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.

Designer Love – Cool WebSites for Designers

// January 4th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Flash, Fonts, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Photoshop, Rss Feed Icons, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webdesign, webmaster

Here you’ll find a huge list of useful websites for web designers and bloggers..Enjoy! Add your own useful links in the comment section! Links and screenshots of some of coolest resource sites for designers and bloggers including Free fonts, Icons, Templates, CSS inspiration, Graphics, Hex color schemes, Vector graphics, Design blogs and Mags.

• ColourLover.com – http://www.colourlovers.com/

Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.

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DreamHost – Earn $97 CASH for each account you refer!

// September 5th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Affiliate Networking, Coupons, DNS, Domain Names, Email, Hosting, I recommend, Useful

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Top Wordpress Resources

// August 29th, 2008 // 7 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Design, Geeks, Graphic Design, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webdesign

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.

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.

Function Icon Set

// August 29th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, web tools, webdesign

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18 of the Hottest Music Sites Online

// August 29th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Ibdreamy

Here is a list of 18 of the hottest music sites and social networking music sites online right now. I hope you find it useful. It took me forever to put together..but I found some really cool website’s in the process. Enjoy!

Last.fm – is another Web 2.0 veteran and is more socially-slanted than the others. Tagging is a big part of the last.fm experience and you can tag any song that comes along in addition to being able to listen to “user tag radio” which is based on tracks that users have tagged with a specific genera. last.fm has a separate desktop application that “scrobbles” the songs you listen to and generates a music profile that you can share with friends.

The Hype Machine – follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here. Hype Radio is Internet radio that is powered by blogs. All the tracks that end up in the stream are songs recently mentioned by bloggers listed on the Hype Machine. It’s radio that’s truly powered by the Internet.

Pandora – is the granddaddy of the bunch and it’s one of the Web 2.0 applications that I can’t live without. It is built using OpenLaszlo and provides the cleanest experience out of all the applications on the list. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project to generate a stream of songs that you’ll like based on how you rate previous tracks. You create stations around artists, songs or albums and you can provide feedback (thumbs up or thumbs down) on the songs Pandora chooses.

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FlockStar!

// August 17th, 2008 // Comments Off // Applications, Browsers, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, I recommend, Ibdreamy, Social Network, Update, Useful, web tools

Flock is so bad ass..It seems I find a new feature on Flock everyday that makes me go “WOW that’s cool”.

_ For example I took this screen shot with Flocks built in screenshot tool that allows you to select clips and snap away.

_ It has a built in Blog editor so I can post to my blog using my browser

_A drag and drop web clipboard manager

_Media bar that streams media from sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube, your Facebook friends

_A sidebar with all your updated feeds and social networking sites

_side bar listing all your accounts and services that you can click on an automatically be logged into

So if you haven’t tried it yet..dammit try it! I still use Firefox and I probably always will but I love me some Flock now and then.. it’s like my secret little drug…well maybe not that dramatic no..but it’s damn good? I love their My world page it shows me all my updates from my social networking sites. It’s nifty. (see screenshot)

Twitter App Crazy

// August 15th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Apple, Applications, Blogging, Chat, Desktop Icons, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Ipod, Twitter, Useful, web tools

Here are some of the most popular Twitter apps and tools. I love my twitter. I like twitter because I can keep in touch with all my friends and family all at once and I don’t have to send out 10 text messages a day, I can send out one or two twitter posts and I’m good to go. Everyone who says I never call them or write them has now heard from me and everyone is happy…including me. I Love it. Here’s a whole list of Mobile Twitter apps..@ Mashable.com

• Download Cool Twitter Icons @ Aoddesign.com
• 30+ Apps For Jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches
• More twitter apps at twitterapps.co.uk
• 5 Favorite Web Apps on iPod Touch
• List of Ipod and Iphone Apps at modmyifone.com

• 7 must have apps for your Jailbroken iPhone

Twit Bin

Why go to Twitter when Twitter can come to you? Twitbin’s a Firefox extension that nestles all your friends’ tweets into a sidebar. It’s configurable too, and the tiny ad at the bottom of the sidebar is something I can live with. BTW, it works just as well in Flock.

TwittyTunes

If you want to share what you’re listening to with the ease of Twitter, this is the browser plugin for you. It’s a sibling of the popular FoxyTunes extension, and supports dozens of players. So if you’re signed in to your Last.fm player, Twitty Tunes will let your Twitter friends know what you’re listening to. There’s even a social network devoted to the most recent TwittyTunes shout-outs, called Foxy Tunes Twitter DJ.

Twitterment

This one appeals to the statisticians and the buzz crawlers. This charts the ‘zeitgeist’ of what’s being Tweeted about across the globe. You can even see comparisons of one key phrase versus another, and what day of the week key terms pop up most frequently. For instance, here’s one that compares beer and sex. Not surprisingly, beer starts getting popular around Friday.

Flotzam

Flotzam started life as Flitterbook, a showcase mash-up of Flickr, Facebook and Twitter data – developed by Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin for MIX07. It’s available only to PC users as a downloadable .exe or as a screensaver, but it’s well worth having a nose around. For Mac OS X users, check out some of the dashboard widgets collected in the Twitter Fan Wiki.

GPS Twit – update Twitter with your location for iPhone and Windows Mobile.

Twitter-Sync (Yahoo Messenger Plugin) – Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more…

Twit4Live — A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger

Twitter Desktop – A How-To for making TwitterVision your desktop background, watch live tweets while working.(not an app)

MadTwitter — a clon of Twitterrific for Windows which doesn’t require .NET — by Sacha Fuentes

100 Oldest .COM domain names

// August 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Domain Names, For Geeks, Geeks

I used to work for Mydomain.com and now I work for another hosting company. I spend a portion of my day registering domain names so I found this pretty interesting but the rest of you..you might find it just plan geeky..sorry.

A lot of these domain no longer have active website’s. People would kill to own a 2-3 letter domain name nowadays. Which is close to impossible unless you have cash and a lot of it.

Just a few…

• 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
• 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
• 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
• 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
• 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
• 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
• 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
• 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM

March 1986 was a huge month for registering domain names I guess..

Check out – 100 Oldest .COM domain names