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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.

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WP Remix 2.0 – Not just a theme. A complete package.

// March 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Headline, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Not just a theme.
A complete package.

The more I get into your template and coding of WP Remix, the more I am amazed at the versatility. This is by far the most versatile theme for Wordpress on the planet.

Bundled with more than 50 strategically designed & coded custom static page templates, the theme enables everyone to publish a small sites in minutes saving weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards-compliant quality.

WP Remix a WordPress powered master theme, is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options that helps everyone create custom websites in minutes saves weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards – compliant quality.

• Ideal for EVERYONE!
  Multi Purpose, hassle-free theme that covers almost every possible layout. Saves you weeks of time.
• WordPress as CMS at its best.
  Insert a page layout by a single click. Edit them in visual editor and publish!. What’s more you can set different sidebar and headers for different pages if you wish.
• Multiple Options – Easily Customizable.
  A Blog + 10 Homepage options + 20 Single page with different layout + 10 product/gallery page + 5 Miscellaneous page, Plugins compatibility, Ajax slider, Smart Drop menu, Tabs, Table…
• Light-weight, Professional code and design
  W3C Valid, Table less & Cross browser compatible, widget-ready, highly customizable…

You only need one WP Remix theme to build all your web projects. Take a look at complete features! or View Videos on how the theme works

Free Vector Letterhead and business card templates

// March 17th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Free Logo Templates, Freeware, Graphic Design, Graphics, Headline, I recommend, Useful, free, web tools

Letterhead and business card templates Free Vector Graphics Downloads

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Seacch DivageekDesigns for more free design resources..

Best Free Webmaster Tools & Wordpress Resources

// February 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Geeks, Headline, I recommend, SEO, Social Network, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, google, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Webmaster Tools

• Websiteoutlook.com - is the perfect place to evaluate any website. When choosing to buy or sell a website having the proper information about your investment can be crucial to your success. Websiteoutlook is dedicated to finding all pertinent information that may pertain to your personal interest. And it’s FREE!
• Google Webmaster Tools - Probably one of the best free tool sites for webmaster. It is Google after all. Free website analytics and tutorials.
• scrubtheweb.com – ScrubTheWeb.com™ has been helping Website owners and search engine optimization services worldwide achieve top search engine rankings since 1996! Offers FREE tools such as Meta Tag Builder, Meta Tag Analyzer, Easy Submit and SEO tips and tutorials.
• Page Rank Tool - Find out how your site ranks.
• iwebtool.com – Free webmaster services including SEO, Search Engines, Domain Checkups, HTML and Other many useful tools.
• Keyword Generator – Need keywords for your meta tags? Use this free tool and also try the keyword Suggestion Tool.
• Copyright Generator – free online tool will generate a copyright notice that will automatically update when the year changes! No more having to change the date manually.
• Viewstep.com - offer thousands of webmaster resources and webmaster tools for webmasters and developers. Resources include articles, seo tools, design tools, domain tools and other webmaster resources and many more to improve your web site.
•  Bandwidth Speed Test – tests your Internet connection speed.
• Search Engine Position Tool - will check your site’s position on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AltaVista. Just enter the search terms you would like to use, and the URL of the site you wish to check, and click “Submit.”

Articles and Resources on Search Engine Optimization – better understand the complex world of SEO and its often obscure corners.

Free WordPress Themes

• Wpdesigner – Has a nice collection of free WordPress themes, mostly designed by Small Potato himself. Occasionally he also announces quality WordPress themes designed by others.
• WpSnap – Quality over quantity. Unlike a lot of other free WordPress theme showcases out there, Wpsnap has only features high-quality handpicked themes.
• Design Disease – Not a huge selection, but what they have is high quality.
• Free WP Themes – This site has all of the templates from freecsstemplates.org ported into WordPress.
• WordPress.net – Can’t forget the official WordPress theme viewer.
• Brian Gardner – A nice collection of very popular free WordPress themes. Also the designer of the popular Revolution Theme.
• ThemeShaper – Home of the popular Thematic and Launchpad WordPress themes
• plaintxt.org – If you’re into minimalistic design, this is the place to get WordPress themes.
• WP Theme Designer – Some very nice magazine-style WordPress themes, designed by ChiQ Montes.

WordPress Galleries

• We Love WP – A showcase of the best designed WordPress sites. This stuff really shows all the amazing possibilities one can accomplish with WordPress.
• LoopPress – Another WordPress gallery. Maybe I’m a little biased, but they must have good taste.
• Gallerific – Yet another web design gallery, with a category for WordPress powered sites.

Other WordPress Sites

• How To Spot-Er – Has an amazing collection of WordPress guides and tutorials
• JaypeeOnline – This isn’t specifically a WordPress-related blog, but it does feature lots of blogging news, WordPress theme reviews, and a lot of other useful information.
• Weblog Tools Collection – One of the top WordPress-related blogs around. They announce any new noteworthy theme or plugin releases for WordPress, along with any other news regarding WordPress.
• WP Themes Gallery – A great WordPress-related blog and home of the famous “Top 40″ WordPress blog list.
• WordPress Modder – A useful resource with articles and videos on modding your WordPress blogs.
• Hack WordPress – Lots of great tips on modifying your WordPress blogs along with other news about the latest WordPress themes and plugins.
• WPThemesPlugin – Another great WordPress resource site featuring the latest themes, plugins, and WordPress news.
• WPZOOM – A new WordPress blog featuring themes, plugins, tips, and more.
• WP Candy – Another WordPress-related site, highlighting some of the best themes, plugins, and WordPress-powered sites.
• WP Project – A site offering free WordPress tutorials and tips, along with other WordPress articles and news.

RSS Feed Icon Gallery – Over 140 RSS Feed icons

// February 1st, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Graphic Design, Graphics, Headline, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, Useful, free, webdesign, webmaster

Need RSS Feed Icons? Click the Read More link to view over 140 RSS feed Icon graphics for your blog.
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New version of WP Fluency – Admin Theme for WordPress 2.7

// January 29th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Headline, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Dean Robinson has recently released a new version of Fluency Admin 2.0 plugin that could significantly empower you to post with WordPress. The first thing you notice as you install it is the navigation. Really nice and slick space saving menu saves your energy when jumping from one section to another. This plugin makes everything just one click away.
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Also “hot keys” for quick access are introduced in this new version. You might find them useful once you get used to them. Oh, I almost forgot about the fixed position of the navigation. No need for scrolling anymore. That’s something I really like about Fluency Admin.

Dean Robinson has recently released a new version of Fluency Admin 2.0 plugin that could significantly empower you to post with WordPress. The first thing you notice as you install it is the navigation. Really nice and slick space saving menu saves your energy when jumping from one section to another. This plugin makes everything just one click away. Also “hot keys” for quick access are introduced in this new version. You might find them useful once you get used to them. Oh, I almost forgot about the fixed position of the navigation. No need for scrolling anymore. That’s something I really like about Fluency Admin.

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Social Icon Stamps

// January 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Graphic Design, Graphics, Headline, I recommend, Icons, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

This adorable social networking icon set was designed TydlinkaCheck out the website and some of the other icon sets at profimagazin.cz.

Heath Ledger the one-year anniversary of his death

// January 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Gallery, Celebrity Pictures, Featured, Headline, Heath Ledger, Movie Pictures, Movies, News, Rest in Peace

Today is the anniversary of Heath Ledgers death. Jan 22, 2008

Just days before the one-year anniversary of Heath Ledger’s death, colleagues of the actor — who won a posthumous Golden Globe on Sunday — remember him in an article published on Entertainment Weekly’s Web site Friday (January 16). Since the news broke that Ledger had suddenly died of an accidental overdose in his SoHo loft in New York City last January 22, relatively few friends and colleagues of the actor have spoken about it. Now, in the wake of the anniversary, they are sharing with Entertainment Weekly some of their fondest memories of the actor. Read entire article..

His gift for self-deprecating comedy and vulnerability on screen won Heath Ledger hearts.

Heath Ledger Slide Show and report on his death a year ago today.

Heath Ledger quote:
“I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away. I wasn’t going to have fun doing a teen movie again…. I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life….I don’t want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There’s so much I want to discover.”

Read on for pictures and video…

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Rockstar WordPress Designer On Sale Today!

// January 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Code, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Headline, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster

How to be a Rockstar Wordpress Designer was put together by two of the brightest minds online and Wordpress gurus.

In the last few years WordPress has been growing as an essential tool in the web designer toolkit. Between regular blog themes and the increasing number of themes that turn WordPress into anything from a portfolio site to a shop, its use as a general purpose CMS has made it a staple of web design tutorials and galleries.

Rockable Press book is on sale - How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer, co-authored by Collis Ta’eed and Harley Alexander – whom you of course know from tutorials on NETTUTS!

Purchase It Online Now!

Purchase a PDF copy of the book online and pay via PayPal.

Free Twitter Bird Icon Set by ProductiveDreams.com

// January 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Graphics, Headline, Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, web tools

Yes! another FREE Twitter bird icon set! which comes with 6 icons (360×360 high quality transparent PNGs). You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. Realeased by Productivedreams.com for SmashingMagazine.com and

Please don’t forget to follow me on twitter.

• Download Icon Set at Productivedreams.com

Live journal takes a hit below the belt…

// January 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, Headline, News

My first true addiction online started in 2001 when I started my Live journal. I found out today that LJ has run into some serious financial issues and  has reportedly laid off 20 of 28 employees, “leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers.”. Found this post on Mashable.com today.

“While LiveJournal execs are apparently blaming the slowdown in the economy and ad spending, stats point to an overall decline in interest in the medium. Both LiveJournal and competitor Xanga have seen their traffic decline over the past two years, as social networks like Facebook and MySpace have come to dominate the demographics that the blogging sites target’.

Read the rest of the post including LiveJournal’s public statement regarding the layoffs.

Tools for successful blogging..

// December 28th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Cool Links, Design Resources, Headline, I recommend, The Best of.., Tutorial, Useful, web tools, webmaster

Mybloglog.com – Get noticed on Mybloglog

http://themeforest.net – Awesome Themes for your blog

Makeuseof.com posted more than 80 tools for successful blogging which included some really great resources here is a list of a few I thought were interesting..

• BlogBackupOnline – remote and automatic daily back of your entire blog.
• Feedblitz – email subscription service for your readers
• Dotster: Buy A Domain, Get One Free! Use Coupon Code GETONEFREE



• MyBloglog – social network forbloggers and blog readers. Not only lets you get to know your readers but also works as blog promo tool
• Dead-Links – web based, site-wide broken link checker
• Yahoo! Sponsored Search: connects businesses and customers online. Sign up and get a $25 credit.



• Pingdom Tools allows you to test the loading speed of your website. Just type in the URL and hit Test Now.
• Interested in starting an online store? Yahoo! makes it easy – 35% off for a limited time!
  
• Webshotspro – free instant thumbnails for your blog
• Plugoo- chat box for your blog that lets you communicate with your visitorsusing your main messenger application (supports MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk)
• Google Webmasters Central -must-use tool for any serious blogger. Lets you ensure that yoursite/blog is easily crawled and indexed by Google, keeps you up-to-dateon crawling issues, broken links, number of indexed pages, website’spagerank and latest index dates
• Yahoo – SiteExplorer – similar to above but for Yahoo
• Problogger – blog that helps bloggers to monetize their blogs
• Bloggerkit – easily add content-related Amazon products to your posts(or sidebar) and earn commissions from each generated sale
• Advolcano- CPT (Cost Per Term) advertising solution. Here you aren’t gettingpaid for clicks or impressions but for displaying ads for specific timeperiod (month, quarter… etc)
• Quantcast – open, website audience rating service for advertisers. Check it out and see what it says about your blog
• Useit.com – Comprehensive list of 980+ Free WordPress 1.5 and 2.0 Themes
• Shareasale.com – Find a sponsor for your web site. Get paid for your great content.

Yahoo! Web Hosting: Host your Wordpress website at Yahoo for cheap.

27 Wordpress Themes that make you smile – Bye 2008!

// December 19th, 2008 // 6 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Headline, I recommend, Magazine Theme, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Here you’ll find 27 themes for Wordpress that I think rock or have impressed me in some way. Hopefully you’ll find some new ones you’ve never seen before and possibly your new theme for 2009! I know I get sick of seeing the same themes over and over so I tried to pick themes that have not been around very long. Add to your fav themes in the comment section if you’d like. We can never have enough themes to pick from.

Enjoy the Themes!

Grungezine Theme

A 3 column Grunge style Wordpress Magazine theme.

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Personal Homepage Theme

More Info | Demo

NewsWeek Theme

More Info | Demo

Purple Fever

I used this theme on my blog for awhile and I loved it. It’s a great theme and it’s free!

More Info | Demo

Follow the link to view the rest of the themes..

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We don’t want no Fugly – 10 Free Wordpress Themes that Work!

// November 30th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Headline, Magazine Theme, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes

Here is a list of themes that don’t look like much in their screenshots but are all great themes that you need to preview to really appreciate. So, Check them out already!

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Demo | Download ( love this theme a must see)

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Extra Links-

• 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers
• More Free Wordpress Themes at Elegantwpthemes.com
• Submit your Site to the Best of the Web
• Hot WP Plugins that will make your life easier
• Page Rank Submit Tools

Wordpress’s Pings can Hurt your Blog & the Plugin that Saves the Day

// November 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // Blogging, Headline, I recommend, SEO, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, web tools, webmaster

If Pinging to you is just one of those geek terms that you’ve come across but just brushed it off as more techno-speak. Then it’s important that you read this post..

Pinging is why blogs are more powerful than ordinary websites and why blogs are easily indexed in search engines while websites struggle to get indexed, Pinging is also why blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites..this is all because Blogs have the ability to PING! and you can’t afford to overlook the ping process, no matter how geeky it sounds.

Ok, so What is Pinging and what does it do for my blog?

In geek speak:“In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one.” – according to the Wikipedia article: ‘Ping (blogging)‘.

Pinging – not to be confused with Pingback or trackback

Similarly, aggregators also use results from ping servers to tell subscribers which items on their subscription lists have fresh material.

In less-geek speak: One word: traffic. WordPress automatically notifies popular ping services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post. In turn, Ping Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts! (Wordpress Codex)

Pinging is Super Fantastic but if your using Wordpress beware there are some major flaws in the way that Wordpress (by default) handles pinging that can get your blog banned from pinging services without you even knowing it…and causing you to loose traffic.

Write a post, PING, Great! Edit the post, PING, edit it again.. PING!! PING!! Not so great.

Multiple pinging can get you banned and if you’ve had your WordPress blog for some time then it’s highly possible that you’ve already been banned.

Do not fret my fearless warriors.. there is a WordPress plugin that fixes this problem ..

The Solution: MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer Plugin!

With this plugin you can list all the ping services you want to ping like usual but you can also see which posts have been pinged and when, limit the amount of times your site is pinged, when you edit an existing post, it won’t send an unnecessary ping to ping services and saves your blog from getting banned.

If you think you’ve already covered this issue..just so you know..these older plugins don’t work anymore:

• Smart Update Pinger
• Ping Fix
• WP Cron Future Ping

If your not sure which Ping sites to list in your Wordpress read this post…

• Ping Service List to use with Wordpress

Carry on my good soldier!

Cool Links:

• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
• WordPress Tutorial: Using TrackBack and Pingback
• Referer.org Who’s linking to you?
• TwitterFeed – Feed your blog to your Twitter
• 10 Optimization Tips – Tips to optimize your blog by weblogtoolscollection.com
• 10 Tips for Attracting More Comments
• Web Page Analyzer – websiteoptimization.com
• Use FeedBurner to Manage Your WordPress Feeds
• Display Inline Ads With Custom Fields and WordPress
• The best Ping Services to use with Wordpress
• 70+ Pinging Services for your WordPress blog

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