and going out of your way to attack other people and seek to destroy their credibility. If your professionalism is built on ridiculing or deriding other people in the SEO industry, you’re not going to earn much respect. That lost respect will cost you friends and allies who won’t be there when you need them most.
Link freely to sites without thinking about SEO – This is the hardest lesson for many people in the SEO community to learn. So much bad advice has been published that tells people they must go out and get links to achieve SEO success that people have given up all their SEO power to the sites that provide links.
You have the power to shape your own SEO destiny by deciding carefully who and where you link, but more importantly by just linking out without thinking in terms of PageRank, anchor text, and competition. Amateur SEOs often build really great resources because they don’t “know” any better. They lose that primordial power once they start to believe the link building myths that permeate the SEO community.
Be passionate – People who have lost their passion for a venture become dependent on the passion of others. Passive SEO is completely dispassionate and it leaves you adrift in a cold sea of heartless link moguls who are only interested in what value you’re willing to part with in order to obtain the links they control.
Your passion, whether you’re an amateur or a professional, frees you from the anxiety associated with link building. Your passion drives you to build the kinds of resources other people recognize, respect, and appreciate.
Do these things well, and people will find it more difficult to decide whether you are an amateur or a professional SEO.
Auto Social Poster Error : You Do Not Have Sufficient Permissions to Access This Page
So many people had problem issues regarding about the new version of Wordpress or Wordpress 2.8, especially in the case of installing previous sorts of plugins or have just upgraded their wordpress to wordpress 2.8.4.
WordPress 2.8.x contains changes to improve the security of plugins by ensuring that only correctly registered plugin pages can be accessed. This change has broken a number of plugins, like Auto Social Poster (ASP) plugin.
You’ve installed Auto Social Poster (ASP) plugin. When you try to access its settings page, you get the error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
What is Auto Social Poster?
Auto Social Poster is a simple plugin for Wordpress that will automatically submit all posts you publish to your social bookmarking accounts. You can choose to submit to only a handful of social bookmarking sites every time you publish a post. Autosocial Poster makes your submissions look less like spam. Auto Social Poster is a paid plugin
Auto Social Poster 3.91 not compatible with Wordpress 2.8.x. So How to solve this Auto Social Poster Plugin problem? How to making your broken plugin work again with WordPress 2.8.x?
Don’t worry, man!, the solution available here, you don’t need to downgrade your wordpress.
Ok, all you have to do is to open the mm_post.php file and look at line 800:
On Page Optimization is the most important and complex part of search engine optimization. This website helps your search engine ranking through their keywords need. It should be kept based on which some great tips on optimizing your site for articles while the page is going.
This website helps you rank your page or your keywords to increase search engine ranking will depend on the page of your website search engine optimization on any kind of score. It is mainly seen on page factors of your index page, set your keyword rankings.
Page optimization is often forgotten these days, because we focus more and inbound links with targeted anchor text to get more of our time. – Optimization page, but you quickly to do something yourself an extra boost in the SERPS can offer.
There is great for a list page SEO technique that search engine optimization is considered in the evaluation process. Recognizing these factors, but are not limited to: words in the web page URL, title tags, meta tags, headlines, sub headlines, keyword density, words start page, page content, words that are bold in touch , words, site navigation, website link structure and a number of other reasons.
On page optimization tips:
1. URL Naming:
If your domain name as possible, try to prime your targeted keywords, if still does not include your keywords in the url. 2. Title Tag:
Title tag, the first words that you place your keywords Place and after using the word can attract visitors 3. Meta Description:
Many search engines use the description tag at any time, but it is best to set it properly just in case. Put your keywords in the beginning of the first meta description, meta description and your website attract visitors do yo tour. 4. Meta Keywords:
Yes many search is now not counted meta keywords, but use less engine search engine keyword tags, meta keywords using the search engine is still worth something to have your site rank 5. Use Alt Text for Image Optimization:
Are unable to see images for Crawlers. Thus, appropriate displays using Alt tag your content with targeted keywords to optimize the images, 6. Static URL:
Remember that all of your important pages should be short and static URLs. 7. Use Headings:
H1, h2, and use the h3 title tag to define their key subject categories, and putting your keywords in style at least once a title. 8. Valid HTML:
Use the W3C HTML validator on your page’s HTML is valid. A web page for more HTML errors will create not rank well in SERPS. 9. Robot. Txt:
Your website for search engines with robots.txt file you can restrict access. Check on your website with robot.txt is apposite crawler information is required. 10. Sitemap XML:
Create your XML Sitemap XML Sitemap using search engines crawl your pages. 11. Keep Your Body Text To Read
Use your keywords in the text body, but keep your body text readable. Not in my drywall text keywords you drywall drywall stuff by humans until the drywall dry wall is unclear. 12. Internal Link
Internal link between the construction related posts.
Following are some of the most common tips for better On Page Search Engine Optimization:
The most important word; The Keyword: it is always suggested that before you upload your website, put all your efforts into the keywords since users will be using keywords to find websites of their interest. Each page of your website should be treated as a separate entity having its own title and targeted keywords.
Always try to name your webpage files starting with your targeted keyword like crickethome.htm etc. For instance, if your website is about Telescopes then the title of each of your webpage should always start with the word Telescope and name each webpage file starting with word Telescope like Telescopereview.htm because the search engine robots look at file names.
Always remember that you have to make your website attractive for the human visitors as well as for search engine robots. Attractiveness for both of them can be achieved through better keyword optimisation.
You should keep in mind the keyword density and never over-optimise your web page. It is not necessary that the greater the optimisation level of your web page the better it will be.
Title Tags are considered to be one of the most important factors of On Page Optimisation. You can say in other words that it is mandatory for you to include the main keyword as part of your title.
You should always use Header tags with lots of care. Most of the SEO experts recommend having a single H1 header tag that should contain the main Keyword in order to attract human visitors as well as the search engine robots. Other H2 tags can contain secondary keywords.
Putting the main keyword in the URL is always beneficial in the eyes of the search engines. Most of the users are usually not bothered with that but it will help in better SEO. If it is not possible to include the complete keywords or a phrase in the URL then try at least to include the most important keyword in the URL.
There are many more On Page SEO tips but the above mentioned tips are the most common and recommended by experts. You can add additional features on your website to make it more Search Engine Optimised, for instance, adding blog sections, feedback areas, guestbooks etc.
