Favor Done, Now Where’s MY Good Karma!?

We hear it all the time from clients or those who want to be clients; "do me a favor and..."

Favor Done, Now Where’s MY Good Karma!?

It always ends up with creatives being asked to work for free or give up something we would rather not give up. It makes us feel low, worthless and frustrated and those are feelings no human should have, especially in business. What about when it comes from other creatives? Shouldn’t we know better? Are there those that know better but take advantage of their peers?

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Understanding the Concept of ‘Copying’ in Photography

Color photography is not limited to live or solid subjects. You may occasionally be called upon to copy colored illustrations or even paintings.

Understanding the Concept of ‘Copying’ in Photography

A Faithful reproduction of an original picture or document is called “Copying” by photographic means. The original can be any printed matter. Drawings, handwritten document or continuous-tone originals like paintings, photographs, charts, engravings etc. This type of photography is not creative but it is purely technical in application. It does pose certain problems related to lighting, optics and processing.

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The Key Features of a Perfect Landing Page

Computer technology has had a huge impact on the economy and education, and the number of online transactions is escalating. This makes competition tough, although there are endless opportunities. The Internet is a world of opportunity where flowers of success grow on the trees of conversion.

The Key Features of a Perfect Landing Page

The Internet certainly is amazing; anyone can reach almost anyone else. The only hitch is that competitors abound. If you don't manage to float to the top with online charisma, millions of potential buyers will ignore what little waves you make. Today's customer is free to select, compare and analyze your products and services against those of your competitors.

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Prepare for Your Comfortable Death with These Online Tools

When most people think about preparing for their own death, they inevitably think about creating a will… it is sort of the default consideration regarding death planning. Of course, there is no question that creating a will is an enormously important step, and one that is ignored by far too many people who simply do not want to think about death. However, in the modern technological world there are many other considerations beyond a simple final will and testament!

Prepare for Your Comfortable Death with These Online Tools

For example, a significant percentage of people also do not take the time to consider the online world when they are planning for their passing. Today there is an enormous amount of information, property, finances and other important considerations that are found only online. Each of these elements must be appropriately planned for in order to confirm the appropriate utilisation and management of them after your death.

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Bait and Switch Job Seeking

Certainly there are many of us out there seeking jobs. Either we were laid off or just can't stand our employers and their weird take on employee's rights or practice of the Peter Principle and the promotion of serial incompetents and mental patients. In job searches for those who aim higher than the food service industry, the search usually entails recruiters. After God made the weasel, rat, leech and lawyer, the recruiter appeared, which is another explanation of the extinction of the dinosaurs and other species.

Bait and Switch Job Seeking

Over the past couple of years I have noticed a trend among the jobs I have fielded through recruiters – "bait and switch." They call about a position and salary that makes one's mouth water and keeps an erection for days or weeks, depending on how fast the process goes until the truth comes out.

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[Freebies] “Tweety”- High Quality Twitter Icon Set

Icons are very essential in almost any web project. Effective use of icons can easily help bridge connection between the user and the website. Websites, specially blogs and community sites, normally use icons to add social media links to their site. No matter you hate or love social networking sites, whether you want to add only a service or dozens, they always bring you visitors to your site.

[Freebies] “Tweety”- High Quality Twitter Icon Set

To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release yet another high quality twitter icon set – "Tweety" designed exclusively for iShift readers by Iconshock.

Tweety, as the name implies, is a twitter icon set. This icon set includes total 10 twitter icons in PNG and Ai versions.

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