PHP, CURL, and YOU! Getting data without risking death

Intro

If you've watched any TV in the U.S. lately, you've probably seen a commercial where nice, friendly folks are saying things like "I want my computer to be infected by viruses.", "I want all of my family photos to disappear without a trace." or "I want my laptop to sound like a Yeti."

Naturally, none of these folks honestly want that sort of pain, but by not taking steps to protect themselves, they're letting in bad guys. Understand, that like your home, car, or personal savings account, you can't just leave it wide open and trust in the kindness of strangers. Sadly, most strangers aren't really as nice as you'd hope. In fact, this probably explains why banks switched off keeping their money in a big bag out in the middle of an empty field after the first few days.

Microsoft Says Internet Explorer 9 Is the Most Energy-Efficient Browser

Microsoft has made many claims about IE9′s speed, but now the company is saying the latest version of its browser also bests the competition in terms of energy use.

Based on several tests conducted by Microsoft, it would seem that IE9 makes fewer demands on a computer’s battery — at least in certain scenarios. Firefox 4 came in a close second in every test; Opera 11 was the least energy-efficient browser in most tests.

9 Best Freelance Business Management Tools

When starting out as a freelancer, it can be difficult to manage all the bills, work schedule, project organization, invoicing and more, in addition to doing your work. When you worked for someone else, they took care of the business side of things. Now, everything is on your head. Thankfully, there are a number of online programs you can use to automate and get all the little business tasks under control so you can focus on doing what you love.

10 Cross-Browser Compatibility Tools For Designers

Whether you are an experienced Web programmer or just starting out, you know that there are many browsers currently in use and have probably had experience with the cross-compatibility issues.  The frustration of building a beautifully functioning website using Firefox, then discovering it doesn’t render properly in IE6 is a definite learning experience.  Testing your creations in as many browsers as possible is crucial to turning out a professional product.

10 Photoshop tips for a quicker workflow

If you are using Photoshop regularly, you should always be looking to make your workflow faster. For that, mastering shortcuts and optimizing your Photoshop setting are both important things to do, but doing that only is not enough. There are litterally hundreds of little hidden functions in Photoshop that make you life easier and your work faster, following are ten of those.

33 Powerful jQuery Slideshow (Sliders) Plugins and Tutorials

jQuery has overpowered Flash in a lot of web uses becoming a very powerful tool for web designers. One of these uses that I’m referring to is the image slider. Implementing this feature in your site will definitely count as a big plus so don’t waste your time and download the available jQuery plugins in this 30 Powerful jQuery Slideshow (Sliders) Plugins and Tutorials.

10 Innovative jQuery Plugins You Need to Know

Some of these jQuery plugins you probably might not know and even think it can't be done with javascript. I have been collecting a few and would like to share it with you all.
Among all the plugins, I think I will use Custom content scroller and lettering.js. What about you? If you have something that are cooler than these, drop me a comment :)

13 Amazing Examples of HTML5 and CSS3

Another post that demonstrate the power of HTML5 and CSS3. New experimental demonstrates are being released so often, so I must make another post for it! Make sure you have the latest version of browser, preferably latest built of Safari or Chrome. Personally, I like GoogleBox and The Tribute to the Beatles, I think they both are really creative!
In case you missed my previous post regarding CSS and HTML5, you can read it afterward. If you have got more examples to share, please let me know by dropping me a comment!

Create a Thumbnail with Fading Caption Using jQuery

Introduction

Hi all, today we are going to learn to create another thumbnail effect with fading and transparent caption. It's simple and obviously I have running out of ideas in jQuery tutorial because this is similar to jQuery Thumbnail with Zooming Image and Fading caption. If you have any suggestion about tutorial, please contact me
Before we begin, I have already made different effect for thumbnail, you can check it out:

Create Background Scrolling Effect with jQuery

Introduction

Greeting, today we are going to make a scrolling background effect. This script will move the background of any html tag, either vertically or horizontally. I used this script in one of my project which has a blue sky with clouds and it makes the whole website came alive. I think that's pretty impressive.

10 Awesome USB Thumb Drives

Lately I have seen several awesome USB thumb drives designs emerge on the internet. Here I picked 10 USB thumb drives geeks would love, I know I do.

External Tip – 14 Breathtaking Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

n this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 14 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

External Tip – 11 Great Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 11 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

External Tip – 12 Tutorials and Instructions For After Effects

n this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. Here I collected 12 great tips and tutorials for After Effects, which can help you to expand your skills.

65 Inspiring Examples Of Single-Letter Logo Designs

Logos are either purely graphical or are composed of the name of the organization.We created inspirational logo posts a few times but you know logo inspiration never ends.Everyday wonderful logos are created by really talented artists so we have to follow logo galleries.Today’s logo post is a specific one.Single Letter logo designs.Single letter logo designs are as you understand is created with only one letter and below logos are the brilliant examples of single letter logo designs.hope you lke the collection.

External Photo Inspiration – Very Impressive Pictures by Bizarro

Marco Diaz a.k.a. Bizarro was born in Quito, Ecuador. Studied multimedia design and photography in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His works had been published in magazines from around the world, featured at european galleries, television and blog interviews. He’s currently working in collaboration with some UK picture libraries, available for comissioned works and digital post-processing. We are very proud to show you some examples of his amazing portfolio which is full of great edited photos.
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External Photo Inspiration – Emotional Pictures By Julie de Waroquier

Julie is a French photographer based in Lyon, France. In her photography, she looks for the dream, the mysterious and the intriguing. She try to make reality look surreal in her pictures and prefer showing the world as it could be rather than as it is. However she also enjoy realistic shots that may show the essence of reality. At all kinds of shots she try to give all pictures a poetic and conceptual dimension and want to create new worlds, worlds that may surprise the people who observe them.

13 Fascinating Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 13 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

15 Great Resources For Graphic and Webdesign

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. Here is a collection of 15 great brushes, textures, icons, free images and PSD templates, which could help you at your next design process.

15 Stunning Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

n this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 15 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.