Photoshop is a pretty nifty tool when you know how to use the tool properly. Therefore, photoshop tutorial is pretty useful to learn more and more about ways you can manipulate you pictures with Photoshop.
Photoshop matte painting is what this tutorial about, the effect of it is pretty useful but the steps to isolate the building and some bushes using polygonal lasso tool is going to be hard.
Here is the before and after look at Photoshop matte painting.
Overture has been a great tool for webmaster, especially people involve in SEO. It is not showing any result for some reason and I personally hope that it would be back as I use it from time to time.
Although Overture only represents Yahoo! search result for the previous month, you could revert this to the bigger picture. From Market Virticle Partners, you will see that on March 07, Google represents 49.7%, Yahoo! represents 26.8%, MSN had 10.3% and then the other smaller search engine carry the rest.
How do you use overture?
Sometimes, I tends to search at overture regarding some keyword before posting. This is because I will know what keyword is mostly typed, and I could relate my title with the keyword.
It is mainly a part of my learning curve at SEO, which is practically a never ending learning road.
Ever wonder how much is your website worth? Although this tool is pretty comprehensive. It takes into consideration a few factors:-
All together, my website of age 1 month 3 weeks 5 days is worth
Pretty good for a RiceBlogger, I may just sell them if I had this price.
I though it was pretty much overvalued RiceBlogger because it is too new. I tried MyBlogLog which is suppose to be sold at around $10million, but it is only valued at around USD3.4 million, that is way undervalued.
Big boys such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft seems to be so hungry to own the Internet. The seems like buying every great new invention out there. Yahoo! bought MyBlogLog has only happen recently and now Facebook may be sold to Microsoft.
I would actually thinks that Facebook is cramp with too much application as they have open up their API for developers to have programmed some application which is compatible with Facebook, you must have heard of some Vampire application or some poking application if you have a facebook for quite some time now.
This may be how the new logo of Microsoft Facebook Live may look like
BTW, Wordpress 2.3 is officially out with some extra functions. Download latest wordpress.
BlogRush is actually not quite suitable for a new/low traffic blog, but I will give this headlines changing trick a try before calling it quit. This is a pretty neat trick which I have discovered from John Chow.
It is pretty easy and you are in control of your headlines at all time. Originally, Blogrush only publish your latest post when it is your turn to redeem your syndicate credit. But this method allow you to control to your exact post, and it just take you a minute to edit the file each time.
Here is what you need to do.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″ ?> <rss version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<title>RiceBlogger at Work</title>
<link>http://www.riceblogger.com</link>
<description>My Bowl of Rice</description>
<language>en-us</language><item>
<category>BlogRush</category>
<title>Learn to change your Blogrush Headlines</title> <link>http://www.riceblogger.com</link>
<description>
This description is not used by BlogRush.
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Copy the code above and paste to a notepad, save it as blogrush.rss
Change the stuff needed to be changed. (title, description, link)
Upload them to your hosting server
Submit a new blog with this new feed (you are not allow to change your feed after you have submited).
You are done!
Once others Blogrush widget shows your feed, it will appear as
Learn to change your Blogrush Headlines
Join Blogrush, if you are not their member.
