As you could have guessed, I'm a programmer. But sometimes, I really like to get creative & design things using Photoshop.

For all those Photoshop lovers out there, I created a free high resolution brush pack for Photoshop. It contains 12 super-size brushes, showing flying vector stars.

The Photoshop CS2+ version has a resolution of almost 2500 px, the CS1 and lower version are just under 1000 px. Both use the same settings as Bittbox.

You can use these stars in your striking Photoshop artwork.

A while ago, John Willis posted an article with 10 worst forms of CAPTCHAs. Yesterday, I found another form of CAPTCHA that could be added to his list. This is an image from file hosting service RapidShare.com

What do you think the four letters are?

Have you ever encountered such an aweful form of CAPTCHA like me? Show them. The Spanner created an innovative CAPTCHA called CODETCHA but is mainly focused on programmers.

A common problem in web design is having a lack of space. mfSlideBar gives you a fancy Web 2.0 solution for this problem. Simply place modules in to a nice sliding side bar on your Joomla! website. You can place any module in to this sliding sidebar and you can set your own theme / style. mfSlideBar is very flexible and comes in sliding from the left or the right of the page. Want to have a nice Web 2.0 sliding sidebar showing your modules on your website? mfSlideBar is your solution.

mfSlideBar works with Prototype.js.

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For a school project, our project team was in need of a logo. I created a simple frog logo, because it has something to do with the project we'll be working on (sorry, can't give you any more details). I'll explain here how I created it. You can also see this logo as an icon that can be used in documents.

In this tutorial I'll try to teach you the basics of the 'Pen Tool', since many people will find it hard to use it for the first time. Of course you can use this technique with other animals to create logos or icons.

To create a nice logo (or icon), most of the times you want to create it as a vector image. Adobe Illustrator is always good, but the Pen Tool from Photoshop allows you to create vectorized shapes too. So get your Pen Tool and let's start.

A drop cap is an effective way to jazz up articles on your website. It'll make your site look a bit more professional. There are several CSS techniques to achieve this, but some are not cross-browser compatible and it doesn't support every font. mfDropCaps replaces every first character of your article or paragraph with a beautiful drop cap by showing an image of the character. This technique is SEO-proof and you can create your own font by changing the images provided by mfDropCaps

mfDropCaps works with jQuery.

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