December 05, 2008 cartab's blog

WebTech#3 - Server Security and Hardening

Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in to my 3rd article in this series. Well, at this point we have MySQL

Featured Tutorial

Very Easy Heroes Eclipse in Photoshop
Very Easy Heroes Eclipse in Photoshop
The new season of Heroes is on and it's really good. While I was watching the last episode I saw the opening credits and I thought to myself, why I haven't done that effect yet. So I decided to create the Heroes eclipse effect in Photoshop with a litle extra retro style. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice eclipse effect using only Photoshop. We will add a texture in the end just to give that retro feel to the image.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week 180 by Saad Moosajee
Wallpaper of the Week 180 by Saad Moosajee and Zane Prater
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Zane Prater and Saad Moosajee, a self taught freelance Illustrator and Art Director living in Denver, Colorado. Saad has worked for clients such as Dell, Tiger Beer, HTC, 361 Degrees, and Computer Arts Magazine. Saad is currently the creative head at the Slashthree Collective. Zane Prater is a 18 year old llustrator currently living in San Francisco. He attends the San Francisco Art Institute, and recently created numerous illustrations for 303 skateboards.

Book Suggestion

Gift Guide 2011: Books
Gift Guide 2011: Books
The holiday season is here and it’s time to get together with our family and friends, celebrate and get ready for the new year that is about to start. As we see sites with gift guides all over the web we decided to post the Abduzeedo 2011 Gift Guide because it’s always nice to start a new year extremely motivated. So in this first post I will list some books.