The shit has hit the fan, or at least it will once Carl gets done with you and your website. He has a contest running over on his blog IHATEYOURWEBSITE to review your site, and the winner will receive 500 Entre Card credits. Even if you aren’t interested in entering your blog, his site is definitely worth a read or two. He takes websites and blogs apart piece by piece and talks about what he does, and doesnt like about them.

I read a recent set of articles of his about the mistakes beginning bloggers make when starting their new blog. There was some really insightful ideas and hints on how to make your blog the best it can be.

Short story long, if you have an extra few minutes check it out.

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Over at iliveonyourvisits.com they have put together a neat little quiz to test your typographical skills. The Arial vs Helvetica test. Can you tell which font is which? It’s actually alot harder than I thought.

I have tried it twice now, I did take about a week in between tests so that the answers weren’t commited to memory. The first time I took the test i scored a 5 out of 10, and then second time i scored a 6 out of 10. It is truely almost impossible to tell the difference. I’m interested to know if anyone has the ability to get 10 our of 10 on this one.

Give it a try:

Arial vs Helvetica

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THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

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This information, although widely known, and on many websites, was taken from the Australian Herald Sun. The original article can be found here Australian Herald Sun Online

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By now mostly everyone has used a photo host of one type or another. There are numerous websites to go to for your image hosting needs, however, none of them are anywhere close to as cool as RapidBin is. RapidBin combines the best of an image hosting site with the best a screenshot application can hope to offer.

Rapidbin can handle all the normal images you would expect an image host to handle. But that’s not where the real beauty of RapidBin comes in. RapidBin has a Win32 application (which means you can run it on your computer without installing it) which makes taking screenshots and uploading it a snap.

You can either take a snapshot of your entire screen, or use the “Shoot By Selection” option (which was my idea I gave to the creator coincidentally ) to select an area of your screen that you would like to screenshot. After taking the screenshot, the image is instantaneously uploaded onto the RapidBin server and the URL to the image is automatically copied to your clipboard for you paste away!

So save yourself hours of screen-shooting and editing and download the RapidBin application today!

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