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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.

I think Blog Action Day is a great idea and I plan on participating this year. I think conversation is extremly powerful and I believe that we can change anything together.

Sign up today and you will receive an email reminder when the time comes to publish your post. The topic this year is Poverty. A topic that is very relevant in our country and in the world right now. Register your blog today!!

Blog Action Day is an event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers to post about the same issue on the same day.

One Issue, Thousands of Voices

Each blogger brings their own perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own blog topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently.

“We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue.…the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue. By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue”.

“Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices and focusing audience’s attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we aim to again focus the blogging community’s energies and passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty“.

Anyone is free to join in on Blog Action Day and there is no limit on the number of posts, the type of posts or the direction of thoughts and opinions.

Get Involved

Resources for bloggers participating in Blog Action Day, including banners for promoting the day, ideas for posts. Get Involved! Promote Blog Action Day by adding a banner to your website or even just a text link would be awesome.

Insert the banner code in your sidebar! Different banner sizes on the website.

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Here are 30 cutting edge Wordpress themes that I think are the best online right now and there are plenty of them. I change my theme so much and I’ve used almost all of them. I’m also in the process of designing a Wordpress theme for the public so keep your eyes open. I want to offer a few different ones. A couple for free and one Premium one that I’m going to design with a friend. He just doesn’t know it yet. Haha!

I’ve also listed resources and tutorials for designing with Wordpress.

Themes by justintadlock.com

• Options
  
• Aura
• Bliss
• Blue Danube
• Options
• Options Light theme
• Shadow theme
• Structure theme
• Visionary theme

More Themes:

• Cleaker 3.0 by pomomusings.com
• Probama by category4.com
• Wordpress Themes by Scribblescratch.com/
• Stilbruch by amypink.com
• Textback by amypink.com
• OpenBook premium by catswhocode.com
• DailyPress by blogohblog.com
• Techlure by free-css-templates.net
• Myapril Reloaded
• Notepad Chaos: by Evan Eckard
• Infinity: Theme by Zhang Yichi

Themes by briangardner.com designer of the famous Revolution Templates

• Silhouette
• Vertigo

Premium WordPress Themes

Get quality and professionally designed templates for your business or news blog. Perfect for modern web 2.0 start-ups or designers looking for a quick solution.

• Revolution - - Premium WordPress Themes
• One Theme - Webmaster - A Premium WordPress Theme
• BobV3 - A Premium WordPress Theme
• Sketch’d theme- A Premium WordPress Theme
• Ashes Pro - Premium Wordpress theme
• Mod Blogger - Tech - Premium Wordpress theme
• Expression - Premium Wordpress theme
• Venice - Premium WordPress Theme

Wordpress Admin Template:

• OS X Leopard For WordPress by Teddy Hwang

This theme is a simple plugin, but when activated can change the way you think about wordpress entirely.

• Spotmilk Admin Theme

Design Tutorials:

• Design an Elegant Wordpress Theme by pstut.info — A detailed walk-through on how to create a beautiful theme for wordpress in Photoshop
• Blog design 101: Creating your own Wordpress theme cre8d-design.com has created a great 3 part tutorial on the basics of how to create your own Wordpress theme either from scratch or by adapting a theme. It’s a great tool for someone who is interested but doesn’t know where to start.
• Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates by particletree.com — Kevin Hale’s templates used in his workflow to help get a running start on new web development projects. In addition to the XHTML templates, Kevin will go over some CSS templates and some XHTML markup examples made to help him create style guides for various sites. This is a great resource, check it out.

Resources:

• Test your web design in different browsers at browsershots.org
• Stock.XCHNG - FREE stock photo site!

PSD Resources:

• High Res Sunbursts (Free Download)
• Grunge Essentials Pack
• Free and Exclusive Paper Textures

Brushes:

• More Brushes - 4 Photoshop CS
• Getbrushes.com
• Resources at ndesign-studio.com
• Flash Resources

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)

Download Free Shapes, Gradients and
Brushes at Myphotoshopbrushes.com

Click here to download Web 2.0 Styles for Photoshop

Retro Brushes by ~Ninis on deviantART

Splatter Brushes by =ka05 on deviantART

Urban Scrawl Photoshop Brushes by ~InvisibleSnow on deviantART

Winter Breeze Brushes by =Axeraider70 on deviantART

GLOW Brushes by ~SassyStuff on deviantART

gvl - Suddenly Spring brushes by ~gvalkyrie on deviantART

Vector Line Brushes 2 by ~PhysicalMagic on deviantART

Floral brushes by *hawksmont on deviantART

Retro Bubbles by ~caxtor76 on deviantART

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

There are a few app’s, clients and website’s online that I can not live without This is a list of things that make my life at home and work easier..I’ve done this type of post before but a few have changed.

1. Infranview - image editor, viewer, manager and several other things. This is an amazing program that everyone who uses it loves it. It takes a minute to get used to it but once you do you can’t imagine life with out it. I’ve been using it for 5-6 years..daily. Download Client - Infranview Tutorial
2. Fotki.com - image hosting provider
3. FileZila - FTP client
4. Color Cop - HEX color dropper desktop app (can’t live without)
5. Clipomatic - Clipboard manager (absolutely can’t live without)
6. Shareaholic - Social Networking Firefox plugin Shareaholic makes it possible to share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. (cool and useful)
7. Semagic Live Journal blogging client - also use as an HTML editor in a hurry.
8. Windows Live Writer - Blogging client - Posts to multiple blogging platforms
9. ABC 3GP Converter (converts .AVI movies to .MP4 file format so I can upload movies to my IPod)
10. Digsby - multiple network chat client I can also post to my Twitter - Checks my Facebook and Myspace updates.
11. Notepad - write HTML and general blank page for notes and such
12. Photoshop - We all know what Photoshop does - (can’t live without)
13. Google Desktop (search for my files, documents, emails and basically anything on my computer)
14. Gmail - My primary email client. Yep I do not use Outlook at home. I use Gmail.
15. Wordpress - I use Wordpress to manage and write my Blog - Love it!!
16. LiveJournal.com - been writing in my journal for 7 years so I guess you can say it is a staple in my online life. Love it. Can’t live without it. Must write in my journal.

Mycoolbutton.com - Web 2.0 and grudge free buttons generator!

Make a link button in a snap. It’s Free, easy and the end result looks really nice. I use this when customers call in and need a custom button made instead of doing it in Photoshop which I could do but this is so much faster. Very cool.

If your looking for some new and cool places to eat out in Portland? I found this website that I thought was pretty damn sweet -
Check out Stumptownlunch.com - Reviews of the hip, cheap lunch spots in and around the Portland metropolitan area   With the economy the way it is I can’t afford to waste my money on crappy food so this site might just come in handy..

I personally recommend Active Culture a cool little yogurt shop between Morrison and Belmont st, on Belmont. They have the best frozen yogurt..Ever! Frozen yogurt shops are hard to find in the North West it seems especially compared to California.
Yogurt contains “Probiotics” which simply means “for life” and at the very least I can use that as an excuse to eat lots more yogurt.

Active Culture
50+ flavors in rotation - 10 served daily
Fat Free - Low in calories
820 SE 8th Ave - Between Morrison and Belmont Street
Monday-Saturday 11am - 10pm
Sunday Noon - 9pm

My favorite flavor is blueberry tart & Vanilla swirl with fresh blueberries on top! 0 YUMMY!