New set of icons “WHITE MAGIK” in .PNG format. But please link us back if you use it to chethstudios.blogspot.com.White Magik is perfect for white minimalistic sites and can be used with image hover for excellent looks!
A unique Twitter background will help you stand out from the crowd, impress your visitors, and enhance your brand. There are a variety of places that offer free Twitter backgrounds.
Here are 20+ links for Twitter Backgrounds.
Free Twitter Backgrounds PSD Layered Files – 4 different free twitter backgrounds- PSD zipped files. which can be easily customized with no restrictions. These 4 backgrounds are designed using free textures from textureking and the Twitter Birds are from Productive dreams and SmashMag The rest credits are present on the zipped file.
BeTwittered - a Google widget for Twitter. Post updates without leaving your Google home page. A full Twitter client with tabbed message views, configurable refresh rate, avatars, fonts, etc.
Twitter Gadget - another Google widget to update your Twitter status and view your Twitter friends from your Google homepage.
Twidget - a free Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X that allows you to update your Twitter status.
Twitterflex - another free Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X which allows you to follow friends and update your own status.
Check out TwitteReader, a new and free service which turns Twitter into something resembling Google Reader.
Once you’ve plugged in your username and password, it presents the latest tweets as individual feed items, which you can cruise through either by reading the short snippets (a la Google Reader) or expanding them out to full posts with a click.
Just like Google Reader and Gmail, you can move up and down the list with the same J and K keyboard shortcuts. You can also star items, which adds them to your Twitter favorites list. The application keeps track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t, which, depending on how many people you’re following, could be useful. If a system like Google Reader’s trends were to be applied to this you could see which people’s updates you’re not reading and cut them out of your followers list.
Of course the obvious must be stated here–you can simply take the RSS feed of your friends provided by Twitter and plug it into Google Reader to accomplish something quite similar. TwitteReader’s killer feature, however, is that it lets you post and reply to messages from each post, just like you would in Twitter.
Many people wanted to make money online but have limited knowledge on what to do and where to start. Making money online by doing some freelance services from the comfort of your home is pretty easy and is available for everyone. Freelance jobs are not only for people who have special skills. You can start making money by offering services like writing, data entry, transcription, or any other jobs that doesn’t require high technical skills like programming and design. Listed below are the most active and highly populated freelance sites. This lists of freelance sites would help you start your online moneymaking experience.
The following is a small list of good freelance sites.
Elance.com – so far the largest online marketplace for free lancers and service buyers
Aquent.com – offers marketing organizations a wide range of services including consulting, studio solutions, project management, and translation/localization.
Adveres.com – another cool marketplace for freelancers.
Bidradar - recently merged with governmentbids.com and published mostly government-owned jobs for freelancers.
CTITjobs.net – most projects are programming and web design and even technical support for IT-related problems.
Codelance.com – custom software development and webhosting for companies outsourcing offshore.
Coswap.com - offshore marketplace for web design jobs.
Design Quote – a reputable marketplace for graphic and design jobs.
Developreneurs.com – an online marketplace where buyers looking for web development services can receive bids from dozens of qualified service providers.
Ework.com -delivers three outsourced value-added services— integration and implementation for eWork Enterprise 5, business process consulting to streamline contingent workforce business processes, and a comprehensive workforce staffing management service.
Freelance Auction Network – is designed to bring affordable high quality services to small business owners and provide freelance contractors from around the world a better way to market their services.
Freelance.com – a good place for independent professionals, freelancers, and service buyers.
Getafreelancer – this is my favorite freelance site so far. I am a member of this site and having some decent customers in SEO and writing.
Guru.com – Use Guru.com’s free service to search for and find freelancers. Post your project. Get free quotes within hours. Outsource your contract work today.
Hirecoders.com – not only a marketplace but also a general classified for job seekers and employers.
Ifreelance.com – huge freelance site for talented people.
Listbid.com – a very simple freelance site but has a bigger population.
No Agencies Please – is a free freelance site concentrating on programming and design.
OutsourceToday.net- is the online market place where buyers can post their projects. Businesses and consultants such as freelance programmers, copywriters etc will bid for the work you outsource and you can select the best one that matches your requirement.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
ColorToy 2.0 – A Flash-based color palette generator.
Accessibility Color Wheel – Check the readability of your background and text color combinations. This tool will tell you if there is enough contrast between the two.
The Best Designs – A huge showcase of Web designs and designers.
Pattern Tap – Design gallery of different website elements (headers, 404 pages, and the like).
eduStyle – A Web design gallery specifically featuring academic websites.
Here you’ll find over 50 links to Wood, paper and concrete textures. I love when designers use the wood and paper texture in their designs. I was thinking cardboard might look cool too. Like a will work for food sign? Haha! There are some really great free textures available on Flickr.com and Deviantart.com and if your looking for more textures you also might want to check out some of the Digital Scrapbooking website which I recently discovered to be a great resource for designers. You have to kinda search for the free downloads though because most of them charge for their stuff. If your a graphic designer I would definitely look into this niche market as a way to make some extra money or possibly a living. There are a lot of bored women online it seems that are willing to buy the graphics they need to make a digital scrapbook.
Click the “Read More” Link for the rest of the Textures…and for some links to free scrapbooking pages that I personally found to offer the most free content.
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
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.
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.
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 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
I wrote in a Live Journal for 7 years so I didn’t have much exposure to the whole trackback link concept or at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Now I’m using word press to write my blog and I see “track back link” everywhere I turn and I wanted to know more about this little blogging mystery.
Asking myself that same question is basically how I came up with the domain name for this blog “DivaGeek“.
What is a diva geek anyway you might ask yourself..well let me explain..When your a girl it can be a little hard to be 100% geek 100% of the time because being a girl drives us to do girly things that true geeks wouldn’t get caught dead doing like going purse shopping, wearing pink lip gloss and if your a true Diva going to brunch and doing pilates.
I personally don’t do pilates or go to brunch but that’s just because I’m lazy and I eat breakfast… I do however LOVE pink lipgloss.
What I’m getting at is when your a girl in technology sometimes you just can’t fit into the mold of geek..we can’t help it if we’re a little diva and a little geek. I like to say I’m 25% diva and 75% geek or visa versa depending on my mood.
70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website: http://ow.ly/hC9L
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..@ 
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.
