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5 Desktop Tools for WordPress

If you find the WordPress admin area difficult to use and annoying, here is a review of 5 desktop administration alternatives for WordPress.

So Called “$100 Laptop”

Well, it’s exactly that, “So Called $100 Laptop”. What had been claimed to be a $100 laptop is no longer $100, but instead $188 for the children. US residents can buy one and get one free for $399, where the buyer will get one and the other will be sent to a child in the developing world. Is this the best the brilliant minds at MIT could come up with!

1 GB 20 years ago and now

A 1GB hard drive from 20 years back compared against a 1GB SD card.

Coffee Mug Shot

Very creative blend of a coffee mug and a mug shot!

Selling WordPress Themes

A WordPress theme designer shares his thoughts on if it’s feasible and worthwhile to sell WordPress themes. There is a good discussion going on in the comments to this post as well. Maybe it’s time to stop giving away free themes, and start charging for it.

Ways to make your mouse roar

Excellent tips on getting the maximum use out of your mouse. For example: In a browser, triple click a selected word to select the entire line.

Online couple cheated with each other

Using screen names “Sweetie” and “Prince of Joy”, a couple in central Bosnia, cheated with each other in an online chat room.

New Gmail Version

ZDNet is reporting that Google might be testing a new version of Gmail. Could this be a major overhaul like the one gDocs went through? Hope they don’t screw up what’s a pretty good email interface.

Color Picker by Name

Not familiar with what color cobalt, lavender, or Indigo looks like; then here is a neat open source JavaScript color picker from Chirag Mehta, which gives you the closest matching color name from the hex color value.

Humane Mouse Trap

If you are the sensitive kind here is a mouse trap idea from Chris Glass allowing you to catch the mouse alive so you can set it loose far from your home, making it someone else’s problem!

Teach users to resize text

456 Berea st suggests that people scrap lame text resize widgets and instead educate their users on how to resize text using their browser.

Firefox Tip: CTRL + Mouse Scroll Wheel up-down to resize text. CTRL + 0 for default text size.

Glider.js

A script for creating a sliding component as seen on sites like curbly and coda. Requires Prototype and Scriptaculous.

Adobe Video Workshop

Video how-tos for various Adobe Creative Suite 3 products

Putin’s roles as Lomo Saviour

A look at Lomography, and how Putin, back in 1995, played a role in keeping the Lomo movement alive.

Skullphabet

Free skull font