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, [...]

Cool Design Tools to make you a better and faster designer.
Feel free to add more in the comments.

CSS Type Set - Create custom CSS type styles with this tool.
CSS Superdouche - Strip unneeded content and redundant calls from your CSS, reducing its size and complexity.
Code Beautifier - Format and optimize your CSS code.
CSSFly - In-browser [...]

Cool Design Tools to make you a better and faster designer.
Feel free to add more in the comments.

CSS Type Set - Create custom CSS type styles with this tool.
CSS Superdouche - Strip unneeded content and redundant calls from your CSS, reducing its size and complexity.
Code Beautifier - Format and optimize your CSS code.
CSSFly - In-browser [...]

Fun Twitter Links and Tools:

Twitter Counter - show off how “popular” you are or visa versa…

TwInfluence - is a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.

Qwitter - Qwitter e-mails you [...]

Flickr SlideShow Plugin
Check out this cool Flickr slideshow generator at FlickrSlidr
You might also want to download the wp plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tylr-slidr/
because it works great if you just plan on embedding the slideshow code into a post and then never editing the post again but if you plan on going back and changing something for whatever [...]

Flickr SlideShow Plugin
Check out this cool Flickr slideshow generator at FlickrSlidr
You might also want to download the wp plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tylr-slidr/
because it works great if you just plan on embedding the slideshow code into a post and then never editing the post again but if you plan on going back and changing something for whatever [...]

Check out widget box to add dynamic content to your website. They have all kinds of different widgets including pictures, games, feeds, video feeds and I picked this one because it’s hella FUN!!

Create your own track and play it with a variety of vehicles. Line Rider meets Dirt Bike.

Get this widget at widgetbox or [...]

Fall Leaves Social Networking Icon Set - Download Set

The Leaf Fall: a social icon set. This set contains 11 social icons, designed in an autumn-style. The set includes icons for Twitter, Technorati, RSS, Reddit, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon and Digg. You can use the set for free — without any restrictions whatsoever.

Social Networking in a bottle [...]

Introducing Free NYC Wordpress Theme..

I really liked this theme once I downloaded it and took a closer look at what was included. The screenshot does not do it justice. Take a closer look. Catswhocode.com designed the theme and I highly recommend their website as well.

Features

• Widgetized sidebar
• Widgetized footer
• Custom field to display a thumbnail on homepage
• Optimized for SEO
• Easy to customize
• Classy design

Heart: A Free Social Icon Set - Download at Smashingmagazine.com

64×64 Examples:

Read the rest of the post for 5 more social networking icon sets..

What makes a reader want to subscribe to a blog? Simply put, they understand what your blog is about, your brand, and they are attracted to it. If a reader doesn’t understand what you are serving at your blog, then they won’t know if they will like your future content.
Read more about how to Brand your blog…

Vervephoto — Documentry Photography — (RSS)

Positive-Negative.com (RSS)

The Daily Dose of Imagery - (RSS)

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Read the rest of the post for more..much more…

I’ve posted many a post dedicated to free Wordpress themes online and now, since a lot of people don’t like the idea of “free” wordpress themes for a lot of different reasons, here are some hot premium themes which you can purchase for a VERY fair price from $12 to $30 and you won’t need to keep a trail of spammy links. Read more..

If you can have a program aggregate RSS feeds, then it makes sense that you can aggregate the aggregators and that’s what Popurl does…
Learn how to add video, image and text feeds to your website..

So, there is a lot of content in this post about RSS.. maybe too much.. but I found so many great resources…Enjoy! Read more..

Here are some of the best video plugins and widgets I found online..Enjoy!

• Daiko’s YouTube Widget for Wordpress - Adds a sidebar widget to display a defined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s).
• Video Widget for Wordpress - Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video