Apple updated an existing patent application today that describes the implementation of a previously dubbed “Magic Wand” remote control to provide a more natural control experience when navigating a product like the Apple TV. Readers will re…
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Apple ‘Magic Wand’ Remote System Patent for Apple TV Resurfaces
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Palm App Catalog nears 1,000 apps
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Owners of the Palm Pre and Pixi discovered on Thursday that the Palm App Catalog is nearing the 1,000 app mark. As of the morning, the portal had 946 titles and is likely to cross 1,000 by or shortly after the smartphone creator’s CES keynote. Some apps may also be unlisted as some apps are device-specific and may only work for the Pre or Pixi….
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Sudoku Grab iPhone App Takes Augmented Reality to The Next Level
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Augmented reality on iPhones have hitherto been mostly about using your GPS location or live camera feeds to pull related information from other parts of the internet. However, the true potential for augmented reality apps is even more than just that. Sudoku Grab is an iPhone app that gives an…
iPod touch + Edu Apps = Happy Students
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Julio Ojeda-Zapata (twincities.com) reports that the iPod touch “has taken classrooms by storm” in several Minnesota K-12 schools, increasing student enthusiasm and engagement and offering new ways to teach children with special needs.
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20 Extremely Useful WordPress Plugins [part 2]
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Hello everyone! I’m very glad that our visitors enjoyed “10 Useful Wordpress Plugins” article that I wrote on november 19. I had many comments from our visitors on it, that inspired me to write another list of Wordpress Plugins. So today I decided to post it, and I hope you’ll enjoy it even more that previous.
P.S. Special thanks to Roland and Scott Benedict for contributing on this article!
1.Scissors
This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to Wordpress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images.
2.wp-typography
This plugin improve your tupography with thing like:
- Hyphenation — over 40 languages supported
- Space control
- Intelligent character replacement
- CSS hooks for styling
3.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.
4.WP e-Commerce
If you sell stuffs on your site, this plugin will help with this, it’s very easy to use. You simply download the plugin, copy it to your Plugins folder and activate it via your admin panel.
5.WordPress-Ready Contact Form v.2.0WP
This easy-to-install form has many accessibility, usability, and security features. This contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem.
6.WP PageNavi
WP PageNavi it’s a plugin that add a better page navigation to your WordPress site. It is very useful if you have a lot of posts on your blog, it allows visitors to skip from page to page.
7.Theme Switcher
Theme Switcher allows your readers to switch among installed themes. This plugin is useful if you offer WordPress themes and you want to let your users to preview the themes.
8.WP-Gravatar
This plugin lets you use Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico files with your comments. But thats not all, scroll down to see what else this plugin does for your site.
9.Twitme
This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website.
10.WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
11.Automatic Wordpress Backup
Backup Your Entire Wordpress Website Regularly & Automatically.
12.Google Analytics for WordPress
This is a must-have plugin for all WordPress users who want to see the number of visitors, their entry, their exit, and bounce rate, etc. You can use this information to improve the surfing experience of your visitors.
13.Youtube Brackets
Insert YouTube videos in post using [brackets] method. Enables YouTube blogging to standalone wordpress setups.
14.Sociable
Sociable fulfill the social needs of your WordPress blog. It helps you add links to social bookmarking sites in the posts as well as in the RSS feed of your blog. This plugin helps visitors share the posts with others. It supports 99 social bookmarking sites, which in my view is good enough. You are not going to need more than this many links in your post, and the social bookmarking sites that failed to make it into top 99 is not good enough. This is must-have tool for any WordPress blog.
15.Easy Contact Form
Contact Form 7 is a simple but very useful and functional contact form that allows people to email you. It includes Akismet spam protection and is easy to integrate.
16. Amazon S3
If you plan to serve a lot of images and don’t want to get your server overloaded, it’s a good idea to integrate Amazon S3 hosting.
17.Twitter Widget Pro
This plugin puts your Twitter stream in the sidebar.
18.WP Easy Uploader
This used to be more valuable than it is now since WP makes it easier to upload plugins and themes, but if you like to upload files without having to go to your FTP, this is great.
19. Add to Any
No matter what your favorite way of letting people “share” or bookmark your site, just make sure they can and it is easily accessible.
20. Admin SSL
Secures your login pages, admin panel or anything else you wish to secure.
40 Inspiring 404 Error Pages
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Hello everyone! Nobody like to hit on link or search for something and be redirected to 404 page, but webdesigners came with solution. What could it be? of course a good designed error page. Didn’t you think about this? perhaps it is time, becouse now being redirected to 404 page it’s funniest than ever. So take a look at this collection and find your way to design this boring 404 page.
Xtraboy
Jazzdrummerworld
Mons
Red Bilby
Deviantart
CSS-Tricks
Abduzeedo
Cats who code
Trentwaltor
Bydreamtime
Yellowbirdproject
Hd live 09
Cpeople
Merge web
Gregory Wood
Story Pixel
Koodoz
Carsonified
Chris Wallace
Good Bytes
Rareview
Graphik
Africanbudgetsafaris
Inkd
Saddlebackleather
Edenbee
Kuhboom
Squarefactor
We Follow
Nclud
Coldink
Red Nose Day
Mail Chimp
Anidea
Istockphoto
Fryewiles
Huwshimi
Blue Daniel
Twurn
Chris Jennings
20 Icon Sets For Your Web Design Part 6
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Hi everyone, today I’ll show you the 6th collection of icons for web designers. I’ve collected 20 interesting icon sets which will be useful for you. As usual you can download those icons by simple clicking on the image and you will be redirected on the link where you can download them. Have a nice day ! and don’t forget to leave a comment.
Colorful Stickers Part 4
Click
Twitter egg icon
8 Icons
Icon
Icons For Education Portal
Web2 icons
Snowmen feed icons
Free Payment Option Icons
Christmas Social Icons
Sleek
Social and Web Icons v2
Miracle’s SB Icons
Miracle’s Icons: Blogs
Thanksgiving Icons
Twitter Blog Icons
Beer Cap Social Icons
Aquaticus Social
Social Grunge Icons
Hand draw icons set
(Closed) Giveaway: Win 1 Copy of Fanurio Time Tracking Software!
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Fanurio is a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers for its intuitive interface, flexible timer and ability to produce detailed invoices.
Whether you need to round time, use multiple currencies or create invoices with your own layout, Fanurio has the right tools to help you get paid.
I’ve been lucky enough to giveaway one free license of Fanurio. First, a little more information about Fanurio and how it can help you as a freelancer.
To take part in this contest and win you need to:
1. Subscribe to our RSS feed
2. Follow us on Twitter
3. Post a comment about “why you want to win it”…
The winner will be announced on 6 December by a random generator. Good Luck !
The winner will be emailed, so make sure you leave a valid email address when commenting. You will then receive an email from Fanurio, with further directions!
Good luck, and remember if you don’t win, you can always download the trial copy of Fanurio, and buy it!
Update 7 december
So the winner is Michael Smith , congratulation Michael.
Michael Smith:
I could really use a good time-tracking and invoicing software, I’ve looked at Fanurio and several others, Fanurio is the only one that encompassed my particular needs. Thanks for a great giveaway, would love to win this!
50+ Impressive Premium WpThemes, Released November 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
As just you’ve expected for, at the end of every month, our site posts a fresh collection of premium wordpress themes released during all the month. This month doesn’t make an exception and I’m ready to show you a collection of premium wordpress themes released in the last month of Autumn. Even if outside was cold, this month gave us really hot premium themes!
Fresh Folio
Mardi
Inki
PICCO
Vitrum
Terminator
Flash Drive
EasyFolio
RT-Theme5
Sintagma
Centizero
Blue Green Company
SOFA
Kratalistic
Equator
Future Blogger
Manilla
iMaxell
Unisphere Minim
Turbomax
Domino
Magnifico
London Creative+
BigFolio
BlueClean
Chromatique
Impressions
Interfaces
Radiance
Design News
Vortex
Rofolio
Wordpress Glass
Green Mills
Glistor
BigBrands
Archeronne
Dynamic
mammoth
Tylium
PixelCraft
Aperturious
Marketplace
Kreativik
Unique
Bueno
Headlines
Zoom Technic
Playtime
55+ Free Premium WordPress Themes
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Wordpress is a blogging software that helps people who normally do not have any programming skills or design skills get their blogs on line with little or no effort. Huh… There are a lot of awesome wed designers and programmers that start to create custom themes that can realy ease our work! But usually you have to pay for using this themes…
Here in this post I will showcase 55 + BEST OF THE BEST FREE PREMIUM WORDPRESS THEMES. Enjoy!
Magnolia
Obscure
deStyle
Blue Rooster
Glassical
Bueno
Rockstar
Jungleland
Magazeen
Color Paper
Imprezz
Smashing MultiMedia
Mainam
Magiting
BlogTheme
Matiyaga
ThrillingTheme
Monkeypr
Moi Magazine
Meta-Morphosis
Furvious
GracioMag
LiveTwit
Mainstream
Inuit
IsoTherm News
Rask Publishing
Pure Magazine
Berita
BlackPower
BlueMania
Astra
Zherald
Chronicle
ZinnmagPrimus
Ekologic
Vodpod
Folio Elements
Seven Five
Paper Wall
Creative by Nature
Personal
What Women Do Best
Vintage Magazine
Ice Poker
Delicious Food
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Vintage
Pork and Beans
NewsPress
Foliopress
Selecta
Wordpress Fun
Snapshot
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