iThemes

by kashif on July 14th, 2010

If you use WordPress software to control your business’s blog, then you in fact should think iThemes.com. iThemes offers high-quality, premium WordPress themes for small businesses and professional bloggers. It presently lists about 18 professional designs, with more mortal added all the time. Once you obtain a license to one of its themes, the site updates you as more become available.

The site also provides outstanding credentials, tutorials, and customer support. Each theme is veiled to increase its SEO benefits, and it’s always friendly with the most recently released version of WordPress.

Most themes cost about $80 each, or if you are a freelance Web designer or developer, you might consider purchasing what the site calls its Theme Club, which is all 18 themes in a combination deal valued at about $1,300 but you pay less than $400. You are able to pass those choices of blog themes on to your customers. It ends up being an easy, low-cost way to get a professional-looking blog.

Font of Inspiration – Boulud & Co. Add Life to Traditions Mecca

by kashif on July 10th, 2010

BAR Boulud will soon have a neighboring kissing cousin a French motivated, grill-themed restaurant that Daniel Boulud plans to open this winter at the spot of Broadway and 64th Street? Among additional things, the 4,000-square-foot eatery will possess a nice, big bar intended for drinking unlike Bar Boulud, which for all its wine-and charcuterie pleasures, has no bar.

Boulud’s spokeswoman, Georgette Farkas, says the new place will have a grilling impression with a little bit of a strong accent, a partly open kitchen and Mediterranean and other influences. Thomas Schlesser who produced the looks for Bar Boulud and DBGB will design the 110-seat dining room, a 24-seat lounge and a 16-stool bar.

The restaurant isn’t named yet. But by any name, the sixth Manhattan venue from one of the world’s supreme chefs marks another advance for the eating scene in Lincoln Square, the emerging corridor across Broadway north of Columbus Circle to 72nd Street.

Boulud formerly considered expanding Bar Boulud into the side street portion of the former bank space next door. But he just leased the area as well, and decided to launch an entirely new restaurant facing Lincoln Center’s stunning, reborn plaza and cascade.

He isn’t alone. In September, Patina Restaurant Group is launching a $20 million buffet headed by former Per Se executive chef Jonathan Benno on the Lincoln Center campus itself, tucked under the new lofty lawn on the North Plaza.

Functional Benefits of Tolerant Development Software

by kashif on July 7th, 2010

There are times when you need to make PDF document out of Word file set-up. The PDF tools are charming and can potentially make your task flexible. It is a distinctive application that can even translate the physical papers into digital format. A Portable Document layout can be accessed on any system. You can even access and view the PDF files on portable devices such as Mac users. Create or plan your content in a Word document and then you can export the same to Portable Document Format. In this non-editable file, a person can present the content or data in a professional manner.

In order to translate an editable text into a non-editable one, you can select from a array of PDF converter tools. These are state-of-art computer programs that either run offline or online. All these computer programs offer a diverse set of features. You should select a converter tool that is most advanced, full-featured and has an easy to use interface. The unique set of features is that a person can merge a number of files together in order to manage or handle large information. Advanced tools enable a user to transfer multiple files out of a single document. You can even pick the pages which you want to adapt. Some computer programs offer a user with multilingual conversion ability in which you can modify the language of the file on conversion.

Terrorists’ Magazine, Now in English

by kashif on July 5th, 2010

The English is simple and clunky, almost to the end of being ridiculous. The pictures look like bad Photoshop jobs.

But the contents of Inspire, a magazine posture the signature of the party line arm of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, are no joke.

Headlines taunt tutorials for would-be terrorists, including commands to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom, an article on “Mujahedeen 101” and a lesson in sending and receiving encrypted messages.

A PDF of the magazine the first known English-language publication thought to be produced by the Yemen-based terrorist group began circulating on the Internet on Wednesday. The magazine’s goal is to enlist disaffected Muslims in the United States, Canada, Britain and other English-speaking countries.

They are targeting a very small society and hoping that they will get the next Times Square bomber or the next Fort Hood slaughterer to come forward, be further radicalized and carry out an act of mass violence, said Bruce Riedel, a Brooking s Institution scholar who worked for the C.I.A. on counter terrorism efforts in the Middle East and South Asia.

The PDF broadly distributed in the past 48 hours was only three pages long a virus apparently corrupted the remaining 64 pages. Mr. Riedel said that could have been the work of hackers, possibly working for the United States government.

It’s Back! Fontographer Proceeds in V5

by kashif on June 30th, 2010

Fontographer has been almost completely rewritten, with new features, a new look, and new compatibility. The new design is intended at making life easier for the graphic designer and desktop publisher, who are persistently under pressure to do more in less time. In this streak, the GUI has been modernized, but functionality like keyboard shortcuts and menu choices have not been changed, so that the learning arch for the new version is short for those already familiar with the product. Similarly, a lot goes on under the top of Fontographer through automatic defaults, eliminating baffling and time-wasting decisions about technical aspects like encodings and formats. Yet the choices are there if the user needs them.

Our work on Fontographer 5 was like a renovation of a classic car. We have kept the familiar, stylish body that users love, giving it just a restrained facelift. And then, we have replaced the old inefficient engine by modern cutting-edge technology. FOG 5 looks smooth and simple, but it rocks hard, said Adam Twardoch, Font lab Ltd. product and marketing manager.

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Twardoch went on to say The beauty of Fontographer is that it allows you to ponder on the ingenious process of designing a print, without being diverted by the technical aspects of font making. FOG users always cherished the speed, ease and exactness in which they could draw Bezier outlines in the product so we have kept the drawing tools and implemented some long-standing facet requests such as a larger zoom level and outline ant aliasing. On the other hand, setting technical font parameters such as font naming or line spacing in Fontographer used to be awkward and did not consider recent developments such as Open Type so we have redesigned those aspects from grate with the goal of making them as easy to use as the rest of the product.

Indigenous Peoples at US Social Forum: Stumbling the Bequest of Genocide

by kashif on June 29th, 2010

Speaking out on ecological genocide, Indigenous Peoples demonstrate the legacy of death and ruin from mining, power plants, toxic dumping and the nuclear industry, at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Indigenous Peoples are consulting and strategizing on energy and climate change, immigration, poverty, contract rights, valued sites, artistic preservation, and de-militarization.

Broadcast live on Earth cycles, Navajo Leona Morgan describes how new uranium mining targets Navajos living in Church Rock, N.M., where the nation’s deadliest radioactive spill occurred in 1979. In June of 2010, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Hydro Resources Inc. of Texas, which if it proceeds, will poison the water supply of Navajos with new in-situ uranium mining, by drilling on land beside Navajo land.

The Tewa Women United, on Earth cycles live, illustrate how the nuclear industry and Los Alamos National Laboratories have exposed Pueblos to generations of death and ailment in northern New Mexico. Open air burning, burial of nuclear waste and detonations have poisoned the land, air and water for today’s Pueblos and future generations.

Beata Tsosie Pena of Santa Clara Pueblo said, we live in the desert and our water supply is very valuable to us. Water is our life. I’m scared for my children. I’m scared for my grandchildren. I’m sacred for my elders.

Pilot Handwriting – Create a Font from Your Handwriting and Send Emails

by kashif on June 25th, 2010

Pilot Handwriting is a nice web service which lets you build own fonts from your handwriting. The idea is very simple head over to the website and downloads a sample template. Print the template on paper and fill out the template with all the alphabets and numbers.

Once you are done satisfying the template, switch on your webcam and grasp the paper right in front of the camera. The site will record your handwriting, read it and save a digital copy on its server.

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Once the site has saved your handwriting, you can edit and make trivial adjustments with the mouse. Now comes the enjoyable part type an email from the site’s edge and the email appears handwritten.

The only drawback is that you are not allowed to download the font in your computer for future use. Never mind, at least you can use this tool to send a handwritten email to anyone.