1. TWICET THEME  

Twicet Features;

• Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless Design
• jQuery Support:
• Fading Portfolio/Item slider
• Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
• jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
• Gallery Page with lightbox
• Working ajax/php contact form
• Newsticker
• All PSD files I used are included
• MANY Backend options to customize the Theme:
• 5 Option Pages: general options, mainpage, portfolio, contact, blog
• Highly flexible: for example the 3 content columns on the mainpage could be a mix of pages, posts and widgets, all administrated through the backend
• Same goes for portfolio footer
• extensive Documentation File included

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2. CONVERGENCE THEME

Convergence Features;

• Feedburner Integration
• 2 Column Tabless (CSS Layout)
• Sidebar Widget Ready
• Gravatar ready
• Valid CSS and XHTML
• Browser compatibility: All Major Browsers
• Related Posts
• Popular Posts
• Author Highlight
• Flickr Showcase
• Ad Management System
• Social Linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
• And Much More…

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3. CUBIT 6 in 1 THEME

Cubit 6 in 1 Features;

• The theme uses a javascript image transition at the mainpage only seen in flash before which suports an unlimted number of images. Take a look at the  and wait a few seconds for the image to transform
• Highly flexible admin area, you are able to edit every content from the wordpress backend
• 6 different cholor schemes
• Multilevel Dorpdown menu, Breadcrumb Navigation, Post Pagination
• jQuery Lavalamp for main menu
• Advanced comments with reply function
• Ajax Contact Form
• Unobtrusive Javascript, Fallback scenarios if Javascript is turned of by the user
• Psd Files for every Skin, if you want to edit an existing Cubit Skin or create your own
• Valid html/css, works in all major browsers (IE6,7,8. FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome)

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4. BLUE LIGHT THEME

Blue Light Features;

• Installation Screencast!
• Theme Options Page (makes setup very easy)
• Quick Change Color Schemes (managed from theme options page)
• jQuery Graphic Slider (managed via theme options)
• Blog/Portfolio mash-up on Homepage
• Featured Project
• Twitter Implementation Widget Enabled
• Easy Portfolio Management
• Blog Section
• Current Page/Category Highlighting
• Well Documented
• Valid XHTML
• IE6 + Compatible

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5. BIG FEATURE THEME

BigFeature Features:

• Content based design, with big images and nice typography.
• Many page templates
• Very many theme settings.
• Localized (easy to translate).
• RTL stylesheet.
• Cufon font replacement enabled (with cufon uploader).
• Logo uploader.
• Colorpicker to change color for sitename, headings, links etc.
• Content Slider (use pages or posts as content).
• Drag n drop to add/remove/sort the navigation.
• Change fonts in the theme settings.
• 5 custom widgets and 6 widget areas.
• Easy to add preview images and automatic resizing.
• Custom css for several plugins (Nextgen gallery, wp125, Popularity Contest, wp-pagenavi, FlickrRSS and easy contact).

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You probably know by now that the mere clicking of the delete button to get rid of files does not mean that they are ultimately gone. If you still do not know that, at least now you know.

What the delete action does is unlink the file so that it is not visible or accessible. It may seem that the files are gone but actually they are still in your hard disk. That means there is a high chance that the sensitive or confidential data you do not want to display can easily be restored by hard disk recovery softwares.

So to permanently remove your documents from your hard disk, you need something more than just the act of clicking the delete button. You need [Eraser].

Erase Sensitive Files Permanently With Eraser

[Eraser] is a user-friendly software that enables the client to totally remove any file or folder that are decided that it is best for them never to be recovered. For the sake of this article, let us define erasing as wiping its entire data beyond recovery. Yep, it means permanent.

As a secure data remover tool, Eraser allows you to completely and entirely clear your computer from any file you want be it sensitive, confidential, or simply just a space-occupying file. To be able to clean your hard drive, Eraser has to overwrite the files several times with carefully selected patterns. Such of these are Gutman, USDoD, and others.

How to permanently delete files with Eraser - Step 1

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Here is the list of what Eraser can do and erase: 1. Files and folders; 2. Previously deleted files; 3. Index.dat files on reboot; 4. Recycle bin contents; 5. Temporary files on Windows; 6. Cache and internet cookies; 7. Files and drives that are encrypted; 6. Frees space on DOS, Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win NT, Win 2000, and Win XP; and 7. Paging file.

Using Eraser is easy. You can simply drag and drop files and/or folders into the On-Demand under the Eraser tab in the left side of the page. You can use the convenient Windows Explorer.

right-click extension or you can use the built-in Scheduler to automatically wipe your unused hard disk space or cache files.

A word of caution is to be remembered and applied in using Eraser, however. As mentioned, this software will permanently delete your documents leaving your hard disk clean from your unwanted files and/or folders. You have to be careful to choose the right data because once it is dropped in Eraser, you can never retrieve it again.

This user friendly software is free. [Download Eraser] (8.53 MB)

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Buying Guide for Laptop:

What type of User are you?

Student:

These types of users are looking for inexpensive laptops to help them with school matters. They also need something portable and easy to bring from one class to another. Since they are students and on the loan, they can’t afford to buy luxury laptops. The cheaper the laptop is the better. They need to maximize their money and get the best deal for what it’s worth. A student needs to use laptops for its basic office functions and internet access. This is what we can suggest for Student users.

* Size, Portability and Price matters. Netbooks that are approximately 9” in screen are small and easy to carry around and does not exceed $500 in value. If your purpose is to do internet surfing and basic office work, then this is the best choice for you. But that’s just about what they can do for you. Smaller laptops mean slower in performance. Its hard drive, mother board and single core CPU are relatively not that quick to respond but it’s bearable. Video gaming on Netbooks has proven to be poor. So, this wouldn’t be a good decision if you are planning to play online games with this one. Screen is small which takes getting used to. Specs are usually around 160 gig Hard Drive and 1 gig RAM.

* Size, Portability, Price and Work Performance matters. There are Ultra Portable laptops to fit your specifications. Notebooks are better than Netbooks in terms of performance. Usually, their specs do not go below 250 gig in Hard Drive and 3 gig in RAM. Screens range between 12”-13” and usually, these notebooks are thin and ultra light at around 4lbs in weight. Take into consideration the fact that the smaller the laptop is, the less space it can provide.

Business:

These types of users are looking for portability, safety of their data, no-nonsense laptop that is capable to performing business functions such as spreadsheets and data processing. It has to be reliable and quick when internet browsing is concerned. Heavy laptops are not recommended at all, but a longer battery life would be an added plus.

* Size and Portability. Laptops should be at the most 15” in screen but not to go below 12”. A 12” laptop is easy to connect with the projector for business presentations. This is easy to bring on trips and light to handle.

* Specifications and Connectivity. A business laptop is fast and efficient to use. Multitasking would be better if RAM is around 2 gig to 4 gig. Processor must be like in speed of Dual Core or Core 2 Duo. With these specs, you could add a gaming video card but it would expensive on your part. If your goal is to use laptop for business and office matters, you don’t need to install games on it. Business Laptops are WIFI ready and has Ethernet. At least 3-4 USB ports are found to make way for external items.

* Price: A good business laptop ranges from $800 to $1200.

* Battery life. Thin batteries, shorter time allotment. You can buy the thicker and bigger batteries, however, weight is compromised. Anyway, almost everywhere has electric plugs.

Gamer and Photographer:

These types of users need all the space they can get their hands on and the higher the resolution, the better. The need massive HDD’s, powerful processors and state of the art graphics to go with it.

* Size. Forget portability. You need a 17” monitor because of the cooling requirements. These laptops drain easily because of the heat from the gaming and/or video and photo viewing, thus, a bigger laptop is needed to accommodate cooling needs. Anyway, if you’re viewing pictures and videos or playing your games, you would want to be satisfied of every detail that only a bigger screen can provide.

* Specifications. Definitely 4 gig to 8 gig RAM with lightning speed of up to 500 gig Hard Drive. It would be better to buy something with a dedicated graphics card like NVIDIA for gaming purposes. Photos, videos and music can easily consume space in your hard drive. Always go for something upgradable in the future, otherwise, you will be using external storage if your Hard Drive is full.

* Price. More than $1200 up to $4000. It is never cheap to buy laptops with top quality specifications. New models come out every year and each year, specs amaze us. But if you would settle on older models, you could get a huge discount.

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The iSlate was going to revolutionize personal computing. It was the most important thing Steve Jobs had ever done.

After all the anticipation, though, we didn’t get the iSlate at all. Not even close. We didn’t get a revolutionary product. Hell, we didn’t even get anevolutionary product. We got…the iPad.

Don’t get me wrong here; I’m sure the iPad runs well. It’s certainly slick and pretty, and I bet there are lots of Apple fanboys and coffeeshop hipsters who will line up to get these. I’ve read and heard these folks online, extolling the virtues of the iPad, and haughtily turning up their noses at the rest of us because, well, we just don’t have Steve’s vision of the future. “Just wait,” they say. “THIS is the future.”  But here are a few things the iPad can’t and won’t do:

1. It can’t replace your computer.

I have a desktop and a netbook. If my desktop were to mysteriously die, my netbook could get me through. I could hook it up to my external hard drives and access any data I need. I could even install iTunes and sync my iPod to it, so I could keep up with my podcasts. The iPad can’t do that. Which brings me to…

2. It can’t work on its own.

You can’t use an iPad without a computer, because the iPad syncs to iTunes. You manage it just like an iPod — through a desktop or laptop machine. That fact renders moot the whole argument that this is the perfect personal computing device for youngsters or seniors who just don’t get technology. The iPad won’t have your music library on it if you haven’t put together a library first. But at least you can surf the net, right? Well…

3. It won’t deliver the whole Internet.

I’ve had an iPod Touch for about a year. I love it. But there’s nothing more frustrating than the lack of Flash support. Some sites can’t be viewed at all, and the vast majority of video content online is out of reach. Jobs’ argument that the iPad will offer the best browsing experience ever would be laughable, if the reality weren’t so damned depressing. But hey, you can use it to keep in touch with friends and family, right?…

4. It doesn’t have a camera.

I could see the iPad as a perfect Skype device. From the comfort of your couch, you could dial up Aunt Lucy and she could see what the baby was up to. It would be great for videoconferencing or broadcasting live to the web, the way you can with the iPhone. Unfortunately, there’s no camera. At all. Which basically limits you to communicating through e-mail. But at least you’ll be able to open attachments and edit documents and photos…

5. It doesn’t print.

I’m guessing you could print from the iPad, but  not out of the box. A search of the App Store shows a few printing applications available for the iPhone/iPod Touch, but they aren’t free. So you can edit that photo of Suzy, but if you actually want a print to hang on the wall, you’ll have to e-mail it someone with a real computer or maybe save the photo to a USB drive or SD card…

6. It doesn’t have removable storage.

Nope. No USB, no Micro SD no anything. To get whatever you’ve done from the iPad to anywhere else, you can e-mail it or sync back to your PC. So maybe the iPad won’t let you be all that productive, but at least it will be the perfect entertainment pad…

7. There’s no HDMI out.

Nope. You won’t be able to hook the iPad to your plasma and watch movies that way. You can only watch them on the iPad itself. Even the Zune HD can stream to your TV. If it’s video you’re looking for, you can definitely get anything you’re looking for online. Well, except…

8. Video stops at YouTube.

You don’t get Hulu on the iPad. Or any other Flash-based video. Anything outside of YouTube is generally hit or miss. Once in awhile you’ll find mp4 videos to watch, but it’s a gamble. Even with these limitations, you say, it’s still pretty revolutionary, isn’t it?

9. It won’t change the world.

The iPad isn’t even evolutionary. If anything, it’s a major step back — not just for personal computing, but for the tablet market in general. If you want to see a revolutionary product, look at Lenovo’s IdeaPad. It’s a tablet that runs a Linux hybrid OS on a Snapdragon processor. It’s got a slick UI. But the genius is that it plugs into a keyboard, becoming the monitor of a laptop. Once plugged it, it becomes a Windows 7 machine, running on an Intel Chip. You cannot argue the iPad is a technological advancement compared to that. Let’s also not forget that the tablet is not an Apple invention; Microsoft has been trying to get tablet computers off the ground for decades now. Apple has tried it before. There is little “new” about the concept and nothing new about the execution.

Jobs and his loyal flock laughed at netbooks during the iPad launch. He said he believed there was space for the category of gadgets between the smart phone and the laptop; netbooks, he said, just don’t cut it. But my netbook can do everything listed above that the iPad can’t do (it even multitasks). Not only that, but it has double the storage capacity and cost me only $350.

I don’t hate Apple. I admire its attention to design, its marketing acumen and its ability to make people spend a lot of money on products they really don’t need. I admire its ability to create products like the iPhone that change the way people think about a class of products. But this time, Jobs and Apple are testing the limits of their reality distortion field. We have all learned to expect better from Apple. I’m disappointed that after all the hype, all the speculation, all the guesswork, we got a product that seems underpowered, rushed to market and not particularly well thought out.

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CPM, in publishers’ point of views is how much one can earn when an ad gets 1000 impressions on the website. Some ad networks pay $3/CPM, some $4, but the average is about that. If you have 600 regular unique visitors generates about 1000 impressions a day on your site, these people are not likely to click on CPC ads, so I’d say CPM ads are probably a better way out. Here are few of the top paying CPM ad networks that I’ve come to know, used or heard before. If you have more, I’d be happy to add them in. Full list after jump.

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Lets start with the macbook. I got my macbook this christmas, and will never look back. There is a period of time when one must get used to the new interface, and personally, after using windows for most of my life, it took just under a week to get used to this flashy looking design. Not only does the operating system provide ease of use, but it is so much better looking than the rather drab windows, no patch on Mac OSX.

The iPod. THE most popular MP4 player. Not only is this, once again, easy to use, and once again, look fantastic. They last so much longer than the common sony or microsoft music devices. I can’t imagine having any other music player than an iPod. My first iPod was the classic iPod Mini, then I was astounded when I got to watch movies on my iPod classic. But best of all, I have a revolutionary iPod touch which I think my parents would say was the best thing they ever bought me. Searching the internet in the palm of my hand. Amazing.

I think he most important factor that brings customers to apple is the customer services. Let me tell you about something that happened to my sister a few weeks back. Her iPod touch was not connecting to the computer so she was unable to put any new stuff on there. She could charge it, but it wouldn’t connect to either computer, be it mac or PC. We went to Bluewater (a shopping centre near us in kent) and walked into the apple store. We went to somebody, who put us on standby for a one-to-one appointment. Before long, we were being seen, and the technician was looking at her iPod. He tried everything he could, and as he did not see the problem, he just replaced the unit. There and then. And lone behold, it was free of charge and it worked. I think THAT is the reason why people chose apple over other companies, their computers are made by them with no other components in them, so they can take full responsibility for them and their iPods, are easily replaceable. They made it easy for us to like them and made it easy for us to tell our friends about this experience, and therefore, get more and more customers. This is not the only story I have heard about apple’s amazing Customer Service. A fantastic all round service, compared to somewhat lousy service from many other BIG names in the technology industry.

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To maximize the likelihood that your submission is published, please do the following:

• Submit only articles that are written in English.
• Use a title that indicates to readers what they can expect.
• Use a unique description as it should appear in the post, not just repeating the title in the description.
• Submit articles and posts that have unique content that readers will have a genuine interest in.

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For the same reason, I gathered 50 of the most beautiful Wordpress based websites that I found on the internet last year.

Shutter Box

Sanimani

DapurPixel

Seventy 7

Kallianos Diving Center

DNA Web Agency

Insivia

Cooper Kids

The Action Station

Wp Recipes

Dripping in Sunshine

Wp-Monk

Distant Closeup

International eCommerce Services Provider

EHRtv

John Joseph Adigue

WOW Toys

Baia Dos Golfinhos

Sky Lounge

National Inline Hockey Association

ReadActor

Ocon Design

Maxime Verrette

Joshua Giblette

The New Review

Not Stupid

Stjepan Tafra

Surf Taco

Headstrimpr

WP Archive

Kinetic

JustBcoz

Valen Designs

Structures et Design

ZoneArtCSS

Enraptur

Mikii

Cuisine Saine

Tracy Apps Design

I love Colors

Marchand de Trucs

Hotel Paradiso

David Hellmann

Icon Dock

Snilesh

Web Maremma

Go MediaZine

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PSD to HTML Providers:

Here is a look at 40+ of the leading PSD to HTML services providers. Additionally, some offer options to have a PSD coded into a WordPress theme, some other type of CMS template, or for a particular shopping cart system.

Snobby Slice

You can read our review to see why we recommend Snobby Slice.

Markup4U

Markup4U also did some excellent work for us.

PSD2HTML

W3 Markup

Pixel Crayons

Rapid XHTML

Markup

Service

Quality XHTML

CSS Ninjas

HTML Cut

HTML Rockstars

Slice ‘n Dice

XHTMLizers

XHTML4U

Slice My Design

XHTML Slicer

Choppr

XHTML

Genius

XHTMLized

HTML Blender

SEO Semantic XHTML

2HTML

PSD XHTML

PSD Cutout

Image 2 Markup

PSD Slicer

YoDiv

XHTML it

XHTML Team

PSD Slicing

XHTML Chop

PSD Converter

XHTML Mania

Dr. Martian

PSD to HTM

Feather Code

Convert2XHTML

PSD to HTML/CSS

You We You Coding

PSD to HTML Ninjas

HTML Burger

We Do Markup

Yummy CSS

Finely Sliced

9XHTML

Lemberg

PSD to WordPress Providers:

The companies listed below specialize in taking a PSD file and coding it into a WordPress theme.

WPCoder

WPCoder has done some work for us.

PSD to WP

Theme Slice

WP from PSD

PSD to WordPress

XHTML This

PSD to Any

In addition to WordPress, they offer coding services for other CMSs.

PSD to HTML Tutorials:

If you’re interested in learning more about doing the PSD to HTML coding yourself, these tutorials will be very helpful.

From PSD to HTML, Building a

Set of Website Designs Step-by-Step

Build a Sleek Portfolio Site from Scratch

Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML/CSS

How to Convert a PSD to HTML (video)

How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design

How to Code a Grunge Web Design

Coding a Clean and Illustrative Web Design

How to Create a Dark and Sleek Web Design from Photoshop

Coding a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design from Photoshop

Converting a Design from PSD to HTML

Slice and Dice that PSD

The Design Lab: PSD Conversion

Converting a Photoshop Mockup (video)

Reviews:

Finding the right PSD to HTML provider can be a challenge. There are a few sites that exist to allow reviews of PSD to HTML companies, which may be helpful if you are trying to find a provider that comes highly recommended.

Most Sliced

PSD to HTML Reviews

Best PSD to HTML

Also see the post Tips to Choose the Right PSD to XHTML Firm.

PSD to HTML Companies

Resources:

There are a few resources that will take your PSD and automatically create the code for you. I have not personally used any of these tools, so be sure to pay attention to the code that is produced.

SiteGrinder 2

A premium Photoshop extension that will convert a PSD to HTML.

PSD 2 CSS Online

A free online tool for PSD to HTML conversion.

Divine

Converts a PSD to a WordPress theme.

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