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Create an eye catching Supermarket sticker in Photoshop.

Learn how to create a funky and glossy star in Photoshop.

Learn how to create holiday snow that sits on your text, and looks real.

This tutorial demonstrates how to convert an image to a pencil drawing in Fireworks.

For those of you who wish to have chocolate text on your banner!

Very good tutorial on how to use firework's functions. Use your own imagination to create something stunning.

This is one of the most easiest ways to create a password protected area in PHP. This simple script can protect any of your content should you need it protected.

This is the most stylish way to perform a password protected page.

Read more for the tutorial.

We all want to track incoming and outgoing hits that other web sites give us, so we all use some kind of link like http://mydomain.com/aff.php?out=12 and that really does nothing to improve your search engine ranking if a web sites links to you like that.

So as modern scripting languages improve, so does imaginations. With the help of normal PHP scripting, and AJAX code, we can make an affiliation script that's user friendly and search engine friendly.

Read more to view the tutorial. Please note, this tutorial is not for newbies.

So you've got a web site and unfortunately for you, your coding outputs text before you call the header() function PHP provides thus leaving you with a broken web site.

Well this simple quick fix will sort those right out. This is also good for webmasters who use the auto_prepend_file or similar in their htaccess to display header files before content is displayed.

Read more to find out how it's done!

Everyone should have this tool. It's fantastic, and free! I'll show you how to install it.

What is Rootkit Hunter?

Rootkit Hunter is a great tool used to scan your server for rootkits and other nasty tools.

Read more for the installation guide.

RoudCube is a fantastic browser-based mail client created using PHP, MySQL and AJAX technology.

A little from the developers..

RoundCube is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters. RoundCube Webmail is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.

Read more for the installation guide.

This really is just a reference for me, but you can all know it.

There are times when your server in its current timezone has the wrong time. It could be by a few seconds, minutes or even hours. I'll show you how to set it back to normal.

Read more on how to do it.

Having a high-speed PC is every techie's dream. Unfortunately, fast PCs generate significant heat and require ventilation by noisy cooling fans. This can turn your PC pride and joy into a whirring annoyance -- particularly when it's being used during quiet periods or at night.

Some PCs run as noisily as 50db -- that's nearly as loud as an electric toothbrush or a washing machine. As you can imagine, the whine of a dozen cooling fans can distract you during work and diminish your enjoyment when playing music or video on your PC. The last thing you want during a tear-jerking love scene is the click of a hard drive or the whir of a DVD drive.

Read more at: CNET.co.uk - Build the ultimate quiet PC

Okay, so just recently because my server has PHP's safe_mode turned off, I had to make sure that open_basedir was enabled for all my hostees's and myself.

DirectAdmin had a default line located in the virtual_host.conf file but was not used as it had a hash before the line.

Ever wanted to rip a music video from YouTube without downloading software? - Well now you can! Their tracking ID's can't stop us!

After analysing their structure and flash code I found a way around it. The end result will be a .FLV file, not a .wmv or .mov, etc.

Learn how to create a drop down menu in SwishMax.

Learn how to create a basic SwishMax preloader.

Learn how to create a fading spinner preloader.