Pure Condensed and Vintage Power

Vintage metal oil cans are much better than today’s plastic oil cans like many other old things! It is more powerful, more impressive, more iconic. These days, the relatively few metal oil cans that survived that familiar pattern have become collectibles. These cans not only served as containers, they also gave oil companies one more opportunity to advertise their brand name and logo. These vintage cans are also really good source for reflecting power of “Public Gothic Family”, Antrepo’s condensed, vintage and industrial font family.

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Buying guide: close-up photography equipment

Take a look at close-up gear for every budget: reversing rings, extension tubes, close-up filters and macro lenses

Reversing rings are a low-cost, yet effective way to get into macro photography – they really do give impressive results. A reversing ring is simply a metal hoop with a bayonet fitting, to match your lens’s filter thread, on one end and a screw fitting on the other. As the name suggests, they work by mounting the lens directly onto the camera body, introducing a short extension, which makes the lens focus close and gives a high but fixed magnification. Your working distance also becomes fixed.You’ll get life-sized images that are razor sharp in the middle, but softer at the edges than you’d get with a macro lens. Only a select few offer electronic coupling too – be prepared to go Manual!

If you’re itching to photograph the world up-close you’ll need some specialised gear – here we explain the four main routes into fantastic macro photography…

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6 top macro flash units reviewed and rated

Macro photography requires nice, even light in order for your subjects (and all their wonderful textures and detail) to be well lit. We’ve chosen 6 specialist macro flash units and tested how well each will give you controllable and highly effective lighting for macro shots.

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9 Stylish Vector World Map Vector

9 Stylish vector world map vector free for download. Continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

I save it in Adobe Illustrator (version CS3 and above) file format.

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Repper Pattern Generation Tool

Background textures may not be as de rigueur as they once were but they still have their place. The only this is, once you’ve decided to go with a repeating pattern, how do you make one?

This clever little pattern generator takes an original source image as raw material and allows you to crop a selection of it to be kaleidoscoped into shape before coloring and choosing a tiling technique to be applied. This can then be exported in png.jp and tiff formats ( the desktop app can handle very high-res imagery).
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Diablo 3 Tips & Tricks — Come for the Demons, Stay for the Loot

If you’re new to the Diablo series then you may need to take awhile to find your footing with the latest version of the game—Diablo III.

While the game is easy enough to get a grip on, we’ve decided to compiled a helpful little guide, or primer of sorts, to get you on your way to killing demons and wearing their bloodied possessions like some kind fantasy version of Buffalo Bill—minus the lotion.

So here’s all that you need to know beyond clicking on monsters to kill them.
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Create Colorful and Unique QR Codes Easily

The QR code is designed for mobile Web revolution. The idea is so nice; a link between the Web and the real world through the powerful computers in our hands.

There are numerous online tools let you create QR codes. Most of these tools offer the same basic format, with the same basic QR code creation tools. But if you are looking for a QR generation tool that lets you create more colorful and more unqiue looking codes, then QR Hacker is the site for you.

QR Hacker is a web service that lets you create colorful QR codes to encode text, URLs, phone numbers, and Vcards. You can select your color customizations. You can select how round the code’s pixels appear. You can also select colors and images for the background and foreground of the code. Once you have completed editing your QR code you can download it as a PNG image or a PDF document.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.qrhacker.com/
License: License Free

43 Free CSS3 Pictogram Buttons with 3 Styles

Browser Detection – Simple JavaScript to Get Users to Upgrade Their Old Browsers

Description
Our friends at DevSlide recently launched a Labs area where they publish ideas, software, script, apps, etc., and we thought that this one could be interesting for JS developers and webmasters. It is a JavaScript browser detection tool that detects the user’s browser. If an old browser is detected, it will display a friendly suggestion for them to upgrade their browser to the latest version or download a new browser.
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Creative Sites with Scrolling Effect

360° Langstrasse Zürich

Modo Luce

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