In this tutorial I’ll explain how to take your WordPress theme to a new level and detach it from the typical blog type template. By mastering this technique the possibilities are endless.

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In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how using PHP, you can display different tile tags depending on what page is displayed to the user. This is an example of how you can customise your Wordpress theme to suit your needs.

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A friend of mine asked me how he can free up some space on his hard disk. With these simple tips I gave him, he managed to free up 50 GB from his hard disk! In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do it!

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In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create a dramatic landscape from a rather dull photo I took when I was visiting Mount Athos in less than 5 minutes. The concepts you’ll learn in this tutorial apply to any image you want to manipulate. You can also experiment with the numbers yourself, to get a different result.

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Neutral Density graduated filters (ND Grads) are a necessary accessory for scenery photographers (landscapes, waterscapes etc). These filters help managing the contrast in high contrast scenes. The filter reduces the amount of light coming in from a bright sky for example, bringing back detail and the lost colour. Here is a photo I took earlier, to show you how the sky is displayed with and without the ND Grad.

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A tutorial on how to create a professional autoplay CD with Adobe Flash and run programs from within it, such as: MS Word, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer. I’m showing you the basic concept and you can take it further on. I also explain how to overcome problems, such as different driver names, path directories and more!
All that with only Adobe Flash and no expensive external software or scripts.

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I always found animated emoticons hilarious. Even funnier are animated emoticons of yourself or emoticons of your friends! In this lengthy tutorial I’ll show you how to create such emoticons and add them to your favourite messenger, if it supports gif files.

Here’s what we’ll be creating:

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