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• 60 Ways to Increase Your Influence Online
• How a Subscriber Incentive Affected My Blog
• 5 Ways To Set Your Unique Blogging Voice Apart

WordPress

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• Carrington Build – Will It Revolutionize WordPress Development?
• 9 Plugins for WordPress Design & Development
• WordPress tip: Close trackbacks on all posts at once

Technology

• Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live
• Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
• The Case Against Net Neutrality
• Getting Around Web Censors With Flickr

Gadgets

• Multitouch DJ table lets you swipe to rock
• Smart Washer-Dryer Sings its Problems to the Repairman
• One shot kill someone with the Goldeneye Classic Golden Controller
• Notion Ink Adam: Pricing and more

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• Smart All Text Combo Plus – Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Text, Call, MMS
• The Bubble Effect In Digital Marketing
• Facebook and My Kids
• Search for Files and Folders Using Search Everything

JaypeeOnline Weekly Recap

• WP Theme Review: Brave Zeenat
• iPod Touch + Apple Peel 520 = iPhone
• Twitter Launches Tweet Button
• Infographic: The World of Facebook

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Here’s a short intro from the theme author:

A clean Portfolio Theme ideal for photographers, artists and designers to showcase their portfolios. This is our first attempt at creating a WordPress theme and then offering it on a public domain. The theme does need intermediate level of familiarity with WordPress. There is an online help document available to get you started. You may download this theme for free and use it on your site; however you may NOT remove the Dizeno Co link in the footer.

Basic Features:

• 2 column (blog section)
• Fixed Width
• Widget-ready
• jQuery slider (homepage)
• Twitter-ready
• 3 category templates – full posts, excerpts & thumbnails only
• Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari
• CSS and XTHML standards compliant

Screenshots:
Homepage

Post page

My Take:
The Brave Zeenat WordPress theme is a simple, clean and beautiful portfolio style theme that you can use for your online portfolio. It’s widget-ready, has several category and page templates, has a nice jQuery-powered slider on the homepage. Another cool thing about this theme is that the theme download includes the sources file or PSDs for the templates, page headers, portfolio titles, logo and buttons so the user can basically edit and customize the look and feel of the entire theme. Aside from that, it also includes a Help Document that can help you with the installation, configuration and customization of the Brave Zeenat theme.

Brave Zeenat requires the use of third-party WordPress plugins – WP PageNavi and Limit Post, both are included in the theme download.

Overall, the Brave Zeenat is a clean, simple, lightweight portfolio style WordPress theme that’s highly customizable. Kudos to the folks of Dizeno Co for creating and releasing the Brave Zeenat WordPress theme for FREE to the community!

IMPORTANT: The Brave Zeenat WordPress theme is FREE to download in the condition that the Dizeno Co footer link remains intact. If you want to remove the footer link, you can purchase the Pro version for $37.

Preview or Download the Brave Zeenat WordPress Theme.

NOTE: This theme was scanned using the Theme Authenticity Checker and doesn’t contain any hidden or encrypted code.

Do you love blogging? I definitely do! If you love blogging and also got design skills, then I’m sure you’d love to hear about and be a part of this new contest sponsored by WordPress and Infectious, a company that specializes in designing vinyl car decals and laptop and iPhone skins.

WordPress have recently partnered with Infectious to launch the “I <3 Blogging” design contest, to create laptop and iPhone skins just for bloggers. The contest is open to anyone, and there is no fixed theme so its basically up to your imagination and interpretation but also, the design should be an image that represents the voice of bloggers everywhere.

I <3 Blogging Design Contest details:

1st place wins:
$400
* A WordPress Hoodie, mug, and t-shirt

All winners recieve:
$100
* 5% of Net Sales
* $400 of Infectious product
* A WordPress t-shirt

Deadline: March 31, 2009

So far, here the designs that I like:

As a bonus, especially for WordPress fans, Matt Mullenweg will be using the winning design on his next laptop, which he will be bringing with him around the world in various events so the design will be getting a lot of exposure.

Btw, I have a brilliant idea for a cool design but I’m not good with designing/graphic design so if anyone who’s good in Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop or the likes and would like to collaborate with me, feel free to leave a comment or contact me.

Think you have a cool idea or have mad skills to create a design for a laptop or iPhone skin design? What are you waiting for? Start working on your design and submit it! You still got until March 31st to do it and your design could be a winner.