ptoone provides graphic arts, web developments and social promotion. Under the name of Thexyz Network he works with leading household brands as well as upcoming businesses, playing a crucial part in the formation of brand language, product advertising, print illustrations and web solutions. He also produces a variety content in the form of visual art, word. code, greeting cards, blogs and other commercial media. Scroll down to read my latest blog posts…

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The video is directed by founder of Nations United, Chaker Khazaal, and is starring Karissa and Katie Strain, Jackie and Olie Vainberg. (With an appearance from ptoone as the paper boy!).

Nations United is a campaign and film championing the art of film making and global unity. In cooperation with many friends around the World, Nations United is collecting video entries with preferred themes such as beauty, compassion, happiness, learning, love, nature, peace, and unity. Selected footages will be integrated into the upcoming film Nations United the movie.

Related links:

• View the YouTube video on Thexyz.in
• ‘I wish” page on NationsUnited.org

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Thexyz Network HQ Location

Now operating over a global network linked to server data centers located in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. We now have a head office located in the downtown core of Toronto. As our network continues to grow, so does the need for a permanent address, we are happy to have chosen Toronto as our head office location. Located in a private suite in the same building as one of the cities top newspapers, ‘The Toronto Star.”  Visit the contact pages of this or Thexyz Network for the address.

Thexyz Network Head Office

Related Links:

• Thexyz Network Contact
• Thexyz Network Google Maps Page

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Use coupon code GREATWHITENORTH305 at checkout and receive 15% off. See below for a list of ptoone book eligible for discount…

Use coupon code GREATWHITENORTH305 at checkout and receive 15% off

	Harry – An illustrated poem Harry…A compelling story of a thoughtful and conscientious doorman who reluctantly gave his job up in the blink of an eye for what turned out to be a mistake, he hoped he would live to regret.
	The Alphabetic (and somewhat poetic) “Gist” of Ology Jobs Taken through the alphabet of scientific study with a Platypus/Penguin type Man. This rhyming ABC poem offers an abundance of laughs, poetry and some insight into the different types of ‘Ology’ jobs. It does not attempt to provide an accurate portrayal into each field of study or academic discipline, nothing more than a illustrated poem combining science and art.
	The Dot Sketch Book The Dot Sketch Book was designed by ptoone as a way to write between the lines, and keep structure. The Dot Grid was developed as an alternative to traditional lines and boxes. The light grey geometric dot matrix serves as a subtle guide for your notations and sketches.
	The Story of the Laccifer Lacca (Lac Beetle). From the beetle to the tree, ‘Shellac’ embarks on a remarkable process before it is purified for commercial use. The Laccifer Lacca (Lac Beetle) is a scale insect from the cohiael family. Measuring just 5mm in length when fully grown, it resides on trees in India and southern Asia, such as the Ficus, Palas, Kusum and Ber tree’s. This amazing process requires the precise efforts of man, animals and nature to perfect.

Maximum savings with this promotion is $20. You can only use the code once per account, and you can’t use this coupon in combination with other coupon codes. This great offer ends on July 4th, 2010 at 11:59 PM so try not to procrastinate!

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The major new features:

• A new default theme called Twenty Ten
• New developer API’s
• Simultaneous updates for plugins
• The MU and WordPress merger!

This new version of WordPress includes a much improved new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, short-links, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. This new version has seen 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements in total.

There have been several new releases of WordPress over the past year, WordPress 3.0 includes a lot more new features than with other updates and the development team, that now includes 218 developers, will be taking a break from development for a while to concentrate more on integration.

We’re going to take a release cycle off to focus on all of the things around WordPress. The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else. Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless. The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today. We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.

If you haven’t already upgraded to WordPress, whaddya waiting for? You can download a full zip file here.
Downloading the zip file is suitable for manual upgrade, while if you are upgrading automatically like most of us will, you can upgrade directly from your WordPress admin area.

More useful links on topic:

• Minimum server requirements
• Official WordPress Announcement

Enjoy being the first to hear about new apps and new features? Join Thexyz.in for latest releases.

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South Africa 2010 World Cup Royalty Free Images

As we approach the final hours to the opening match of the World Cup and prepare ourselves for a month-long steady diet of world class football. I am so excited. Also reminded that current event news topics become highly searched for. To top of my joyful mood, I have also had a RF image approved on Dreamstime all ready to download. Such relevant images to the World Cup will surely be in demand for the next month or two. I am sure we will see some great pictures from photographers lucky enough to be there. Whilst I will be making it to South Africa, I will be watching it.

More relevant world cup links:

• Download the Yahoo world cup toolbar
• Read this post on Dreamstime
• Official FIFA homepage
• World Cup 2010 Google search results
• Printable Official FIFA schedule PDF

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2010 World Cup Coverage with Yahoo! Toolbar Never miss a moment with coverage of the World Cup on your Yahoo! Toolbar. Stay informed with real-time scores, schedules, and news at your fingertips.

Personalize your Toolbar! Support your favorite team by picking a country-themed skin for your Toolbar. Stay in the know! Stay informed with real-time scores, TV schedules, news, and highlights all in one spot. Jersey Giveaway Sweepstakes – Win your favorite Team’s Jersey! When users download the Yahoo! Toolbar with World Cup Coverage, they can enter for a chance to with their team’s official tournament jersey.

• Stay on Top of 2010 World Cup Coverage – Get the Yahoo! World Cup Toolbar
• Enter the Jersey Giveaway Sweepstakes – Download the Yahoo! World Cup Toolbar

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A sneak peek of inside the user admin area for the new site. Thexyz Network

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Thexyz Network (ThexyzNetwork.com), a growing online and print advertising agency developed by ptoone has recently announced a major update as we continue to make developments and enhancements to suit the needs of all our users.

The new site will be launched this week, a new, upgraded website and database. All previous information including, ads, stats and accounts we have to be created again as we will be installing a new database to replace the old one. The old one has been backed up several times so if you do not have your advertising artwork on file, I am sure we can retrieve it for you. We apologize for any any inconvenience but look forward to launching and serving your web needs with a much improved site.

Some of the upgraded features planned include:

Geo targeting : Advertiser can target his/her ad to specific locations as well as worldwide.

Authorize.net payment gateway : Now accepting card payments as well as paypal.

New Statistics tables: The statistics tables reduce disk space usage and querying time. System will periodically backup information from raw data table.

New Color picker: New advanced and user friendly color picker that allows you to select any color from true color system.

Sticky ad units: These adunits will be displayed as a separate layer above the page with a hide/show and close option. Location of the adunit can be specified by the publisher.

Scrolling text ad display: This option allows text ad scroll from right to left or bottom to top.

Graphical statistics: The new animated graphs presents statistical data in a user-friendly manner.

Referral system: Receive a commission from referral links to new publishers and advertisers.

Manage Text/Banner Ads: Manage PPC ads of your advertisers effectively. You may now view advanced click/profit statistics of each ad and its keywords. The pending state of ads helps you better to approve/reject ads awaiting approval .You also have a detailed ad info page from where you can activate/block/delete ads, manage keywords, view statistics etc. You can also search for ads by id.

Manage Keywords: View all keywords specific to ads and the bid price for each keyword. You may activate/block the keywords specific to any ads anytime.

View Advanced Statistics: Thexyz Network allows you to see advanced click/profit statistics daily, weekly, monthly and yearly based. You may view complete statistics in detail up to each keyword level. You can also view advertiser based as well as publisher based statistics.

Adsense like Ad Display Code: Now showing up the ads is just simple as just putting a piece of code in the page where you want to display the ads. With the newly introduced ad blocks, managing ad display units has become even more easier. You can manage the style of the ad units from your control panel; no need to replace the code everytime .

Ad rotation based on ageing and CTR : Thexyz Network will show ads not just based on click values; the system updates the weightage of every keyword frequently based on the click value, ageing and click through rate. So all the ads in the system have a better chance to be displayed even if the click value is less.

Detailed Statistics for Publishers/Advertisers : Advertisers and publishers can see advanced statistics even in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis.

Code for Search/Content: Publisher can generate the ad display code for his search engine or for a content page. Content page ads will automatically identify the content of the page based on the title and meta tags and will display relevant ads.

Repetitive Click Tracking: Thexyz Network is capable of identifying repeated clicks. You may login to you admin area and check how many repetitive clicks you got in the specified time period. Inout Adserver will allow a particular visitor to click on a particular ad, only once in a day.(This time period is configurable). Subsequent clicks will not be counted as valid clicks. But your visitors may click on a separate ad and it will be counted as valid. As the quality of clicks are very important, your advertisers will love to post their ads again and again in your advertising service.

Fraudulent/Invalid Publisher Click Tracking: Thexyz Network will alert you if any of your publisher himself click on the ads shown his website. These clicks will be considered as fraudulent clicks and will not be counted. Thexyz Network can track invalid clicks with cutting edge fraud prevention technology. Clicks are treated invalid if they are from ips where ads were not delivered.You may login to your admin area and check how many fraudulent/invalid clicks your publishers made. If necessary you may even warn/block the publisher.

Public Service Text/Banner Ads: Using Thexyz Network, you may add public service/non-commercial ads from the admin area so that you can ensure there will be always some ads showing up for any keywords.

Priority Email Support Desk: Get the support you need from our priority based email support desk and online live support.

The original version of Thexyz Network that is soon to be replaced

Related links:

• Thexyz Network Blog – http://blog.thexyznetwork.com
• ThexyzNetwork.com – http://www.thexyznetwork.com 
• Article on Associated Content

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ptoone announces a new project that incorporates a joint effort by ptoone.com and ThexyzNetwork.com. Join Chaker Khazaal in a film project that will Unite the Nations by celebrating differences, embracing similarities and holding a dialogue rich in art, culture and education.

A UNIFIED WORLD!

Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Chaker moved to Toronto, Canada in 2005 as an international student. He completed a BA degree in International Development Studies, focusing on Film Production and International Relations. He received the honorary Global Leader of Tomorrow Award, a scholarship given by York University to international students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership, and exceptional community service. He currently resides in Toronto and works as the International Director of Loons Can Learn Inc., an international student recruitment firm. Today, Mr Khazaal, an ambitious 22 year old, welcomes everyone to participate in this project, his dream of…Nations United, the movie.

“Your dreams must know no limitations, no barriers and no borders”- Chaker Khazaal

The NU Project?

People from every nation will be invited to create a film, 3-5 minutes in length, displaying anything they wish to show the rest of the world. There are no restrictions to the footage they film or the message they wish to present. A selection of chosen footage will be edited into a pre-existing concept for a movie called Nations United or NU, written by Chaker Khazaal. NU tells the story of a woman who has the opportunity to experience human life on planet earth through the eyes of all its nations; presented as a visual montage or story format. Chaker Khazaal and Nations United wish to inspire, encourage creativity and motivate thought.

Nations United is a film, a forum, a dialogue. Chaker’s inspiration comes from his interaction with students from all around the globe; some defined by their differences; like race, religion or politics. The NU Project aims to celebrate these differences, create understanding, educate, and emphasize the human conditions that connect us all…today and the next generation.

Check it out: NationsUnited.org

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD…share in the dream

Our sponsors for the project include:

Related Posts & Media Links:

• NationsUnited.org
• Thexyz.in – http://www.thexyz.in/story.php?title=nations-united-1
• Associated Content
• ChakerKhazaal.com
• NationsUnitedTheMovie.com
• Nations United Web Store
• Nations United Facebook Page
• Nations United Profile on Thexyz.in
• Behance
• Naharnet

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