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Eatlon.com
2007-11-20 15:55:00
At last, my new site is launched. This old site, olle-axelsson.se, will cease to exist on December 12th. Therefor I recommend you to change your links and bookmarks to the new site - Eatlon.com . You will be redirected to Eatlon.com within 15 seconds from the moment you entered here.

Making room for new project
2007-11-07 16:29:00
As you may have noticed there hasn't been a single update on this site since the middle of October. This is due to another web project of mine which I have put pretty much all of my free time into. This new project will replace this site in the end of November, as I have already terminated further registration of the domain name olle-axelsson.se. The main focus of the new website will be aimed at templates - free, high quality, standards-compliant XHTML/CSS templates made by myself. I have actually already produced a first template to be released on the new site. There will also be a section of webdesign resources - probably in the blog form, like on this site. When the time is right, I will put an automatic forward on this site to the new project. Keep your eyes open in the end of November!
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Tutorial for vectorial illustration
2007-10-18 00:38:00
While Sergio Ordonez created the mascot for Twisted Monkey Studios he wrote a tutorial at the same time. In this tutorial Sergio explains very thoroughly how one creates a really good-looking vectorial illustration using Photoshop and mainly Illustrator. All you need is paper and pencil, a scanner, Photoshop, Illustrator, the Illustrator plugin Silhouette, basic concepts of Photoshop and Illustrator, a lot of patience and possibly a digitalizer tablet. Sergio Ordonez's tutorial for vectorial illustration .
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20 portfolios for inspiration
2007-10-17 14:53:00
Having problem developing or re-designing a website of yours and need inspiration? Here's a list of 20 well designed portfolios in which I'm sure you can find som great inspiration. 20 Well Designed Portfolios at CSS Juice.com.
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Right brain vs. left brain
2007-10-17 03:03:00
In which direction do you see the woman turning - clockwise or counter-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. The majority of the population will se a counter-clockwise turning direction. In either way, you can focus and try to change the direction. Our brain, like the rest of our anatomy, is made up of two halves, a left brain and a right brain. There's a big fold that goes from front to back in our brain, essentially dividing it into two distinct and almost separate parts. They are connected to each other by a thick cable of nerves at the base of each brain. This sole link between the two giant processors is called the corpus collosum. See the characteristics of the left and right brain at PerthNow .
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Web 2.0 Marketplace
2007-10-16 19:33:00
Need a freelance job? The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a new site part of Mashable.com where job offers, websites for sale, consulting services, and more are listed - all related to Web 2.0.

Quest for immortality
2007-10-16 18:26:00
Neuroscientist Anders Sandberg, biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey and philosopher Nick Bostrom talk about the quest for immortality using transhumanism. They discuss the questions "Why should we live forever?", "How can we achieve immortality?", "What techniques will be used?", "How will these techniques evolve?", "If everyone is living longer, how will we deal with overpopulation?", "When will these techniques be possible?". "Sandberg and his fellow transhumanists plan to bypass death by using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), genetic engineering and nanotechnology to radically accelerate human evolution, eventually merging people with machines to make us immortal. This may not be possible yet, the transhumanists reason, but as long as they live long enough - a few decades perhaps - the technology will surely catch up." - NewScientist.com Read the whole article at NewScientist.com. Read more at TransVision .
More About: Quest , Immortality , Mortal , Ality , Mort

250+ webdesign resources sites
2007-10-15 05:32:00
Sean Aune at Mashable.com has aggregated a list containing over 250 sites related to webdesign and all kind of great web resources. The list is divided into 17 sections including AJAX, ColdFusion, CSS, Flash, HTML Character Guides, Tools, Tutorials, Validators, Java, JavaScript, .Net, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby On Rails, SQL and XML. "We're all living on the web, and we all seem to be starting our own websites, so it's time we all learned the languages that make it run. We've gathered over 250 resources to help you get going." - Sean P. Aune, Mashable.com Visit " 250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web " at Mashable.com.
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Touching music overcomes limitations
2007-10-13 02:21:00
Tonight me and my brother watched M. Night Shyamalan's " Lady In The Water " (2006). I myself have seen it several times before but my brother hadn't seen it at all. I always find it intriguing to watch a movie I like very much, together with someone who hasn't seen it before. How interesting it is to see this persons reactions, when he or she reacts and on what. And of course - their final opinion. I was delighted to know that my brother, just as I, really liked "Lady In The Water". I will get back to my fascination for M. Night Shyamalan another time since this post wasn't suppose to be about movies in particular, but the music in movies. The brilliant man you see on the picture to the left is James Newton Howard . A man with great power to create heartbreakingly beautiful masterpieces. The first time I discovered him properly was actually as late as in 2004 when I had fallen in love with, again, M. Night Shyamalan's " The Village ". Sure, I had heard his name be...
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Adobe presents new Photoshop family logo
2007-10-12 12:39:00
Recently Adobe introduced the new Photoshop visual logo wich in time will be visible on every marketing related to Photoshop. It is claimed by the press that the logo represents "the rich legacy, technical quality, and attention to detail that has made Photoshop the gold standard in digital imaging". "I've been remiss in not sharing the news sooner, but I wanted to give it a chance not to get overshadowed by the Photoshop Express excitement. In any case, I'm pleased to report that the Photoshop family of products now has its own logo and tagline: See What's Possible?." - John Nack on Adobe The new logo has received a lot of critics. Many people aren't satisfied with it. They can't see the purpose of why the icon is shaped as a dialog box/speech bubble. Some thinks it looks like a reversed iChat icon. The tagline has also been discussed - "Are Illustrator and InDesign next? Illustrator: See what's vectorable". There's even people who claims the logo to b...
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Feedicons 2 released by Zeusbox Studio
2007-10-11 19:46:00
The first package of feed icons released by Zeus box Studio became a big hit. Now they release feedicons² , including 10 new icons. If you like them but would like additional icons in the same style, just post a request in their comment function. Download feedicons² .
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phpBB and WordPress unites into WP-United
2007-10-11 18:46:00
For quite some time now phpBB has been one of the most used free open source forum. I've used it myself in several web projects and it's both extremely easy to install and ease to use - as well for the administrator as for the users of the forum. Since the start in 2003, WordPress has grown from a small online publishing tool with half a dussin users to a "state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform" in the world with over hundred of thousands users. In other words - WordPress is the most used blog tool in the world today. From now on you can download WP-Unit ed - a melting-pot web project which has melted these two giants into one! WP-United can be used for phpBB2 and phpBB3. "WP-United is a powerful yet compact modification for phpBB 2. The package integrates WordPress, the leading blogging and content management tool, into a phpBB community." - wp-united.com Since I'm a loyal sNews user I can't enjoy this WP-United. But one thing is fo...
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Renovated and unleashed
2007-10-10 18:33:00
For a week or two there has been a sign hanging on my website door saying that due to renovation the site is down and will be back in a few days. Unfortunately, these "few days" turned into a dozen days. Hopefully, the overtime was worth the result you're looking at now. The main improvements of the site is at the moment mostly aesthetical improvements. The design has received a proper face-lift which I hope you find pleasant. Beside the design part I've implemented some new stuff that wasn't on the last version of the site. If you look at the right section you find a weekly poll made for you users to vote in and also there's a news feed including world top news and webdesign news. Further on there's a pastime section where you can play sudoku and tetris (more activities will be added here). Regarding these games and poll, I will endeavour towards more user activeness and gradually integrate additional elements of this kind. In this way, the site will be more useful and e...