As a wordpress addicted, I’m regularly following a few websites to stay uptodate with the latest development news, new how-to’s and to get new inspirations. With this post I want to share the sites I follow, I hope this might be useful for someone to get inspired. Some of the sites are wordpress-only related, some cover many other website design & coding topics as well. The sites are in no particular...

Ever wanted to run a website similar to Craigslist? Now you can do, with Classipress Theme for WordPress. Classipress allows you to setup a classified ads listing website in less them half an hour. All you have to do is: have a plain install of wordpress buy Classipress, upload it to your wordpress theme folder and activate it. adjust settings. It’s easy as that. and the feature list is not-ending, here...

If you want to participate in a beta test for a absolutely free vserver hosting, and you are a little bit similar to the german language, then you might want to have a look here: https://ssl.euserv.de/produkte/vserver/betatest.php They offer a free vserver at least until the end of the year, with the following features: CPU Power about 1000MHz 512MB RAM guaranteed 1024MB RAM dynamically assigned 10GB of harddrive 100Mbit/sec...

There are plenty of paid solutions for creating an ecommerce website, but there is also a wide choice of free, scalable and robust opensource shopping cart scripts available. I will mansion the best 10 of them right here below.     Magento is a very professional shopping cart system, supporting SEO friendly URLS and a lot of extras which you normally wouldn’t get in an opensource script. It...

Soon after Google released the new Chrome Browser, I installed and tested it, and I really liked the speed of the browser and the concept of handling each individual tab as a sandbox. But I got concerned about my privacy, so I stopped using Chrome a few days later. Now I found a Chrome based browser which respects the privacy. It is called Iron. Read here what they say about there release regarding privacy: Problem...

A few weeks ago I applied to be a beta tester of the new Pictomio PictioGeo Addon and software. Luckily, I was chosen and after paying 50 Euros a few days later I received a package containing a Bluetooth GPS tracker and a license Key to enable the Pictomio PictoGeo Addon. I have to admit that until now I was not able to test the Geo Logger, as my camera broke recently and so I had to buy a new camera (Canon...

I often need photos for websites or other work, and I have quite a nice list of websites which I normally use first to find a decent image. All of them listed here offer free (no cost) stock images, so check them out if you need some photos. They are listed alphabetically, so it doesn’t mean the first entry is my preferred. Deviantart Some great photography (especially if you are looking for digital enhanced...

After migrating from a dedicated server to my new hosting over at www.mediatemple.net, I was looking for a easy to use but yet powerful tool to migrate my existing databases from my former host to the new one. I was browsing the web, when I run over a tool called heidiSQL. I had a look at their webpage, and the tool looked very promising. I downloaded the latest version, and was surprised how easy and straight-forwarded...

Openmoko announced today the launch of the first phone based on the open source environment “openmoko”. The phone has a bit of a “iphone” look, has a very appealing design and the price is quite competitive. There are 2 versions of this phone: a basic package for 300 US$, where you get the phone, a 512MB Micro SD card, a stylus, a battery and a pouch, while the advanced version, on the...

I was surfing on http://digg.com today, when I found an amazing new search engine. It’s totally different from what you know, a kind of “human to computer to human search engine”. It’s definitely not designed for the everyday use, but a great fun to play around with. The site is called “Ms. Dewey”, and here is the link: http://www.msdewey.com/ The site takes the first time...