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Ralph From FTLlose.org is hosting his first ever give away. Prizes range a total of $300 dollars and some change. 3 random people would be chosen as winners for this contest. The following where the prized that each winner could possible get. There are 4 ways of entering into this competition, each way could only be done once. They vary from email subscription to the site to a plain old twitter message. I have been following Forthelose.org for a small amount of time, the first thing that attracted me was that Ralph was a fellow resident of CT. Than with the time, Ralph has posted great articles and links to other sources of information that has become helpful in the web design field. The give a way isn't just one reason to come on to this blog, but it is now become one of the few blogs I come too on a daily basic for good tips, and I know you would also.

Close on the heels of rumors from the Commercial Times on Monday and Dow Jones Newswires on Tuesday, Reuters reports on a source close to touchscreen manufacturer Wintek saying that the company has received orders from Apple for 10-inch touchscreens expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2009.

This would be something fun to have. One more thing from my Christmas wish list. Net books have been getting a lot of attention lately but I have just seen more "Windows" related , this is the first Mac and "touch" Net book. Seems like Mac is getting there "touch" feature everywhere.

Line25 is the drawing board of creative web design, a place where ideas and inspirations are drafted out and presented to web creatives through articles, tutorials and roundups of cutting edge website design. Whether you’re a web professional or a learning the basics of web design, there’s a range of posts to feed your design creativity.

Stay up to date with the latest Line25 content by subscribing to the RSS or Email feed, and receive exclusive updates, announcements and behind the scenes content through the Line25 Twitter profile.

About the Owner

Line25 was created and is maintained by Chris Spooner, a freelance graphic and website designer. Chris thoroughly enjoys keeping up to speed with the web design industry and enjoys sharing his findings with like-minded individuals.
After having plenty of fun developing his site Blog.SpoonGraphics with design related articles and tutorials, Chris decided to branch out and establish Line25 in March 2009 as an opportunity to delve deeper into web design and share his knowledge and inspirations.
Feel free to connect with Chris or to simply say “hey!” via Twitter.

Great site on web design, good and simple tutorials. Something to bookmark or better yet, subscribe to.

Top 60 incredibly handy WordPress plugins to power up your blog are thoroughly handpicked to be included in this list. Among some popular WordPress plugins you also will discover new, not so well known or underrated but extremely useful WordPress plugins. To make it easy for you all WordPress plugins are listed within the topics: Content Management, User Management, WordPress Administration, Multimedia, E-Commerce, Stat, Seo and Security. Do you have a favorite plugin not listed here? Please let me know in the comments.

Great list of plug-ins that will help you build your blog up and go further.

About WpVote

WpVote is now DoFollow!

WpVote was created on August 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Jung to be the “Digg site for WordPress fanatics”. The site quickly grew but few problem appeared: First, the Pligg CMS which was used at the time wasn’t easy to modify and had a few annoying bugs. And secondly, the site was constantly spammed and everyday, hours of spam deletion were due.
At the fall of 2008, due to spamming issues, WpVote was kind of abandonned.

I first thought about selling it, but I was sad about forgetting a good idea I had. This is why in February 2009, I decided to give WpVote a second life by rebuilding the site.
As a WordPress fanatic myself, I finally managed to create a “digg-like” app within WordPress. Currently, WpVote runs 100% within WordPress. WP core haven’t been modified, all the new functions are custom or from the excellent TDO Mini Forms plugin.

I hope you’ll enjoy your visit here at WpVote. Don’t forget to suscribe to our rss feed so you’ll always stay tuned with what’s hot in the WordPress community.

How it works

WpVote works just like any other social bookmarking site:

• User creates his free account
• User can submit stories about WordPress
• If other users enjoy the story, they can vote for it
• If the story have 5 votes or more, it is automatically promoted to the frontpage

Rules

• No affiliate links
• Only stories related to WordPress can be published on WpVote
• Only stories in ENGLISH are allowed.
• Of course, no spam.

If you break theses rules, your story and your account will be deleted.

A good site to have bookmarked, has awesome links that will help you with your wordpress development.

Small clip on what the New Pres. has to say on this.

Start counting the number of social media websites you have a profile with, right now. Out of fingers yet? Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube are just the start of it - for people active on social websites, you could have several dozen social media profiles, half of them using a really old picture of you. Heck, some of them probably have inboxes filled with strange messages from some girl named “Leota” who wants you to visit her sexy singles website.

While inbox spam and old pictures may not be the end of the world, keeping up a consistent image across the web and keeping your content fresh is vital to good business and strong relationships. With a little upfront effort, the task of maintaining multiple profiles can be less tedious, freeing up time to better connect with other people.

Good article on getting yourself really organized, especially when using social media. Its not a pain to have, just getting around to update it all separately.

Find out which social media usernames have already been taken:

If you use your name for personal brand, this is a great to see where you still have a chance to go claim your name. I am glad to see that "cbedon" is available.

Great photo shot, this is what makes me want to get an "professional" camera.

The name is Cristhian Bedon. I’m a freelance graphic & web designer, blogger and student. I am a big web and tech enthusiast.

Mhmm, getting used to the Posterous's tool bar, not bad...