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Filed under: Design, Social Software, Web

Carbonmade - free online portfolio for designers


Carbonmade is a online site where designers can show their work in a ready made online portfolio. The site is easy to get around and perfect for designers who don't care to manage their own domain and website. A free account will provide you with 5 projects to show and a total of 35 images. Their pro plan is $12 per month, gets you 50 projects, 500 hi-res image uploads and 12 videos.

The site is stupid easy to manage and you can tag your projects so they show up in different design categories like graphic design, 3D modeling, copywriting, etc. If you're trying to get freelance work, you can click a setting to show that. There's also the capability to add your Google Analytics account number to your portfolio to monitor web traffic to your site.

The more projects you have, the higher your portfolio appears in the various design category pages. Carbonmade is not ad supported so the non cluttered space is nice. Of course, you may also want to consider other design communities like DeviantArt, Creattica and Behance, or better yet, try them all for the exposure.

What other creative sites for the design professional are some of your favorites?

Filed under: Design, Mozilla, Browsers

Fast forward to 4.0 with a new Firefox theme

Not long ago a DeviantArt user put together a Firefox 3/3.5 theme based on Mozilla's concept for Firefox 3.7. Want to go the extra .3 and jump ahead to version 4? Take a look at Strata40.

By using the them in conjunction with a few Firefox addons - All Glass, Personal Menu, Fission, Omnibar, and Stylish - and following some lengthy but simple instructions you'll have yet another slick, futuristic look for your browser. The complete rundown is available on SpewBoy's DevArt page. I didn't adhere strictly to the 4.0 look (I added bookmarks and downloads buttons), but you're free to tweak the layout to your liking.

As before, don't forget to change the FF window title text using Titlebar Tweak or Nightly Tester Tools to make the illusion even more believable. You'll need NTT anyway to get the theme working on Firefox 3.6, so you may as well have some fun with it.

[via Tweaking with Vishal]

Filed under: Design, Windows, Freeware, Mods

Get the Vista sidebar in XP

Vista Sidebar on XPWhile Vista has now been available for almost two years now, there are a lot of people that are happily sticking with XP, myself included. And while there aren't enough flashy features to tempt me to switch to Vista, one that I do like the look of is the Vista sidebar. Happily, deviantart user joshoon has posted a package that allows you to install the real Vista sidebar on your Windows XP computer.

Installing the sidebar consists of installing three packages: Alky for Applications, Windows Sidebar Installer, and Gadget Extractor. Alky for Applications is where the magic happens allowing Vista-specific software to run under XP. An interesting side-effect of installing the Windows Sidebar Installer is that the Vista-specific fonts are added to your XP installation.

Because this is an XP-compatible version of the actual Vista sidebar rather than a copy, all of the widgets that you could install in Vista will work on XP.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: OS Updates, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, How-Tos, Mods

Vista-ize your XP theme, naturally

VistaMax Theme on XPEver get those"blue-bar" blues that everyone seems to have? Do you have that itch for another style to add some variety to your every day Windows monotony? have you ever wanted your XP to look like Vista without having to actually install Vista? If you answered yes to any of the following questions, then this post might be for you! There is a way to get other themes for XP, without having to using those third-party apps like WindowBlinds that tend to hog memory. TechRecipes has a great article on how to do this, not to mention a few different methods to try for different XP service packs. The best one, that worked for me was to download the "UXTheme Multipatcher" which changes a small file on your computer. Then, you can download any theme you want from places like DeviantArt to get a custom skinned version of XP, the (almost) natural way. VistaMax (from DeviantArt) is the best Vista theme I have found. It comes in three flavors (all in one download), blue, gray, and my personal favorite, black. Enjoy!

Please note that any changes you make to your system could cause an instability, so proceed with caution. Use this patch at your own risk.

[Via TechRecipes.com]

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