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Everything else has a score measurement system, why not Twitter?  Ever wanted to know how you rank on Twitter?  Now you can find out for yourself using Twitter Score!  This fun online service will tell you your score on Twitter, depending on your follower, rank, friends and updates.

As an example, we did a quick testing of @lunarpages to see how we score.  Right now we have a 6.55 out of 10, which puts us above average.

Is this important?

Not so much.  It is more for fun than anything else – to see how you rank in the world of tweeters out there.  Want to know who is on top right now?  Check out the top Twitter scores here.

Here is a little more about how the scoring system works from the developers:

Twitter Score bases scores of Twitter users on three factors: friends, followers and frequency of updates. Based on the quantities of all three scores, a score between 0.01 and 10.00 is produced.

In order to make the scoring fair, the bottom 30% of those scored are offered a handicap, and the top 10% of those scored are weighted down to make the playing field level.

What does your Twitter Score say about you?  Let us know in the comments after you go check out twtscore.com.

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Original post by Amy Armitage

Looking for a fun way to spend a few extra minutes of your day?  If you are looking for an escape from your Monday morning blues – give Gartic a try.  This web-based drawing game is a lot of fun.

The idea here is to join a room, and then have everybody take turns guessing what one person is trying to draw.  Each round a word is given to a player and that player must draw it, the best they can.  When the word is guessed, both the guessing playing and the player that is drawing the image gets points. 

Think of it as playing Pictionary on the Web with a bunch of strangers.  Go give it a shot, at http://www.gartic.net/.

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Original post by Mitch

Looking for a fun way to spend a few extra minutes of your day?  If you are looking for an escape from your Monday morning blues – give Gartic a try.  This web-based drawing game is a lot of fun.

The idea here is to join a room, and then have everybody take turns guessing what one person is trying to draw.  Each round a word is given to a player and that player must draw it, the best they can.  When the word is guessed, both the guessing playing and the player that is drawing the image gets points. 

Think of it as playing Pictionary on the Web with a bunch of strangers.  Go give it a shot, at http://www.gartic.net/.

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Original post by Mitch

Who doesn’t love a cupcake or two? 

In celebration of National Cupcake Day, I give you some web site tips that will be sure to leave your web development sweet tooth wanting more.

Socialize Yourself

There are many easy ways you can plug your social profiles or micro-blogging services out there.  Here we have a source that will give you cute icons for the following social networks:  Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, MySpace, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and Twitter.

How to Embed a YouTube Playlist

Thanks to relist.tv, you can now deliver a nice flash playlist player for your YouTube videos.  How does it work?  Well, after visiting relist.tv, you just fill out the options and then grab the code to copy and paste into your site’s design.

Tons of WordPress Fun

For our WordPress using clients, these tasty links will be the icing on the cake.

• 25 Most Popular Twitter Plugins for WordPress
• Add Fixed Social Buttons to WordPress
• 4 Great Wooden WordPress Themes

Is that not enough?  Ok, let us top it off with 55 of my favorite WordPress plugins and the best blog hosting guide out there.

May you all have a very fun and fattening cupcake day!

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Original post by Mitch

By Mitch “Billy Mays is an Icon” Keeler

If Billy Mays was here, he would tell you to write a good headline you have to use exiting words, sell yourself and yell a lot get your message across.

So I am here to share with you headline writing, the way I think Billy Mays would want you to do it.

Use Amazing Keywords and Teases!

Learn to use big and important keywords in your titles and headlines.  Certain words seem to draw in more interest than others.  Do you want to look at the tips or the “top” tips.  Do you want a list of tools or a list of “amazing” tools.  Look at the world of infomercial advertising and mold it to fit your own needs.  You know why those woman’s magazines often have the corniest headlines?  Cause they draw in eyeballs.  More people are going to read a page titled “The 10 Best Ways to Keep Your Man Happy” rather than “An Discussion of Relationships with Men”.

Don’t Forget to Stay on Message!

Now that you have gotten into the habit of dolling up your headlines with a few more adjitives, it is time for tip number two.  Make sure you do your best to stay focused on the content of your page.  Don’t tell me you have something that you don’t have, and don’t forget to include something you do have.

Now who says you can’t learn anything from an infomercial?

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Original post by Mitch

By Mitch “Likes to Paint” Keeler

Want to do some learning this weekend?  Well I have for you 20 awesome Paint.net Tutorials that will take you from a paint.nobody to a Paint.net master!

Scotch Tape - Create a transparent segment of scotch tape

Kiosk Orbs - Learn how to make your own digital displays for products.  Might be good for an Online store or logos.

Create a Picture Film Strip - You remember film right?  That neat stuff they put in cameras before they went digital?  Create your own reel of film for your own graphic designs.

Glossy/Glass Buttons - Create Web 2.0-like glassy buttons

Toy Car - Turn a real car into a toy car

Make a Chain - How to render individual links, then link them together to form a chain

Make a Bubble - Feeling a little bubbly?  This Paint.NET tutorial will show you the best way to make your own bubble graphics, without the mess of sticking a bar of soap in your CD drive.

Create Fire, Scare Cavemen - Fire bad?  No, fire good!  Learn to make your own fire digital effect.

Easy Way to Make an Eyeball - Using a few plugins and some creativity, you can turn that flat eye image into an eyeball.  Great for Halloween! (who doesn’t love a huge eyeball?)

Process of Antiquing - Make new images look like they are hundreds of years old.

Easier Image Cutting - Ever wanted to cut one thing out of an image?  I do this often for some of the icons I have created.

How to make a Lightsaber - Use lighting and blur effects to render a Lightsaber in

Transparent Background - Make the background of an image transparent

Cutting out Images the Easy Way! v2 - Great method for cutting images out of pictures

LiteBrite(TM) Effect - Transform your pictures into coloured peg-board style images

Lets Make a Software Box - Transform flat images into 3D boxes

Drop Shadows - Add depth to your artwork with drop shadows

New & Improved 3D Text/Logo Tutorial! - Create your own flashy 3-D logo and text.  Works best with simple images and ideas, but lots of fun to play with and try out.

Make a Sunset - If your photography skills are lacking, you could always turn to the digital effects. Make a sunset of your very own with this tutorial.

Polaroid Collage - Create a stack of Polaroid-like pictures digitally.

You can pick up Paint.net for free at GetPaint.net.  It is one of the best free graphic programs out there today.

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Original post by Mitch

I’m the last one who will wait on a line to glorify Google. If you search Daw blog on “Google” related keywords you’ll find some very critical reviews about Google products and policies. But all those are part of the game. They don’t devaluate Google as a company or depreciate its achievements, and leading role […]

Original post by D.Avramov

You can find some articles in Daw blog where I’m very critical about Google’s policies. I must admit however that the search engine did a lot to deliver relevant search results to its users. Another thing Google should do is to reform its blog search results.
When you go to Search Engine’s blog section and type any […]

Original post by D.Avramov

You can find some articles in Daw blog where I’m very critical about Google’s policies. I must admit however that the search engine did a lot to deliver relevant search results to its users. Another thing Google should do is to reform its blog search results.

When you go to Search Engine’s blog section and type […]

Original post by D.Avramov

It is new, I don’t know how new, but I’ve seen it a few days ago. I’m talking about Googles decision to display “News results for…”, a news titiles related to search terms web surfers type in the G’s search bar. These go almost on top of first page with results (SERP). The system of the […]

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