Free Ebook: Go Freelance - The complete guide to going freelance


Another free ebook from freelancers advisor we found for you. Leif Kendal is the author of the eBook: "Go Freelance" is also a contributor to the freelancer advisor, which provides a way to work freelance workers in the United Kingdom. Although you live in another country but it never hurts to take their techniques which may be can you apply in your country. So go ahead Freelancers!

Go

Google Offices Around The World: Photos and Videos


So you are interested in working for Google? Would you be interested to see the work atmosphere in it? Let's find out together. Here are some snapshots of existing google offices worldwide. Be inspired! :D

Google Offices - Milan

















[via Archdaily] IMAGE CREDIT: Bebe Raso.

Google Offices - Toronto



























IMAGE CREDIT: Images taken by flickr users mathewingram

5 Common Graphic Design Myths Revealed


Of course we hope for graphic design to get recognition from the wider community as an applied science, skills or expertise, and also the profession. But it wasn't easy to achieve it all. General don'tt know what and how is graphic design. Necessary effort to provide insight into this industry for continually running as it should.

Here are some erroneous understanding of graphic design:
1)

17 Useful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers


One of the most fun as a freelance worker is that they can work anywhere. Freelancers have much time to drink coffee in the cafe and to take advantage of free internet there. This era is what allows you to replace your work space only with a laptop. Although now smartphones also have to replace the laptop is functionally, as well as its ability, it is every day continue to be developed to nearly

Tuesday's Inspiration: Freebies for Designers


New Week, New Inspirations! Happy Tuesday! Well, everyone, I'm on vacation from Jayce-O-Yesta until December 24th. A Little behind today, but no worries! Go check out your links!! The Jayce-o-Yesta tuesday's Inspirations are still coming weekly! So check them out and pass them on! Bless you all!

Open Atrium


It is an intranet that enabled the best 6 features, such as blogs, wikis, calendars,

Inspirational Workplaces for Graphic Designers


For the designers, the workplace comfort is very important. The designers worked with more thought and a comfortable workplace will still maintain a good mood to keep it so as to support the process of thinking. If lately your mood a little bit disturbed
by the atmosphere of your own work space, maybe it's time to clean up! Here is a collection of comfortable work space and may be an inspiration

5 Soft Gradients Effects For Photoshop


Some of the following gradient suitable for photo processing, photography, image manipulation, and so forth. I made this gradients to facilitate you in your Photoshop projects, because sometimes when we work using Photoshop software we often find it hard to find the right color.

I have chosen the natural colors according to the color harmony that spoil the eye of the beholder. With regard to

6 Characteristics of a Good Logo


If we are talking about aesthetics in a logo, maybe we'll knock no end because it is very relative. But when it comes to issues concerning good and the least, we will refer to the functionality, where a logo judged from its function and purpose. This time we will see some of the characteristics of a good logo and maybe that could be helpful tips for you all.

The characteristics of a good logo

Graphic Design and Gestalt Theory


Graphic design is a branch of science of visual art that can not be separated from the science of psychology. The role of psychology in graphic design, including how a person's psychological response to the visual display nearby. Therefore, studying the
theory of psychology is highly recommended for graphic designers in order to create a visual display of intelligent and effective. One of the

Creative 404 Error Pages For Your Inspiration


What do you do when you get an error web page with the message: 404 error page? It is most often the people are immediately closed the page and look for return information elsewhere. That is a loss to the site owner. But some people make their
own designs for error pages in order for visitors managed to be invited back to the home page so they will not lose visitors.

Here are some unique

40 Awesome Flyer Design Ideas


Flyer (also spelled flier1 or called a circular, handbill or leaflet) is a single page leaflet advertising a nightclub, event, service, or other activity. Flyers are typically used by individuals or businesses to promote their products or services. They are a form of
mass marketing or small scale, community communication. The verb "flyering" or "fliering" has evolved as a colloquial expression

Tuesday's Inspiration: Free Ebook Creative Freelancing


Free! This free ebook was written by Melissa J. Gallagher, entitled Creative Freelancing. Some discussion on ebook introduces the reader to know the different kinds of working part-time and full-time freelance opportunities, including: a freelance writer, freelance graphic design, freelance programming, freelance photographers, and various freelance opportunities.

CREATIVE FREELANCING :Learn

Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs


Many novice designers giddy and confused in determining color. Understandably, a graphic designer will not be considered an expert if not mastered the field of color. Errors in color selection can be fatal, some colors will make the eyes become tired
quickly if not combined with an appropriate color. Though everyone has their own taste in the choice of color combination, but there is a meeting

Design Tips for Modern Minimalist Design Style


A design project doesn't always come exactly as what expected by the designers. Occasionally, a project comes with many challenges which of course must be completed by the designers of any condition. One example: designers have to layout a brochure or magazine or whatever it is, but with content that is very minimal.

Along with the growing popularity of contemporary minimalist design, the

Tuesday's Inspiration: 9 Freelancing Presentations You Should Know


Time is fleeting! October will soon be over and we've run the 11/12 of this year. Yes time flies so fast when we're playing or working. Or even while reading the following interesting topic. So, happy reading!

9 Freelancing Presentations You Should Know
The Secret Life of a Flash Freelancer
View more presentations from Peter Elst.
Design and the Art of Freelancing - AWDG April 2009
View more

Elements of a Good Online Portfolio


Personal portfolio website is a must for the designers (either freelance or fulltime). So this time we will discuss some elements that are typically used when designing a portfolio website.

The main purpose of a personal portfolio website is to show the results of our design work. By doing so, prospective clients can see our capabilities and if it does, they will use our services as a designer.

Free: 13 awesome slab serif fonts For Design


Slab Serif font is another type of serif fonts. The main characteristic of sans serif fonts are thin and slender, but otherwise slab serif fonts appeared in block serif sturdy thick and large. Therefore, the font of this type is suitable for headlines, titles, or to create an expressive layout view. The most common examples and are very often recovered from the slab serif type font is Rockwell

Graphic Design Principles: Alignment


Whatever form the design is, we would be faced to choose the proper use of the alignment or layout. Alignment is very important in the design to build an aesthetically beautiful look and function effectively. Now we will explore some easy tips relating to use of
alignment in graphic design.

In general, the alignment is divided into four main formats, namely the center, left, right, and justify.

Tuesday's Inspiration: ISO50 Presents Dry Waves


Net has become the source of everything including information. All kinds of information and news can be found on the Net. The power link from one site to another is sometimes only make ourselves feel overwhelmed. But at the end of each week we can leisurely enjoy all of the information.

At Tuesday's Inspiration section I will share any blog or other sites related to graphic design, it could be

Concept and Execution in Graphic Design


Graphic design is a field that requires the ability to think creatively to solve the problem. It's not only about the ability to think, it also requires the designers to be able to execute as well as possible and visualize the results of their thoughts into their
works. Both these points may be described as a concept and execution. Two things are interrelated also support each other in creating

Creative yet Controversial Ads Collection


Visual language have great influence to the people that could change the behavior, habits, and influence the mindset. Therefore, although the graphic designers have the right to creativity, they also have limitations in applying their creativity in a work. Now
you're invited to view a collection of print extreme ads that raises controversial. Yet despite the controversial remarks from publishing

30 Inspirational Conceptual Photography


Conceptual photography is a photography genre in which the photos taken on the basis of a concept or idea which is usually predetermined. The asssessment of the photos on this kind of photography is not based on good or not a photo in general, but to the ideas contained therein.

Here are 30 interesting work of conceptual photography that I have collected.







































Create a Scissors-cut Type Effect in Photoshop


In this photoshop tutorial, you're going to learn how to create a scissors-cut type effect in photoshop. This tutorial is simple and easy to follow. We only use the layer style to create the effect. In addition,  the simple technique to save the style to be applied to other layers is also quite important to know in order to save time and effort in doing a work. So, lets get started!

Step 1

20 Powerful Typographic Posters


Poster is one of the most effective visual media used in communicating the message to the public. There are many styles of poster design that was quite interesting including the use of typography styles. some poster design below brings a unique
style and interesting typography. Some may use the old style, but it also hasn't been too much used by other designers so that it remains interesting to

How to overcome boredom when working as a freelancer


Being a freelancer is very exciting, especially when other people busy with their jobs and locked in a cubicel we can still sound asleep, or even enjoying a cup of cappuccino at a cafe when listen to the strains of a fun song. In addition, as
freelancers we are also free to determine our own working time.

But being a freelancer means you're ready for a point of boredom. Because freelance simply

17 Inspiring CD & DVD Packaging Design


Good design should be able to influence the consumer decision to purchase a product. Design is the first impression that describe the good or poor quality of a product. In this article, I have compiled several collections of CD & DVD packaging design. They are quite unique and inspired from a variety of products. This may be a useful collection for the designer as a creative reference for any

5 Effective Personal Branding Strategies You Forgot


Every person is different but not all people realize it, humans often swept away and follow the trends that eventually becomes the same as anyone else and no longer become a different person. Do we really need to be different? Does a freelancer must be different from another? In terms of personal branding, surely the answer is always: "it does!" and "Yeah!".

Lets have a look at the example of

7 Important Points in Preparing Final Artwork


In this article, I will discuss about the preparations in a final artwork. What is the final artwork? Those who do not know, the final artwork (FA) is a term for the final design files ready to print. There are several important points that must be considered in preparing the final artwork. These points are very important to avoid mistakes at the time of printing that may impact on the poor

Design and the Creative Process


Creativity and innovation always encourages us to move forward. As well as making breakthroughs cube-shaped watermelon to fit more in the refrigerator. That is the process of the fight against the philosophy of "I always procrastinate, that's why I became lazy." However, ask something to your friends about something creative and they will answer as if like eating a cup of ice cream with a rush.

Left Brain Right Brain Personality Test


We as designers are daily filled with things related to emotion, aesthetics and art. We need to know the extent to which our brain works well to manage it. Sometimes we do not have the art skills and so was not awarded the design aesthetic talent, but still only because we love, like and want to explore that area so it's good to know the personality of the left and right brain in terms of design

22 Creative Book Cover Design


"Don't judge a book by its cover!" This quote may not apply to designers, especially designers of book covers. Designers are required to communicate the contents of the book well in order to attract potential buyers. Of course it is not easy to communicate the entire contents of books on a single sheet pages (cover) in an interesting visual display, it requires intelligent imagination of

Why do we need to sketch if we are designers?


Everyone is unique and special. People are not born with equal talents. That means, not everyone has a good drawing ability. This may be a factor in some people reluctant to apply the process of sketching in their design projects. Yet in practice, the sketch is very helpful for designers to solve problems in their design projects. Is really that important? Well, we will discuss several major

Horriblelogos: Speciality Bad Logos


Hey guys, how are you these days? Good? That's great! This week I have discussed some specific articles about the Logo on some of my articles. It has encouraged me to do research about the bloggers or designers who provide logo creation services.

There are many things strange and funny that we encounter every day in cyberspace even though in graphic design. Including one of them is that I

Color Psychology in Branding & Marketing


In the Internet business or non-internet color selection also have a role, it can affect to your product image, as well as your business. Color is vibration, and we always respond to it either consciously or not. Colors affect the comfort of the environment and mood. The color that we wear everyday affect other people's views to us.



Take a look at almost all food businesses such as KFC, MC

Free: Beautiful 11 Brush Fonts for Design


Brush font is a fairly typical kind of font style and size brushwork bold. Fonts brush is widely used for various purposes such as logo design, web design, print design etc. Now I want to share some beautiful fonts brush link that you can download for free. Pretty good compilation to complete your font collection.

1. Anderson Fireball


2. Brook 23


3. Brush Tip Terrence


4. Brushstroke Plain

Mind Mapping is a process for solving problems by using words, names, images, and colors, all of which refer to a central idea or word in the form of diagrams. The function is to liberate creativity and get brilliant ideas to solve a problem. Many great designers start their design process by Mind Mapping.

Ideas, thoughts and a concept is something that is not visible. They were in the clouds

Balance in Graphic Design


Balance is one of the important points the success of a design. Everyone loves the convenience (not lame) to what they see. Balance in graphic design can be achieved by adjusting the visual weight of each element, both in terms of scale, color, contrast, etc. Here's on Jayce-o, we're going to see more of the basics of the application of balance in graphic design.



Broadly speaking, the balance

A Professional Logo : The Ultimate Guide


This is a practical guide on how to make a logo. This guide has been widely used by designers of a world famous logo and it proved effective to create the famous logos, functional, and able to win the attention of target consumers. Hopefully this brief guide can contribute and be a source of learning for those who dig the field of logo design.


Some important steps that must be considered in


AppCookr enables everyone to create and self-manage iPhone and Android smart phone applications for free. Get excited because the release of WP7 is expected at the end of this year.

Features

News View


- Deliver your latest news to customer
No RSS1.0, RSS2.0, or Atom? No problem. Most websites and blogs deliver news to their users using either RSS1.0, RSS2.0, or Atom. However, you don’t have to worry if you aren’t familiar with RSS1.0, RSS2.0, or Atom. You can still deliver news to your users via our AppBoard. AppBoard takes care of all that making managing your websites and blogs much easier.

Once you download RSS data, the data is stored in your phone’s memory. Not only does this save network usage allowance, but also allows you to read the news offline, anywhere, anytime!

- It provides features such as sharing contents using "Share on Twitter" and "Send in Email"
- Using "View in Brower", you can also refer back to the original website.
- If you want to save certain contents, you can add data to “favorites” and view it later in the "favorite view."

Photo View


- Go wild with your photo gallery 
Photo View allows you to use any photo source based Media RSS like Flicker’s RSS. AppBoard’s photo source allows you to upload pictures anytime, anywhere!

Use features such as zoom-in &-out based multi-touch and picture sliding to enhance your photo viewing experience.

Twitter View


- Subscribe to your favorite news with twitter view.
With a Twitter ID, you can subscribe and receive the latest news from Twitter. You can navigate from Twitter to other web destinations directly from the Twitter view. 

- Share tweets using “Send to Twitter.”
- Using the “Send to email” feature, you can forward any tweets.

Map View


- Mark your location on google map
Use pins to mark multiple locations. Based on the Google map, you can view the name, address, and description of your location.

Youtube View


- Get your videos out there
You can subscribe to any Youtube channel. Android and iPhone platforms provide a united player with Youtube.

HTML View


- Drive traffic to your website
You can drive traffic to your website and share information using the html view. If you link to AppBoard, you can control and manage information shown.

Contact View


- Offer quick and easy access for your users 
It allows the viewer easy access to contact informating such as phone numbers, emails and Webpages. Thanks to group management feature, users can easily find contacts provided.

Media View
- Get your videos and audios out there.
Impress users with fresh audio and video contact by importing your podcast feed (Media RSS). Users can view detailed descriptions of each track and share links to your content via email and Twitter.

It provides file formats that Android and iPhone can support. The viewer automatically runs as video or audio viewer.

Setting View


- Offer optimized enviorment as users' preferences
The Setting View offers useful features such as Font Expansion, List Simplification and List Auto Update. Using the Favourite View, users can go back to their Favourite contents.

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So What Is Creativity?


Graphic design is one of the areas covered in the creative industries. It's called "creative" because graphic designers are required to find solutions and find the right ideas to solve problems. Then, what's creativity? What about the so-called creative people!? In this article, we will describe more about what is creativity, its properties, and how the process for creating creative ideas.

What
While Windows Phone 7 (WP7) sounds intriguing as a platform for iPhone-type applications, TechEd 2010 was very illuminating on the many things that this new platform does not include and why you will unlikely be able to migrate your existing Windows Mobile applications forward. Let me go through the laundry list of the have-nots:

  • No native code support. Silverlight 3.0 and XNA are the only ways to develop applications for WP7. If you are not developing games, then Silverlight is probably the path you will be forced to take.
  • No Database support. SQL Server Compact is not part of WP7. Nor will SQLite or any other 3rd party database engine run either. One TechEd session had the gall to suggest that we should all use collections of objects and Linq as a replacement for SQL Server Compact. Access to data is only available through Web Services and what the application can store in Silverlight’s Isolated Storage. No one would confirm or deny that database support would ever be added to WP7.
  • No Side Loading Applications. Except for development mode, applications can only be loaded to WP7 devices through the Microsoft Marketplace. It doesn’t matter if the app if for internal use in your organization or not. Also, it is not free to use the Microsoft Marketplace.
  • Application approval is required. Microsoft claims that it will not be a blackbox like Apple where you stick an app in and hope it comes out; however, they also said they there is a list of applications types that will not be allowed. VOIP was they only example provided.

  • No access to data on SD cards. Since Silverlight applications can only use isolated storage, there is no way for an application to access information on an SD card. While some devices may support an SD card, the additional memory will apparently be made available for isolated storage, but you can’t preload the content.
  • No File System support. Again only Isolated Storage is available to a Silverlight app.

  • No RAPI support. There will no interacting with a WP7 device via the desktop. Obviously there will be some synchronization with Outlook, but nothing the developer will have control of.

  • Applications must be Silverlight 3. Silverlight 4 will not be available for WP7.

  • Out of Browser Silverlight support only. Silverlight is not going to be supported in browser on the phone.

  • Default Browser must be Internet Explorer. While Microsoft claimed that other browsers will be allowed on the phone, they can’t be the default. This is probably okay as long as the new Internet Explorer is better than the Windows Mobile version; however, is it possible to write a viable browser in Silverlight or XNA?

  • No Bluetooth API. While there is going to be Bluetooth support on the phone, there is no Bluetooth API.

  • No inter-process communications (IPC) and no Socket support.

  • No Video Capture Support. Phones will have a camera but not video capture support, and also no video brush.

  • No Outside TrueType Fonts - Microsoft experts claimed that you will not be able to use TrueType fonts other than the ones delivered with the device. This limitation makes since, how would you get them on the device. While there is supposed to be support for embedding TrueType fonts in your xap file in Silverlight 4, this will not be the version used on the device.
  • The TechEd demos of WP7 applications had a common theme; they crashed, hung up, or gave peculiar error messages. For a platform that is going to be delivered in the October timeframe (3 months away), it is hard to have much short-term faith in the new platform.

On the positive side, the list is not quite as long:
  • The Silverlight apps running on the phones looked good even if they were only Silverlight 3.
  • Lots of different soft input panels (SIPs) provided like numeric, URL, email, etc.
  • Built-in support and APIs for multi-touch, accelerometers, vibrator, microphone, and camera.

  • Phones are not going to be feature locked like Windows Mobiles. They should be upgradable like the iPhone.
  • Applications on the phones do not have the strange isolated storage limits that desktop Silverlight applications have.

Microsoft continually offered up that they were so rushed to get this phone to market that they had to leave a lot of things out. Since the phones are not feature locked (so they claim), maybe there will be a quick release cycle of new versions to fill in the missing components. If you are not planning on developing iPhone type applications (casual games or casual apps usually requiring a connection to a backend), you may be stuck waiting for a new release will new features (or jumping ship to Android or the iPhone). The WP7 platform as it is depicted today will not be able to support the sophisticated applications that are currently running on Windows Mobile, so it cannot be thought of as a successor to the Window Mobile platform. There are many new and great things you can do on WP7, but this constitutes a different kind of platform (one to compete with the iPhone). Will it grow to be a successor to Windows Mobile? How long will this take? What if it flops against the iPhone and never takes hold? Too many questions around the platform to invest a significant amount of development into it if you are not focused on creating iPhone type apps.

Blog Structure, Design & Usability


Most blog authors used to use the blog as a place to vent, now its function has changed, stout people use it as a publication medium for the general public (Citizen Journalism). In this post we will discuss some visual elements that have created a blog to an optimal design.

The synergy of designs and contents


The essence of the blog exists on the content itself, but like on our previous

Environmental Graphic Design


Every day and everywhere we go either to the mall, museums, office buildings, hospitals, colleges, schools, or the airport - we always meet and look at the signposts, information boards, banners and others. These graphical elements had turned out not only as a mere decoration placed to complete a building or place. These graphical elements have discipline knowledge, it's named: Environmental

7 Blog Post Ideas for Graphic Designers


Sometimes graphic designers get stuck about what to write in their personal blogs, it may happen because they are usually familiar with their visual work. Though media publications such as blog will be very effective for online marketing purposes at this time.

If the problem is just about the need to spare time to write it certainly can be planned in advance, Just usually when leisure time has

The main capabilities of the graphic designer


Believe it or not, becoming a graphic designer requires us to master many things. Therefore, many say a graphic designer is someone who is multi-talented. And I think it should be considered after seeing what they can do.

Ok, here it is, a graphic designer is:

Creative Artists


It is definitely a designer is an artist as well. 'Artist' meant not only as an expressive artist, but also

Best Graphic Design Quotes


Interesting quotations always be an inspiration to the designers to understand more about graphic design. It is also a motivator who encourages designers to continue to learn digging ability. The following are inspirational quotations about graphic design made by great people about what they understand about graphic design and creativity. I hope these quotations will inspire you.Enjoy!

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Design is the Applied Art


If so, a design similar to the art, the difference lies in the word 'applied'. To qualify as an 'applied', the design must be oriented to the funtion of art that applies to the public, not just a useful art as an expression of its maker. Designs must adhere to objectivity, free from the influence of subjectivity. The design is based on engineering issues rather than on the desires and needs of

Windows Phone 7 Means Business

Microsoft’s annual TechEd Conference started today and we’re taking this opportunity to share more about what Windows Phone 7 means to business through keynotes, sessions and product demonstrations. I thought I’d take a few minutes to share an overview of what attendees are hearing.

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Many of us interact with digital content on several screens throughout the day and have growing expectations for the range of capabilities and quality of experiences available to us wherever we go. In business, people increasingly expect more than a palm-size workstation from their phones. At Microsoft, we recognized that in order to meet customer needs and significantly improve the mobile experience for end users we had to redefine the role our software and services play in delivering rich experiences that are uniquely mobile. By adding Windows Phone 7 to our portfolio, Microsoft is well positioned to address the needs of customers with active personal and business lives who desire a single device that delivers rich end-to-end experiences and navigates seamlessly between work and play. Demand for Smartphones that play as hard as they work is fueling the continued growth for new devices, with IDC projecting 31% growth in Smartphone units in 2010 and another 22% in 2011.

More than 90% of our target customers for Windows Phone use their Smartphone for business purposes and 61% use their phones equally or more for business than personal use. This is why we designed Windows Phone 7 to combine a smart new user interface with familiar tools such as PowerPoint, OneNote, Word, Excel and SharePoint into a single integrated experience via the Office hub. Integrating these business capabilities along with rich email, calendar and contacts into a mobile platform that supports compelling business applications enables increased productivity. Windows Phone 7 is designed to excel at the business scenarios most commonly used. This means Windows Phone 7 will appeal to a larger number of people working in businesses of all sizes, creating a more versatile and accessible productivity tool as well as a larger market opportunity for application developers and system integrators.

What hasn’t changed is our ability to deliver a great user experience while reducing complexity by enabling business organizations to utilize their existing IT investments like Exchange and Exchange ActiveSync to support Windows Phone access to enterprise assets such as corporate email. Exchange remains an industry standard with an annual growth rate of 11% and an expected install base of 347 million mailboxes by 2013 (Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Market Analysis, 2009 – 2013, The Radicati Group, March 2009). With Windows Phone 7, rather than attempting to replicate the experience of the desktop, we focused on delivering end-user experiences that are uniquely optimized for the phone through tighter integration with Exchange and Office, the addition of SharePoint and our Silverlight development platform for delivering new user experiences.

We’ve designed an Office hub that is both engaging and familiar to the more than 500 million people worldwide who already use Microsoft Office, while introducing a new level of integration with SharePoint, which grew by more than 20% last year alone. We’re looking at people and productivity in a new and different way from anything in the market today, as evidenced by our focus on smart design and integrated experiences. We’re delivering a fresh take on the business functions that people care about most; email, calendar, collaboration and keeping up with colleagues and contacts.

The vast majority of individuals make their own personal decision regarding which Smartphone to purchase. Given this, we often hear from IT professionals that their most important considerations for Smartphones are that they are phones people want and that they meet the organization’s IT needs– enabling them to increase usage and productivity. Organizations are interested in investments they have already made (e.g. Exchange, SharePoint, Office). Windows Phone 7 enables the IT support most organizations need without the need for additional infrastructure.
Specifically, Windows Phone 7:

  • Is built from the ground up using industry best practices in secure software development (Secure Development Lifecycle).
  • Deeply Integrates email, calendar and contacts with Exchange Server enabling rich, seamless email and calendar management to enhance productivity.
  • Integrates with SharePoint through the SharePoint Workspace client, enabling enhanced collaboration through offline document access and syncing.
  • Helps protect corporate information by securing the device through PINs and passwords. Information is further protected by not allowing access to data via PC tethering or support for removable SD cards. In addition, Windows Phone 7 supports IT managed EAS policies such as Require Password, Password Strength, Remote Wipe and Reset to Factory Settings with multiple failed unlock attempts.
  • Helps ensure data reliability and integrity through application sandboxing and managed code. Windows Phone 7 ensures communications channels between applications cannot be opened and critical system resources cannot be accessed. Most malware threats are introduced through the browser. IE Mobile helps ensure that malicious code cannot be launched from web sites, thus reducing this threat.
  • Provides certification and verification of applications and content through Windows Phone Marketplace, further enhancing security.
  • Enables secure data transmission through 128 or 256 Bit SSL Encryption.
  • Supports secure access to on-premise applications and network resources using Forefront Universal Access Gateway (UAG).
  • Is future ready with cloud / services integration. Through the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Microsoft offers hosted Exchange and SharePoint services. Windows Phone 7 will support mobile access to BPOS from Outlook Mobile and the Office Hub.

Windows Phone 7 is a new platform that we will continue to improve and evolve. We needed to restart in order to build the right foundation for the future. We are delivering a great business phone that improves productivity by taking a fresh approach to the most common Smartphone business usage scenarios such as email, calendar, contacts and collaboration. At the same time, with support for Silverlight, XNA and the full suite of development and design tools from Visual Studio 2010 to Expressions, Windows Phone 7 provides a rich, efficient and familiar development platform that also meets the IT needs of many organizations with support for the most common EAS policies for management.

We understand that migrating from Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 will take effort. However, many customers we have spoken with thus far have told us that these are steps they are willing to take in order to achieve a new level of usability and productivity.

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Windows Phone 7 is the newest addition to the Windows Phone portfolio that includes Windows Mobile 6.5, more specialized CE based devices for ruggedized or task-worker scenarios, and the new KIN phones targeted at social communicators. We understand that while Windows Phone 7 will bring a new level of business productivity to a broader range of customers than we’ve ever reached before, for more highly managed corporate scenarios or where customers have made significant investments in applications on Windows Mobile 6.X, Windows Mobile 6.5 may remain the best choice in the near-term. We’ll continue gathering feedback from customers and steadily evolve the new Windows Phone 7 platform to enable additional scenarios and capabilities for all customers. Business customers can prepare for Windows Phone 7 by reviewing the Business IT Resources at Windowsphone.com/business.

P. S

See Brandon Watson’s post on the Windows Phone 7 Developer blog for an update on Windows Phone Marketplace.

Source: windowstreamingblog.com

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Nokia Firmware 6700 Slide RM-577_AMERICAS_033.014_v2.02.exe

16 Inspirational Text Art Creations


Typography is the most unique design elements, it's not just reading text, but also can produce beautiful works. Text Art is an example.

Text Art is a technique in the world of graphic design in order to form an artistic object that composed of series of letters and words. Well, for more details, here are some collection of Text Art creations.

Lyric Portrait By: Cris Wicks


Neville Brody By

Why Does Everyone Think They Are a Graphic Designer?


If you go to the dentist, do you dare to teach the correct way of pulling teeth to the dentist? Maybe, if once you were a dentist and know about this. What if you weren't? So why do many people want to "teach" how to design, to graphic designers?

Here is the problem, many people think that graphic design is just a job that requires an understanding of graphics software alone instead of ideas,

8 Best Kinetic Typography Videos


Kinetic Typography is an animation technique which combines text and movement. In kinetic typography, text rotated, flipped, moved, broken, stained, and even thrown to convey a message to the audience. Kinetic typography addressed today is pretty unique because it is taken from the scene in the movies. If usually we see the actors in dialogue, and here is only the text that represent them.

HTC Sense Theme for Windows Mobile

The Mobile Spoon, site was focusing mostly on Windows Mobile freeware, tips, and themes. Two years passed, and during that time the site changed the focus a bit, but many of the readers are still Windows Mobile users.

HTC-Sense-Theme-Windows-Mobile

Today I came across a nice looking theme for Windows Mobile, and as it has been a while since I last posted about WinMo themes, I felt I wanted to…

This time it's the HTC Sense UI, the Android version of it.

Here's a link with all the details and downloads



Theme from the Fatal Frame game series.

Pre-made theme with set icons for apps.

Customize the Theme in ThemeBuilder yourself! Icons, wallpaper, dock, status bar and a locked screen wallpaper.



Theme from the PS2 game, Rule of Rose. Icons from the Rule of Rose desktop theme.


Pre-made theme with set icons for apps.

Customize the Theme in ThemeBuilder yourself! Icons, wallpaper, dock, status bar and a locked screen wallpaper.




iPhone Themes Mega Bonus Pack
Gears of War 3 Lockscreen
GOW3 Lockscreen, Click here!
iDarkness Theme 1.0
Download iDarkness, Click here!
Metroid Other M Lockscreen 1.0
God of War Lockscreen 1.0
God of War Lockscreen 1.0
Darksiders Lockscreen and SMS Theme 1.0
The Darksiders Lockscreen and SMS 1.0
Darksiders Lockscreen 1.0
Darksiders Lockscreen 1.0
TKO Apps Lockscreen + SMS Theme
TKO Lockscreen and SMS Theme
HootHuite Lockscreen 1.0
Two and a Half Men Lockscreen 1.0
Guerrilla Bob Lockscreen 1.0
Harrier Jet Lockscreen 1.0
Homies SMS LS Combo 1.0
Israeli Lockscreen
Duke Nukem Forever Lockscreen
Duke Nukem Forever Lockscreen 1.1
Werewolf Lockscreen
Werewolf Lockscreen 1.0
SouthPark SMS
SouthPark SMS
Futbol Mexicano Lockscreen
Futbol Mexicano Lockscreen 1.0
Aztec Theme 1.5
Aztec Lockscreen 1.0
Lockscreen
Donkey Kong Lockscreen 1.1
Lockscreen
Hellsing Lockscreen 1.5
Lockscreen
Gears of War Lockscreen 1.1
Lockscreen
Team Fortress 2 Lockscreen 1.5.2
MetroPCS Theme 1.1
MetroPCS Theme 1.1
NOTE: Broken Links Report Here!


You need to SSH your iphone or ipod touch.
1. iPhone or iPod Touch needs to be Jailbroken.
2. Download OPEN SSH from Cydia, and install it
3. Check the HOW TO SSH FROM YOUR PC TO iPhone on Google Search.
and you’re all set, and apply themes.

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