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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Want to get the latest on America's drug & rehab culture? Sign up for The Fix's newsletter here. Since the beginning of time, humans have enjoyed getting high. 1. Before a shoulder injury a few years ago, I experienced the same high with Bikram Yoga (also known as “hot yoga”), an intense 90-minute workout in a 100 degree room that detoxes the body and increases the heart rate, all while kicking your ass. How to Obscure Any URL. How to Obscure Any URLHow Spammers And Scammers Hide and ConfuseLast Updated Sunday, 13 January 2002 NOTICE: the IP address of this site has changed of late, and I've been unable to set aside time for the rather large task of revising this page.

How to Obscure Any URL

Its numerous links to the old IP address won't work. It'll be updated soon! Since this page was first written in 1999, Internet Explorer and Netscape have both begun dealing with URLs differently, particularly in versions 6 and above. Some of the examples here will no longer work with those browser versions. The URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the page you are now viewing is It is also Go ahead and click on that link. The weird-looking address above takes advantage of several things many people don't know about the structure of a valid URL. 40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark.

Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects.

40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark

High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also. We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. Web Designers sometimes spend a lot of time in making pattern or stripe backgrounds and there are also tool to help you out here. Mathieu Badimon. Advanced Vinyl Handling, DJ Basics. Mixing With the master out you have control over the music volume for the crowd, monitor out controls what you hear directly yourself.

Advanced Vinyl Handling, DJ Basics

And next to that there is the headphone out to control the music volume of your headphone. The first one of these 3 should be controlled with care: Big changes in music volume for the crowd should only be a result of the records themselves! During a performance you can slowly build up the volume towards a climax at the end or you can use the master out to boost a particular record a little more. The other outputs can be set according to your own needs. Like the balance between the volume of the monitor speakers and the dancefloor speakers, there is also the need to balance the volume of your headphone and that of the monitor speakers. There is beat-matching, bar-matching, loop-matching and stage-matching. End result: provide the crowd with music. Incoming records should have the same music volume as the currently playing record. 50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment.

Are you a designer on a deadline?

50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment

If you are, then I’m sure you can recall the last time you thought to yourself, “if I had a little more time, I could…” what? Polish that button? Find a better hero image? Reevaluate that color palette? Take some time to do a little more QA? The truth is, however, that we designers will always be looking for more time to polish the one pixel that got away. Of course, since our go-to design tool in the office is Photoshop, we thought we’d share with you 50 simple Photoshop tricks and shortcuts we love using that can help trim excess spent time in your workflows.

Important Note: The following require Photoshop CS5 and a Mac OS X. The Usual Keyboard Shortcut Suspects Memorize these shortcuts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Keyboard shortcuts for flipping foreground and background (X): Use this to switch between your current foreground and background colors located in your toolbar. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Customized Must-Have Keyboard Shortcuts. Photo effects, vintage, retro, online and free - Pixlr-o-matic. Alternative Sleep Cycles: You Don’t Really Need 6-8 Hours! Most people only think that there is one way to sleep: Go to sleep at night for 6-8 hours, wake up in the morning, stay awake for 16-18 hours and then repeat.

Alternative Sleep Cycles: You Don’t Really Need 6-8 Hours!

Actually, that is called a monophasic sleep cycle, which is only 1 of 5 major sleep cycles that have been used successfully throughout history. The other 4 are considered polyphasic sleep cycles due to the multiple number of naps they require each day. How is this possible? How is this healthy? Well the most important of every sleep cycle is the Stage 4 REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which has been shown to provide the benefits of sleep to the brain above all other stages of sleep.