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14 More Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Designs

Another collection of beautiful free fonts

Free Fonts, I know you love them! I got a few emails from our readers saying they want to see more posts like my previous article 24 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Designs. So I have handpicked another 14 beautiful free fonts for your personal or even commercial design projects.

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Google Wave Invites Giveaway!

Google Wave Invites Giveaway

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. Initially released only to developers, a "preview release" of Google Wave was extended to 100,000 users in September 2009 according to Wikipedia.

Are you still looking for Google Wave Invites? Well, I'm giving Google Wave invites to our readers.

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Public DNS or OpenDNS? Namebench Finds the Fastest DNS Server

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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Easy Text Replacement Solution with Typekit + Invitations Giveaway

Text replacement with Typekit

Thinking about using Rich Typography in your web design? There are quite a few text replacement techniques such as: Image Replacement, Flash Replacement, JavaScript, PHP, and @font-face Font Embedding. The most commonly used solutions that you might have heard of are Cufón, sIFR, Typeface.js, P+C DTR... Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. Difficulty is one of the most important reason that keep web designers from using those text replacement methods.

Typekit is a service that let you easily embed both free and commercial fonts to your web design.Web designers don't need to worry about font copyright issues when using Typekit. Because Typekit has been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license.

Although Typekit is still in beta, I got an Invite couple weeks ago. Let me walk you through, and find out if Typekit is right for you. I will give a way two Typekit Invites BTW.

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Excellent Free Photoshop Brushes Resources and Articles

Excellent Free Photoshop Brushes Resources and Articles

Are you looking for Quality Photoshop Brushes ? Every designer should have a collection of brushes. While I find there are many websites offer Free Photoshop brushes, it seems hard to find some high quality brushes quickly.

In this article, you’ll find my top picks for Quality Brushes Resources and Articles. I hope you find this post useful and ultimately get some quality brushes.

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Measure Screen Objects with Pixus

Measure objects in screen with Pixus

[Win/Mac/Linux] Was there a time when you wanted to measure the size of an object on screen? I found a free app for it. Pixus is a desktop AIR app that measures screen objects. Developed by JPEG Interactive, Pixus has a very intuitive User Interface that you can control precisely with a keyboard or mouse.

I can see this is a great tool for Graphic and Web designers. Find out what other features Pixus offers.

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