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GoDaddy is one of the most popular domain name registrars on the Internet. They recently lost thousands of clients due to their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act bill, commonly known as SOPA, which was introduced in Congress. That bill, largely supported by major media companies, was aimed at reducing copyright infringement cases, but in its former legislation, allowed for lobbying and misuse of the power it created. According to the bill, any organization which believes that its content has been infringed upon can request for the domain to be removed. Although the idea seems as a step in the right direction for copyright owners, criminology experts heavily oppose the fact that SOPA allows for this without giving accused websites due process of law. Given this opposition, many prominent websites have shifted their businesses away from GoDaddy.

Here is a great feature for those of you interested in fighting SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act that is currently in the U.S. Congress. Allow visitors to your website to call, email, Facebook and tweet their congressional representatives.

To grab the code so you can show this on your website, visit Grassroutes today.

Whether you’re a web designer, a passionate photographer, or an amateur or professional illustrator looking for original and eye-catching pictures or symbols to serve as decorations for gifts or party invitations, you can find an impressive variety of free Photoshop winter brushes online, by simply browsing by keywords.

However, this can be quite an overwhelming and time-consuming task for someone in urgent need for new tools to add great winter effects to their pictures and design projects. This is why we took the time to browse through a large gallery of free-of-charge brushes available online and to organize them in the list below.

This is definitely the best time of the year to surprise your guests and friends with elegant and unique decorations resembling delicate snowflakes, icicles and other popular winter symbols!

Today we are looking at KISSInsights, a survey and customer feedback service from the same people who bring us KISSMetrics. KISSInsights is useful, incredibly easy to use, and unexpectedly powerful. Watch our review and see for yourself. I have a feeling there is a project of yours somewhere that could use this great tool.

Founded in 2010, ArcServers provides robust, reliable, and exclusively Linux-based hosting solutions for hundreds of clients around the world. We have been profitable since day 1 and are one of the most experienced and rapidly growing Tier 1 hosting companies you will find. ArcServers is the largest and most reputable reseller of OVH dedicated servers on the web. Now those outside of Europe and the US can enjoy these affordable servers for their sites and businesses, as well.

To do image manipulation, to create graphic design, to do digital painting, and to do matte painting there are various designing software available in the world but among that Photoshop is the best program. It has fantastic tools, efficient filters, smart menus and creative actions to create beautiful graphic design. By the use of this software you bring awesome effects to any image.

With all these in-built features, Photoshop is also compatible to include external plugins. So in this post you are going to learn all about Photoshop Plugins and then you will get Top 10 Resources to find your preferred plugin.

The use of wireless internet technology is on the rise and there is no arguing that, especially with revolutionary gadgets like smartphones and tablets available on the market. More and more people are using their tablets or smart phones to visit websites. In fact, according to one study, more people expect websites to work as well on a mobile device as their computers, but more than half of them have problems.

Slow loading is the most common problem, along with not being able to see everything a site has to offer properly. What is more significant is the fact that roughly half of the people searching websites will abandon the search if it takes more than three seconds to load and will not bother to return. With the constant advancement and ease of use of mobile technology, the number of mobile users is only going to go up, and the need for a good mobile friendly experience has become more important.

With the recent news that Flash is dead, at least for all mobile devices, designers and developers have been looking toward HTML5 for the solutions to their animation problems.

If you are part of this ever-growing group, check out Swiffy by Google.

Today we are looking at CampaignMonitor, an email marketing tool built for web designers. CampaignMonitor is beautiful, comes with some great features, and makes it easier than ever for freelancers to resell email marketing services to their clients. In other words: go try it.