Today we have assembled some of the most incredible and beautiful digital paintings from Deviant Art. In this post, you will find that most of the masterpieces are softly colored yet look truly stunning.

You will notice that each of the artwork tells its story in its own way. Surely there are some very amazing artists out there who have created such masterpieces. Kindly note that, all these images have been gathered from Deviant Art and therefore have been linked back properly to their original sources.

The Pumpkin King by Radojavor

Into the Unknown by kerembeyit

Haiti 7.0 by xpsam

Spring by chvacher

Battle Ship by Radojavor

Anamnesis of estivation by alexiuss

Autumn Tree by Angela-T

Coconut Octopus by Kikariz

Happy suicide by lolita-art

Winged companions by Ironshod

The Evil Snowman by Beloved-Creature

The Last Run by Drayok

Mountain serenity by AndreeWallin

Commission: Declan by charlie140588

Forest Girl by kerembeyit

Flying Whale by darkmello

Ancient.tree. by noah-kh

Autumn herald by sandara

Back street by Tahra

Chinese Monastery Concept by I-NetGraFX

Chile fish by PigeonKill

The Leviathan, revisited by forgottenpurpose

Midday Sun by ShadowUmbre

Pirates of the Spanish Main by viag

Elephant who likes Eggplant by ethe

Tree Root Canopy by ANTIFAN-REAL

Drug Free Zone by microbot23

Sabertooth Family by Damalia

Troubadour by Tahra

Ryujin by GENZOMAN

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Wondering how to have fun with your iPad? One obvious way is to play games or try fun apps on it. And here we are listing down Top 10 Evergreen iPad Apps To Kill Your Boredom. Read on my list of top 10 free iPad apps for your entertainment. Try them all out – they’re free!

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Atlas of the World

A Digital Atlas of the United States and the World, with satellite images of over 400 famous landmarks. The World map lets you view data at the country level, while the United States can be viewed at the state and county levels. Data is provided from the World Bank, Wikipedia and the 2000 US Census.

Optical Illusions

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. This Simple Application is a collection containing 70 different optical illusions. Just watch them and be amazed.

Mood Sense Lite

Mood Sense knows that your mood is so much more than just happy or sad. You are a unique and complex individual with intricate feelings. Let the Mood Sense Podlingz (4 specialized oracles trained exclusively to interpret your feelings and emotions) read the deep ripples of your inner being and enlighten you.

Google Earth

With Google Earth for iPad, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. You can explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.

Save Stickly – Free Fall Down Game

Do You Have What It Takes To Save Stickly? Save Stickly is an addicting, fun, (and free) fall down game. Simply tilt your device left and right to falldown the holes in the game. Avoid the ceiling for as long as possible to keep from crushing Stickly.

10,500+ Cool Facts

What’s a better way to waste your time than learning 10,513 new cool facts? With this app you can learn thousands of those facts that you might did not know before.

Planets

A 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers. You can siscover when you can see your favorite planet, and where to look in the sky in relation to the stars and so much more.

Fotopedia Heritage

With 25,000 awe-inspiring photos, this much loved app has been called the world’s largest photo book, an inspiring travel guide, an entertaining teaching device and even a bed-time relaxation tool.

700 City Maps

Tired of having the paper map blown to pieces by the wind every time you try to figure out where you are and where you need to go? The mobile streetmaps are for you, All the map data is loaded on your iPAd before you leave your home, so can you be on the streets, offline, and still know everything about the area you are in, and locate yourself or any street in the city. You don’t need any network connection at all once the application is installed on your iPhone.

Test Your IQ

Desire To Know Your IQ? “TEST YOUR IQ” is the easiest way to check your IQ with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The test is fully consistent with the standards of IQ testing. You are offered to answer various questions. At the end of testing, the program will calculate your IQ.

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There are many apps out there for you, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing the 7 Best (Yet Free) Website Building Tools. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.

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Google Sites

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. This is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website as well.

Wix

You can create your own free website that looks and functions the way you want. Wix is an online editor with a drag and drop interface that lets you learn how to make a website without the need to bother with any code or web programming. To build your site, use the free design elements found inside the Wix website builder. Add pictures, text, contact forms, Google maps, social network icons and links, music, video files and more, in just a few simple clicks. You can also upload your own content, to add your own photos, animation files, text and more.

DevHub

DevHub is your place to create on the Web with no hosting hassle, guided site-editing, money-making tools, social features integrated, and a whole lot of fun mixed in.

SnapPages

SnapPages is the easiest way to create your own website online. With it’s simple drag and drop tools you can have your new website up and running in no time.

Webs

The Webs site builder provides everything you need to get your business online which is a wide variety of customizable templates, and engaging features like blogs, photos, videos, forums and more.

GetShopped

You can create free website, pages, sell online, send newsletters, and blog online with GetShopped. This is perfect for any new or existing business that wants to sell products or services online. GetShopped integrates with Google
Checkout, Paypal, Payment Express, and many other trusted payment processors. This will ensure secure payment processing for your clients.

Webnode

Webnode is a tool for the fast and easy creation of web sites. This is simple, on-line and free. You can even use your own domain. It can really get your site up and running in only five minutes.

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There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for the sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience. In this post, We are listing down  wordpress plugins that are really essential for every blog.

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W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. With this plugin, you can save up to 80% Bandwidth via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds. We personally use W3 Total Cache and recommends this plugin to our all the visitors.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

HeadJS Loader

This plugin reformats your page to utilize Head JS in your WordPress site. It strips out all your old javascript declarations and puts them into head.js calls so that they are loaded in parallel.

Plugin Organizer

This plugin allows you to change the order that your plugins are loaded. It also adds grouping to the plugin admin age.

JS & CSS Script Optimizer

This plugin will help you make your website more quick. It can grouping and packing Java Scripts and CSS. Also it makes fewer HTTP requests.

WP Minify

This plugin integrates the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

Scripts Gzip

A WordPress plugin to merge and compress the CSS and JS links on the page. It does not cache, minify, have a “PRO” support forum that costs money, keep any logs or have any fancy graphics. It only does one thing, merge+compress,
and it does it relatively well.

html-compress

This plugin clears html of web page. It reduces space, tab, etc. on all source content, including in line css and javascript.

Performance Optimization: Order Styles and Javascript

What if you are using plugins and that are adding calls to JavaScript and CSS files dynamically. This is case of WordPress blog, where we use many plugins and those plugins add various Styles and Script files dynamically from wp_head() call. This plugin helps you assign the order to stylesheet and JavaScript (external and inline) for performance optimization.

External Files Optimizer

It automatically combines and compress css/js files generate with wp_head() and wp_footer().

WordPress Gzip Compression

It enables gzip-compression if the visitor’s browser can handle it. This will speed up your WordPress website drastically and reduces bandwidth usage as well. Uses the PHP ob_gzhandler() callback.

WP Parallel Loading System

The WP Parallel Loading System is a wordPress plugin that will enhance the loading efficiency of your Blog.

CloudFlare

The CloudFlare WordPress Plugin ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform.

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Who would have thought that a little research project that was initially experimented for specific group of people called “ARPANET” will transform the world and get the revolution that will change the life of every individual. Started from early 1960′s to the 2010, it changes lots of faces and expanded like a spider web. But there are so many of us who love to see the statistics. Here, we have found an infographic in which you can see the periodic growth of internet from 1998 to 2010 in a very attractive manner.

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MOESC (Microsoft Outlook E-mail Signature Creator)
allows a user to easily create a signature for Microsoft
Outlook e-mail messages. Using the built-in template,
you can easily create a professional looking Outlook
signature. This tiny program can be rolled out to staff
allowing them to create their own signatures using
one format. (in Business and Productivity)

KNote is an advanced and secure note taking program.
It is currently the only full-featured note taking
program that provides: Privacy: Notes are encrypted
with bank-grade security. Portability: No installations
are required. (in Business and Productivity)

MP3 Rocket YouTube Downloader is an award winning software
that allows you to download and convert videos and
mp3 music from YouTube, including HD and HQ videos,
and convert them to other HD video formats. With MP3
Rocket you can download free mp3 music, watch TV, movies
and play free games. MP3 Rocket includes precise categories
and genres, popularity and voting tools, making it
easy to find and enjoy the entertainment you’re looking
for. (in Internet)

Pop-Up Message Sender allows a Windows XP PC on a work’s
network to send a short pop-up message to all other
Windows XP PC’s on the same subnet. (in Internet)

Panda Batch File Renamer is an easy to use utility
for changing the names of multiple files. The intuitive
interface provides a flexible way to quickly alter
file names, current and final file names are shown
side-by-side on the screen and any changes are displayed
on screen immediately. Information taken directly from
the ID tags of photo and music files can be inserted
into the file name. (in System Utilities)