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I am sure you all have heard about Microsoft Flight Simulator but probably you are not familiar with the most complete, detailed and popular website on the internet that offers a wide variety of resources for those who plan to get a serious practice flying any aircraft. You can find a huge downloads section, forum, videos and news on the pages of flyawaysimulation.com. In fact, if you have been searching for freeware fsx downloads, you won’t find a better place on the internet, that is for sure. You can try any of the jets, helicopters, military aircrafts and other air vehicles offered on the website, some of which are paid and others are free.

With over 130k members in their forum, you can share your own photos and videos on their website and browse through hundreds of already uploaded images and videos.

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Although the add-ons are “free”, in order to access the downloads section, you need to register, and registration costs $5 a month. For $5 you get unlimited access to all the downloads offered on the site and new ones that will be released during the life of your subscription. You will also get free support any time you need and generous discount on the payware.  Subscription will also allow you to create a detailed profile, post comments, and upload images. Cancelling your membership is possible at any time so basically you may use it only for one month and grab the freebies for your $5.

I guess the number of forum posts and members at their website definitely tells us that most people do keep their membership up and running, and are more than satisfied with it! So, if you want to feel like a military pilot or an owner of a private helicopter flying over the province of Quebec — go ahead and register today, you won’t be disappointed!

I am finally back from France and wanted to share my experience with you, dear readers. When I first flew there, I thought it would be a land of Moulin Rouge, cheese and wine, however to my amazement, I was wrong. While of course there is a lot of space for traditional french culture attributes, I was amazed at how popular poker is in France. In fact, it’s not only popular, it’s also legal, and because it is — so many people are taking their chances in both card clubs and online communities. After all, let’s not forget that we live in 2011, and it’s the era of online communication! For example, we all had see Pokerstars commercial airing on EuroSport channel, but I was surprised to discover that Pokerstars is licensed to operate in France (I am surprised because for US citizens it’s quite rare to see a huge gambling-related company actually operating under legal terms).

Since they have their own poker site, many french guys (and even girls) prefer to stay at home and challenge other players from the comfort of their armchairs, especially now in such a cold season when getting out is already a challenge for some of us. It’s not really like the traditional gambling scheme when players have no chance of inning against a machine, it’s all about real people, and real games, and the fact that it all operates online makes no difference. Contrary to a real life club, when you play online — you have a wide variety of games and players to choose from, you have tournaments, special monetary bonuses and even online tutorials on how to play and master your skills in this field. When you visit their website (assuming you do speak french at least a bit) you will find that there are at least 80 thousands of people online, just imagine how much is that for a relatively small country like France! Obviously they are one of the leading in the industry there and we can only wish that one day it will be legal worldwide and players will not need to feel like their doing something wrong when trying to win millions of dollars… after all, it’s just a game with a huge possibility to profit, if you “play your cards right” .

I am happy to introduce yet another eco-supportive theme, this time with an inbuilt gallery, admin options, and more great feature. Admin panel allows you to:

1. Configure the speed of the  jquery-powered animated slideshow (add only numbers from 0 to 65000).
2. Configure slides category.
3. Logo Url – that you can change by adding a link to the image you want to use instead of your logo.
4. Configure Twitter account.
5. Configure Feedburner Address.
6. Configure Facebook link.

Apart from the convenient admin panel, the theme is ready for a TweetMeme plugin and TimThumb — so you can easily upload files without having to resize them.

Demo | Download Biolery

The theme is widget ready with 3 sidebars (one on the right, one under the content and one in the footer) where you can place any widget you like with ease. (right sidebar and content sidebar are flexible in width. Footer sidebar has a fixed width). Based on a GPL TwittPlus theme by Turcu Ciprian.

If you like the motives of wood, photos and distant places, and run a blog dedicated to these theme, then this design is right for you! 2 Columns, thumbnails, ready for gravatars and no need to use custom fields if you wish to post a new post with a thumbnail — the script will automatically resize the images for you!
As always, the download is free for everyone!

Demo | Download

If you are a web designer then obviously the first thing that an employer looks at is your portfolio. When you send your CV somewhere then keep in mind that you are not there. As a web designer, it is important that you display a record of your previous achievements, projects and work done. Your portfolio is important because it speaks on your behalf. Often the employers look at your portfolio even before looking at your CV.

Employers are usually getting dozens if not hundreds of CVs which create a sense of tension for the employers. When sending your CV, you should ensure that your portfolio should stand out from the rest. Imagine a guy piled up in CVs and portfolios. Guess what will he be looking for? If you send a portfolio that does not attractive or does not suit his needs, he may not be able to understand your abilities.

Let us face a simple fact that whatever you send along with your CV represents yourself. There are a few things that you should think of before sending a portfolio with your CV. The first thing in this regard is that you cannot possibly be there in short-listing process. No matter how good you are, if you didn’t create a good portfolio, no one will be able to judge your abilities therefore it is important to mention your major achievements in the field of web designing.

If you did something out of your ordinary field of expertise like say if you are a web designer and you managed a team or you did some branding, it will cause a good impact on your prospect employer. If all of a sudden you think of something and you add it to your portfolio, it won’t be noticed until it is really good and suits the need of the employer. The industry is important as well. Be sure to rearrange items in your portfolio that can match with the current business of your prospect employer.

Another important point is clarity. Do not show your creativity on the portfolio page. Rather, simply create a list showing your work and then let your work speak for itself. As a general rule, the icons on the page should be big and can be replicas of the websites you have worked on. It is also important that you have your own web page. If you do not show your own webpage, people might be wondering that if you are such a good web designer, why you don’t have your own webpage.

It is extremely important that your employers can find what they are looking for in your CV and portfolio. If you are going to present yourself and list services that do not match up with the needs of your employer, you won’t get short-listed. On the other hand, if you add too much which does not correspond to your experience, you will have to face an awkward situation at the interview so never under-describe or over-describe yourself. While it is important to tell about your positive points, it is also important that you do not take any credit for the work that you have not done.

These few guidelines can help you build a better portfolio as a web designer and will get you through difficult situations.

So, we finally switched to a new version of design created by Sol Orior. dot com and coded by Sramek Design dot com (see credit links at the footer).  I had a really great job done by Tomas from Sramek design, my PSD was converted to WP in no time, so if you need coding services, I really recommend this one. What are the advantages of the new design? First of all, LESS ads. No ads at the bottom of the post, cleaner and better user experience was my top priority.

Secondly, cleaner design, cleaner sidebar. With like I said, less ads and less unneeded links at the sidebar, we now have a clean, mostly dedicated to banners sidebar which allows easier navigation without visitors confusing partners’ links with internal links. Another good change is enabling threaded comments, readers can reply to each other or I can comment and answer a question of a particular person without getting lost in posts that have a lot of responses.

Other things we added:

• Re-Tweet button at the top of each post.
• Top navigation with drop down menu and a nice Ajax effect.
• Advertise Page is now fully automated.

Last but not least, the blog will now be much more frequently updated, so you will find plenty of new, useful content for you!

The design is not fully finished, so I am still working on little tweaks here and there, however, I was so eager to pull the new outfit on my blog so I couldn’t wait. If you find any bugs and problems, please leave a comment so i will look into it. Anyway, what do you think about the new look?