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

// February 3rd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

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

// January 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Featured, For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, I recommend, PS3, Videos, Xbox

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

See More Final Fantasy XIII Media at IGN.com

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

// January 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Applications, Browsers, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, free, webdesign, webmaster

 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!!

// January 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Celebrity, For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, PS3, Videos, Xbox, blog

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

New Social Networking Icon Sets Galore!

// January 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, Facebook, Featured, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Hosting, I recommend, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, free, icon sets, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

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 results! However..If I were the webmaster for one of these web sites above, I would nix using the mysitemyway’s subdomain and definitely register my own domain name. Because I’d want my ranking, seo etc.. to go towards my web site not my web hosts. Plus I never recommend sub domains. Use a .com and point to your main index so that people can type your domain name directly into their browsers and show up where they need to go without having to remember a long sub domain address.

Random and possibly use-ful or use-less information…

Understanding Sub-Domains and Sub Directory and how it effects SEO

“blog.domain.com” is a subdomain while “domain.com/blog” is a subdirectory or a folder within a domain.

A sub domain creates more separation than just a sub directory or a folder, since a subdomain is basically creating a stand alone site that could easily be it’s own domain. However, you may want to piggyback on the main domain name. For example, google.com is the main site. Gmail actually lives at mail.google.com.

Do you Poken?

// December 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Design, Facebook, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Headline, News, Social Network, Twitter, Useful, web tools

Poken Explained from Poken on Vimeo.

What is a Poken? Well..Watch the video! Basically a poken is a gadget that allows you to transfer social networking data such as and I can only assume since i don’t personally have one but I assume your Myspace, Linkedin, Website, Twitter…etc and of course your email address. This is done when you touch your poken to another poken your data is instantly transferred.

Would you Poken? Will you? I think I would..if it was a little more useful. But even if these did become popular.. it’s going to take some time before they hit the mainstream. I think the concept is a cool one and the poken is pretty damn cute. I like the idea of easily transferring my social networking links and contact info to someone I randomly meet on the street who I might want to chat with again. Instead of getting out my phone to slowly type in their email address..You’d just use your Poken! You touch your poken to their poken and boom you’re done. Everything is transferred in on touch of the poken’s hands? Nice! But once again this takes two. It’s useless unless the other person also has a Poken. Watch the Video!
So, even if I bought one for me and a friend we could only transfer our data to each other once.. so what would be the point after that? I can see our cute Pokens taking a long Poken nap in the bottom of my gadget junk drawer along with all my old USB cords and flash drives for a long time or at least until the next time I found some random geek who also happens to have a napping Poken.. what are the odds? Not very good. So do I carry around my poken desperatly waiting? And then what if I finally find another person who happens to have a poken too but I have no interest in their contact info? Ha!
So.. for now I’ll give it a thumbs up for the basic concept but I think they should of thought of more uses for it while we’re all waiting for them to catch on in the mainstream. I personally don’t see that happening because of the time frame that takes and the uselessness of the gadget in the meantime.

How It Works:

Templatic Themes – Holiday special FOUR for ONE and 25% off

// December 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Coupons, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Photo Gallery, PhotoBlog Themes, Premium Wordpress Themes, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster

Templatic Premium Wordpress Themes is currently offering a coupon for either 25% off Theme Club Membership or if your already a member 4 for the price of one!

If you want to order the Full Access – Theme club license, Simply apply “CHRISTMAS” coupon code when you checkout and you’ll receive 25% off club pricing.

Also if your already a member and you’ve been indecisive on which theme to new theme to buy from their awesome theme collection, the right time is now. Starting from today until midnight Dec 31^st, 2009 you can grab any four themes for the price of only one!

Here’s how to get benefit of the offer.

* Purchase a theme from the wordpress themes store
* Once you make the purchase, pick 3 more themes from our store for equal or lesser value
* Use the contact form on their website and send them your
o Your User name (if you don’t have one sign up for free)
o Send them a List of the three other premium themes you wanted from their gallery
o They’ll upload the additional 3 themes to your members area within 18 business hours.

This is an awesome offer! So if you’ve been planning to renovate/build a business website, now is the right time to buy a new premium Wordpress theme.

I wish you a happy New Year and I hope you all have a great Christmas!

Merry Go Round Icon Set – Pastel Pretty-ness

// October 9th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Useful, free, icon sets, webdesign

Too cute! This Merry Go Round icon set is pretty pastel goodness.

Beginner’s Guide
- How to change icon in Windows XP:[link]
- How to use Large(48px) icon size on Windows XP: [link]
- How to change icon in Windows Vista: [link]

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 More Icon Sets by the same Artist 

1. _{Hoya Imperial Icon Set [link]}
2. _{Legendora Icon Set [link]}
3. _{Harmonia Pastelis Icon Set [link]}
4. _{Summer, Love+Cicadas Icon Set: [link]}
5. _{Red Little Shoes Icon Set: [link]}
6. _{In Spirited We Love Icon Set: [link]}
7. _{10000 Cats Icon Set: [link]}
8. _{Natsu Icon Set: [link]}

Looking for an older version of your Favorite application? Look no more..

// October 4th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Admin Tools, Applications, Browsers, Chat, Cool Links, Cool Websites, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, I recommend, Useful, free, web tools

I got a new computer so now I have to download all my “can’t live without” apps and tonight while I was looking for the older yet FREE version of a program called Fastone Capture 5.0 I found this cool website called OldApps.com and not only did they have 5.0 but all the way back to 3.0! Oldapps.com also offers older versions of web browsers, messenger apps, FTP apps, security tools, developer tools, Office and Editing, Image Editing, Music Utilities , File Sharing and more..

So, Add it to your Bookmarks to save for a rainy day!

10 “Hot” Free Wordpress Themes

// August 7th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Geeks, Magazine Theme, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster

Here are 10  Wordpress themes that I’ve found and thought were well done. Check them out and Enjoy! Remember to digg this post!

Demo / Download

Demo / Download / More Info

Marikit | Demo | Download Marikit
Marikit – Blue | Demo | Download Marikit – Blue
Marikit – Green | Demo | Download Marikit – Green
Marikit – Red | Demo | Download Marikit – Red
Marikit – Yellow | Demo | Download Marikit – Yellow

Demo / Download / More Info|

Demo / Download / More Info

Demo / Download / More Info / Custom Field Guidlines

Live Demo | Download | Setup & Installation Documentation | Support

Details | Demo | Download The Clam Shell

Download theme | Demo

More Info / Demo / Download

Maalaga | Demo | Download Maalaga
Maalaga – Blue | Demo | Download Maalaga – Blue
Maalaga – Green | Demo | Download Maalaga – Green
Maalaga – Orange | Demo | Download Maalaga – Orange
Maalaga – Violet | Demo | Download Maalaga – Violet

How to turn off post revision in wordpress and decrease database size.

// August 6th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Design, For Geeks, Geeks, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, wordpress tutorials

How to turn off post revision in wordpress and decrease database size.

Revisions posts feature was introduced in wordpress 2.6 this feature turned on by default in 2.6+ versions. Revision posts create a lot of extra entries into your database and causes of database growing at very high speed.

So if you are worry about the size of your database or you don’t need hundreds or thousands of revisions posts in you database.

Here is the solution.

Open your wp-config.php into a text editor and add following lines into it.

define(’AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 500 ); // seconds
define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false );

This will increase the auto save time from 60 seconds to 500 seconds
and you will not get auto saved posts.

And if you want to delete already created revision posts from your database than go to your hosting control panel and open

PHPMyAdmin and run this SQL-query:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

If you don’t want to edit your database there is a plugin Revision Control available for you.

Freelance Website’s You Must See

// July 25th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, The Best of.., Useful, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

When you delve into the world of freelancing, there are many things that you won’t be prepared for. You can be the most talented web designer or web developer in the world but there’s more to freelancing than just the design and code. The following resources are invaluable when dealing with life as a freelancer.

1. Freelance Advisor

2. Freelance Magazine

3. Freelance Folder

4. Freelance Switch

5. Wake Up Later

Don’t Miss Out on Local SEO Opportunities

// July 21st, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Code, Design, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, SEO, Tutorial, free

Don’t Miss Out on Local SEO Opportunities

Local search engine optimization is a great way to charge up your search rankings. It’s a faster method for making sure you’re on the right track, and if optimized properly you can really take advantage of some targeted traffic that will only help your business in the future.

• Start with Local Search Engine Optimization
• Get Listed With These Local Search Engines, Directories and Providers

It doesn’t matter if you’re developing websites for a mom and pop local plumber or a multi-million dollar agency that will have thousands of dynamic pages, the same 13 steps to on-site SEO will need to be applied to each.

• 13 Easy Steps to On-Site SEO and How to Implement Them

How to Write Blog Posts to Increase Search Engine Traffic – Here’s an easy formula to follow:

• In your blog, write a post with keyword A in your title something catchy, more info on that over here at seomoz or copyblogger
• Write in-depth and informative content related to keyword A
• Target keyword A in a link from your post to page2.html
• When appropriate, link out to other authorities that can offer more information about your keyword topic (Use this tip with caution. While you are trying to give the user more info and get the attention of the other site – thus possibly getting a link back to your site – you should try to strike a balance so that the effectiveness of your post is maximized without excessive links out from your site)
• Remember to vary the way you link keyword A to page2.html (did you target long-tail keywords? Those are very easy to alter)
• Repeat this process on each post for all pertinent keywords throughout your site

The nice thing about this formula is that you actually tackle quite a few of the common marketing questions that challenge many business owners.

Read this full article at alibiproductions.com

Also check out this blog –  Why No One Links to Your Best Posts (And What to Do About It) – Visit http://www.copyblogger.com/ for some really useful tips on Blogging and getting the attention you need to be successful blogger.

FREE Alternatives for the Software we can’t Afford..

// July 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Applications, Code, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Photoshop, Software, Useful, Videos, Windows, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Here’s a list of Open Source/GNU alternatives to all those programs that us poor people just can’t afford to buy but that we desperatly need… If you know of better open source alternatives please let me know. Leave a comment below.

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Open Office – Microsoft Office Replacement

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. It is currently version: 2.3.1. The version 2.4 will be released in March 2008.
Download Here.

KompoZer – Dreamweaver alternative

KompoZer - Finally, a top-notch WYSIWYG web page program for the rest of us! Now there’s no need to pay a little fortune for a program to create and edit great-looking web pages, including powerful and easy to use CSS capabilities.

KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. Download Here.

NVU – Opensource Web Authoring Alternative

NVU is a complete Web Authoring System for people who are new to web design. FrontPage and Dreamweaver Alternative.
Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. Linux, Windows and Mac OSX users. Download Here.

Inkscape -Illustrator alternative

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development. Download Here.

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Synfig – 2D Animation Alternative

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can. Download Here.

Blender – 3D Modeler Alternative

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU (General Public License). Download Here.

gMax – 3D Modeler Alternative

Ofcourse Blender is seen as world’s best free 3d modeler but it doesn’t even comes near to how 3ds max looks like. So if you want it to look like 3ds max you should try gmax, howhever it’s more for creating game models.

Virtual Dub – Video Editor Alternative

Open Source Video Editing Software

Virtual Dub A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent. Video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP).  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 files.  Download Here.

FREE Video Editing Software List

Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere. With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames. Download Here.

Avedit
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. AVIedit allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames and do whatever you want… You can capture video by number of ways, including one-frame-per-minute (web camera) option, workaround annoying 2 Gb file size limit, send your videos to printer, heavy compress it and post to your webpage. You can change framerate, duration, frame size, color depth of your videos and other properties, even without recompression and without loss of video quality. AVIedit allows you to convert avi clips to bmp and bmp to avi, animated GIFs etc…. Download here.

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type 1 and 2.
Download Here.

Related Links:

• How to Edit YouTube Videos with free video editing programs.
• Open Source Alternatives Program List
• Free video editing software list for all platforms.

80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons

// July 14th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, Facebook, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, Wordpress, free, icon sets, webdesign, webmaster

Introducing 80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons, made by deft-fingered Haitian refugees, not really… but really. I’ve developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. They’re all the rage with you crazy newsk00l intarweb kids. Use them on your blogs. Put them on t-shirts, coffee mugs, your face-space or whatevs.

These are just to cute I had to post them..Make sure to check out the website to download the rest of the icon set including the twitter icon and more.. at komodomedia.com!