Twitter Updates for 2010-03-03

• Very interesting tutorial. How to Create a Vector Series of Linear Effects | Vectortuts+ http://goo.gl/5zQN #
• More Tiki Urban Archeology from Michael Fitzgerald's Blog | From the San Joaquin Media Group. http://goo.gl/EBi4 #
• Nice rusty textures. Free Texture Tuesday: Rust 3 | BittBox http://bit.ly/bguB1l #
• Make your own Solar System! My Solar System 2.02 http://goo.gl/MWTC #
• Amazing paintings of possible Alien life from work from Abiogenisis's Gallery http://goo.gl/e5HI #

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Twitter Background Templates for Illustator & Photoshop

Twitter is all the rage, but how can you make a great looking twitter page? Twitter gives the user limited, yet flexible design options. As social networking sites go, this gives you the ability to create a unique look unlike say, Facebook. But it keeps things much cleaner than the design nightmare that is MySpace.

Creating a cool background is the key to differentiating yourself on Twitter. After reading Jennifer Farley, of Laughing Lion Design‘s excellent  tutorial on Sitepoint (click here to read it) about creating your own backgrounds for Twitter. I was inspired, and created some generic templates based on her tutorial. Download the my templates and use Jennifer’s tutorial and these templates and before you know it, you’ll have a background that will make everyone a twitter about. Oh, man, I can’t believe I actually used a lame twitter pun. Twitter puns are the lowest form of humor, it makes one sound like, dare I say it… a twit. I did it again!

Download these free templates for your own use, pass along the link if you like them. The templates for Photoshop and Illustrator with guides and are in the three most common browser sizes (800×600, 1024×768 & 1280×1024), though the 800×600 might be a bit useless, but you might as well have the complete set. These were created in the CS3, if anyone is interested I can save down the Illustrator version to an earlier version.

Also you can follow me on Twitter.

Check out the new Seth Godin v…

Check out the new Seth Godin video that @AndrewWarner posted on Mixergy: http://tinyurl.com/9begt9

Here’s a great article on” The…

Here’s a great article on” The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age Science Fiction”: http://tinyurl.com/9hoq4o

Check out this amazing collect…

Check out this amazing collection of WPA Posters. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

I am totally excited to see th…

I am totally excited to see the new film Objectified from the creators of Helvetica. http://tinyurl.com/a4bzod

A truly great collection of ti…

A truly great collection of title shots from B-movies! http://tinyurl.com/8arpmk

I have found my new favorite o…

I have found my new favorite obsession: randomly searching the commons for great images: http://www.flickr.com/commons

Take a look back at the year: …

Take a look back at the year: The Top Quotes of 2008: http://tinyurl.com/5okt7a

@hroulo Ah, the classic retell…

@hroulo Ah, the classic retelling of the rape of the sabine women, with dancing!