Guide to Buying an LCD Monitor – What You Need to Know

Keeping up with all the latest technological developments is often challenging and if you are on the market for a new LCD monitor right now, you could be easily overwhelmed by the choice that you have. The LCD monitors come in all sizes and price ranges, with different native resolutions, contrast, screen refresh rate, luminance, and coming with some additional features that could help you expand their functionality. In addition, you would have to consider your own needs, as some monitors are great for gaming and multimedia, while others are perfect for everyday use in the office.

Data Recovery Plans and Why You MUST Have One

Almost all of today’s information is being kept in computers. This is very crucial in almost all businesses since it serves as a backbone- to the employees up to the bosses. That’s why data recovery measures needs to be taken seriously. Net malware, corrupted viruses, nasty trojans, equipment robbery and dishonest members, these are just the common problems that you may face when your files are not well guarded.

13 Great Tips for New Managers

Your first managerial position will present you with challenges, which you have to be ready to face. Working with a diverse group of people, possibly from different backgrounds, and each with their own strengths and weaknesses, you would have to learn how to lead your team and get the job done. While courses or a degree might prepare you for some aspects of your new job, others you will have to learn the hard way. Here are a few tips, which might help you be a better manager.

Must Read Customer Service Tips for Web Designers

Quite often, web designers, programmers, and web developers spend most of their days working very hard, coming up with excellent products or offering top quality service, and yet they fail in one of the most important aspects of any business – customer service.

Ultimate iOS 5 and iCloud Feature List

iOS, the operating system, which runs on iPhone, iPod, and iPod Touch was known as iPhone OS before June 2010 and at the time of this writing is the third most popular smartphone operating system, holding 16% of the global smartphone market. From the date of its original release, it has been updated every single year, with every update adding some exciting features and the next version, iOS 5, which is expected to be released in the fall, is no different.

5 Typography Tips for Web Designers

With the increasing importance of relevant and content-rich websites, many web designers are starting to pay special attention to typography, a crucial element, often ignored in the past. There is no use having excellent content if that content is not presented well to the visitors, and most of them would quickly hit the “back” button on their browsers if they see illegible text, conflicting colors, or mixture of different font types and sizes, crowded on the same web page.

The Darwinian Evolution of Graphic Design – Infographic

The evolution of graphic design is a very is very interesting. It is hard to believe the way we do things now that thousands of years ago “graphic designers” were chipping pictographs into cave walls. While some designers would probably be much better at that than they are with Photoshop it is really fun to look back and also think about what is in store for the future of graphic design. Without further delay, here is The Darwinian Evolution of Graphic Design.

Network Attached Storage – What is it and who needs it?

As your business grows, so will the need for better and more efficient data storage and this is where a network attached storage can come in handy. The network attached storage devices are nothing more than a specialized device, which stores data and files, makes the data available to all other computer in the network, offers data protection, and enables you to assign different access permissions as well. On the outside, most of these devices look just like a normal PC or server, but unlike regular computers, most do not have keyboards, monitors, or mice attached to them. Typically, they also run a strip-down operating system, which allows them to do what they have been designed for efficiently, but not to be used as a fully functional server of computer.

14 Ways to Destroy Designers Block

Are you running low on creative ideas? Having a designer’s block? You are not alone and even the most talented and inspiring designers, authors, and artists are constantly looking for new sources of inspiration, and we have come up with a number of suggestions that you could find interesting and useful.

Hot Trends in Web Development

What makes the work of the web developer challenging and exciting at the same time are the ever-changing trends! With the exponentially increasing popularity of the mobile Internet surfing and the very strong user base of the social media sites, the latest design and development trends seem to be heading towards functional, less busy, and with larger logos and image backgrounds web sites, which incorporate the latest Web development technologies as well

10 Web Design Mistakes to Avoid

Regardless if you are just starting out as a web designer or you have more than a few hundred designs under your belt, you could easily make mistakes that can affect yours or your client’s web site usability. Listed below are the biggest mistakes in web design: Using Busy or Overloaded Designs This is a […]

Big Changes in Store for WordPress 3.2 – Check Them Out Here

Even though WordPress 3.1 was released only in February, WordPress 3.2 Beta 1is already available for download and it comes with a number of new features. The most notable of them are the new admin layout, the Full screen editor, which facilitates destruction free writing, the new Twenty Eleven theme, new PHP and MySQL requirements, the enhanced admin bar, and the faster loading speed. What else has changed in WordPress 3.2 and are these changes going to make the most popular Content Management System even better?

Awesome Twitter Facts & Stats [Infographic]

There is no doubt about people love social networking. What do you think people would have said 30 years ago if you told them millions of people would enthusiastically communicate 140 characters at a time? They would probably tell you that you’re crazy and tell you to scram. Perhaps they would be correct, but you have to admin, Twitter and other social networks sure are entertaining.

How to Rip a CD Like a Pro – Part 7

Here we are, the 7th and final part of the ‘How to Rip a CD Like a Pro’ series. It has been a long road but I think it is a road that is well worth traveling. You can now rip your CDs and enjoy a great sounding file. So lets finish up the rest of the ripping guide and the settings for MP3 rips. I’ll stop talking and we’ll get this over with!

How to Rip a CD Like a Pro – Part 6

Holy crap, this CD ripping guide is going on forever! It seems like a while ago I started this guide and were getting to the actual ripping part! We’ve gone over setting everything up in the settings to rip your disk to FLAC files and form this point we’re going to let you know how to save those settings to a profile and the starting steps in ripping the files. So let’s get to it!