Upon finding a full listing of the CSS Frameworks. I am immediately faced with the dilemma of choosing which framework to use. Out of all the others, one of them seemed to stand out. -the 960 Grid System.

The 960 Grid System is based on a width of 960 pixels and offers divisions of either a 12-column layout or a 16-column layout.

You can watch an indepth turorial and explanation on how to use it at Nettuts

I have always enjoyed gazing upon captivating landscapes,… so much, that  sometimes I often find myself staring blankly into the sky whenever I am confronted by such magnificent sceneries.

Unfortunately, for someone like me, I always find myself confined to a computer,.. At least there is some fullfillment that can be attained by seeing such beautiful landscapes captured in photographs.

Here is a first in a series of beautiful landscape images.

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With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. Simple and easy to use and set up in just a few seconds. The best part of all, it’s disposable.

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ThemeForest

In addition to that, you might also want to check out themeforest’s blog. They offer some great tutorials and resources. They even have an excellent series of screencasts for Jquery, PHP, and Wordpress.

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The Girls from the Idolm@ster, Chihaya, Yukiho and Miki  come together with some songs by the singing group Perfume. As always, Idolmaster MADs never fail to impress.

Great music, great style and fun to watch. These two videos in particular are really well attuned to the music, song and dance.

Of course, these bring the girls in a more ebullient light, as seen previously in the Idolm@ster Project VA videos.

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Idolm@ster x Perfume : Love The World

Idolm@ster x Perfume : Perfect Star Perfect Style

There are alot of other great Idolmaster x Perfume crossovers out there, a quick search should reveal them.

Download the songs.

Two such games are Ar Tonelico and Tales of The Abyss. Both games include symbolic fonts that are very much alike.

Finding Truetype Fonts for these symbols is quite rare. So it is somewhat fortunate to obtain these fonts.

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The  Hymmnos Language from Ar Tonelico.

Hymmnos is a language from the time before the two catastrophes that destroyed the world, and is used by Reyvateils to interface with the tower. It is represented in-game by unique glyphs. Though it used to be a universal language, its meaning has been lost through the ages and is now used only for Song Magic.

Although it is a synthetic language constructed solely for the game, it is translatable and not just pure gibberish … The basic Hymmnos grammar consists of “emotion sound(想音)-V-O-C”, and many words are taken from existing languages; mainly English, Japanese, Sanskrit and German.

The Fonic Language from the Tales of the Abyss.

Tales of the Abyss features Ancient Ispanian, in which, for instance, Yulia’s fonic hymns are written and sung. (Abyss also uses “fonic script” in some places, but that’s apparently just the alphabet that the people of Auldrant use.)
The Fonic Language, which the Fonic Script is the alphabet for, is the modern tongue in Auldrant, and pretty much just English in pretty symbols. However, as Ispania is taken to be another word for Spain, a theory exists that Ancient Ispanian is Spanish, Latin, or some Latin derived language.

Download:

Download Hymmnos and Fonic Fonts

‘UNIQLO Co., Ltd. (株式会社ユニクロ, Kabushiki-gaisha yunikuro) is a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer and is also Japan’s leading clothing retail chain in terms of sales and profits.’

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UNIQLO’s  new innovative store concept designed by UNIQLO creative director Kashiwa Sato, one of Japans top creative directors. New image, new look, ads and ad campaigns, the works.

This now leads us to Uniqlock, a flash-based website featuring three things – Music, Dance, and Clock. The site shows the current global time in Tokyo, Japan and clips of girls dancing interpretive to a fine tune  at set intervals wearing Uniqlo garments. I know, to good to be true, right? Well, it looks better than it sounds so go check it out at the official site.

*music is switched off by default, click on the bottom right icon to hear the music

Uniqlock also offers downloadable screensavers and phone applications if you fancy it enough. And you can even embed them on your blogs. Check out Uniclock user’s blog list to see full stats.

Also, check out the Wiki article on Uniqlo+Uniqlock.

UNIQLO official site | Uniqlock official site

Square Enix has released the latest trailer for FFXIII, and I simply must say, it looks amazing. Hands down. I’m in awe. Eye candy everywhere. The trailer shows some cutscenes and gives an idea of how  battle scenes will be like.

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Watch it in HD for maximum effect.

…you can also watch it and find more information at the really appealing flash promotional site Square Enix official site.

Back in the days of the PS2 and FFX, I thought it couldn’t get any better than this, I laugh at it now for I have been proven wrong time and time again.

The Final Fantasy series has come a long way and shows no signs of stopping.The upcoming installment of the series, Final Fantasy XIII will be available for the PS3 and the Xbox 360.

This post is continously updated.

Anime Image Boards are a great source for anime images, and they frequently contain rarities and vip quality work at times. I have continously searched and come across countless anime image boards, too many to remember, so I decided to create a listing of them.

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E-shuushuu

A kawaii-themed image board.  The site itself is worksafe and has a friendly community. I have been an active member in the mast and made several image contributions. I still frequent e-shuushuu, and even participate on some community activities.
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Pixiv

Pixiv,which is more of an art commuity than an Imageboard. Images are limited hosted range from personal artwork to fan-made sketches or illustrations. Several profound fan-artists post their work here, so you might want to keep tabs on it. The site is Japanese though, and requires registration.
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Moe.imouto

Image board for high-resolution anime scans. Contains NSFW. ’nuff said.
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4chan

Straightforward, 4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. Probably the largest and most popular English image board on the web. Offers lots of categories.
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Konachan

Similar to moe.imouto, but instead of high resolution scans, Konachan hosts anime wallpapers of all sizes.

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Akibakko

Another Danbooru type imageboard, I feel this board deserves a spot because of the good variety of images they have to offer… I’ve have acquired some really nice images/fanart from here.

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Other boards of interest:

• Moepic (Japanese)

• Moeboard (Korean)

• Moelife (Korean)

Of course, making a loading icon requires more work, and maybe creativity, on your part, so for those who don’t have the time and effort( or patience) to make a loading icon, Ajaxload offers automatic generation of animated loading bars and icons in .gif format. It offers several different commonly used preloaders images, and allows color customization for your visual preference.

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