Thesis has been pretty much alone in the heavyweight section for premium WordPress themes. Now a new contender enters the market, Headway Premium WordPress Theme, a theme that looks very interesting.
Headway is perfect for the average blogger (or webmaster) and developers. All users of Headway can appreciate the ease of the drag and drop layout [...]
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Mashable’s Twitter Guide Book Now Available for Download
Mashable posts that Mashable’s Twitter Guide Book Now Available for Download. It’s sponsored by Adobe so the guide book requires Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9 for viewing.
You can read it online at Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable which is described as:
a one-stop shop for getting up to speed [...]
Wibiya Blog Toolbar
The Blog Herald writes about Add a Free & Useful Toolbar to Your Blog which is about the Wibiya toolbar.
It’s a new tool, Wibiya is currently by invitation only, but it looks really interesting. You can see the Wibiya toolbar in action at Jobacle, see bottom of screen. I have signed up and look forward [...]
WriteMonkey text editor
Through Another Fantastic Full Screen Text Editor I found WriteMonkey. It says:
Zenware for full screen distraction free creative writing. No whistles and bells, just empty screen, you and your words. WriteMonkey is light, fast, and perfectly handy for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter but live in modern times.
I downloaded WriteMonkey and test [...]
Cool Bookshelves
I am catching up with blog feeds and came across two DIY-projects at Lifehacker. One is an inverted bookshelf, the other is the invisible floating bookshelf. Both look odd and will confuse people.
Source for the invisible floating bookshelf is Apartment Therapy with the slogan “saving the world, one room at a time“, it’s an interesting [...]
8 First Step SEO Tips for Bloggers
In 8 First Step SEO Tips for Bloggers answers this question:
What are the first steps to optimizing my blog for searches?
Darren expands on his eight tips, in short they are:
1. Content is King
2. Anticipate What People Will be Searching For
3. Titles Titles Titles
4. Keywords in other parts of your post
5. Link to Your Own Posts
6. [...]
Upgrade to WordPress 2.8
Men With Pens has a great post about WordPress 2.8: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Site. They describe what’s new and also reminds us to deactivate plugins before an upgrade.
I was in a rush when upgrading one of my blogs and did a ‘deep end of the pool’ upgrade, upgrading WordPress without deactivating my plugins. [...]
Wordle, create word clouds
I found Wordle through Lifehacker.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you [...]
How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting article about How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker. Professional poker players are using Twitter during tournaments, commenting on the game as well as providing information about themselves and their intensions. But just as in the game of poker they might be bluffing.
The article mentions PokerRoad as a site [...]
New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off
At cnet is a post about New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off.
I use Tweetdeck and there are two new features that I look forward to, synchronization and multiple account support. Synchronization means you do not have to recreate groups and search queries on other computers if you use Tweetdeck on several ones. I have [...]
