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Weekly Roundup for Devils’ Workshop- 8th March to 14th March
24HoursLoot: Grab Coolest Online Deal of The Day
5 Online Photoshop Alternatives for editing your photos
Retweet, F Share & Google Buzz buttons on your Blog without plugins.

Weekly Roundup for Devils’ Workshop- 8th March to 14th March

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 08:53 PM PDT

Here is the Monday Round Post for Devil's Workshop. Check it out if you missed any of the post of this rocking week. This was really an exciting week for Devils’ Workshop because of these two reason:

1. Merger of two of India's top blog networks – rtBlogs and ShoutMeLoud .

2. We celebrated 1st anniversary of rtCamp.

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With all this excitement, we published very useful posts for our loyal readers:

Google:

How to get your YouTube account ready for auto captions?

Google is God- Or Is It ?

Google Buzz giving Better Control for Email Notification

5 Great extensions with Google Wave

Google Reader trying to take on Stumble Upon?

Editorial:

Top Indian Blogs 'Networking' Together!

Retweet and win free license for Handy Backup software: DW contest

rtCamp is Celebrating its 1st Birthday!

Softwares:

Customize Your Folders According to Priorities

How to Use Ultrasurf Proxy Software to Unblock Blocked Websites

Developers:

Role of Custom component in Buddypress

Browsers:

Speed up Firefox browser by managing tabs with BarTab Add-on

Webhosting:

How To Set DNS Records with IndiaTimes Server

Gadgets:

The cheapest Netbooks in India: A comparison

Social Media:

Missing on Twitter Search: A Case-Study

Tips and Tricks:

Create RSS feeds of search results with Bing

Featured:

5 Online Photoshop Alternatives for editing your photos

Blogging:

Retweet, F Share & Google Buzz buttons on your Blog without plugins.

I hope you will find all these articles very useful. Do share what kind of articles you would like to read on Devils’ Workshop.

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24HoursLoot: Grab Coolest Online Deal of The Day

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 07:05 PM PDT

24hoursloot is one interesting website which I came across recently and it's become one of those website which I visit daily morning to grab some great deal.

24hoursloot is an online retail website which offer various stuff like Gadgets, T-Shirts, Posters, Watches, Spy cameras and many other stuff at discounted price.

Any item which will be displayed on the 24hourloot website stays on the homepage for 24 hours starting from 12AM IST.

If the item is sold in between, it will wait for 24 hour to complete to display the new item. What I like most about this site is their customer support via Email or Twitter, which is very responsive and handle any issue on individual level.

I ordered a T-shirt with twitter handle which cost me almost 4$ and within 3 days I received the T-shirt.

If you like to shop online, I'm sure you will enjoy this website.

Link

Do you know any other website similar to 24hoursloot?

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5 Online Photoshop Alternatives for editing your photos

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 01:30 AM PST

Adobe Photoshop, the term that doesn’t require any introduction for itself, being the Number 1 tool for designing, editing, composition, blending etc. But just imagine the cost of Photoshop Cs3, it would be approx 625-650$. After buying it, you need to install it and then you will be permitted to access. But 650$, is this amount affordable for everyone?

Surely, its bit tough and paining task to buy a Software that’s only meant for designing, editing. But 650$ will not be matter if your are the expert with that tool and also if you are a designer who keeps on working on it, as many professionals were making lots of money with it. Of-course its being the No1 in the Business though, if you are having the alternatives for it, which were available freely in the market definitely everyone will opt the free one’s though there may be loaded with minimal features when compared to the Photoshop.

I have collected the 5 Online Tools that which can be considered as Alternatives for Photoshop for editing you Photos.

Flauntr
Splashup
Pixlr
PickMagick
Pixer.us

Flauntr :

FlauntR is a free online photo editor with photo editing features similar to photoshop. Store and share your photos online, create slideshows and printing. Visit this page for what does this offers. FlauntR is a slick new tool that is almost everything what you want in a photo editor.

Splashup :

Splashup is the only full-featured, free range, image editor online. Create new images, edit existing images and manipulate layers with filters, layer effects and brushes almost every feature of Photoshop will be available in this Online tool. This is the home page of Splashup. You are also given provision to use Splashup Light which is lighter version and is compatible of running on any computer as well as your mobile PC’s.

Pixlr :

Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Manage your images in your browser, Edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration needed, its absolutely free. View the direct application here.

PickMagick :

PicMagick is an online photo editor that enables you to make ordinary photos look wonderful within a few clicks. It will surprise you how fabulous your photos can be and how easily this can be done. View the direct application here.

Pixer.us :

Pixer.us is a great online photo editing tool which is free and easy to use. Pixer.us safety info and online photo editing, editing photos online, digital photo processing suggestions.

Do you know of any other similar alternatives for Photoshop? Do let us know through your comments.

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Retweet, F Share & Google Buzz buttons on your Blog without plugins.

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 12:57 AM PST

The motive of all three popular buttons is to share our idea with a community, people and friends on twitter, facebook and other social networking sites. These buttons show a neat count of the number of times your blog post has been shared.

Why the available Plugins shouldn’t be used ?

Plugins have a bunch of codes and images, which inturn increases loading time of your site.
It takes some extra space on your server.
All plugins are based or we can say designed on I Frame. This I frame results into error when tested on W3C validator.
The customization of the share buttons is impossible with plugins.

How to use share scripts?

Be sure to place the following code in your template page (within index.php, single.php, and /or page.php) or as per your requirement.

1) For Retweet button:

Go to home.php or index.php place the code before or after : <?php the_content() ?>

tweetmeme_source = ‘<the name what you want to display before retweet post>’;

tweetmeme_style = ‘<size style>’;

tweetmeme_url = ‘<the post permalink>”;

</script>

For customization of the retweet button use the following scripts:

Script	Renders this button	Size
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script>		57×57 pixels
<script src=”http://www.twittlink.com/tools/button_b.js” type=”text/javascript”/></script>		57×57 pixels
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://widgets.backtype.com/tweetcount.js”></script		57×57 pixels
<script src=”http://twittley.com/button/button.js”></script>		57×57 pixels

Changing the URL Shortener used

We have also added the ability to use a URL shortener of your choice instead of our default one.

If you would like to do this then you need to include the "tweetmeme_service" parameter as shown below:

2) For facebook share count buttons:

Again go to home.php or index.php, place the code before or after <?php the_content() ?>

The above script will render a normal share count button within a post.

You can also try this,

Using this code	Renders this button	Size
<a name=”fb_share” type=”box_count” share_url=”YOUR_URL”></a>		57×57 pixels
<a name=”fb_share” type=”button_count” share_url=”YOUR_URL”></a>		96×18 pixels
<a name=”fb_share” type=”button” share_url=”YOUR_URL”></a>		56×18 pixels
<a name=”fb_share” type=”icon_link” share_url=”YOUR_URL”>Share</a>		51×15 pixels
<a name=”fb_share” type=”icon” share_url=”YOUR_URL”></a>		18×15 pixels

As for example
share_url= <?php the_permalink() ?>

Now its depends up to you that where you want to place the buttons. For doing this
Just put all the code within a <div> </div> and apply some CSS according to its placement.

3: ) How to use Google buzz

Go to home.php or index.php, place the code before or after <?php the_content() ?>

<a href=”http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<post permalink>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&srcURL=<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow external”>

The following code will display the compact size of google buzz button.
The only thing is that make sure that URL have your post permalink.
As For Example: -
url=<?php the_permalink() ?>

You can change the default image according to your requirement, For high Resoultion Google Buzz Icons click here.

This is my first post, thanks for reading. Suggestions and feedback’s are most welcome.

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