We are very happy to announce the launch of our first iPhone Application. The Ecoki Reader is a simple iPhone application that lets you stay on top of all things Ecoki. The application is an easy way to read the latest news on the iPhone. Lots of updates are coming soon!.

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You can view the new Ecoki Reader website here.

A very big thank you to Nicolas Cormier for developing the iPhone Application.  Chacola.com

Also a very big thank you to Aran Seaman for his amazing work on the Ecoki iPhone Reader page!

The Swish Life is a fresh, new lifestyle magazine dedicated to those who love a little bit of everything.

Whether its the latest in culture, up-to-date tech debuts, or the newest cars on the market, we’re there. Regardless of your interest(s), The Swish Life strives to provide you with everything from an ongoing art exhibit to men’s beauty tips (and we know you want them).

Launched in late 2009, we’re on our way to bringing you what you need, love and want: an e-magazine that delivers you everything in one.

Whether you’re tuning in for a news update, perusing the latest sculptors, or seeing what’s the latest on the runway, we welcome you to The Swish Life. With this design we worked with the great Liam at We Function and Derek at Valen Designs.

And suggestions? They’re always welcome. Fire them at us at contact@theswishlife.com

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Tweethawk.com Nature Based Free Twitter Wallpapers

Ecoki and Studio 7 Designs Inc founder Aran Down had the pleasure of spending two weeks with the owners of Ahana Organic Farms in India and is going to assist with fund raising for Ahana Farms Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), to assist with health care, education, food, nutrition, and everything in between.

Visit them to read more about their practices at ahanaorganic.com and stay tuned to ecoki.com in the next coming months, as we begin our fund raising event to assist with making Ahana Organic Farm’s vision turn to reality.

View the full article at ecoki.com/ahana-organic-farm/

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Ecoki.com The Most Active Eco Community
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Enviramedia.com Environmental Investment Group
Designslurp.com The home page for Vector illustrators
Tweethawk.com Nature Based Free Twitter Wallpapers

We love prowling the web for the latest trends and design inspiration. Here we have composed a list of common resources we use. The primary focus of this list is inspiration, it can come from a photograph, font, or a website. The secondary focus is improving your design skills, which can be done by keeping up to date with tutorials and reading other graphic design blogs. We hope you enjoy our personal list of great sites, and we will be adding to this list in the coming weeks and months as there are a lot of great new sites coming online every other day now.

OUR LATEST DESIGN RELATED SITES:

Free Vector Art Files

Free photoshop file downloads

Css website gallery nature based

Free website templates downloads

Free Stock Photos and Templates

Free Font Downloads

Free Fonts and Other Resources: Web Page Publicity
Huge Collection of Free Fonts: Da Font
Nice Selection of Free Fonts: Urban Fonts
Fonts and Other Freebies: Simply The Best Fonts
1001 Free Fonts for Download: 1001 Free Fonts
Over 9000 Free Fonts: Creamundo
A Small List of Free Fonts: Best Free Fonts

Paid Font Sites

A Large Selection of Fonts for Purchase: My Fonts
Quality Fonts for Purchase: Veer
Information and Fonts for Purchase: Fonts
Font Resources and Sales: Font Haus

Stock Photos and Vectors

The Best Stock Photo and Vector Website
Quality Photos for Purchase: Shutterstock
Stock Photos and Other Pay Downloads: Veer
Quality, Affordable Vectors for Purchase: Vector Stock
Stock Photos With a Great Selection: Jupiter Images
Stock Photos and Photography Network: Stock Vault
Quality Stock Photos: Corbis
Free Stock Wedding Photos Wedding Photographer Victoria Vancouver BC

Free Photos and Vectors

Submit Vectors or Download Others for Free: Free Vector Art
Tons of Great Free Vectors and Photos: Deviant Art
59 Pages of Free Vector Art: Free Vectors
Quality Vector Downloads: Vector 4 Free
Neat Collection of Free Photos From Around the World: Free Stock Photos
Great Collection of Free Vectors and Resources: You The Designer
Great Free Stock Photos: Free Foto
A List of Free Downloads: Bittbox
700 Free Stock Photos: Free Picture Click

Website Templates

A Few High Quality Wordpress Themes: Evan Eckard
Over 2000 Free Web Templates: OSWD
A Large Selection of Nice Templates: Free Website  Templates
A Large List of Free Templates: Free CSS Templates
Nice Wordpress Templates for Download: Free CSS Templates
A Combination of Free and Pay Templates: Free Templates Online
Affordable, Quality Templates: Templamatic
Free Blog Templates: Blogging Themes

CSS Galleries

The Best Nature Sites on the Web: CSS Nature Website Gallery
A Frequently Updated Gallery of Sites: CSS Mania
An Organized List of Nice Sites: Most Inspired
CSS Gallery of Quality Sites: CSS Design Yorkshire
A Selection of Only Nature Based Sites: CSS Nature
A Selective List of Well Designed Sites: Web Creme
High Quality CSS Showcase: CSS Tux
Nice CSS Websites: The Designed Tree
A CSS Collection Organized by Category: CSS Elite

Inspiration

A Great Site About Everything Type: I Love Typography
An Incredible Illustrator: Burst of Beaden
A Great Designer and Illustrator: Fully Illustrated
Customizable List of Design Resources: Cork Dump
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada: GDC
Freelance Advice Blog and Resources: Freelance Switch
Amazing Collection of Logos: Logopond
Stunning Desktop Wallpapers: Desktopography
A Graphic Design Magazine: Computer Arts

Tutorials

The Best Photoshop Tutorials: PSD Tuts
A Talented Photoshop Designer: Abduzeedo
Photoshop Tutorials and Web Design Resources: Web Design Library
Tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator and More: Tutorial Vault
A Few Neat Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials: Design Spice
Great Photoshop Tutorials and Downloads: PS Wish
Tutorials for Every Computer Program: Tutorialing

Free Photoshop Downloads

A Couple Free Patterns for Download: Design Spice
Free Photoshop Brushes: Design Fruit
Free Photoshop Actions: Visual Blast
Tons of Free Photoshop Brushes: Brusheezy
A Few Nice Free Photoshop Brushes: Obsidian Dawn
Great Grunge Brushes and Others: Photoshop Brushes
Free Background Patterns for Photoshop: Free BG
Over 150 Free Background Patterns: Squidfingers

Design Blogs

A Frequently Updated Design Blog: Veerle’s Blog
A Design Magazine and Blog: Smashing Magazine
A European Design Blog: Design In Europe
A Unique Nerdy Blog: Design You Trust
The Personal Blog of a Graphic Designer: Larissa Meek
A German Design Blog: David Hellmann
The Blog of a Canadian Geek/Model: Mostly Lisa
A Graphic Design Blog: Bittbox
A Blog About Freelance Graphic Design Advice: Freelance Switch
A Design Blog Full of Resources: You The Designer
A Popular Design Blog: Fazai 38

Colour Palettes

A Flash Site of User Generated Colour Palettes: Adobe Kuler
Using Colours From Photos: Colr
Colours, Palettes and Patterns: COLOURlovers
A Colour Palette Generated From Your Images: Color Palette Generator
See The Results of Your Palette on a Website: Color Spire
Create and Email Colour Palettes: Color Blender

Tips and Tricks

Vector Do’s and Dont’s: iStockphoto
The Web Design Polish: PSD Tuts
Promote Your Design Business: Freelance Switch
How To Increase Web Traffic: You The Designer

Coders

$50 per page awesome psd to xhtml DROPNCHOP.COM (We recommend them, and use them)
Quality Programming: XHTMLized
Professional Web Slicing: PSD Slicing
Affordable, Quality Coding: PSD2HTML
From Design to Code, Quick and Cheap: Front Enders

Designer Geek Merch

Great Nerdy Clothing and Accessories: Veer
Nice T-Shirt Collection: Designer T-Shirts
Graphic Design T-Shirts and Accessories: Cafepress
Geek Merchandise For Everyone: Think Geek
Graphic Design T-Shirts: Zazzle
Unique T-Shirt Designs You Can’t Find Anywhere Else: Allmightys
Web Templates

Newly added resources

A great new marketplace for stock graphic design: Inkd.com
A fantastic resource for finding information on corporate brand identity: Brands of the World
We just launched a fun eco focused site ecoki.com
Our Free Vector File Site is launched.
Free Photoshop File Downloads

AppleReviews.com is giving away $5,000 worth of Apple accessories, hardware, apps, software and more in our Hyper Giveaway!  Visit applereviews.com, and join us on twitter at twitter.com/applereviews for a chance to win.

We will be doing weekly giveaways leading up to the Hyper Giveaway in September.

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We are proud to launch the first in a series of Nature Based Twitter Backgrounds. TweetHawk Custom Background Designs are free to use for personal use under the Creative Commons 3.0 Licence.

The images were designed by Studio 7 Designs and Fresh eMedia.  A link back to TweetHawk.com would be appreciated if you enjoy these designs.  Download the package at TweetHawk.com.

Below is a sample of a few of the illustrations.  DOWNLOAD THE FULL PACK HERE

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Ecoki.com The Most Active Eco Community
Applereviews.com The site for everything apple
Enviramedia.com Environmental Investment Group
Designslurp.com The home page for Vector illustrators
Tweethawk.com Nature Based Free Twitter Wallpapers

We are excited to launch the first site on the Slurp Network today. Design Slurp is a site dedicated to the design community. We feature some of the top blogs, galleries, magazines, and tutorials all in one home page.

We have a ways to go with this site and will be updating the site with more sites and information in the coming months. Please feel free to send us your feedback on how we can make this design home page even better!

Visit DesignSlurp.com

The main above the fold shows the Slurp Network drop down, as well as the latest in design news today.

We love PSDTUTS and had to add their latest tutorials to the main page..

Our favorite quality CSS design site Best Web Gallery was chosen for the latest sites.

If you would like to send us feedback, or inquire about advertising rates. Please email contact@enviramedia.com

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Ecoki.com The Eco Community
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Enviramedia.com Environmental Investment Group
Designslurp.com The home page for designers and illustrators
Tweethawk.com Nature Based Twitter Backgrounds

Why choose eco-hosting?
Deforestation, global warming and polluted waterways are just a few of the myriad of environmental disasters hitting the headlines each day. As web professionals, there’s something substantial and economical we can do to help address the problem and to demonstrate to our clients our social conscious. The strategy is simple ─ choose a green web host for hosting sites. This strategy will help boost our bottom line and build our clientèle.

Electing to host your sites with a provider powered by renewable energy goes way past the warm and fuzzy aspects of doing good for the planet. Here are some reasons why it’s an excellent business decision to opt for a carbon-neutral hosting service.

1. Reducing the environmental impact of hosting

In 2005, the amount of electricity consumed by data centers globally was equivalent to the production of 14 coal-fired 1,000-megawatt power plants. Given the huge growth in the technology sector since then, the impact would be even more devastating today, particularly when you take into account that traditional coal-fired electricity generation spews around 1,970 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per megawatt hour. As educated, professional people we know that it goes well beyond a desire to reduce our own business impact on the environment and becomes more of a responsibility.

2. Responding to customer concerns

Long gone are the days when environmental concerns were the realm of hippies ─ it’s now very much mainstream. The average consumer wants to reduce his and her carbon footprint and insists that companies they do business with do the same. This demand goes right up the supply chain, past the products that companies sell, to their administrative infrastructure and ancillary services such as web hosting. By hosting with a green provider you can get ahead of the curve and have a distinct edge over your competitors.

3. Helping your clients, helping you boost your bottom line

A great aspect of hosting on a server powered by 100% renewable energy is that you can advertise this fact on sites you develop for your clients. It will help those clients boost their own sales ─ a great selling feature for your own services you can highlight in proposals.

4. An economical choice

While green web hosting used to be expensive and lean on features, you’ll find that pricing nowadays is akin to typical web hosting. The more investment that occurs in renewable energy, the lower the infrastructure costs, until hopefully one day electricity generation by environmentally destructive methods such as coal-fired generation becomes a shameful memory. The huge investment in renewable energy has already brought prices down which has flowed on to hosting companies. For example,

5. Choosing a green web hosting company

Quite a few web hosts have jumped on the green bandwagon in recent years, which is wonderful to see. Unfortunately, with some it’s just a token gesture, a marketing tool, and eco-savvy consumers will recognize this and consider it greenwashing. When selecting a green web host, dig into the company’s background and see what else they are doing about lightening their environmental footprint.

If you are a sustainable eco host, please contact us and we will review your services. If your service is sustainable, and you can offer a discount to our readers we will post your link below.

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Applereviews.com provides you with up-to-date information, news, reviews, and articles about everything Mac-related.

From the latest news to the most recent obscure app, our mission is to develop a comprehensive hardware and software information destination, with daily published featured articles. We strive to bring you the best information possible, whether its in a detailed review, the newest hardware, or simply a useful tip.

Our passion and drive is based on for bringing you the best of Mac; hatched mid-2008, our goal is to swiftly grow into a top internet resource for all things Apple. Designed and Developed by Studio 7 Designs Inc, with help from wefunction on the Wordpress Design.

We welcome your opinion, ideas, and recommendation; please contact us or visit our contribution page for more information on how you can get involved!

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Envira Media is dedicated to funding and managing sustainable business models. We support and fund environmentally sound business models, as well as manage some of the best socially responsible sites online. We have a wide range of socially responsible and trusted brands to help your company gain exposure from initial Branding Statement through to Marketing and Advertising. Our latest project will launch in July, 2009.

With over 3,000 advertisers across dozens of sustainable verticals, we connect socially responsible advertisers and publishers. The Envira Media advertising network has over 6 million unique visitors per month. With the focus on sustainable brands our expertise in advertising solutions can connect the right demographic to your sustainable brand.

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