Samurai martial arts are admired as the greatest example in today’s modern world culture. Not only the historical achievements, but also the spirit in their teachings is what we could learn and apply in our life. As the middle or upper echelon among all warrior classes, they are expected to be bounded by a set of rules in order to behold their brave and loyalty. Many, or most, Japanese will still hold the morale of samurai arts ever in both everyday life and modernized martial art lessons.

Let’s know more about these Samurai warriors. They are the followers of The Way of The Warrior which is known as “Bushido” in Japan. In fact, it sounds as the word – “Chivalry” in the European medieval period. It means the philosophical foundation or code of conduct for a Japanese samurai warrior. Therefore, Bushido must be strictly followed to discipline up the life of Japanese samurai, including moral code of loyalty, martial arts, honor and so on. Samurais devote their life to their patriotic and military duties. It is all about “freedom from fear”. This kind of Bushi spirit is worthy to be kept along the journey of modernization.

Samurai martial arts, traditionally, are for those who serve in close attendance to the nobility. Now, the Japanese samurai affection has obviously spanned over the globe and become the international samurai arts. Under the comparison, the influence scale is larger in most Asian countries. Even so, the Japanese samurai character is quite unique and will not confuse you with any other characters.

You can hear the “samurai” term in many warrior stories, digital artworks, animations, mangas, video games and movies. Samurai arts, either manual or digital, try hard to reveal their powers and strengths. As a respect, the artists will not neglect any detail-rich elements from the Samurai wearing to their use of fascinating weapons. Their armors inside samurai arts are mostly inclusive of various short and long swords, pole arms, firearms, bows and arrows.

And for this we list some digital artworks and concepts about samurai martial arts so that you can compare and contrast how these artists portrayed one of the greatest warrior classes in the history. It will be hopefully the inspirational gallery for you.

Afro Samurai

It is a manga written by the manga artist – Takashi Okazaki.

Rebeca Puebla

She is a 3-D artist from Madrid, Spain.

Samurai Warriors 3

This game is the 3rd installment for the Samurai Warriors series which is created by Tecmo Koei and Omega Force.

samgen wallpaper – genji

Note how many swords does this samurai hold and more of dinmoney’s digital works in deviantArt.

Otako Naoko

A piece of work from Raynkazuya’s portfolio.

The Return of Samurai Jack

It is from an artist called ijulgogan in deviantArt.

Mononofu

Like Bushi, Mononofu is other name for Samurai.

midnight samurai

A piece of great work from ClearMirrorStillH2O.

L5R Crane Samurai

This is from Genzoman in deviantArt.

Mournful Grey

This is from sXeven’s digital portfolio in deviantArt.

Shiba Tsukimi

A powerful, strong and yet beautiful woman with her brilliant skills of combat.

Kitsune samurai

He is a shadow Kitsune who is from another timeline and drastically different planet where has not only mankinds.

samurai 037

He is being called as “The Wanderer” or “The Master Jubei”.

Ninja vs Samurai

You can find more about this series from Sundang’s deviantArt portfolio.

Samurai Vs the Zombies

This is for the Legend of the 5 Rings TCG by BenWootten.

samurai guard

Look closely, you can see the Samurai’s detailed beautiful face.

Samurai Warriors

This video game is also known as Sengoku Musou in Japan.

Crimson Samurai

Every single detail is so obvious and inspiring in this picture.

Samurai

It is the typical samurai warrior’s wearing.

Samurai Knight

The left side is the European Knight while the right side is the Japanese Samurai.

Mariachi Samurai

Mariachi Samurai is one of the fantasy characters from Jose Lopez.

Gypsy Samurai

She is a gypsy, samurai and woman.

Last Samurai: Wallpaper

This is the newly cropped version of the original work.

samurai attack

The texture and sense of depth in this picture is pretty nice.

Samurai Warriors 2

It is a sequel to Samurai Warriors video game.

samurai and the fish

It is from the hands of mahlukat.

Samurai Girl

The female samurai sometimes gives a tougher feeling compared to the male warrior.

Shampoo

This intriguing character is from ProdigyBombay on deviantArt.

Character – Dark Warlord

He is named as Shen Ku as well.

Copper Samurai

Another samurai digital art from dinmoney.

Every single element on your desktop can be customized and tailored to your preference, from the window shape, wallpapers to icons. By Mac OS customization, they all are saying that you can bring your desktop from zero to hero. You merely need to be creative to replace words or icons and pick up a cool background. Then, you have already started to customize OS X. Getting more and more familiar, there are a lot of stuffs that you can play around with your desktop customization.

Simply enlarging icons or changing font styles, you can feel the difference in your desktop appearance. If you are photographer, you can put up the most favorite masterpiece from your collections to be your desktop wallpaper. It just seems as the showcase for your photographic works. Besides, wallpapers can be changed within a preset time period. Hence, you can view different pictures or have various desktop interfaces in one day. Sure, desktop customization does not stop in here. You can magically transform it into super hi-tech experience, as long as you can hit it on the right track with some tools and your brain.

Across the internet, you can easily find some useful widgets, applications or tutorials to teach you how to customize OS X to your satisfaction. GeekTool is one of the popular tools to customize OS X desktop. It receives a lot of positive compliments and comments. Compared to other alternatives, it can be considered as a neat and user-friendly utility that directs you to run little scripts or “geeklets” to show out all necessary and useful information such as RAM, CPU usage, calendar and images on your Mac desktop.

After the Mac OS customization, what you can tell is not only the visual enhancement of browsing your desktop, but also the useful and convenient functions. For example, you can add in the basic system statistics, current weather, news feed or more gadgets to ease your daily life needs. Furthermore, customization does not necessarily equal to complexity. You can either make it as a tech-geek or simple and nice. Minimalism is often used to develop and customize OS X to a user’s heart content.

Desktop customization, or specially referring to Mac OS customization, can allow you to create your personalized beautiful and productive desktop space. Whenever you feel bored, you can remake it with your innovative and intelligent mind.

Enjoy their desktops!

Seattle Harbor + Geektool + Yahoo! Widgets

Widgets should be arranged in the way not to block the harbor view.

Shorty’s GeekTool Setup

Left and right columns incorporate all the things well.

Desktop 2 – OS X Tiger

With more widgets, your desktop color and images must be carefully chosen.

May shot

A plain purple background fully tells you what is minimalism.

Desktop – OS X Leopard w/Dock Expanded

Putting icons and widgets in four desktop corners is a great idea too.

Skyrim – Desktop Screenshot

Keeping icons small and aside will make your desktop more neat.

Gaia 09 for Snow Leopard

Color palette is crucial to define the feelings of your desktop.

OS X – Leopard

Again, wallpaper should be simple when more widgets are on the screen.

Veritas feat. Neon

Homogeneous is helpful to achieve a minimalist’s concept.

OSX Lion custom desktop

Colorful desktop will not lead to complicated feeling.

Grays

Desktop could be as modern as your working space.

My Desktop by santoscreative

Cute icon sets gain popularity and attention.

Mac Toon Customization

Without any gadgets, it is quite comfortable.

New Mac Screenshot

A desktop seems like a photo frame.

Urban Desktop

Picking up the right wallpaper is imperative in doing customization.

Mac OS X

You can choose only displaying what you need on the window screen.

Africa ss

This customization sounds like asking you to throw away all icons and left out the wallpaper.

My Mac OS X desktop by ibnadem

Make your widgets as part of the wallpaper.

Back to me

Focusing on window screens and folders, instead of the wallpaper.

Bokeh

You can notice the clock and time inside the bokeh.

Mac Os Lion September

When you see it, you hear the waves.

locol

Black and white often produce the beautiful things in our life.

My Desktop for Easter by ivica221

Your desktop could be your room, so do arrange it well.

Passing the Days

It is so seductive when you open your Mac each time.

Tlo

Putting all pictures aside in small size is great, isn’t it?

That is why there is tons of free software out in the market today to assist web designers and developers in their duties. The demand for website creation has led to the increase of free software and tools in the market to make the website designing job easier and more cost efficient.

Some people might even argue to an extent that free software for web designers are actually better than paid software! One of the reasons is because free software has an entire community (of both developers and users) to get involved in fixing problems and bugs. Another reason why free software for web designers is good is because of reliability. A lot of the famous free software available on the Internet today is popular due to its satisfactory performance and good reviews from users. Therefore, you can be assured that most free software, especially those which are highly rated, are of exceptional quality.

In this article, we present to you a collection of excellent free software in the categories of messaging and communication, project planning and organizing, image editing and design, coding and CSS, FTP, debugging and testing and site promotion.

Messaging and Communication

Google Reader

An RSS reader which keeps you up to date with the latest news on the Internet.

Pidgin Instant Messenger

Instant messaging client which hosts a lot of chat clients like AIM, MIRC etc.

Project Planning and Organising

2 Plan Desktop

Planning and scheduling software.

2 Plan Team

Team planning and scheduling software (links 2 Plan Desktop).

Image Editing and Design

Photoscape

Basic photo editor.

Pixia

Japanese photo editing software (available in English).

Splashup

Web based photo editing application.

Coding and CSS

Snap{css}

Notepad like css application.

Komodo Edit

Simple CSS editor that extends to Firefox.

Notepad++

Based on Scintilla, it is a powerful code editor.

FTP

WinSCP

SFTP, SCP, FTP software.

FireFTP

FTP client that is integrated directly to Firefox.

FileZilla

Open source FTP for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Debugging and Testing

Deskzilla Lite

Deskzilla is a desktop client for Bugzilla bug tracking system.

Bugzilla

Defect and bug tracking software.

HTTPLook

Test and debug Internet applications that work over HTTP protocol.

Abbot Java Gui Test

Test the Java UI.

Anteater

Write tests for checking the functionality of a Web application or of an XML Web service.

Site Promotion

Traffic Travis

Comprehensive collection of essential Market Research, PPC and SEO.

Page Speed

FireFox add-on that evaluates the speed of your website and gives suggestions on how to improve its speed.

A brief history is that FTP has existed back in 1971 and is one of the oldest protocols that support the Internet. A computer based FTP clients are programs that were installed into a computer that enables file transfer between the machine and server. FTP clients can be very useful not only for making websites but also for download and file transfers. In fact, most web hosting services provide their own brand of FTP client or file transfer services that is similar to FTP clients, however based on personal experience their services are normally slower and sometimes complicated to operate and became too much hassle when one is transferring bulk files between servers. Which are why most users prefer to install a computer based FTP client to speed things up and the program itself will only take up a small space in your computer. Therefore, for this particular article we will be featuring free FTP clients for Windows users.

Among most of the Windows FTP clients featured on the list, each of them has their own special feature, while all of the featured Windows FTP clients on the list are available for free; some of them require a small fee for a service upgrade. Some of the free FTP clients features and supports other functions such as drag and drop, thumbnail generator, folder locking and some security functions.

However, while me dedicate this post mostly for Windows users, we have also included a few free FTP clients for Mac users (seeing that yours truly are one of them). But a note to mention here is that, while certain FTP clients only supports one operating system; other FTP clients also provide different versions to support different operating systems. For this particular article, we have collected different free FTP clients that provide and supports different features; we hope that this will help our users get started.

FileZilla

One of the most popular and common FTP program available, it uses little resources and is fast and efficient.

Go FTP

Presenting itself as the fastest multi-threaded FTP program in the market; stating that it works 314% than its competitors.

Core FTP

This FTP program places great importance on security, its a great tool to exchange files from different servers.

FTP Commander

A free and paid version exist for this FTP program.

Total Commander

A successor of Windows commander and features a thumbnail generator for images as well as Multi language and unicode support.

FTP Voyager

This FTP program features feature such as Synchronize Folders, Folder Locking, Power transfer and more, it might just be the tool you need.

Free FTP

The program describes itself as a simple and reliable file transfer FTP client.

Classic FTP Client

A fully featured, free FTP client available for Mac OS X and Windows.

Cross FTP

A user-friendly FTP program written in Java allowing it to work on any Java-enabled machine.

Cyberduck

One of the best FTP clients that is free for Mac users, it is also available as a dashboard widget.

OneButton FTP

An FTP client that focoses on simplicity, drag and drop usability as well as file queuing.

Fugu

Fugu is a graphical front end to the command line Secure File Transfer application (SFTP) built into Mac OS X.

WinSCP

Free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows.

AceFTP

It provides features such as Drag and Drop and SSH secure file transfer.

FTP Surfer

FTP Surfer is a professional FTP client featuring an Internet Explorer style user interface including an address bar, history, and favorites menu.