On to our Fifth and final free wallpaper give-away to celebrate Earth Day!. The official Earth Day website lists events going on around the world, lists core issues that we face and action being taken to improve the situation. They also have “Sign the Earth Day 2010 Climate Declaration” which they are hoping will encourage congress to create a far more comprehensive climate bill.

Our fifth and final free wallpaper for iPhone, iPod and iPad is U.S.A. Here’s a scary fact, although the USA accounts for approximately 4% of the total World population, in 1990 is was responsible for over 36% of the greenhouse emissions – the U.S.A. is the World’s biggest polluter. Maybe not a great surprise to many, but something that we all need to take action about and do our best to reduce. Although countries such as China and Mexico have in recent years reduced the number of manufacturing facilities, it’s still a huge issue. The U.S.A. is also still not part of the Kyoto Protocol which was setup and agreed to by many large nations as a policy for reducing waste and emissions because President Bush stated it would harm the US economy – shame really as it’s already not doing great – at least we could of been working towards reducing our harm to the Earth in the same amount of time. Here’s looking towards a more Earth friendly US in the coming years!

The US contains 4% of the world’s population but produces about 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions. By comparison, Britain emits 3% – about the same as India which has 15 times as many people.

- BBC: The US and climate change (2002)2

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On to our fourth free wallpaper give-away to celebrate Earth Day TODAY!. The official Earth Day website lists events going on around the world, lists core issues that we face and action being taken to improve the situation. They also have “Sign the Earth Day 2010 Climate Declaration” which they are hoping will encourage congress to create a far more comprehensive climate bill.

Happy Earth Day! Our fourth free wallpaper for iPhone, iPod and iPad is Britain. Although active in establishing good practices over the past few decades, Britain has in recent history seen an explosion of it’s population which has resulted in more manufacturing, more waste, larger demands for energy production and of course more cars and more road building – to the effect of destroying what has been beautiful countryside, something Britain is famous for. Although Britain has recently introduced good measures for waste recycling from homes, there is so much to do and change before it can truly start to save it’s long heritage of green and pleasant pastures.

Britain risks losing its “fabulous inheritance of landscape and wildlife” as the Government allows developments – including its flagship eco-town projects – to spring up across the countryside, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has warned.

- Telegraph.co.uk

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On to our third free wallpaper give-away to celebrate Earth Day this weekend. The official Earth Day website lists events going on around the world, lists core issues that we face and action being taken to improve the situation. They also have “Sign the Earth Day 2010 Climate Declaration” which they are hoping will encourage congress to create a far more comprehensive climate bill.

Today’s wallpaper celebrates Earth Day by focusing on Mexico. Mexico has seen some rapid industrial expansion over the past few decades, so much so that an amazing 10% of it’s natural rainforest are all that is left standing! Rainforest are being cleared for military activities, conflicts have driven farmers away from their lands and during dry seasons forest fires are pretty much destroying all that is left. It’s not all bad news however, tourism although traditionally a catalyst for increasing environmental issues, has been turned in to eco-tourism as the country is one of the top 5 biodiverse countries in the World. The government has also recently started to take these issues in to account and is actively working towards improving things for everyone – let’s hope they succeed and plan for a sustainable eco system for this wonderful country.

Mexico’s forests have a great deal of potential for eco-tourism. While tourism, already one of Mexico’s most important sources of income, has traditionally had negative impacts on the country’s environment through land-clearing and pollution, ecologically sensitive tourism could provide economic justification for preserving wildlands.

- Mongabay.com

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On to our second free wallpaper give-away to celebrate Earth Day this weekend. The official Earth Day website lists events going on around the world, lists core issues that we face and action being taken to improve the situation. They also have “Sign the Earth Day 2010 Climate Declaration” which they are hoping will encourage congress to create a far more comprehensive climate bill.

Today’s wallpaper celebrates Earth Day by focusing on Japan. One of the World’s largest manufacturing countries it has proven to be a massive burden on our environment and as such the country is suffering from acid rain and poor air conditions, along with the massive population and their requirements for agriculture it has seen a massive increase in pollutants and lack of space for growing crops in fertile soil. In 1987, due to the pressure applied by business’ the ‘pollutant pays‘ policy was weakened and it seems that policies are now more controlled by business rather than environmental policy – one that will surely cost not Japan but all the World. Let’s hope we can all find a way to produce our food, and products that help to reduce our environmental footprint and damage.

Air pollution is a serious environmental problem in Japan, particularly in urban centers. Toxic pollutants from power plant emissions have led to the appearance of acid rain throughout the country. In the mid-1990s, Japan had the world’s fourth highest level of industrial carbon dioxide emissions, which totaled 1.09 billion metric tons per year, a per capita level of 8.79 metric tons per year.

- Encyclopedia of the Nations

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You may or may not be aware that we have a special day to celebrate this rock we call home. Earth Day is April 22nd and to celebrate we are periodically releasing a new wallpaper to help with the celebrations all this week. Each wallaper is exclusive to Web Tips Magazine and are for the iPad and the iPod Touch / iPhone.

We decided to go for a grunge look as we thought it portrayed the current state of our lonely planet right now, sad but very true. The official Earth Day website lists events going on around the world, lists core issues that we face and action being taken to improve the situation. They also have “Sign the Earth Day 2010 Climate Declaration” which they are hoping will encourage congress to create a far more comprehensive climate bill.

OK, on to today’s wallpaper – We decided to create flags of particular countries, for a reason. Most of these countries are either large countries that help to suffocate our planet and need to improve how they create and use energy, dispose of waste, or are home to a vital eco system the planet requires to keep itself habitable. First up Brazil, why? Simple it has the world’s largest rainforest and we need to stop chopping the darn thing down! (Note: I am aware that the rainforest isn’t JUST in Brazil – but it is often associated with it the most)

Because its vegetation continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen, it has been described as the “Lungs of our Planet”. About 20% of earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.

- Blue Planet Biomes

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Our good friend and fellow themeforest author – Dany Duchaine AKA DDStudios has opened a brand new website dedicated to giving away his photoshop templates (and a few html ones thrown in for good measure) FOR FREE! So without wasting anymore time take a look at what’s up for grabs below and go grab ‘em before he comes to his senses. Thanks Dany!

FreePSDTheme is a collection of themes designed by Dany Duchaine that were once for sale. As a thank you to all of the buyers and supporters, Dany now gives away high-quality top of the line premium themes for free to spread his talent, time, and inspiration. Coded HTML or WordPress versions can be easily (and very cheaply!) bought at ThemeForest if you like a certain theme but have no desire to code it yourself.

Mighty PSD

Mighty is a top of the line, unique, exclusive theme focusing on visual content. It sports a huge featured content slider, instantly grabbing the viewer’s attention, allowing you to showcase your products well. A simple, yet unique structure will surely make your site stand out from the crowd. A solid code makes this gorgeous theme easy to edit as well! Whether you have a portfolio that needs showcased, need a blogging theme, or would like to use this theme for your company, there is no doubt you will love it.

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Blossomsoft PSD

Blossomsoft is a truly gorgeous design-based theme that engulfs the user in custom visual content while leaving them admiring the design. A mix of dark and vivid colors creates a beautiful background for the header, completing the elegant structural design. Multiple content sliders are available for customization meaning there is no chance your products won’t be exposed in some way or another. The portfolio page is clean and straight to the point, and the blog is ready to go! This is one theme you will not regret having in your collection as it truly is a masterpiece.

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A&D PSD

A&D Apps and Webdesign is a gorgeous theme designed to promote your items, whether they are web designs, applications, screenshots, or photos, in a sophisticated way. The vivid color choice allows the user to quickly focus on the content eloquently displayed to them. A&D features multiple page designs, all backed by solid markup and minimal hacks. If you have a product you would like to showcase, this theme is for you!

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Magnifico PSD

Magnifico is a dark, exclusive theme suited for a portfolio, but will also work great for practically anything. It features a rich featured post slider, allowing viewers to focus on the important information right off the bat. Content is contrasted from the background using vivid colors allowing users to find exactly what they want.

It features a stylish portfolio page, allowing lots of space for your individual projects. The blog page lists your blog posts in a neat, and fashionable way, allowing you to express your thoughts easily and attract your readers easier!

If you enjoy the PSD version of this theme, please support me by purchasing the HTML or WordPress version from ThemeForest.

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Nova Studio HTML

Nova Studio is a multi-purpose portfolio theme featuring a rich home page with a slider, a “From the Blog” widget, and multiple ways to beautifully display your work. A intuitive, unique design will make your site stand out from the crowd and solid markup will make it easy to edit.

Nova Studio includes 5 completely coded pages; Home, About, Portfolio, Blog, and Contact. The Portfolio page includes a 3-column grid of works from your portfolio. The Blog page features a simple blog design, easy on the eyes, allowing you to express your thoughts freely and in a stylish way!

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StudioClick HTML

Studio Click is a simple, well-structured portfolio theme that focuses on one thing: gorgeous photos, screenshots, and content. It displays works easily and stylishly using large images of your products. Not only does it feature a way to display your portfolio items, but it features a well-built blog, displayed on the front page. It’s a simple, yet well-structured and built to accommodate to any needs, whether you’re a photographer, blogger, or just need a theme to display your personal site. Simple, yet reliable.

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Ambition PSD

Ambition is a gorgeous, fluid, uniquely structured theme with plenty of space to showcase your work and content. The front page instantly grabs the users attention and directs them to what they want to know quickly. This theme features seven beautifully designed pages and a unique blog layout.

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If you were one of the lucky people who grabbed yourself a new Apple iPad’s this weekend, then you may be a little disappointed with the selection of wallpapers available on the fantastic little device – fear not, help is at hand.

We have created a set of guides for all you budding and professional artists out there who wish to create your own. The download below offers a fully layered Photoshop (CS4 or earlier) file with guides added and an overlay to make sure you understand the process – let me explain.

The native screen size of an iPad is 768 x 1024px, or (and this is the funky bit) it’s 1024 x 768px – as we all know you can orientate the iPad either horizontally or vertically dependent on our preference of display – the iPad simply rotates the wallpaper image when you do this and as such we have to create an image that is 1024 x 1024px – to cover all the bases. There is also, because of this method, 4 corners of your image that will never be seen, regardless of it’s format.

Here is a reduced size of the download for you to get a clear idea on how things work.

The download includes the following formats for your convenience:

• Layered Photoshop
• TIFF
• JPEG

Please – NO HOTLINKING TO THIS FILE – I fully support linking to this article however.

We look forward to some designs from our small community, and we have lots more goodies in store for the iPad owners out there – stay tuned!

Yup! You read that correctly – to celebrate the launch of his very first WordPress Theme at ThemeForest.net he has decided to give away – completely FREE – the photoshop layered files of this amazing design here on Web Tips Magazine!

Here is what Jonathan sent us:

The HTML / CSS version of this template is one of the largest selling templates on ThemeForest and with the addition of the all new WordPress Premium Theme and the new Email Template I thought it was a good time to say thanks to everyone and for those without much money or who have not seen this product of mine before I thought it would be a perfect time to give away the never before for sale Photoshop Files only.

If you like the photoshop files, and don’t want to code her up yourself it’s already available as HTML here ($15), WordPress Theme ($30) and an accompanying Email template ($10) here.

The package includes a total of 5 complete and layered / grouped photoshop page designs including home, contact, portfolio, services, and about pages.

The images in the portfolio and sliders etc are from the creative commons section of Flickr and therefore you cannot use those images – they are simply there as placeholders, albeit VERY pretty ones – attribution in the form of a full list of those authors is available in the readme file contained in the download file.

OK so here are some gorgeous screen shots for you to drool over and then follow the download link below to start grabbin’ the swag!

Modern Business 3 DARK Photoshop by Jonathan Atkinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License

PLEASE RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL ARTISTS – ESPECIALLY THOSE KIND ENOUGH TO SHARE!

Once again our friend Dany Duchaine at DDWebStudios is offering another fantastic, and free, website template in layered photoshop format. Once again this design is available as a pre made HTML template over at ThemeForest.net for those wanting to spend just a small amount of cash ($12!!!) to get all the work done.

The layered photoshop file contains all the pages of the paid version including the home, blog, contact, portfolio and contact. A super clean design with modern touches enable this to be used either as a portfolio site, business or application / product based site.

Once again thanks Dany for sharing your awesome work with everyone – what are you waiting for? Head over to DDWebStudios now and grab the swag.

Our good friend, Dany Duchaine at DDWebStudios has just announced the launch of his own personal blog and is offering 2 stunning, free, photoshop templates for download in celebration. The designs, Magnifico and Ambition are available for purchase at ThemeForest as both HTML and WordPress Themes. Both designs have proved to be extremely popular with buyers and have in excess of 400 combined sales.

Perfect for both a personal portfolio site, or a corporate solution these pixel perfect clean designs provide a great starting tool for your next site. Fully layered and even light and dark version of Magnifico, it’s an awesome give-away and we wish Danny as much luck with his new personal blog as he enjoys as a top author at ThemeForest.

Head on over to DDWebStudios now and pick up your 2 free photoshop templates.