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Domain name Slamming.. NameJuice.com AKA Domain Registry of America

Use social networking to fight back against these types of companies..!!! BE A SNIPER!

I’m bringing this up because it irritates me personally to no end to see innocent people taken for a ride.. so I just wanted to make sure that everyone who reads my blog knows that Domain Registry of America (DROA) is pulling off their domain name scam under a “nifty” new domain name, “NameJuice.com” (a.k.a. Domain Registry of Canada, droc.ca)

So, if you’ve never heard of the scam known as “Domain name slamming”. Then….…please read on..

The scam is this… DROA sends you what appears to be an invoice for a domain name renewal, making it appear as if they’re your current domain name registrar and that it’s absolutely URGENT that you renew your domain name or risk losing it forever. They also email out “Transfer confirmation” emails to domain name owners and how people don’t question those I have no idea but people continue to fall for them.. in these emails people are asked to confirm their transfer request. It seems everyone would know wether they requested a transfer or not but I guess not.

Anyway, some people are completely clueless when it comes to who their domain name registrar is, and will unwittingly pay the invoice, not realizing they are actually transferring their domain to someone other than their original provider. In many cases this is just the beginning of much bigger problems and MUCH higher renewal fees AND..In most all cases the domain name wasn’t even up for renewal!! AND It’s not cheap!! They charge $75 bucks a year from what I’ve heard which as most of us know is ridiculous to say the least..Sad thing is none of this is illegal! Because somewhere in the letter in small print.. it says “this is not a domain name renewal this is a transfer” and as we all know… most people don’t even know the difference between the two anyway.

Well, DROA.com also knew this and that’s why they’ve continued to get away with this scam for the past 6 years. If you do a Wikipedia lookup on the definition of “Domain name Slamming” it actually mentions DROA.com in the freaking definition!!

My point? Try to warn people. Tell your friends who own domain names to watch out for this company and to ignore those letter in the mail. Write about it on your blog, share this post on your facebook, twitter etc.. you can use social networking to make it harder for them to scam people out of their hard earned money. You might really save someone a lot of heartache if you do. Think how messed up it would be if your company domain name was hijacked by these clowns. Some people depend on their websites to survive.

Read This.. Court bars Canadian domain slammer (however they continue to do it, just in a more legal way)

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Fabric Textures

Here are some really nifty Fabric textures that you can use.. I personally love these textures!

I love textures that you see in your everyday life but not so much online.. for example cardboard, wood and Fabric! I’d love to make a web site with a cardboard texture someday. Right now www.Divegeekdesigns.com is using one of these Fabric textures for the background. Do you like? and personally I think it turned out sweet.

If you recently design something using a nifty texture, please feel free to post a comment with a link to it. I’d love to check it out.
Plus consider it free marketing for your new project!
My site may not be www.Mashable.com but it’s far from slacking either.

Design it and Post it up!

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17 Twitter Tracking Tools & 6 for Stat Analysis…who’s watching you?

17 Twitter Tools for Tweet Tracking

• Tweet Effect : Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. I think this is the best tool in the entire list according to me to track and analyse yourself which tweets attracts and hurts your follows.
• Tweet Beep : It is a Google Alerts for Twitter. It enables anyone to receive alerts by email whenever a specific word or phrase is tweeted on Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Twitter Charts : You can view the number of tweets by the user according to the time of the day and day of the week.
• Retweetist : It displays most Re-tweeted tweets on its home page. The Most Re-tweeted users will also be displayed. You can track most popular Re-Tweets. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Twitter Analyzer : Twitter Analyzer, as the name suggests, provides with various statistics for your Twitter account. It is The Most Advanced Twitter Analytic System In The World. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• TWADL : A suite of free Twitter tools, to let you Tweet photos or music and lets you count how many people click on your links. You can follow them on Twitter here.

• Tweet Burner : TweetBurner tracks the links you share on Twitter and Friendfeed. It keeps track of web links used in Twitter status updates.
• Twitter Vision : Twitter Vision is a real time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Twellow : A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter. It is simply the twitter yellow pages. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Happy Tweets : Happytweets is a measuring stick for how positive, or happy, a particular Tweep is. Enter the Twitter username for you or one of your buddies, click the “get happy” button, and you’ll find out how happy your Tweets are.
• Retweetradar : Retweetradar finds trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.
• Tweader : It is a new way that enables us to view the twitter conversations. It is one of the few twitter tools that is proved to be useful.

• Twit Clicks : Twitclicks shortens the URLs and then tracks those links. It does a lot of innovative tracking like clicks, who clicked the link, etc.
• Twistory : Adds your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Curse Bird : Cursebird is a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Twitturls : Popular Links on Twitter. What’s Hot. We Spy on Everyone’s Twitter! Updated Every Minute. It is also providing the WP plugin. You can follow them on Twitter here.
• Mr.Tweet : Mr.Tweet is your Personal Twitter Assistant, suggesting great people and news to you regularly. You can follow them on twitter here.

6 Analysis Tools for Twitter

• Twitter Grader : Its a free tool to measure you power and reach on twitter. This tools also allows you to compare with millions of users in the worlds using twitter who were also graded. The only thing that you need to do here is, just enter your twitter username it will give the instant report of your power and grade. You can follow the Twitter Grader on twitter too.
• Tweet Stats : If you love to check stats and graphs of your tweets in the twitter, this is the tool that is going to make its impact.
  This tool generates the stats and graphs that which can generate the report based on number of tweets per hour, number of tweets per month, tweet timeline, reply stats. Its been used by over 1,00,000 twitter users. You can follow Tweet Stats on Twitter too.
• Mr.Milestone : Mr.Milestone will send you a tweet if you have reaches 100 followers, 200 followers, 300 followers, (every 100 followers). It sends you the tweet for every 100 followers. When you his a milestone you will receive a tweet “@username Congrats! You just reached 200 followers!! You can follow Mr.Milestone on Twitter too.
• Tweet Rank : It displays the graphical information about how many people follow you. If you want to know where your followers come from, this the tool that you are searching for. This provides you the relevance to each tweet by checking how much followers you won or lost with each tweet. You can follow Tweet Rank on Twitter too.
• Tweet Wasters : This is a useless website that helps you to find how much time you and other users waste on twitter.
• Retweet Rank : This gives us the whole database of how many retweets you or your friends have. Based on the number of retweets it gives you the rank. You can follow Retweet Rank on Twitter too.

20 Twitter Plugins For WordPress

20 Twitter Plugins For WordPress Twitter is all a twitter and if your using WordPress, then you need to check out the following collectio of the best Twitter WordPress plugins..If you think your using something better please make sure to leave it in the comment section! Tweet This, a WordPress plugin for Twitter: Adds a [...]

16 Social networking Clients for Blackberry

I just recently switched from my brick of a phone..also referred to as the HTC Fuse (hated it) to the new Blackberry Bold (kinda loving it) and so I’ve been searching for the latest and greatest apps for my phone. Here is a few lists I put together for social networking.. 7 Twitter Clients for [...]

8 Clean and Easy WordPress Themes!

Magazineshack WordPress Theme

+ Works with latest WordPress release
+ Photoshop PSD Files Included
+ Widget Ready

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Apollo Blog Wordpress Theme

+ Works with latest WordPress release
+ Photoshop PSD Files Included
+ Widget Ready

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Aspire – Ultimate Wordpress Theme by epicera

Finally out after 2 months of beta testing!

* 10 unique color skins to pick from (more on the way)
* Massive jQuery Admin Panel with 100’s of Customization Options
* Fully Customizable jQuery Slider (with loads of options and 9 unique effects)
* Two Custom Portfolio Galleries
* Several Page Templates included
* Step by Step Installation and Customization instructions
* Video Screencast Walkthroughs for using the theme
* jQuery Media Lightbox (YouTube, Vimeo, Quicktime, Flash, and more)
* Social Media Hotlinks (Facebook, Twitter, and more)
* Cufon Font Replacement
* Full Layout PSD & individual element PSD ’s for quick and easy skinning
* Create your own custom skin with just three files!
* “Build Your Own Contact Forms” included

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Misty Wordpress Theme

+ Works with latest WordPress release
+ Photoshop PSD Files Included
+ Widget Ready

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Unwind WordPress Theme

+ Works with latest WordPress release
+ Photoshop PSD Files Included
+ Widget Ready

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DaintyMag WordPress Theme

+ Works with latest WordPress release
+ Photoshop PSD Files Included
+ Widget Ready

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Sirius WordPress Theme

+ Works with latest WordPress release
+ Photoshop PSD Files Included
+ Widget Ready

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Awesome – Portfolio & Blog Magazine Theme by system32

Awesome is a Powerful Professional WordPress theme. It comes with an impressive fully customizable jQuery homepage slider with 2 different effects through admin interface.

Whether your are a wordpress pro or Just beginner, this theme fully has been covered. Awesome has a huge and powerful backend area you have complete SYSPANEL control over the look and style of your theme. Display number blog post at homepage , Adjust homepage slider setting speed and effects, Enable/Disable function available for navigation and much much more, all without having to touch a single line of code!

Powerful Admin Options

• Blog
  - Social Bookmarking Built in support for Social Bookmaking on Blog Posts
  - Cool Looking Author Info Box in Post Single page
  - Popular Posts Automatic thumbnails With Meta Date
  - Related Posts Automatic thumbnails With Meta Date
• 2 Cufon custom fonts
• Custom Pagination Style for Both Blog Page and Portfolio Page
• Page Templates
  - Blog Page
  - Contact Us Page
  - Portfolio Page
  - Fullwidth Page
• Change Unlimited Background Color Option with Powerful Backend Admin Interface
• Breadcrumbs Navigation
• Powerful Back-end Admin Interface
• Layered PSDs are included for easy modification
• Extensive Documentation Included
• Fastest Customer Support

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Free Photoshop styles, brushes, patters.. etc..

Check out these Free Photoshop styles, brushes, patters.. etc..

Download Free Glossy Space Glass Text Effect and Layer Styles (4.4 MiB)

Download Pink and Black Paint Splatter Text Effect and Layer Styles (8.9 MiB)

Download Free Brushed Metal Pewter Text Effect & Layer Styles (3.2 MiB)

inFocus – Powerful Professional WordPress Theme by Webtreats


Exotic Polkadots Patterns
Author: Webtreats
Web site: webtreats.mysitemyway.com
Photoshop patterns: 8 in set

Forget me not
PS Patterns
Web site: pehaa.com
Photoshop patterns: 2 in set
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Mellow Mess
Web site: Designfruit.com
Photoshop brushes: 26 in set
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Floral Ornaments
Author: Pehaa
Web site: pehaa.com
Photoshop brushes: 7 in set
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How to install patterns?
How to install brushes?

Too Cute! Twitter Icons

Square Twitter icons

A gorgeous new free icon set designed by Dirceu Veiga. The square Twitter icons resemble iphone app buttons and would be good on websites, blogs or even your iphone.

Twitter Square Icons: Free Icon Set

Twitter Tweets and Twitter Whales?

Here is a new block style set of Twitter icons designed by Dirceu Veiga, including two of that cool whale.

Twitter Block Icons

3 of the Coolest Social Bookmarking Plugins

3 of the Coolest Social Bookmarking Plugins…

HERE ARE 3 OF THE COOLEST SOCIAL BOOKMARKING PLUGINS I PERSONALLY KNOW OF AND HAVE USED. I’M CURRENTLY USING SEXY BOOKMARKS AND I LOVE IT!

SexyBookmarks is a Wordpress plugin that inserts a (X)HTML compliant list-based menu of social bookmarking site icons in each post to allow users to easily submit your posts to some of the most popular social bookmarking networks automatically. The plugin allows for you to choose several different options like:

• Where to display the menu
• Whether or not to add rel=”nofollow” to the links
• The target attribute (_blank or _self)
• Which site icons should be displayed in the menu
• Custom CSS for the DIV that contains the menu

See the bottom of this post for an example of how sexy bookmarks looks and acts.

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ShareThis

Description: ShareThis makes a WordPress plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to post your site content to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail & other communication channels (like Facebook and MySpace) to a friend.
Download: ShareThis WP Plugin Download.

SocioFluid

Description: Icons for major Social Bookmarking websites: Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, dzone, stumbleupon, blinklist, blogmarks, furl, newsvine, technorati, magnolia, google, myspace, facebook, yahoo buzz. More to be added in the next versions. -”mac effect” – when the mouse is over the icons they grow. -Administration Panel to select only the desired Social Bookmarking sites.
Download: SocioFluid WP Plugin Download.

30+ Web Applications, Apps and Tools for Designers

Free Online Resources for Designers and Developers – All Tested and 100% Diva/Geek approved! Here is a list of some useful and fun websites that will help you work and live life online… ENJOY!

1. iPlotz – Wireframe your Ideas

iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications. You can create 5 wireframe pages for free.

Coolest “Web Based” Image Editors

Here is a list of web-based image editors that I found to be the coolest.
Web based editors allow you to make changes to an image from anywhere without having to install applications for example when you are not at home or on your laptop. Or for support techs like me — I work with Financial Advisors helping them develop their own websites and most of them have no use for photoshop and asking them to download a program like Infranview just to crop or resize one picture for their website would be illogical – so I’m always looking for easy to use web based image editors to link them to…which brings me to why I researched this topic and wrote this post. I hope some of you also find it useful.

Meta Tags in Plain English

Meta-tags are used by search engines to correctly index and rank web sites. The most important meta tags are the keywords meta tags and the description meta tags and both are essential for any well-built site.

When you create a website and you submit it to the search engines, the search engines “spiders” are sent out to “crawl” the site and attempt to correctly index it based on the information it provides. They do this based on several things including the keywords in the content and in the meta tags. Each search engine indexes web sites according to their own algorithms. Some place emphasis on the description tag, such as AltaVista. Other search engines, like Exactseek, are meta tag purists, as stated in their user policy: “Your site will not be added if it does not have Title and Meta description tags.”

Recently, some search engines have downplayed the importance of meta tags due to spam. Some SEO “specialists” were keyword stuffing their tags with irrelevant information, just to get traffic. To penalize this abuse, some search engines don’t assign too much weight to the keywords in meta tags, but they still check to make sure they are relevant.

DIVA GEEK BARBIE!

So, they finally came out with a Diva Geek Barbie.. ok so maybe that’s not her REAL title but it should be!

According to a release from Mattel, the unveiling of Computer Engineer Barbie–she’ll hit stores this fall–coincides with “a year-long, global brand initiative to inspire girls of all ages

Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek w/ Lyrics

“Hide and Seek” is the first single by Imogen Heap from her album Speak for Yourself. The song is performed with the sole accompaniment being the sound produced by a harmonizer (a DigiTech Vocalist Workstation), creating an altered a cappella sound. This song has an Interesting History.. More then one person has found some success with [...]

WP Remix: Making WordPress a CMS, One Step at a Time

WP Remix pushes Wordpress to the max with a little bit of everything!

You may have never heard of the theme, but WP Remix just might be the most innovative and unique toolkit for Wordpress you’ve ever seen. Unlike your other premium “buy and install” themes, WP Remix comes in a single package filled with 50 amazing and unique layouts for Wordpress — some of which you never thought possible…truly making it the closest thing to a CMS (content management system) Wordpress has ever seen.

Features Unique Only to WP Remix

Theme specific features that you won’t see elsewhere!
There’s no doubt that a lot of loving care was put into the creation of WP Remix. It actually has its own visual editor: once you install WP Remix, you’ll be able to visit a special control panel within your Wordpress administration area, in which you can fine tune individual pages of your WP Remix driven website. Here’s a feature list for WP Remix:

• WYSIWYG editor: WP Remix has an expanded code editor. Drop in code that would otherwise have to be manually typed out!
• Smart drop-down menus: Wordpress dropdowns usually suck - it’s true. To remedy this, WP Remix’s design team created dynamic drop-down menus that go multiple levels deep. The menus will remember what page you came from, and what page you’re currently on!

How to Video: Creating and Editing Pages with the WP Remix Theme

If your not sure this is the theme for you watch the video below to get a better understanding of how the themes admin interface works.

Check out WP Remix if you need a kick-ass and comprehensive theme for your blog or company website! You won’t regret it. Click here to visit WordPress Remix.

Final Fantasy XIII Has a Final Release Date – March 9, 2010

Final Fantasy XIII International Trailer
Check out this awesome new English voice trailer, featuring the sultry sounds of Leona Lewis!

Pixlr.com – Cool New online image editing program – ALOT like a Free Photoshop!

Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration jump right in!
Pixlr is a flash based web app that combines image design and paint tools with photo editing and adjustment features more convincingly than any other online image editing program. Whether creating an logo, layering one image over another or using a variety of filters, effects and level adjustments to transform photographs, Pixlr is equally capable of producing results on par with many of its software-based counterparts.
Yet, despite its deep feature-set, Pixlr remains facile, intuitive and, most importantly, user-friendly. Did I mention FREE?

Standout Features:

• A fully customizable user interface with movable and scalable windows
• Navigation-free drop-down menus featuring all filters, adjustment and layering options
• Intuitive design and paint features with a dedicated history window for reference and quick undo/redo
• A “Photo Express” portal for quick, simple changes to images and photographs
• dozens of filters and effects to give photos a stylish effect.

Oh and it’s FREE and Online!

I totally Dig It!! I’ve never been impressed with online image editors but this one actually got it. So, if you like Photoshop and you need to create some basic simple logos, banners, image cropping etc.. Check it out.

• Follow Pixlr.com on Twitter!
• Pixlr Grabber 2.0.0 – FireFox Addon

MassEffect 2 is Coming!!

Hell YAA!!! I can’t wait for this game!

HOT Black and White Social Icon Sets

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New Social Networking Icon Sets Galore!

Two cool new sites offering new social networking icon sets. It’s always nice to see new sets and I’m always looking so if you know of one I have not posted please let me know or if you’ve designed one and you’d like to be featured – Let me know!

Both sites were designed using.. My Site My Way which is something new to me..what I found strange instead of them having their own domain names they use a subdomain – for example: icons.mysitemyway.com must be great for mysitemyway’s search engine optimization! If I were the webmaster however at one of these sites I would definintly register my own domain name. I’d want my ranking, seo etc.. to go towards my site not my web hosts.