Month: December 2005

WilliamS send us a great picture regarding the recent racial clashes in Cronulla Beach / Australia. The pic will tell the whole story 🙂
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I am sure that all web hosts would like to lower the CPU load of their servers, shorten page load times, and boost overall performance. Whether it be to increase profit margin by packing in more customers or to get a Celeron 1.7Ghz handle a popular forum, we can all benefit from server optimization. Below is a compilation of some methods one may use to optimize a web server to serve web pages faster and lower the overall CPU load on the box. The following are some of the best procedures a web host can do to optimize his or her web server
Continue reading Web Server Optimization Guide for CentOS – RedHat

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing graphical images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. MRTG is based on Perl and C and works under UNIX and Windows NT. MRTG is being successfully used on many sites around the net.
Continue reading Install MRTG for RHE or CentOS & cPanel

How can I get mailman and qrunner to not start by default on my cPanel server ?
No one uses them and this is just eating up ram.
Continue reading How can I get mailman and qrunner to not start by default?

In this Photoshop Tutorial we will learn about realistic shadows. When you see an object in a spotlight or a setting sun, you will notice the long shadows that are created behind them, this technique will teach you how to add realism to your images.
Continue reading Cast Shadow Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop

In this Photoshop Tutorial we will learn about creating the 3D look using channels. By creating a bump map and transfering it to an alpha channel, unexpected results can follow.
Continue reading Channels to create 3D effects Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial covers the “Anime Bead” effect.
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In this Photoshop Tutorial we will be creating a double bevelled outline.
Continue reading Bevelled Outlinel Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial covers Collaging – Merging 2 images with a layer mask. You will learn how to seamlessly blend 2 images together, using the layer masks
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In this Photoshop Tutorial we are going to create a photorealistic brick wall. First we will make the brick pattern, then we add the texture and then tweak it a bit to create a realistic brick wall
Continue reading Brick Wall Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop