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		<title>MOD Cosmetics &#8211; a website to visit for cheap make up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my friends launched an eCommerce website selling makeup etc, here&#8217;s what they said about their new website. At a time where the UK is feeling the pinch, we&#8217;re all trying to find ways to save money! What with the rise in VAT and us recovering from the recession, not all of us are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my friends launched an eCommerce website selling makeup etc, here&#8217;s what they said about their new website.</p>
<p>At a time where the UK is feeling the pinch, we&#8217;re all trying to find ways to save money! What with the rise in VAT and us recovering from the recession, not all of us are able to spend £££&#8217;s on our favourite beauty products. MOD Cosmetics have brought to you a new online store that allows you to treat yourself to those beauty bag must-haves without worrying about the price.</p>
<p>With <a href="http://www.modcosmetics.co.uk" target="_blank">cheap make up</a> prices from high street brands such as Benefit, Too Faced, Urban Decay, Elizabeth Arden, Barry M, Maybelline, Maxfactor and Rimmel &#8211; you&#8217;ll be sure to grab yourself a beauty bargain!</p>
<p>They are also offering FREE SHIPPING on orders over £25, so there is no harm in taking a look is there?</p>
<p>Get the look for less.</p>
<p>Check it out, <a href="http://www.modcosmetics.co.uk/" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p>
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		<title>PicNik &#8211; excellent site for editing photo&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[edit photo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo editing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered PicNik at work from one of my colleagues who introduced me to it. Basically PicNik is an online photo editor that works in your browser. Think of it as an online Photoshop but doesn&#8217;t have as many features. I was amazed when i first saw this because you can do some pretty cool [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I discovered <a href="http://www.picnik.com/" target="_blank">PicNik</a> at work from one of my colleagues who introduced me to it.</p>
<p>Basically <a href="http://www.picnik.com/" target="_blank">PicNik</a> is an online photo editor that works in your browser. Think of it as an online Photoshop but doesn&#8217;t have as many features. I was amazed when i first saw this because you can do some pretty cool stuff that would maybe take an hours time in Photoshop.</p>
<p>Not only that but you can import all your photo&#8217;s where ever they are hosted including Flickr, Photobucket and Facebook.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/picnik.jpg" rel="lightbox[269]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-270" title="picnik" src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/picnik-500x159.jpg" alt="PicNik" width="500" height="159" /></a></p>
<p>PicNik host aload of features including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fix your photos in just one click</li>
<li>Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results</li>
<li>Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time</li>
<li>Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun</li>
<li>Astoundingly fast, right in your browser</li>
<li>Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux</li>
<li>No download required, nothing to install</li>
</ul>
<p>Although it says its $24.95 for a year, there is a free &#8216;basic&#8217; account that will most likely be sufficient if you only want to quickly edit photo&#8217;s and add cool effects.</p>
<p>So if your looking to quickly edit your photo&#8217;s, <a href="http://www.picnik.com/" target="_blank">PicNik</a> is the way to go.</p>
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		<title>European Travel Blog: Wheres Nigel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[european travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine has told me about his new European Travel Blog, a Blog where he talks about his trips around Europe. I must say, i&#8217;ve read all his posts so far and they are very good, very well written articles and goes into great detail about what you can do in each place [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine has told me about his new <a href="http://wheresnigel.com/" target="_blank">European Travel Blog</a>, a Blog where he talks about his trips around Europe. I must say, i&#8217;ve read all his posts so far and they are very good, very well written articles and goes into great detail about what you can do in each place he visits. I thought i would just mention it here as a friend.</p>
<p>Check out his blog and you might want to follow his foot steps!</p>
<p><a href="http://wheresnigel.com/" target="_blank">Wheres Nigel</a>?</p>
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		<title>20 Websites That Can Make You A Better Web Developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[css design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[css tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing a website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drupal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web developer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m employed as a full time web developer so i know what goes on behind the scenes. After visiting Six Revisions &#8216;20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer&#8216; post, i can honestly agree with everything they are saying.   They mention very important aspects of developing a website including Web Usability. They list [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m employed as a full time web developer so i know what goes on behind the scenes. After visiting Six Revisions &#8216;<a target="_blank" href="http://sixrevisions.com/resources/20_websites_better_web_developer/" title="20 websites that can make you a better web developer">20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer</a>&#8216; post, i can honestly agree with everything they are saying.<br />
 <br />
They mention very important aspects of developing a website including Web Usability. They list design sites, css tips, tutorials and the use of drupal.<br />
 <br />
There is one website that the author missed out &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/">Smashing Magazine</a>!. Smashing Magazine in my opinion is the first place you should visit for any development issues such as CSS, Design and How-To&#8217;s.<br />
 <br />
Overall i think Six Revisions list is a good start if you want to get started in the web development area.<br />
 <br />
Visit the site <a target="_blank" href="http://sixrevisions.com/resources/20_websites_better_web_developer/">here</a> to gain knowledge and a place to start web development.</p>
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		<title>Popular URLS provides popular headlines in one place</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[buzz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a website worth visiting if you want all the popular news and headlines in one location. Popurls.com is a great website that gathers up-to-the-minute web buzz and headlines from the most popular websites on the internet. As you can see it&#8217;s nicely layed out and provides popular news from websites such as digg, newsvine.com, google news and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a website worth visiting if you want all the popular news and headlines in one location. <a target="_blank" href="http://popurls.com/" title="Popular URLS">Popurls.com</a> is a great website that gathers up-to-the-minute web buzz and headlines from the most popular websites on the internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/popurls.jpg" alt="Popular URLS" /></p>
<p>As you can see it&#8217;s nicely layed out and provides popular news from websites such as digg, newsvine.com, google news and yahoo news. Some websites i&#8217;ve never even heard of but that&#8217;s not to drive you away from <a target="_blank" href="http://popurls.com/" title="Popular URLS">Popurls.com</a>. Not only does it show you the latest headlines, it can also show the most popular videos from YouTube and other video sites. The same goes for images from flickr etc.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://popurls.com/" title="Popular URLS">Popurls.com</a> has some very nice features packed in, and this is probably the best one &#8211; when you rollover a headline, it shows excerpts of the content like so:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/popurlsdigg.jpg" alt="Popular URLS Digg" /></p>
<p>There is a nice tool bar that works very well. You can switch background colour, make the fonts bigger, hide today&#8217;s popular headlines and more.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/popurlstoolbar.jpg" alt="Popular URLS Toolbar" /></p>
<p>A nice idea and it&#8217;s the first website i&#8217;ve seen do this, i felt i had to post about it to let you guys and gals visit and see what you think of it.</p>
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		<title>Vertus Fluid Mask Top 40 Photoshopped Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adobe photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[designers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photoshopped images]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop can do some pretty damn amazing things such as this: Want to look at some cool, funny, bizarre, mess with your mind photoshopped images like the above? Look no further than Vertus Fluid Mask Top 40 Photoshopped Images. The designers who photoshopped these images must be brilliant at what they do, i really like their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adobe Photoshop can do some pretty damn amazing things such as this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://daparky.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/photoshopped01.jpg" alt="Photoshopped" /></p>
<p>Want to look at some cool, funny, bizarre, mess with your mind photoshopped images like the above? Look no further than <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vertustech.com/blog/2008/02/11/32/" title="Vertus Fluid Mask top 40 photoshopped images">Vertus Fluid Mask Top 40 Photoshopped Images</a>.</p>
<p>The designers who photoshopped these images must be brilliant at what they do, i really like their creativity and hard work that goes into such images. A friend of mine gave me a link to this page to check out the images and i had to blog about them to show you guys.</p>
<p>There are a few disturbing ones which i didn&#8217;t particular like, but they should be ok to look at. (no, none of them contain nudity).</p>
<p>My favourite out of Vertus Fluid Mask top 40 has to be the orange frog. Which one is your favourite?</p>
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		<title>Interactive Picture/Image Viewer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Parkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered this site last week and i had to blog about it because i think it&#8217;s amazing. http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm How cool is that? You click anywhere on the picture and it zooms in, into smaller thumbnails of the next available pictures, yet the thumbnails still represent the previous main picture. Theres an unlimited amount of pictures [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I discovered this site last week and i had to blog about it because i think it&#8217;s amazing.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm" title="Interactive picture viewer">http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm</a></p>
<p>How cool is that? You click anywhere on the picture and it zooms in, into smaller thumbnails of the next available pictures, yet the thumbnails still represent the previous main picture. Theres an unlimited amount of pictures here, you might bump into the same ones here and there.</p>
<p>I spent around an hour on this site clicking through different pictures. God knows how long this took to develop.</p>
<p>Go check it out!</p>
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