Windowshade for Mac is Back!

Oh my, how I missed the old Mac Windowshade plugin. In the old days, Macs could collapse windows by clicking on the title bar, this was a great feature that Apple got rid of when OSX first came out. Apple really made a dumb decision my eliminating this great feature. With that said, Unsanity has created the Windowshade X, which now works with Snow Leopard. Check it out, this is a great window organizer!

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Viral Marketing: How to go viral with a video

1. Make it short: 1 minute is ideal

2. Put it on YouTube and put a link to a page you build specifically for that video and put the link at the very top of the video description.

3. Put credits at the end that mentions your web site.

4. Make the video funny and or extreme.

5. Do not disable comments, half of the fun of your video for viewers is reading the stupid comments people put on there.

6. Go ahead and sell your video or give companies the rights to use your video on television and cable. Once you go viral they will send an email to you.

7. Post the video wherever you can, such as bulletin boards, blogs, facebook and Reddit.

8. Once you start getting a lot of views, most likely you will get an email from youtube offering you to do a revenue share deal with them. You can easily earn $100/day off a video that goes viral. Also, google owns youtube, so it is in google’s best interest for your viral video with advertising to be placed prominently in the search engines.

9. Make sure that you own everything in the video including:

• Graphics and pictures (including photographs and artwork)
• Movie or TV visuals
• Video game or software visuals
• Performances (including concerts, events, and shows)
• Music (including lyrics, cover songs and background music)

If you do not own everything in the video, you will run into copyright issues that will stop your video from going viral, hamper your ability to get it on television, block the ability to earn revenue from it and possibly cause you legal problems.

10. Keep in mind that if you do google adsense, you may see an increase in your adsense revenue immediately, but don’t be confused, this revenue is from “other than youtube” revenue, like ads and web pages and such. Your youtube review will show no data for 30 to 60 days, so you won’t know how much money you are earning until 60 to 90 days after your youtube video starts showing ads.

11. You should check around youtube periodically, since people will grab your video and reupload it to their youtube account as if it is theirs. You can go to their video and flag it as being a violation of your copyright.

For more info contact: http://www.viralmarketing.biz

After Effects Project Files & More!

Checkout these great After Effects project files. There are some really nice templates to work with on this site:

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Also checkout these sites for additional templates ranging from Web to Audio:

GraphicRiver Overflows with cool graphics and fonts

AudioJungle – great tunes and sound effects

Learn mobile development with our newest Tuts+ site: Mobiletuts+

Web Templates and Themes with amazing Javascript effects

Party Hat Direct Mail Surprise

Free Direct Mail Webinar

Checkout this free webinar from Paperspecs.com, featuring foldfactory.com. Great stuff and best of all, it’s free!

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Find Icons – Search Engine for Free Icons!

I just received an email from FindIcons.com today and I have to say I am totally impressed with their quality of icon work. You should check it out. They also offer custom designed icons too.

http://findicons.com/

Fun Turkish Map Fold Holiday Card

Designer of the Month Winners for May

Checkout the Designers of the Month contest on CreativePublic.com and see the latest winners!

http://www.creativepublic.com/design-contest-05-2010.php