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    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/12/02/hacking-wordpress-when-you%e2%80%99ve-forgotten-your-password/

    Do you have multiple Wordpress self-hosted blogs? If so, you’ve likely run into a scenario where you just can’t remember the password to one. With Wordpress 2.5 and beyond there’s an annoying bug that sometimes generates passwords that don’t work when you click the “Forgot Password” option. Usually that button generates a query that will [...]


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    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/12/02/five-point-form-mastering-professionalism-as-a-freelance-designer/

    One thing many of my young designer friends tend to forget is that being self-taught, fast learning and full of raw talent is no guarantee to steady work. I should know because I consider myself many of those things yet for a while when I began freelancing I couldn’t get clients to save my life.
    How [...]


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    Free Wordpress Theme: Aqua Marina

    {Thursday, May 1st, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/05/01/free-wordpress-theme-aqua-marina/

    Theme: Aqua MarinaAuthor: Jon GosVersion: 0.5 RosieDescription: An original Wordpress theme.

    This was my first attempt at a bespoke wordpress theme. I created it in Photoshop then marked up to XHTML and then PHP. This is a public beta, please help me work out all the bugs and kinks by posting any errors as [...]


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    Improve Image Quality of Boonex Dolphin

    {Thursday, March 20th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/03/20/improve-image-quality-of-boonex-dolphin/

    Recently I’ve begun building a community using the open source Boonex Dolphin software CMS. One problem I was having was that, even after using the the site UI to improve image quality, it still seemed as if uploading images was ‘lossy’. After some research and a chat with the admins I came up [...]


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    More on Visualization

    {Sunday, March 16th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/03/16/more-on-visualization/

    More on data visualization which I talked about here.

    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php


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    Free Wordpress Theme - Tech Blogger

    {Monday, March 10th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/03/10/free-wordpress-theme-tech-blogger/

    Theme: Tech Blogger v1
    Author: Jon Gos
    Based on: CMS2 by Wonder
    Includes: PSDs, CSS, javascript, New Media font, all image files
    Plug-Ins: All-In-One SEO Pack, I Love Social Bookmarking, Image Scaler, User Photo and Simple Tags
    Notes: Widegtized, Validated and ready to roll!
    Download it from Mediafire

    About the Theme
    I began modifying this theme when I noticed that the author had [...]


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    48 Uses for Wordpress

    {Sunday, March 9th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/03/09/48-uses-for-wordpress/

    Want to roll your own Twitter or Feedburner? Who know of all the things you could do with WP?
    48 Uses for Wordpress


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    The Untold History of Web 2.0 Fonts Pt. 1

    {Tuesday, February 26th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/02/26/the-untold-history-of-web-20-fonts-pt-1/

    Web 2.0 and everything that came along with it has reshaped every industry it’s touched, including typography and logo design. I was compiling a list of alternative fonts for Web 2.0 when I started to wonder, “Where do all these fonts come from?”
    The result is a list of 7 or so of my favorite [...]


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    Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

    {Thursday, February 21st, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/02/21/candy-coated-photoshop-tutorial/

    In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it’ll give your website a cavity. Then I’ll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself. If you want to skip the [...]


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    Rounded Corners

    {Tuesday, February 19th, 2008}

    Permalink: http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/02/19/rounded-corners/

    In amendment to my last round up of web based design tools, I need to make sure I mention Roundpic which allows you to upload any image from your desktop or any website, and round the corners with a nifty and easy to use UI. It’s definitely at it than Photoshop. Check it [...]


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