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Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Review

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Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Review

Have you every deleted  a photo then realized that you deleted the wrong file. Or maybe your memory card got formatted by accident. Being a photographer myself, I understand what it feels like losing your photos.

Thankfully, there are ways to recover lost photo from your hard drive or memory card.  And it’s very easy to recovery photo with the right software. Today, I am going to review a photo recovery software -Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery.

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Creative 3D Character Design by Mark Gmehling

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Creative 3D Character Design by Mark Gmehling

Mark Gmehling is a German designer specialized in character design animation and rigging.  He’s been working with Cinema 4d for about 8 years now. He is a teacher for graphic design and communication design at a university in germany: WAM Die Medienakademie. He also writes tutorials on a monthly basis for the 3dattack magazine.

When I first saw his 3D character design Drinsch Exhibition series, I was blown away. The characters are very creative and fun. The 3D models are beautifully rendered. You have to come in and check out those beautiful images by Mark Gmehling.

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Public DNS or OpenDNS? Namebench Finds the Fastest DNS Server

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Namebench finds the Fastest DNS Server

DNS stands for Domain Name System. It translates computer hostnames such as www.example.com into IP addresses like 208.77.188.166. ISPs and many online services offer DNS service for consumers. For example, OpenDNS is one of the services that offers features like phishing filter, domain blocking and typo correction. Just this month, Google released its own DNS service Google Public DNS which claims performance and security advantages.

If you are a geek/power-user, or someone simply want to get a faster internet experience? Setting up a DNS will do it, but depending on your location the Fastest DNS for me may not be fast on your computer.  Namebench is a free open-source benchmark software that will find the Fastest DNS Server for you. [Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX]

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W3C Website Redesign And Its Designs Over The Years

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W3C Website Redesign and Its Designs over the years

W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium, the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. It’s also famous for the W3C Markup Validation Service, which check HTML/XHTML & CSS for any mark-up errors. W3C is so important to the Internet, it gets 10/10 Google Pagerank.

Since its formation in October 1994, W3C has redesigned its website a few times and the most recent  redesign was in October this year. Let’s take a look the designs over the years of one of the most important website – w3.org.

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