November 28, 2010
Another Christmas decoration set from Red and White Vector Christmas Decorations Fotolia’s upload.
This time Christmas holly, red background white drawings. Originary SVG files created with InkScape.
See the whole set of pictures at the Christmas Holly Pictures gallery.
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November 22, 2010
Here my last Fotolia uploads. Six simple Christmas Trees, mostly white lines on a red background.
While I hope to make some sales with micro-photostock I will use these trees to create very personalized Chirstmas cards for my friends.
Happy Christmas!
See the complete Christmas Trees, white on red background gallery.
See the complete Christmas Trees, white on red background gallery.
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September 3, 2010
Google official blog today announced that SVG files will be crawled and indexed and they will be displayed in search engine result pages.
Google states that svg files will be indexed both if standalone or embedded into HTML pages. The web is big and the process of indexing slow “so it may take some time before we crawl and index most SVG files”.
So far SVG files are not listed in the advanced Google search, in an ideal future we will be able to filter our results searching specifically for SVG.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML open standard which has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999. It defines a 2D verctor graphics object ans can be interactive and animated.
What google doesn’t say is how SVG files will be indexed: will Google crawlers read the content of the SVGs? The answer seems positive, Google’s blog suggests to type this search “HideShow site:svg-whiz.com” test the new feature: the <desc> tag of the resulting SVG pages seems to be indeed and displayed the same way traditional HTML pages are represented in result pages by the meta “description” tag.
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August 30, 2010
Yesterday the official Piwik blog has announced the availability of the first stable release of the powerful web-based web analytics software.
Piwik is an Open Source free web traffic analytics software written in PHP and MySql supported by OpenX, it’s downlodable and runs on Apache server.
It’s aim is to be “an open source alternative to Google Analytics” as claimed in the official Piwik website.
Piwik supports all the essential features of a professional web analytics tool and much more: Piwik is able to anonymously capture the visitors IPs, it is customizable with plug-ins (features not supported by more popular similar tools). Have a look at the list of Piwik’s features have a look in the Vision Roadmap page, but my suggestion is to try it directly and find out yourself the power of this open source tool.
I have been usingn piwik since its early development stage and I am glad to see it reaching the 1.0 version! As a user I can say that Piwik has a more user-friendly interface then Google Analytics: if you want to choose a tool easy to use and understand for your non-tech customers you are more likely to look at Piwik rather then Google Analytics.
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April 16, 2010
This is a brief article to introduce my new site www.hotels-wizard.com. It’s an hotel, hostel, B&B, apartment serarch engine running on a HotelsCombined affiliation platform.
Through www.hotels-wizard.com it is possible to search hotels in more then 30 accredited and well-established hotel reservation portals at once. The search for hotels will be mainly performed by city.
The reservation process follows 4 main steps:
Hotels-wizard.com is now on its 0.04 development stage: it’s already fully functional but still needs some small improvement. At the moment supports English and Chinese; in a very short time Italian will be added, ideally in a few months the site will be available in German, Spanish, French and Japanese.
A multilingual blog is also on it’s way to be online. The blog will provide useful information on holiday destinations, tips and tricks for travelers and hotel reviews.
The concept and the name of the website is a “wizard”: both is its means of magic maker (here where the slogan comes from “do the magic .. get the best deal”) and of an easy-few-steps reservation assisted procedure.
The logo is a Hotel with four coloured stars: the stars represent the “magic” of the “wizard”. A variation of the logo is the same image in a postage stamp.
All the graphics has been made using Inkscape and Gimp. The site is written in HTML with some PHP, and JavaScript.
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April 14, 2010
The 12th of April the Plink’s blog announced that the project PlinkArt has been bought by Google!
Plink is an amazing application for mobile able to recognize any famous artwork simply by taking a picture. After reading the news I couldn’t wait to try it myself! In just 4 minutes I realized how amazing and revolutionary is this software! I took my HTC Hero, opened the “Market” application, typed “Plink” on it and in 2 minutes I had PlinkArt installed on my phone … I searched for any book around me and I found “Erotism” by the french writer Bataille, after taking a snapshot of the cover using PlinkArt in 30 seconds I got a list of results: all about the paining on the book’s cover. Clicking on any of the results I was redirected to Wikipedia where I could enrich my knowledge about the famous work of art.
After my excitement for this fabulous tool I wrote this article without thinking twice, stealing 10 minutes to my daily work.
Plink runs on any Android phone. According to Wikipedia the project has been started by Mark Cummins and James Philbin and won the Education/Reference category of the Google ADC2 (Android Developer Challenge 2). The project was at first awarded by Google with a donation of 100.000 USD and finally bought by the Mountain View’s company. I suggest all those who love art to try it!
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March 2, 2010
Browsing some coffee brands on-line I have noticed the similarity in between the colour scheme of Ubuntu Linux and the branding of some popular coffees (I love both: Ubuntu and Coffee).
Here is my Coffe Beans Ubuntu logo….
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February 14, 2010
Happy Valentine’s day .. I am a disaster, all my life I made my partner crazy because I always forget of Valentine’s Day.
This year is special for many reasons, one of them is that Valentine’s Day coincide with the first day of the Year of the Tiger of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year most of young Chinese lovers have to give up the chance to have a romantic night and stay at home with their family to celebrate a much more important event… so, happy Valentine’s Day and happy Year of the Tiger (if you are tiger please take your precautions).
To celebrate this special day I spent some time drawing hearts.
Visit the Heart’s Gallery and feel free to download, play with, modify the .svg source file.
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February 11, 2010
A set of cartoon-style eggs’ sketched with Inkscape and The Gimp.
The .svg source files is free to download and manipulate to create your own “Eggs with feelings”!
See the “Eggs with feelings” entire gallery.
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See the “Eggs with feelings” entire gallery.
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September 1, 2009
Just back from a trip to Thailand, I spent few days in Bangkok and Hua Hin beach, 3 hours driving to the south.
See the complete Thailand: Bangkok, Hua Hin 2009 gallery.
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See the complete Thailand: Bangkok, Hua Hin 2009 gallery.
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