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NDesign Studio has a great post that covers some great Illustrator Tutorials.

These step-by-step Illustrator tutorials include the original source file for download. The tutorials go through a great range of skills and is perfect for users who are new or are just looking to brush up on their Illustrator skills.

Here’s a list of just a few of the Illustrator tutorials covered:

• 3D Logo - Learn how you can quickly create a 3d logo with Illustrator CS2.
• Envelope Distort - Make a trendy fashion ad with Illustrator Envelope Distort tool.
• Abstract Background - Learn how to make a hi-tech style abstract background.
• Tracing Photos - Full detailed tutorial on how to trace from a photo.
• Graphs - Learn how to create 3D graphs at ease.
• Comic Style Strokes - Create comic style strokes with Illustrator Art Brush.
• Illustrator Template - Read this tutorial if you use Adobe Illustrator a lot.

Brusheezy is another place to go to find free Photoshop brushes and patterns.

The selection of patterns is small now but there are 120+ brushes at the time of writing this. Just by browsing through the site and offerings, I say that the quality of most brushes are great.

The style of brushes include:

• Abstract & Fractal
• Clothing
• Combination
• Fantasy
• Grunge
• Holiday
• Human
• Misc Objects
• Nature
• Ornaments
• Shapes
• Signs & Symbols
• Space
• Splatters
• tech
• Vintage

Over at the Yahoo! Search blog they announced that a new version of Yahoo! Site Explorer has been been released.

Today, we launched a new version of Site Explorer that addresses some of the Top Rated suggestions from our users. The key features are:

• Site Authentication using META tags: For those of you who cannot upload an authentication file to your site, such as a blog, you will now be able to authenticate your site in Site Explorer by including an authentication key as part of a META tag on the home page of your site. This is in addition to the existing mechanism of putting a file on your site home directory.
• Detailed Authentication Errors: We now provide detailed errors on authentication failures, making it much easier to diagnose possible problems.
• Delete URLs: For your authenticated sites, you can now delete any URLs from the index. Simply locate the URL in Site Explorer and click on the ‘Delete URL’ button. The URL and all its subpaths will be deleted shortly thereafter. This is meant to work in conjunction with the robots.txt file while providing greater responsiveness. Please continue to use the robots.txt protocol to ensure that our crawler does not crawl pages you want to keep out of our index.
• Site Explorer Badge: Get a Site Explorer badge for your Website and retrieve the count of live links from the whole web. Go ahead, watch as your site becomes more popular, and show off your link wealth to your visitors.