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		<title>Photoshop effects: 10 awesome vintage textures for designers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding vintage textures with authentic look is a big headache for designers who are looking for inspirations/ examples of vintage style design. Creating something looks like old aged or vintage is still very much popular as it gives you feel of  great memories that is priceless. I have put together a collection of 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/357/photoshop-effects-10-vintage-textures/</link>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Logo: Elements that Make a Logo Great</title>
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A logo is a visual representation of a brand or a company. In many cases, logo is the only symbol that customers remembers about the company (think Nike or Coca Cola and say what all you know about it), that is why creating a meaningful logo that conveys the message has to be organization’s top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/351/anatomy-of-a-logo-elements-that-make-a-logo-great/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Games &#8211; Collection of 10 best of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes Facebook so much successful? Is it the status messages, its useless-but-exciting quizzes, its ability to know about our friends even without asking them, or is it the games of Facebook that makes this such a formidable force on the Internet? For most of us at least for those engaged in “9 to 5” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/349/facebook-games-collection-of-10-best-of-2009/</link>
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		<title>Decorate Your WordPress Blog for Christmas, Santa is In Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is round the corner and the whole world is going gaga over it. You probably have started buying Santa Clause dress, beard, shoe, bag, emblems, gifts, Christmas tree, bells and whistles, and other decorative items. This indeed is exciting, but what about your blog? Have you started shopping for it? Or are you going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/327/decorate-your-wordpress-blog-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy Art: Create Christmas Fairy Magic Effect</title>
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Christmas is near, time to impress your seniors? create a stunning graphics using this fantastic Christmas Fairy Magic effect tutorial tell how you can add sparkling stars (magic) effects using simple steps. Lorelei (once again) created this wonderful tutorial inspiring enough for you hook on. ( However you will need to download these  Free Star [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/323/fantasy-art-christmas-fairy-magic/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy Art Photo manipulation Tutorial using photoshop.</title>
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This month&#8217;s great find is Lorelei&#8217;s PSWish.com, they presented such a nice tutorial on creating a adorable fantasy art using photoshop&#8217;s Photo manipulation tools. Photoshop has endless possibilities and Lorelei shows you how to use it effectively.
Click here to read this tutorial in detail.
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		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/319/fantasy-art-photo-manipulation-tutorial-using-photoshop/</link>
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		<title>Photoshop Effects: Stunning Vector Composite Effects</title>
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Creative graphic designer Bill Labus need no introduction. He authored this great tutorial at PSDTuts who are on my favorite sites every week. This tutorial you will learn how to change appearance of a photo to complete composed of vector shapes using basic photoshop techniques. This is absolutely an wonderful example for newbies trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/315/photoshop-effects-stunning-vector-composite-effects/</link>
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		<title>Photoshop tutorials: adding fireline effects easy way.</title>
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Flash from anothera.net teach you how to create stunning firelines effect using simple steps in photoshop. Just keep your imaginations alive, the author used pen tool magic and real easy effects to create Swirls with a strong visualization on basic behavior of flames.
Click here to read this stunning tutorial. 
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		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/310/photoshop-tutorials-adding-fireline-effects-easy-way/</link>
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		<title>Photoshop Tutorial: Add colorful streaks of light to a photo</title>
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You may have read many tutorials on adding a light effects to image using photoshop, but Steve Patterson of Photoshopessentials shows you an easy way to add a colorful streaks of light to a photo using photoshop as easy as drawing a path with Photoshop&#8217;s Pen Tool and then stroking the path with a brush, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/307/photoshop-tutorial-add-colorful-streaks-of-light-to-a-photo/</link>
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		<title>Online Advertising Guide (Free Methods)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advertising on the Internet is significantly different from the advertisement we see or do in the print media, radio or in television. It is also different from direct sales. Rather, it is significantly different from every offline advertising medium that we know. 
If you are not aware of the online advertising tools and their power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/301/online-advertising-guide/</link>
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		<title>Halloween Freebies You Don’t Want to Miss</title>
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Halloween is round the corner, and the spirit of haunted festivity is already in air. Each one of us has started preparing for one’s own party. Some of us are carving the pumpkin, and others are working to create a haunted costume, whereas some of us are preparing smiling ghosts and dancing skeleton. The spirit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/281/halloween-freebies-you-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-miss/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Plug-in Competition 2009 Winner Decided</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The verdict has come and the winner of WordPress Plug-in Competition 2009 at WeblogToolsCollection has been decided. Congratulation Godfrey Chan for making your way to the top of the list! 
Before I talk in detail about the Section Widget plug-in which Godfrey Chang designed to win this competition, let us first introduce you to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/276/wordpress-plug-in-competition-2009-winner-decided/</link>
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		<title>5 Must have Twitter Plug-in for WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the time when every website and every marketer were talking about providing more; like more free stuffs to visitors, more free space, more control over how much one speaks, more features, more tools, etc., there was one company which was planning to curtail our freedom of expression. 
No one ever dream (not even in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/274/5-must-have-twitter-plug-in-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>5 Must have SEO Plug-ins for WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couple of days back, I was talking to a friend about blogging, blogging platforms and related stuffs. We had a heated discussion, and he seemed to be a fervent supporter of blogger platform while I was advocating WordPress. In the course of our discussion, he asked “Why the heck are you so fond of WordPress?”
“…because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/271/5-must-have-seo-plug-ins-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>5 Best Social Media Plug-ins for your WordPress Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are not on Facebook and twitter then you are nowhere. If your stories couldn’t be found on digg and StumbleUpon then your story cannot be found anywhere. To say the least, this is the power of social media. If you have not embraced the social media until now then do it soon before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/266/5-best-social-media-plug-ins-for-your-wordpress-blog/</link>
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		<title>links for 2009-08-28 &#8211; tagged content sharing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are links of content sharing websites I bookmarked at Delicious. 


Scribd
nice document sharing site, upload and share your document at Scribd.
(tags: content-sharing, document-sharing, social site)


popurls &#124; popular urls to the latest web buzz
popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/263/links-for-2009-08-28/</link>
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		<title>links for 2009-08-19 Tagged VA</title>
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Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/261/links-for-2009-08-19/</link>
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		<title>Shared Web Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to define any online business you will start by looking at its pages. To be a truly successful online business you will have to optimize your site and create appealing content that persuades your visitors to make a deal of some kind. What all websites need is hosting on a web server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/259/shared-web-hosting/</link>
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		<title>My bookmarks for 2009-07-10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am now using Delicious to organize my bookmarks. While researching for &#8220;something unique&#8221; I add the same to my bookmarks to read in my spare time. Here are few links from my bookmark list. 


21 Popular Brands That Are Using Wordpress
There is a reason why these big brands are using Wordpress and that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/253/links-for-2009-07-10/</link>
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		<title>List of Wordpress Cheat Sheets I know.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a theme developer I must say Wordpress enthusiasts have contributed the real stuffs for newbies who are looking to work with development work.
These cheatsheets contains lot of useful stuffs such as the list of template tags, most used syntax (common parameters), PHP Snippets a detailed template hierarchy and basic template files.
Here in this short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevearun.com/wp23/240/list-of-wordpress-cheat-sheets-i-know/</link>
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