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I've just joined the Premium program on TutsPlus.com. It contains a lot of very useful and smart text and video tutorials. Personally I interested in Web Development, Photoshop, After Effects and Vector tutorials.

Welcome to review free stuff there. Premium membership with more advanced content costs $9 per month (or $22 per three months).

Sometimes it isn't convenient to send long links. You can make them shorter using a
short URL service.

For example you can do it with TinyURL.com

My long link was:

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?page=1&gallery_id=118036&sort_meth...

I've converted it to the shorter one:

http://tinyurl.com/apml2c

Nice, isn't it? :) You can even embed the following mini form into your website:

Thanks to VectorTuts for
Free vector browser screens.

Yesterday I purchased Blokus Classics, it is a great strategy board game. Of course this entry looks as a piece of advertisement, but I don't care :)

The rules are so easy to learn (you can explained it to your granny in 2 minutes) and the game process is very exciting.

You can try this game on-line for free on the
official website.

And learn more about it on
Wikipedia.

Cheers!

This Color IQ Test from x-rite allows you to check your hue perception, just rag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order.

My result is 8 (the best is 0) nobody is perfect on this planet:)

Vectorika Magazine - Vector Illustrations [Free]

ArtzMania Magazine, Design Trends [Free]

Photoshop Creative - Photoshop Techniques, Tutorials, Reviews

Grafikal Magazine - Design Trends, Reviews, Photography, Illustration [Free]

Interesting video tutorials from Layers magazine about new animation tools and techniques in Adobe Flash:

Flash CS4 Animating Puppets

Flash CS4 Motion Tweening

Flash CS4 Motion Easing

Exciting flash game Light Bot.

Very useful for beginner and professional programmers.

Watch Launch Broadcast.

Speed.io allows you to test your internet connection speed.

You can compare it with my connection on the screenshot.

By the way, it doesn't detect browser properly, I use Google Chrome ;)

These three web resources will help to find free and cool audio loops (backgrounds, samples, etc...) for your flash movies:

LooperMan

Sound Loops on FlashKit