One of the reasons I have started sharingmatters.com was to collect links of ‘must-read’ articles found on the internet.

Does Your Copy Hold Up To A Quick Glance? is one of such editorials. It is a professionally written article, based on eyetracking researches, aimed on explaining how to keep the visitors on your website and let them read your content insted of just scanning it. If you have anything to do with webdesigning, you’ve got to read it!

This post is also a great occasion to recommend you the website where the above article is published: www.digital-web.com

We Are What We Do is a new movement inspiring people to use their everyday actions to change the world.

They say the average Briton uses 167 plastic bags every year - 10 billion in total. The answer is the creation by Anya Hindmarch bears the slogan “I’m not a plastic bag”, and is aimed at encouraging people to reuse bags when they go shopping.

A designer bag due to go on sale for charity for ???5 is being touted on the auction website eBay for up to ???175.

The reusable cotton bag was launched at London Fashion Week and handed out to a limited number of celebrities and fashion insiders.

Read more: ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6448687.stm

If you live in the UK you can claim back your bank account, credit card and store card penalty charges. BBC publish a step-by-step guide how to do that:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6170209.stm.

Banks are making billions of pounds each year from penalty charges. But now the legality of these charges - which cost their customers an average of ???30 a time - is being called into question and thousands of customers want their money back.

Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6169539.stm

Wikipedia is a free encyklopedia where people all over the world manage the content of it. You can find the answers to many questions very quickly and without paying a penny. But you need to be careful because this is not as reliable source of knowledge as Britannica.

It came out that one of the promintent editoris and administrators of Wikipedia, Essjay, was found to have posted false information on his Wikipedia userpage. “He had claimed to hold doctoral degrees in theology and canon law as a tenured professor at a private university he was in fact a community college dropout from the U.S. state of Kentucky and had relied on sources such as Catholicism for Dummies when editing articles”. He had edited over 20,000 phrases on the Wikipedia.

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PhotoshopNews.com publishes photos from a Quark expedition to Antarctica:
http://photoshopnews.com/2007/03/08/im-back-from-antarctica-but-im-on-the-road-again/. You may probably never see such landscapes in your life so it is worth imagining you are there and relaxing for a few minutes. Also, you can find out something about professional photographers in action.

Their previous expenditions can be seen here:
http://photoshopnews.com/feature-stories/antarctica-expedition/.

Leave some comments below and let me know what you think about it.

When surfing the Internet many times we click on images to see an enlarged versions of them. Usually it is done using simple pop-up window that appears on our screen. But there is a nicer way to achive this. Lightbox is the answer. Simply click on the image, the screen goes dark and you can see an animation revealing bigger picture you wanted to see. It looks pretty and allows you to save a lot of effort and place because it has a slide show option implemented as well. Useful solutions for webmasters (you can donate the author to show your appreciation) and for users. If you build a website and want to use a Lightbox on it, think how much time you save as ready-to-go solution is waiting for you.

I planned a walk somewhere near Manchester and decided to have a look on Google Earth. I was really surprised when I discovered that in the area of my search I found pictures uploaded by different people. It was really useful because I could find out interesting landscapes and places to take a walk with my camera. Another solution giving you a chance to share your photos. Google provide this feature in association with Panoramio.

Everybody knows Google, but not everybody is aware that apart from a great search engine, they also created a fantastic solution for managing and publishing photo galleries on-line -
Google Picasa. The software has all the functions you may ever need when managing your private photos library - it automatically searches your hard drive for pictures anytime you copy something new to your disk. You can easily reprocess all the images with many functions available and with just a few clicks publish your favourite pictures on the Internet in a public or private gallery. Everything in one place, very intuitive (as most of the Google programs) and simple to use.

Did you know that Google also introduced a Docs & Spreadsheet aplication? No? Check this here - http://docs.google.com.

There are two great places just made for sharing images in the Internet.

Stock.xchng - Stock.XCHNG was launched in February 2001, as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are about 500.000 registered users and more than 180.000 photos online!

I used this website many times when needed photos for my projects. It is very painful, especially for non-profit web creations when you lack for good quality pictures. SXC was always an answer for that and it is the only such good place with free photos on the Net. This is one of the greatest examples how sharing can benefit to all the participants. With my new camera I hope I will upload there some of my pics soon.

Antimoon - How to learn English effectively.

The website is about learning foreign languages based on the example of English. It describes how to find motivation for that, how to learn vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation. The methods presented by authors of the website are sometimes very different from what we learnt at school but the main point is that they are efficient.