Benny Gold test everything — 100+ tools in one! Choose the tools with that you want to test the given adress: CSS and HTML validators SEO tools Social services Web proxies Network tools Text tools Image tools (works only with Image URLs) Miscellaneous tools Caribbean restaurant to bring heat of the tropics to Grand Rapids' Eastown Deborah Johnson Wood Olga Benoit has catered her Haitian-style cuisine in the Grand Rapids area for the past 12 years, and now she's opening Chez Olga to bring her taste treats to the community on a larger scale. Benoit came to Grand Rapids as a refugee and used to operate Benoit's Family Fashions on Leonard Street. Benoit has spent the last several weeks renovating the interior of 1441 Wealthy St. "Customers are going to find a very festive but comfortable, relaxed feeling of, well, love, I guess is the best way to say it," Sparks says. Benoit's tagline, "Feel the Caribbean Heat," is represented in dishes such as the fried plantains appetizer with spicy coleslaw, Creole chicken, and red beans and rice. The grand opening is July 9 and 10, with free food to those who have preregistered on the Chez Olga GR Facebook page. Chez Olga will be open Monday through Thursday 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. Source: Monica Sparks, Sparks Consulting
Banksy ShoeGuru Top Five Twitter Analytical Tools What kind of footprint have you made in the Twitterverse? Do you know your Twitter ROI, your Twitter influence or stats that determine your Twitter psychographics? In the social media world, this data is becoming easier and easier to access as new analytical tools become available... and now you can track it. Becoming more and more significant, social networking analytics will be used by companies to determine what type of consumer you are, and by prospective employees to consider you for hire. As a modernized version of the Kevin Bacon paradigm, social media has reduced our 'connectivity to others' from 6 to 3 degrees. Most Twitter users are seeking exposure. Similar to our every day lives, if one focuses on creating value, building transparency and becoming authentic, the greater chance one has in making an impact on Twitter. So social networking analytics are the tools to both qualify and quantify our worth. 1) TwitterAnalyzer 2) TwInfluence 3) TweetStats 4) Twitter Grader 5) TweetPsych
A New Low for Laptop Pricing: $37 There are cheap computers and then there are cheap computers, but $37 might just take the proverbial cake. A persistent eBay listing has just that on offer, with the bargain basement price in question netting you a 7-inch netbook with Wi-Fi running Windows CE. Don't plan on editing your next HD blockbuster film or running Crysis on these babies' underpowered components, but for less than four Alexander Hamiltons you get an actually functional machine running on a 300 MHz ARM processor with 128MB RAM and 2GB storage. You also get a 7-inch screen displaying at 800 x 480 resolution, an ethernet port, two USB ports, an SD slot, Wi-Fi and a 9-volt AC adapter. The catch is that these laptops and internals are either factory seconds or items that failed quality control tests. Would you consider experimenting with a $37 laptop, and if so what would you use it for? [via Wired]
50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials Six Revisions Skip site navigation 50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials May 2 2010 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 29 Comments Retro and vintage designs are valued for nostalgia and sentimental memories. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Related Content About the Author Tomas Laurinavičius is a blogger and designer from Lithuania who’s currently studying Multimedia Design & Communication in Denmark. 29 Comments seeshell May 2nd, 2010 Nice work your very talented Richie May 2nd, 2010 Thanks for featuring two of my tutorials. Cheers, Richie Dan May 2nd, 2010 Retro seems to be coming in strong these past few months in web design, I love it! Tom Ross May 2nd, 2010 Great article Tomas! Nikola Lazarevic May 2nd, 2010 Great roundup! Thanks for including my tutorials: - How To Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps in Photoshop skyje Andrew
Build Your Own Tablet for $400 | Gadget Lab If you’re not sold on the iPad and are tired of waiting for tablets from other PC makers to show up, try getting your hands dirty with a tablet you can build on your own. Liquidware, an open source hardware company, is selling a $400 tablet starter kit. The DIY tablet targets developers who want to create a tablet of their dreams or write specialized software applications. “The Beagle tablet is a portable modular open source handheld computer,” says Justin Huynh, director of product development at Liquidware. The tablet kit contains a 4.3-inch OLED touchscreen that mounts directly on a BeagleBoard. “Everything is modular and snaps on or mounts directly on a board so you have a very compact tablet-like device,” he says. Since Apple iPad’s debut in April, tablets’ popularity has surged. But those gadgets have little appeal for tinkerers, says Huynh. Since the Beagle tablet doesn’t have any storage beyond the SD card, it is extremely lightweight, weighing just about 8 ounces. See Also:
[TUTO] Comment donner une peau de pêche à vos modèles Vous venez de prendre une photo d’un ou d’une modèle et vous voulez faire en sorte de donner un rendu très pro à vos photos, pas de soucis ce tuto est fait pour vous. C’est vrai que l’on a tous des imperfections de peau sauf les top modèles… a bon ??? Croyez vous sincèrement que tous ces top modèles est une peau aussi belle que dans les magasines, ou alors t a t-il une solution ? Homepage | New North Organizing Armageddon: What We Learned From the Haiti Earthquake | Magazine Armageddon from above.Photo: Cameron Davidson/Corbis Pauli Immonen is quick-marching the length of the tarmac at Port-au-Prince’s crippled airport, looking for a missing 737. It’s not as if he can just check the arrivals board — the 7.0 earthquake that rocked the Haitian capital eight days ago has left the main terminal a flooded, deserted husk. The floors are littered with broken ceiling tiles, and inch-wide cracks snake along the walls. Spotting a promising-looking Boeing, the lean, 42-year-old Finn hurries over to the two Nordic types at the foot of the stairs leading up to the plane and introduces himself. A flight attendant looks up with a professional smile and opens a snack-laden drawer in the galley. Immonen hit the ground in Port-au-Prince less than 72 hours after the quake, when the streets were still strewn with corpses. His job is to wrangle airplanes, making sure that the people and materiel on every Red Cross relief flight get to where they’re supposed to be.
Groups want to paste 21st century Post-it notes on Grand Rapids attractions G.F. Korreck | Thursday, June 24, 2010 To boost the profile of metro Grand Rapids as tech savvy, two local organizations are eyeing the possibility of placing QR-coded signs at the city's main attractions so tourists and visitors can use their smartphones to call up everything from a simple blurb to a multimedia show to learn more about what they are viewing. "Think of it as the 21st century version of the Post-it note," says Douglas Lang, a founding member of the Grand Rapids Technology Partnership, a grassroots organization that wants to foster the growth of technology in the metropolitan area. Lang and his partner Will Hartwell say it is possible to create a self-guided walking tour of the core city using QR code technology that would promote tourism and further the perception of Grand Rapids as a regional technology hub. Lang and Hartwell point out there is a significant amount of work involved in creating a QR code-based tour, but they are confident it can be done. G.F. Photos:
35 Online Photo Editors To Help You Editing Photo Online As our generation is changing, tools for image editing and enhancers have improved and has multiplied. Editing photo online has become easier with the help of innovative and creative online photo editors. Back to few years ago, Adobe Photoshop is the king of photo editor. But there are quite a number of Free Photoshop Alternatives around us, which we can perform the photo editing without paying any single cent for the application! Now, we even have websites that allow us to edit photo online. Here, we share 35 useful Free Online Photo Editing Websites which we think it may be very helpful as one of your photoshop alternatives. Picnik This online tool makes your photos look beautiful in just one click. Splashup It has multiple image editing which makes your photos look great! FotoFlexer Try this most advanced online image editor! Improve Your Images Check this cool photo editor that restores, corrects, and adjusts your photos! Photoshop.com This one is an online image editor of photoshop.com. Pixlr