Ok, got a little bit distracted, but now let’s enjoy again very beautiful artworks picked from DeviantArt to help you get inspired and scan what’s fresh can be seen in these designs!

1. Inspira by AlxDesign

2. Jocoo by SencerBugrahan

3. EG-Layout Web 2.0 by ejsing

4. Moodbase by sinthux

5. Book Store by downsign

Different ancient style from modern ones, but very relevant – website for Ancient book store, beautiful work!

6. One Three V2 by BboyWicked

Check out live website of this design too at 1Three.

7. Hypowired by sinthux

You can buy this theme actually and check out live demo too. Definitely worth more than 30$! Very inspiring design!

8. Plush by AlxDesign

Very nice design, and you can check live demo here and even buy it there!

9. My Portfolio by SencerBugrahan

10. LedTek by hinok

Check out also live version of this outstanding design here!

11. Art4you by ECP-Pro

12. New freebiesdock.com design by kac2or

Possible new FreebiesDock design – though their current design seems for me better, this one is still very beautiful!

13. Eyebrid by sinthux

Soon this website should be seen live at EyeBrid.com! Nicely done!

14. Greenfolio by CoronaLemon

15. Echo.com by ECP-Pro

16. Hydro Quebec by niponwar

17. Trillium by Nas-wd

18. FreeLance by SencerBugrahan

19. Partly temporary by tehacesequence

20. Zimo by zee7

21. Milostudy by DouglasEltz

22. Video by SencerBugrahan

23. Info CMS by Narayanan

24. Model by lluck

25. grochowicz.pl by gluszczenko

Very clean and clear design, you can check online version of this site here!

26. ForeSight by pcholewa

27. Music Shop by pcholewa

28. PlugHD by jamesmtb

29. BlackNews by SencerBugrahan

30. Freschwimmer by CoronaLemon

31. ECO Insect by Lbr0skc

32. Qarstar Design by Qarstar

33. Grabzer by alighandour

34. 490 -The Layout by detrans

35. SuitJunky by night-m4re

36. Empati Design by SencerBugrahan

37. Kosetasi Web Interface by ThanRi

38. Guitar by Merendil

39. SimpleSolution by acidflow

40. CubeProductions by vanmall

41. Photo-Folio by S-a-t-i-n-e

42. 8Pixels Studio by arakros1

43. Pencilpress theme by gdnz

44. Miasma by Sunjo

45. ATAK Interactive – Unofficial by Bugx0r

46. Business theme by prkdeviant

You can check demo to this clean design here.

The first deliveries of Street Fighter IV begin tomorrow, and I can’t wait to pick up my copy from Game Stop. Many of you are also on the waiting list for the Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Arcade Sticks, but my suggestion is to build you own!

Using genuine Street Fighter cabinet parts available from Happ, and a Xbox 360 wireless control, you can build you own custom Street Fighter arcade stick for half the cost of a Mad Catz version.

Pictured above is one I built and will be using to kick some serious butt!

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice fell from fourth place last year to seventh place. Former US first lady and Democratic presidential contender, Senator Hillary Clinton was ranked 28th by the magazine — three places lower than last year.

Runner-up in the rankings was the little known Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the US agency that “maintains the stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system by insuring deposits, supervising financial institutions, and managing receiverships.”

The third-place finisher was Indra Nooyi, chief executive of US softdrink giant, PepsiCo, who was one of 54 business leaders on the list.

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, one of 23 politicians on the list, is in 13th place.

Other notable women on the list include French Economy, Finance and Employment Minister Christine Lagarde, in 14th place; Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, head of the Indian National Congress Party, ranked 21st; and Queen Rania of Jordan, in 96th place.

Six of the top 10 women are American, with the remaining four from Germany, Australia, Singapore and France.

Four famous Chinese women who made into the list were: Zhang Xin, Chief executive officer and co-founder of Soho China (68), Yang Mian Mian, president of China’s home appliance giant Haier(70), Eva Cheng, chief executive of Greater China and Southeast Asia of Amway(88) and Jing Ulrich, chairman and managing director of JPMorgan Chase China Equities(95).

Top ten most powerful women:

Angela Merkel

Sheila C. Bair

Indra K. Nooyi

Angela Braly

Cynthia Carroll

Irene B. Rosenfeld

Condoleezza Rice

Ho Ching

Anne Lauvergeon

Anne Mulcahy (via chinadaily.com.cn)

In short, Miro is a video “podcatcher”—software that uses video feeds to automatically download new episodes for you and keep track of what you’ve watched and not watched. Kind of like an inbox for your video subscriptions, here’s what Miro looks like with a few subscriptions set up.

- Life Hacker

via: LifeHacker

Face your manga is a flash tool allows you to create an avatar for you or your friends in a few steps. You can choose face type, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hairs, clothes, etc which match your face features. Once you finished selecting, it will ask your email address to sent your avatar as an attachment. Download the attachment and you can use as avatar in your IMs!

You are not always the smartest person in the room

Before the dot-com bubble burst I worked at a job where one of my co-workers made sweeping claims about voice recognition. In a short time we would all be speaking to our computers and PDAs, surfing the Internet with glee, and without a keyboard. I questioned the validity of his claims, and was met with staunch resistance. How could he possibly be wrong? He had been to a conference! Several similar predictions were made in the months to follow. None came true.

If you find yourself in a similar situation, recognize that you could be wrong, and that you are not always the smartest person in the room. Being willing to consider the alternative will demonstrate more intelligence than thinking you know everything about everything.

Experience does count for something

Writers hate to hear other writers who claim this to be true. So do developers. However, I find that those who have accomplished a task on a previous project, will be more productive when completing the same (or a similar task) on a future project. When stated clearly, it does seem obvious, but developers still argue that our intellect should be enough to guide us to the correct solution. It might guide us there, but the path is treacherous.

The fact is, experience does count for something. Instead of letting jealousy reign supreme, trust in the experience of others and make it your own. Ask questions, get feedback, and admit to your peers when you make mistakes.

There is no silver bullet

Zealots. Every language, framework and OS has them. There is nothing wrong with being passionate, but the belief that any one of these technologies, frameworks, design patterns or languages can solve all your problems on every project is misguided. I used to scoff at job descriptions that required Web developers to have some experience in almost every major language of the day. Now I know why at least some familiarity with each of these languages is important; because there is no silver bullet.

Serious developers may become advocates, but they never become fundamentalist zealots. Unless you work for a software as services company, and it is your job to evangelize the product, be open-minded and willing to change.

The new cool is not always cool

Being pegged as a maintenance resource is a drag. Being known as the developer who always has to have the latest-and-greatest is worse. Working with new technologies and applications is exciting, but on occasion the new cool is not always so cool. Suggesting a tried-and-true approach for a project can lead to smaller budgets, shorter timelines and a happy client. The vast majority of users who use the Web site or Web application that you build will also thank you for sticking to established norms.

Instead, be vigilant about researching new trends in Web development. When the opportunity arises to present an alternative, or just start fresh, then you can push for change. If available, be ready to present case studies that detail how the new technology helped a similar project.

Not every battle is worth fighting

There are times, deep down in my gut when I know I am right. Regardless of the discipline or the nature of the argument, I just know it. It is likely that as a Web developer, with so many disciplines and personalities thrown into the mix, that you have experienced the same feeling. I used to fight each of these battles tooth and nail. I have learned that presenting a viewpoint that is descriptive and untainted by emotions is all that is necessary.

Even though your opinion might not be taken into account, you need to learn to allow others to make mistakes, and let management place discipline leads in charge. Your colleagues will remember your concerns, and you will receive recognition (in the least) for being open to other ideas.

(via reindel.com)

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness–that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what- at last- I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flu. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Changelog:
Added new getSize method to DOMUtils it will return the dimensions only of an element.
Added new alert/confirm methods to the tinyMCEPopup class to prevent focus problems and also to shorten method calls.
Added new plugin_preview_inline option to preview plugin to enable/disable native/inline dialogs.
Added new readonly option. If this is set the editor will only display the contents for the user.
Added missing tabindex and accesskey to input elements in the default valid_elements setup.
Updated firebug lite to 1.2, to enable it use the tiny_mce_dev.js?debug=1 on the development package.
Fixed so the preview dialog in the preview plugin uses inline dialogs/popups.
Fixed so CDATA sections remains intact through the serialization process of the DOM tree.
Fixed various issues with the getAttrib command. It will now return more correct values.
Fixed bug where the embed element wasn’t properly parsed in the media plugin it now supports 3 formats.
Fixed bug where the noshade attribute was serialized incorrectly on IE.
Fixed bug where editing an existing link element didn’t force it relative.
Fixed bug where image link creation fails on Safari if the image is aligned.
Fixed bug where it was possible to scroll the fullscreen mode in Opera 9.50.
Fixed bug where removal of center image alignment would fail. Patch contributed by Andrew Ozz.
Fixed bug where inlinedialogs didn’t work properly if the doctype was incorrect in IE.
Fixed bug where cross domain loading didn’t work correctly in Opera 9.50.
Fixed bug where breaking huge text blocks with return/enter key would scroll to end of block.
Fixed bug where replace button kept inserting the replacement text even if there is no more matches.
Fixed bug with fullpage plugin where value wasn’t set correctly. Patch contributed by Pascal Chantelois.
Fixed bug where the dom utils setAttrib method call could produce an exception if the input was null/false.
Fixed bug where pressing backspace would sometimes remove one extra character in Gecko browsers.
Fixed bug where the native confirm/alert boxes would move focus to parent document if fired in dialogs.
Fixed bug where Opera 9.50 was telling you that the selection is collapsed even when it isn’t.
Fixed bug where mceInsertContent would break up existing elements in Opera and Gecko.
Fixed bug where TinyMCE fails to detect some keyboard combos on Mac, contributed by MattyRob.
Fixed bug where replace all didn’t move the caret to beginning of text before searching.
Fixed bug where the oninit callback wasn’t executed correctly when the strict_loading_mode option was used, thanks goes to Nicholas Oxhoej.
Fixed bug where a access denied exception was thrown if some other script specified document.domain before loading TinyMCE.
Fixed so setting language to empty string will skip language loading if translations are made by some backend.
Fixed so dialog_type is automatically modal if you use the inlinepopups plugin use dialog_type : “window” to re-enable the old behavior.