Richard Darell | Minervity - Part 5
How to Create an Illustrated Cartoon Character
Tue, 18/08/09 – 17:27 | 45,630 Views | 20 Comments

So, I decided to attempt to create a tutorial on how to create a unique illustrated cartoon character in Photoshop. It’s pretty straight forward and the skills you need for this is very limited as …

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Twitters Suspended – The Full Story
Tuesday, 17 Feb, 2009 – 5:38 | 52 Comments
Twitters Suspended – The Full Story

Here is the full an true story of what happened today, Tuesday 17th of February 2009. The day when everyone got together to make 4 people get back up.
Well, today was one of those weird …

How To Create a Flash XML Playlist Music Player
Sunday, 15 Feb, 2009 – 4:08 | 65 Comments
How To Create a Flash XML Playlist Music Player

Introduction
I have gotten quite a lot of requests on different tutorials that my visitors would like to see on the site and it’s really exciting. I just wish I had the time to keep up …

How To Create a “LIVE” Count-Up
Monday, 2 Feb, 2009 – 21:39 | 17 Comments
How To Create a “LIVE” Count-Up

Introduction
I have gotten some great reviews for my latest tutorial “How To Create a “LIVE” Visitor Counter” and I have been requested by many to make a tutorial of my “Count Up” application featured here …

How To Create a “LIVE” Visitor Counter
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 10:26 | 34 Comments
How To Create a “LIVE” Visitor Counter

Introduction
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a “LIVE” visitor counter that actually updates itself. “LIVE” means that the counter, made in flash, checks for new visitors every 20 seconds or so …

PHP Script – Display Your RSS Subscriber Count
Friday, 16 Jan, 2009 – 7:26 | 21 Comments
PHP Script – Display Your RSS Subscriber Count

Recently Google acquired FeedBurner and incorporated it into their online dashboard where you can find services like Google AdSense, Google Analytics and much more. This in turn created a little glitch for people who displayed …

When Does Rich Become Wealthy?
Friday, 16 Jan, 2009 – 1:35 | 20 Comments
When Does Rich Become Wealthy?

This small thought came to me after having a twitter convo with a good friend (@sh3n3rd) on twitter. We were talking about what the American government spent most of their money on last year. Not …

The One Place For Inspiration
Sunday, 11 Jan, 2009 – 21:43 | 8 Comments
The One Place For Inspiration

THE FINDING – CGSOCIETY
Today I stumbled upon (not to be mixed up with the online service StumbleUpon) one of those websites (that’s probably been around for ages) that spoke to the creative side of my …

Make a Shiny Glowing Glass Button
Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009 – 20:02 | 12 Comments
Make a Shiny Glowing Glass Button

Introduction
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Glass Glow Button in Photoshop. The pre-skills that you have to have for this tutorial is close to none. A little knowledge about Photoshop and …

Free Set of Glossy Icons – Volume 1
Saturday, 27 Dec, 2008 – 16:56 | 47 Comments
Free Set of Glossy Icons – Volume 1

Just finished up my first set of free Icons that you can really use. It is a set of 15 customized Icons that is available for download at the bottom of this post. I started …

Video Vault
Monday, 22 Dec, 2008 – 17:59 | One Comment

Introduction
I decided to add this post in order to upload and preview videos for you all. In here I will add new interesting videos from time to time. My aim is to add content here …