mental_floss Blog HTML5 and the future of the Web There's been a lot of talk lately about the future of the Web. For instance, Wired had a cover story a couple months back proclaiming "The Web is Dead." And when I was at BlogWorld last month in Vegas, one of the main topics was how blogs are going to survive "In a world, where browsers are no longer..." If anything is going to save the browser and the Web, it's going to be HTML5, and other improvements to the current HTML. HTML5, which is coming to a browser near you very soon, has tags for animation, video and all sorts of cool interactive components that will blow your mind. The idea here is that you can help make the video by entering in your childhood snail mail address (or any other address you'd like). Who knows what the future of the Web holds.
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everystockphoto - searching free photos 4 Ways To Reduce The Size Of A PDF File So in my desperate search for ways to optimize PDF files, I’ve found that there aren’t many free options. Although there are a lot of shareware programs, there are also, thankfully, a few free programs can help you reduce a PDF file size. Irfanview & GhostScript [Windows & Possibly Linux] If you don’t have Irfanview, you should really consider downloading it. It’s a much better and lightning fast alternative to the default image viewer in Windows, supports countless plugins that allow it to be extremely versatile, and converts images to different file types. You can use it to add borders and watermarks to your photos, and batch process many images at a time. Once you have Ghostscript installed, you can use Irfanview (portable version will work as well) to view PDF files and save them as new files. You can choose to save with lossless, best, high, medium, and ‘dump’ quality. PrimoPDF [Windows] For the smallest file size, choose the Screen setting. Neevia’s PDFCompress [Web-Based]
26 Ways to Engage With Customers Using Video Are you using video to connect with customers and prospects? Videos will enhance client communication and collaboration, and help support and drive new business. In this post we’ll cover 26 ways you can engage and interact with your customers by using video in several different forms. Like its predecessors in the five A-Z guides published here on Social Media Examiner—Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and Lead Generation—we’ll cover a lot of territory and introduce solutions to give you ideas about where you may want to spend time exploring video options for your business. A to Z Guide to Using Video #1: Apple’s FaceTime Apple’s FaceTime has created an important new option for video calls. Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group says, “Whether it’s for customer or employee communication… voice, video, conferencing and virtual meetings are front and center to how organizations look at collaboration.” Show your face to clients and colleagues on Apple’s FaceTime #2: Behind the Scenes #3: Case Studies
Learnable: Learn Or Teach Online Courses For Free Or A Low Price Learnable is a new initiative aiming to share a broad range of courses online for anyone who is interested in studying them. This means there’s technical courses, self-help courses and general interest courses such as musical courses. It’s still expanding, but eventually Learnable aims to have a little bit of everything there for you to learn whenever it suits you. Online Learning Is Convenient Online learning is very convenient for both the learner and the teacher. Learning Through Learnable The variety of courses available through Learnable is already impressive, despite being a new venture. Some examples of great courses you could try include: Courses are paid for using Paypal or WorldPay. Once you’ve signed up for a course, you’ll have access to your course for a year from your sign-up date. Teach Online Through Learnable From the other side of the fence, Learnable can be used to teach the world what you know. Improvements Learnable Could Make More Online Learning
Photoshop Tutorials This tutorial will teach you how to easily enhance any sky in just a few steps. This is one of those invaluable tips that you'll be using for the rest of your life. Car Reflection in Photoshop: In this Photoshop tutorial, you are going to create a realistic Car Reflection in Photoshop. In the following Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how to use Ellipse Tool, Brush Tool, and Gradients in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to create abstract swirl waves background. We’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about how to achieve an underwater effect in your photo manipulations. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make advanced hair selections using the alpha channels. Learn how to wrap your text and shape layers so that they conform to the surface of the layer underneath. Learn how to this surreal photo manipulation of an Alice in Wonderland on amazing and surreal atmosphere with Photoshop. Ghost Mannequin is another name of image manipulation in photoshop. « Previous123456789…23322333Next »
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