So truth time how many of you have lived in Marbella and you still haven’t made the effort to learn Spanish and with the modern advances of the internet there really isn’t any excuse.

Fiona Gonzales of Teach Yourself Spanish

So for those of you who want to teach yourself Spanish and take the ball by the horns so to speak I came across this fantastic website click Teach Yourself Spanish to see for yourself. Now being a guy its hard not to be impressed with such a stunning lady as Fiona Gonzales and if I was going to get some advice on how to learn Spanish Id defo be getting it from her but that’s all as she is head over heal in love with her fella (lucky guy) so we will have to stick to Spanish.

For those of you who want to give Fiona a swerve but want easy Spanish lessons then get online find that Spanish course and starting mixing with the local Spanish who are wonderful people by the way.

Loathe her or love her but Angeles Muñoz is certainly doing her best to promote property Costa del Sol & Marbella and it looks like that all her hard work and obvious self promotion is now paying off  with the news that the new owner of Malaga Football Club, Abdullah ben Nasser Al-Thani, has announced that he will invest a large amount of money in a Marbella project.

Boost for Marbella

Al-Thani said after a meeting with Mayor Angeles Muñoz in Marbella that he is in advanced negotiations in a major project in Marbella, related to the tourism industry. He did not reveal exactly what kind of investment project it was.

Angeles Munoz claimed after the reunion with the Qatari sheik that this was wonderful news for the city of Marbella. She looked very excited about the plans, but could not either identify exactly what they were.

Until further information comes from the mayor or the sheik, one can only speculate what the spectacular plans consist of. All we know for know is that the Qatari will invest money into something related with tourism in Marbella. Sundream Blog is very hopeful it will create much needed employment for the citizens of Marbella.

This is great news for Marbella and this blog who has been championing the causes of our wonderful Mayor of Marbella who has been heavily criticized for self promotion and wasting public money. What we pointed out to the idiots who were criticizing her was you only needed one deal like this and you were miles ahead of the game so well done Angeles.

Free fonts are never wrong! Especially if they are really nice and also new. Sometimes bloggers are lying when they say that the fonts are new, but I could not recognize any of the 40 fonts listed in instantShift – and I usually have pretty good track of free fonts.

A lot of fonts on the list were really refreshing, actually. Chunk was the first that I stuck to. It is similar to Rockwell, but feels a little softer. Although Carto Gothic Std was really good, and even if use area is niche so download I Juicy Hunt.

If you’ve followed my blog a while, you know that I usually come back to free fonts on a regular basis. Therefore there is a lot to find in my archives, if you are interested in more. Here you will find for example the best sites for free fonts and a bunch of single links in the free fonts. This nice article come from TkJ.

GIMP is the open source – world’s answer to Photoshop. It is a complex image manipulation program full of functions and tools, and it is also completely free. You can download it for both Windows and Linux. The latest version is 2.6.6, and it contains many news.

I find an article of Six Revisions, which lists 10 websites with schools, guides and other articles with has to do with GIMP. Do you want to learn to master this great program in image editing, is this really good websites to begin with. If you think that GIMP is a bit too complex for your taste, are there a lot of other free image-editing programs. Two of my favorites are Paint.NET and Photoscape. They are both easy to use, have simple and logical interface and is also free.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program and was originally developed for Linux / Unix. It has however since several years been closed for Windows. GIMP is an enormously complex tools, and by that I mean that the learning threshold is relatively high, but above all that the program contains many and very good functions. You can very well compare GIMP with Photoshop.

That who probably is the most unaccustomed with GIMP is that the interface is different from the other of Windows programs, because it is was closed from Unix. But it is really no major differences, and once you come over the threshold, it is no problem. Once you start using GIMP, you will realize that it is an excellent tool for imaging, image editing and photo retouching. This article did found I in TkJ.

Drupal is a free publication system that is developing open source. It is a complete CMS – Content Management System, used to build and maintain websites. In a way you can compare it with WordPress, even if WordPress is mainly used for blogs (of course can you use it to ‘normal’ web sites as well).

If the man who signed is the right snowbound on WordPress, it is easy to overlook Drupal. But the fact is that there is a very wide range of users to it, and it developed all the time. And it also creates new beautiful themes that you can use to your website. Tripwire magazine, has in a blog entry list of 200 free themes for Drupal. These can you download and use as you want on your Drupal-based web site.

A good photo highlights really a web page or a blog post in general. But it is not all who can take good pictures, or have time to do it. Therefore, are sites like Xpress Photo splendidly to have a bookmark on. Here do you find over 346,000 digital photos you can download and use freely. The images are very high quality and are available in high resolutions. I have found many great photos of Marbella, luxury villas and apartments complex for our blogs.

It costs nothing to register as users of PhotoXpress. As normal user, are you limited to download maximum three pictures per day. You can increase this amount by filling in more information about yourself. Unfortunately, it apparently requires that you also send a text message, with a confirmation-code that this information has gone through.

Another option to get more credits to download the photo, is telling your friends about the site. You do this via a form that appears if you click Want more?  in the box that containing your credits.

BSA ( Business Software Alliance) has in a study find that 41% of the software to a PC is pirated (2008). This is an increase from 2007 by 4 procent and a likely reason is that both India and China are beginning to have higher standards and more computers. BSA has also tried to put a figure on the estimated losses that publishers can not take part – and here we talk about 53 billion dollars! Bear in mind that this applies only if each of the pirated software had been purchased. and guess how many individuals who kindly spend 800 dollar on for example Adobe Photoshop. Shall we guess on a near-zero?

And I want to emphasize that I not in any way calls for pirated Photoshop. I am not negative to BSA figures. I personally think we should take this report / statement with a big fist of salt, then it certainly true to some extent, but its very exaggerated. The greatest loss is in USA with 20% of software is pirated, and a loss of around 9 billion dollars. No small amount, but obviously a very vague calculation.

It was that I – and most others – thought. The figures that 41% of the software to a PC is pirated (2008) was invented by the BSA. There were some newspapers that asked them from where they got their statistics, now they have admitted that they had no figures to rely on.

In LifeHacker did I found a fun post that lists a wide range of background images to Windows, based on known and classic video games. The pictures are not only screenshots but is designed and really smart. I chose one of the  wallpaper to a Super Mario-inspired image to show you one of them. Altogether, these are 21 background images that are all in widescreen format.

Original Post is taken from Life Hacker, where you also find all the pictures. Are you looking for other background images in the widescreen format, I have previously published some surfing tips with beautiful pictures. I going to use some of the pictures in my other blogs, Marbella property and Marbella apartments. 

Easier than this, can it is not!

Sometimes you need just a simple and easy program which essentially just doing one thing and such a program or web tool is Resize Your Image. A tool to quickly resize your images.

In any case I often use tools on the Internet for most things I agree on with the websites or blogs, maybe not everything but a great deal.

I found Resize Your Image of a coincidence on ZtrixQ and it is a web tool that you immediately add to their favorites.

With Resize your image are you doing virtually nothing other than just resize your images. Well,what is so special with it? There are certainly hundreds better than this one! I agree with that, but how many programs, take it about 7 seconds to get the clamp on.

With Resize Your Image you change the size of your images in 3 easy steps.

1. Upload Image – Select the image you want to change! Maybe you have a picture on your computer, or you have found a nice picture on the Internet, but the picture is far too large. Select browse and select the image you want to upload. Some of the file formats supported are jpg, gif, png, tiff and more.

2. Change the size – Use the arrows to change the size of your image. Click and drag from right to left, top-down. You can also rotate the image 90 degrees, or choose to zoom in or out. Or write you simply put whatever size you want in the Width and Height keys.

3. Save Image – When you’re done with your settings, you simply click on the orange button – resize your image and you get to the download page click on the generated link and download your picture.

Easier than this, can it not be! For those of you who want to quickly resize your images online, is resize your image perfect. We use it often.

It’s fun to find some nice, cool pictures and background images here and there on the Internet, and it is a bit special when you find good images taken by photographers from all corners of the world.

Or beautiful images that you can use as wallpaper or background. In my case, it dosen´t matter, I still do not see the background for all directories, files and shortcuts that fills my desk, but given it is nice when you can still glimpse some neat behind all working!

There are those who are masters at manipulating images to amazing results, and then would you like to have such as Photoshop to achieve in any case, something similar, but I am satisfied with all the Web tools that are available to add some effects and freshen up their photos or photo. But it’s fun to see what some may find the pictures, nothing short of fascinating.
 Here are some topics that I’ve found that presents beautiful images.

23 Stunning Examples of Digital Art & Manipulation – There are lots of articles on the Internet about the manipulation of images. In this article from Smashing Apps presented pictures that probably makes you look more than once. 23 incredible images of digital art and manipulation of extremely talented designers who created these works of creativity.

50 Stunning and Beautiful Desktop Wallpapers – A beautiful wallpaper can be nice and maybe even inspire you. Six Revisions present 50 incredibly gorgeous background images which you can download for free. You can never have too much of beautiful pictures and it can be nice to change sometimes for a change.

65 Very Creative and Funny Photoshopped Images – 1stwebdesigner presents 65 creative photo jumped images that stand out from the crowd. Some of the pictures are so well made that it believes that those are real pictures, or maybe it is? Take a look you

Or beautiful images that you can use as wallpaper or background. In my case, it dosent matter, I still do not see the background for all directories, files and shortcuts that fills my desk, but given it is nice when you can still glimpse some neat behind all working! This article did a found on a fantastic blog ZtrixQ.se.