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Landscape Design is Not Complete without Outdoor Lighting

tbgraphics — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:37:42 +0000

It is easy to spend thousands of dollars having a yard elegantly designed and landscaped. Walkways are constructed, flower color schemes are planned, proper shrubbery is chosen and countless other details are worked out in order to turn a design that looks great on paper into a realistic achievement. However one design element that should not be overlooked is outdoor lights. Ornate flowers shrubs and retaining walls look great during the day, but vanish at night. A great selection of exterior lights will make a beautifully landscaped yard enjoyable day and night. The selections for lights are wide and varying ranging from solar to low voltage, flood lights to in-ground lights and even lamp post lighting, so planning and consideration are critical. However once a style is selected there are many places online that has huge selections and great prices on landscape lighting. If you are choosing lights for a large yard, shopping around can be very important as it is not too difficult to spend a lot of money on lights and it is easy to get carried away. But the reward for choosing a great set will be worth the effort and the ability to enjoy a well manicured yard at night further justifies the money spent.

Twitrounds Introduces Custom Twitter Backgrounds To Give Twitter Users Branding Opportunities

tbgraphics — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:15 +0000

(PRWEB) November 19, 2009 — Twitrounds, a site offering free Twitter backgrounds, has recently launched a custom Twitter background (http://twitrounds.com/custom-twitter-background/) section where Twitter users can order professional-looking Twitter backgrounds to start branding their profiles and promoting their products or services. The site currently offers over 500 free Twitter backgrounds in a range of styles created by a team of qualified designers.

Pamela Abolian, creative director of twitrounds, explains that “custom Twitter backgrounds are great ways of leveraging the power of Twitter. There are millions of people around the world using Twitter and companies, websites as well as individuals can take advantage of this opportunity to promote themselves.”

The team at twitrounds directly consults with clients to ensure the custom backgrounds meet the needs of their companies or personal sites. Photos, logos and contact information can be directly displayed on the background. Twitrounds aims to give people the chance to start making their profiles unique with a big impact on viewers.

The team at twitrounds invites Twitter users to visit their site to view samples of custom Twitter backgrounds and to start reaching out to followers.

For additional information on this site, visit twitrounds for free Twitter backgrounds (http://twitrounds.com/) and custom Twitter backgrounds.

About twitrounds:

Twitrounds was established to provide high quality twitter backgrounds for all Twitter lovers for free. The site makes creative and appealing backgrounds for Twitter users to install along with professional custom Twitter backgrounds for branding purposes. Twitrounds currently has over 500 free backgrounds and new ones are added daily.

twitrounds.com is not affiliated with Twitter.

New Health Insurance Website Quotes Unconventional Health Plans

tbgraphics — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:05:03 +0000

Online health insurance quote engine Whataquote.com has added free quoting of guaranteed issue health insurance plans to their website. Known for primarily quoting major medical health plans and life insurance, Whataquote.com is giving insurance shoppers access to a little known type of health insurance that does not discriminate agains people who have pre-existing conditions. For many years people who suffered from pre-existing conditions either did not have insurance available to them or had to pay extremely high premiums to obtain insurance.

Guaranteed issue plans guarantees that everybody can have access to a plan. Everyone qualifies and can receive most of the standard benefits you get with a major medical plan such as accident coverage and emergency room visits. So now anyone looking for cheap health insurance, but just cant qualify for a full coverage has an option.

Adopt-a-Pet.com and Shepard Fairey Announce “Lead By Example” Limited Edition Print to Help Homeless Pet Cris

tbgraphics — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:34:53 +0000

(PRWEB) September 24, 2009 — Following the tremendous response to the original red and blue Limited Edition ADOPT image release earlier this year, Adopt-a-Pet.com (http://www.adoptapet.com), North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption web service, announces the upcoming gold and black Shepard Fairey “Lead By Example” print release.

“Homeless pets urgently need us to take the lead and speak out on their behalf, now more than ever,” said Shepard Fairey. “The ‘Lead By Example’ ADOPT image is a powerful one and it is my hope that this new print will give people a way to advocate for these animals and show their support for pet adoption.”

According to Adopt-a-Pet.com Spokesperson Dr. Pia Salk (http://www.drpiasalk.com), who initiated the ongoing collaboration with Fairey, “The ‘Lead By Example’ image is really a call to action to raise awareness for the plight of shelter animals nationwide. Shepard’s dedication to all victims of injustice, regardless of species, provides an example of what it means to ‘Lead By Example.’”

Salk added, “The economic downturn is hitting these animals harder than ever. Record numbers of loyal family pets are being relinquished to already overcrowded shelters. And budget cuts further compound the tragedy, as shelters are now getting even less funding to provide needed care.”

California budget cuts recently led to a suspension of The Hayden Law, a bill that required California shelters to hold all incoming animals for a minimum of four to six days. The reduction to a one to three day hold gives lost and relinquished pets even less chance to be found or to secure safety before they are in danger of being killed.

“Sadly, these innocent animals are paying the price for our crisis with their lives. We at Adopt-a- Pet.com are more committed than ever to getting the millions of great shelter animals currently waiting to be adopted, seen, saved and into loving homes. Proceeds from the print purchase will help support pet adoption,” said Salk.

Signed/numbered screen prints (http://muttslikeme.adoptapet.com/get_image/index.html) (limited edition run of 400) will go on sale Thurs., Sept. 24 at a random time. The first red/blue ADOPT print by Shepard Fairey sold out in under 90 minutes, so this latest version is also predicted to go fast. Each print will be numbered and signed by Shepard Fairey and priced at $200 each.

T-shirts, dog bandanas and stickers (http://muttslikeme.adoptapet.com/get_image/index.html) with the ADOPT image are also available for those who wish to show their support for this lifesaving cause. To purchase Shepard Fairey ADOPT print and merchandise and to sign up for alerts of future print sales, visit http://www.adoptapet.com and click the link to sign up.

About Adopt-a-Pet.com (http://www.adoptapet.com):

Adopt-a-Pet.com (http://www.adoptapet.com) (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) is North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website, helping over 7,000 animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies advertise their homeless pets to adopters for free. Adopt-a-Pet.com (http://www.adoptapet.com) displays photos and descriptions of adoptable pets to over 1.5 million people seeking to adopt a pet each month, and is funded by the passionate pet lovers at Purina and North Shore Animal League America. Aside from being able to adopt a dog or adopt a cat, Adopt-a-Pet.com visitors may now also adopt a rabbit, horse, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, farm-type animals and other small pets.

Thank goodness for guaranteed issue health plans

tbgraphics — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:32:42 +0000

First of all, a guaranteed issue health insurance plan is not a major medical health insurance policy and therefore only covers certain specified aspects of health care. For instance, it is possible to buy a personal accident indemnity plan. In this policy, the insurance company will only cover the benefits related to personal accidents, such as dislocations, burns, fractures, paralysis, surgical procedures, lacerations, comas and brain concussions that have resulted from a covered accident. This plan includes emergency room fees, follow-up treatments and hospital confinement benefits, including intensive care benefits that are a result of the covered accident. Most types of accidents are covered, but there are several exclusions as well, such as any type of accident that results while the driver is under the influence of a controlled substance or while intoxicated. Mountaineering accidents that include using ropes and/or related equipment, parachuting, or hang gliding are excluded from the policy as well as sport-related injuries for individuals that are working for a wage, including officials and coaches. These are just a few exclusions that are in the accident policy. I highly recommend reading through the exclusions section of the insurance company’s brochure before purchasing a policy. Nothing is more maddening than finding out after the fact that your insurance doesn’t cover the accident you had last week.

So who can benefit most from the guaranteed issue health plan? Any individual that cannot afford or obtain a major medical policy. This includes individuals that are considered “uninsurable” by the general market because they have cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, a heart condition or severe depression or who have had these conditions excluded from their existing medical policy. A guaranteed issue health plan can bridge the gaps created either by one’s health or by one’s finances without creating a financial nightmare. And the best part is, virtually everyone qualifies and there are no medical questions to answer, so pre-existing health conditions can not keep you from qualifying. Pretty sweet, huh?

Powerful Font Editor for Professional Graphic Designers and Hobbyists

tbgraphics — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:03:33 +0000

De Bilt, Utrecht (PRWEB) June 17, 2009 — High-Logic B.V., a leader in providing font editing software, today announces FontCreator 6, the world’s most popular font editor. This version delivers powerful tools such as direct import of both raster and vector based images. With FontCreator 6, font designers can create and modify high quality TrueType and OpenType fonts faster than ever.

Custom Fonts for Business People and Hobbyists

With FontCreator, users can tailor customized fonts to meet their needs. It’s easy to add new characters to an existing font. Users can design custom bullet points, or include a company logo and other artwork in day-to-day memos, letters, and flyers. Once converted to a fully scalable font, the characters can be typed using any text editor, word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation program.

Font Editing Powerhouse Gets Better

New features in this font editor include the ability to directly import vector-based images such as AI, EPS, and PDF; support for copying and pasting from Adobe Illustrator; and improved cubic to quadratic Bézier curve conversion.

Pro Version for Typographers and Graphic Designers

The Professional Edition of FontCreator contains features that will benefit typographers, graphic designers, font foundries, and power-users. It can create hundreds of additional characters in seconds, transform an entire set of characters into something as simple as a bold, italic, hollow, or condensed font. It can also add diacritical marks to characters, and perform automatic kerning. The Professional Edition also offers a real-time validation feature that detects and fixes easily overlooked design mistakes.

Platform and Price

FontCreator 6 runs under Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000/NT4/Me/98/95, costs $199(US) for a single-user license of the Professional Edition, and may be ordered securely online (http://www.high-logic.com/register.html) from http://www.high-logic.com/register.html. The Home Edition costs $79. A free trial version (http://www.high-logic.com/download.html) of FontCreator 6 is available from http://www.high-logic.com/download.html.

For additional information contact Erwin Denissen at erwin.denissen(at)high-logic.com or visit http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator.html.

High-Logic B.V. is a privately-held firm, headquartered in De Bilt, The Netherlands. Since 1997, High-Logic has been providing font editing and font management software to business and home users. The company’s flagship product is FontCreator, the world’s most popular font editor. In addition to FontCreator, the company also offers MainType, a powerful and intuitive font manager and Scanahand, a font generator that turns a handwriting into a font within a couple of minutes.

Yooba Goes Public — Professional Content Management System for Flash Now Ready for Commercial Use

tbgraphics — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:02:50 +0000

London, UK and Stockholm, Sweden (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 — Yooba Ltd today announced the full commercial availability of its revolutionary online Flash creation and management system, Yooba.

Yooba is a content management system (CMS) specially designed for Flash website content creation. As with CMSs for static content, Yooba puts full creative power over Flash, right down to the object level — but without the need for programming skills — into the hands of editors and others responsible for site content origination and maintenance. As Yooba behaves just like a conventional CMS, therefore, it is particularly intuitive and easy to use.

All work in Yooba is carried out via the user’s web browser, so no software installation is required. As the editing environment — Yooba Studio provides the same features and functionality of costly industry-standard professional packages, it delivers substantial operational savings — a considerable benefit when communications budgets are under pressure, but businesses still need to maintain their communication channels.

As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, there are no licensing issues with Yooba and users are always working with the latest version. The SaaS structure also gives full scalability on pricing, to suit anyone from individual professionals to enterprise companies.

Once content is created, Yooba makes the efficient management of the Flash elements straightforward, which simplifies the scheduling and publication of created and edited material. This is carried out through Yooba’s graphical admin dashboard, which gives users total control of Flash objects within a website at a glance, making it easy to update and change them as frequently as information and sales campaigns require.

David Nordin, Yooba’s Managing Director, commented, “We want to enable creation of Flash-elements to complement the static content; to visualize and enhance information. With Yooba Studio, our users can still focus on what they do best, be they designers, agencies or editors. Thanks to Yooba, they can now get their work to the web in entirely new ways. We’re bringing technology and creativity together, but with the emphasis on business values. We want to make it possible to have an increased presence and interactivity on the Internet, and with Yooba you really do get more bang for your buck.”

Cyber-Duck Wins the Horizon Interactive Award 2009

tbgraphics — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:00:57 +0000

Cyber-Duck, a multiple award winning interactive media agency today announced that is has won the prestigious, international Horizon Interactive Award 2009, for the third consecutive year.

London (PRWeb UK) May 21, 2009 — Cyber-Duck, a multiple award winning interactive media agency today announced that is has won the prestigious, international Horizon Interactive Award 2009, for the third consecutive year.

The Horizon Interactive Awards recognise outstanding achievement and excellence in media production, honouring the media projects that demonstrate the highest level of international talent.

Cyber-Duck was awarded the Bronze award in the ‘Company Identity and Self-promotion’ category after judges were impressed by the company’s new AJAX-driven website (http://www.cyber-duck.co.uk) that combines user-orientated design and quirky, vibrant flash animations with clear and concise messages.

The 8th annual Horizon awards, held in the US, received over 2000 entries from 32 countries around the world and nearly all 50 of the US States. An international panel of independent judges included top industry professionals from diverse multi-media, graphic design and marketing backgrounds. They evaluated the entries on the basis of those that presented the best blend of artistry and functionality.

This is the third consecutive year in which Cyber-Duck has won this prestigious accolade. Cyber-Duck first won the Bronze Horizon Interactive award in the ‘Company Identity and Self-promotion’ category back in 2007. In 2008 Cyber-Duck won another Bronze Horizon Interactive Award for its design and development of the Greenworks website (part of the Saint Gobain group) at www.greenworks-energy.co.uk.

Matt Gibson, Head of Production at Cyber-Duck commented, “We are delighted that our creativity has again been recognised by the Horizon Interactive Awards. The Cyber-Duck team is dedicated to consistently maintaining high standards throughout the years and this is the third year in which our efforts have been rewarded by this prestigious accolade. We aim to bring even more to the judging table next year”.

About Cyber-Duck

Cyber-Duck is an award-winning interactive media agency. The company was established in 2001, to fill a gap in the digital agency market, bridging the divide between ‘geeky’ driven web development, usability specialists and agencies offering results based marketing and artistic creativity. By offering all four disciplines under one roof the company has set itself apart from traditional agencies, with innovative user centered creative solutions utilising the latest technological advances.

Cyber-Duck’s ethos is that every interaction should have a meaningful purpose, enticing users to act: buying a product, signing up to a newsletter or distributing a video to their contacts. This delivers tangible results for clients, placing them one step ahead of their competition.

Combined, Cyber-Duck’s ethos and breadth of expertise has resulted in the company being repeatedly recognised as a leader in the digital industry field, winning some of the industry’s most prestigious awards. Last year alone Cyber-Duck won awards at the Horizon Interactive Awards, the Communicator Awards, the W3 Awards, the Europrix Top Talent Awards and the Construction Marketing Awards.

The company’s clients span a wide range of sectors, including household names such as Mastercard and Intel as well as celebrities like Anton Kreil, star of the BBC’s programme ‘Million Dollar Trader’ and Gilev Showband where Alexandra Burke was employed before winning the X-Factor in 2008.

www.cyber-duck.co.uk

Deckpeck Announces Free User Stores for T-Shirt, Longboard, and Skateboard Designers.

tbgraphics — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:59:36 +0000

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 18, 2009 — Deckpeck (http://www.deckpeck.com) is a unique web service that allows freelance artists and designers the ability to create micro-stores and sell their designs on a variety of products including custom t-shirts, longboards, skateboards, snowboards, messenger bags, custom wheels and art. All orders are printed on demand and a royalty, defined by the user, is paid out on each product sold.

Deckpeck handles all sales from the site including printing, payment processing, shipping, and customer service, so designers can focus on what they do best – designing. All designers have to do is upload their designs and choose which products they’d like to offer their artwork for. Users have their own unique URLs that act as mini-stores in which they can customize the look and feel of the store, even to match their artwork.

In addition, freelance designers can come to the site to have their designs printed for themselves. With the unique custom product builder, anyone, with or without art skills, can easily create their own unique products.

Deckpeck also provides a built-in marketing platform for artists looking to drive traffic to their stores, making advertising easy for designers; with or without a marketing background.

Deckpeck is currently looking for new
custom skateboard designers, as well as custom t-shirt designers, and custom snowboard designers. Starting an online store takes about 5 minutes to set up, without any e-commerce hassles and is completely free to designers.

With over 1,000 custom skateboards ready to be purchased, and over 1,000 other products including custom snowboards, longboards, wheels and messenger bags to purchase, Deckpeck is quickly becoming a major player in the e-commerce and freelance design world.

For more information about starting a free online e-commerce store, purchasing their products, or becoming an exclusive deckpeck freelance designer, contact Parker or visit them online at www.deckpeck.com.

About Deckpeck:
Deckpeck is an on-demand printing website that allows artists to sell their designs on a variety of products. In addition, individuals can have one-off products printed with no minimums.

Windmills now come with a flare

tbgraphics — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:39:40 +0000

Natural Environmental Systems, a distributor on pond supplies and other natural/ organic products, is now selling a variety of windmills for both aesthetic and functional purposes. The functionality of the units are as aeration windmills for ponds and lakes, however they do offer decorative windmills for back yards and gardens. The noteworthiness of this item and company is that they windmills can be customized through powder coating, so customers are no longer limited to just a galvanized steel option. Any part of the windmill from the tower to the blades can be powder coated any color the customer wants, all they really need to do is provide the company with the color or specifically the PMS color code and then specify which color goes where on the windmill. Currently the colors are limited to only two per unit. For an additional level of customized design, the tail fin on the units can be pseonalized to inlcude a company name, logo or anything else that will fit in the space an identifies the windmill with the customer.

At this point in time customer orders must be placed over the phone, but some standard powder coat color designs are available on the website. To learn more visit the Windmill Kits section of the companies website.