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In this tutorial I will go over implementing Full-Text search in Laravel 4 . Those who have used Laravel 3 in the past may remember that there used to be support for FULLTEXT indexes. This functionality has been removed in Laravel 4 but can still easily be implemented.

How to apply a Stipple effect to your text in Adobe Illustrator

You might think shooting and editing your own cinemagraph is a little beyond your Photoshop skill level, but it’s really not that hard. Aaron Nace shows us how to create a professional cinemagraph from capturing the footage to the final Internet-viewable GIF.

A navigation, the visual focus and center of the whole site (especially the portal sites), plays a very important role in designing the website and its influence ranks only second to Banner. The success and failure of the navigation directly affect the performance of the whole site. Therefore, no matter it’s the corporate website or the flash site, we should not despise the design of the navigation.

Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to design a powerful, authentic-looking, 1930s, Works Project Administration (WPA) poster.

How to Make a 3D Stone Effect Typography in 3ds Max with download able source file

In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial we will create a vector cloud using the Mesh Tormentor. We will also show you new functions of this great vector tool. The artwork, that took you hours before, now can be done by pressing on "magic buttons” in the Mesh Tormentor panel. Do you know how to paint all the nodes of the gradient mesh into necessary colors in the twinkling of an eye? Find out at the jump!

Highly customizable search widget for Google+ that is inspired by Twitter widgets. This widget searches across the body and comments of public posts and displays a summarized version of matching posts with any attached images.

Winter weather has arrived just in time for the holidays, and with it comes the annual slew of snow pictures. You’d think that the blankets of white, the pastoral countryside, the creative snowmen, and the kids and pets frolicking about would give our Facebook feeds a variety of photo subjects.

It looks like the product developers in the Adobe offices have been working hard to bring improvements and new features to their popular line of photo editing software. Coming in on the heels of the new Lightroom 5 Beta announcement, the Senior Photoshop Product Manager, Zorana Gee, announced this week that the software makers are planning to add a new, and much anticipated, deblurring feature to Photoshop