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Get inspired by Smashing Magazine

I really like Smashing Magazine. There just seems to be so much information, that sometimes I need two readings to finish one post. Especially for fonts, icons and web design, everything recommended is of extreme high quality. I always go there for inspirations when I draw a blank. Take a look at this article.

Creativity Spark From Masters Of Illustration

If not a single one of these illustrations inspired you, then I don’t know what will.

Get Inspired.

Technorati Tags: design, smashing magazine, inspiration

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Gmails features you might not know about - from Gmail blog

Here are some Gmail features you might find useful. I myself did not know any of them before I read these articles, so got to learn to apply them to better use the powerful Gmail. Ha, what’s wrong with using a email client just to read/write email?

Top 10 little-known Gmail features (Part 1)
Top 10 little-known Gmail features (Part 2)

Regular readers of Lifehacker will know more tips. The editors of Lifehackers really love their Gmail. They even coded a firefox extension called Better Gmail to supplement features they would like but not provided by Google.

Better Gmail Firefox extension 1.0 now available

Search Tool for Google reader
Finally, a piece of good news for users of google reader, the RSS client. Google has finally hear the millions of calls from users to add a search tool. The search bar on top of your google reader is implemented so quietly that I didn’t even notice it until I read it from Lifehacker.

Hooray for Google!

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How to use web 2.0 to market your product - vid by seth godin

Seth Godin talks about how to use the power of Web 2.0 technologies to promote your product (ie. your blog). The power of web 2.0 lies in the reviews your readers or fans write about. You don’t need to force people to read your blog, but if enough fans of your blog writes about your postings, traffic will be generated.

What sales people and marketers used to do is yell at strangers. What the web allows you to do is to yell at even more people.

Seth Godin

Great stuff as usual from Seth Godin.

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Announcement

Dear readers,

This will be a very slow month for BlogMunch. I will be going for my reservist for the next 2 weeks and then away travelling till mid October. I will still post as and when I have internet access. This will also give me a good time to recharge from the hectic first 2 months of blogging. Hope to come back refreshed and with new ideas. Stay tuned.

(For non-Singaporeans who do not know what is reservist. It is mandatory yearly army training for Singaporeans males to keep us “sharp” and in “tip top shape”. Well, for me it is a chance to catch up with old army mates.)

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good reads from past week

How can I drive more traffic to my blog? - very comprehensive article about driving traffic to your blog. Covers almost all areas and recommend books to read if you need to know more.

GTD for Bloggers: The Art of Stress-free Blogging - Applying David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” to blogging. Good stuff.

The Lord God Almighty’s Weblog - God’s blog. Do I need to say more?

Automatic Writing: What is it? - Do you sometimes feel lazy to blog? This article will teach you to tap into your inner soul and let your hand write automatically.

I will post more good read as I find them. Meanwhile, subscribe to the BlogMunch Feed so that you don’t miss them.