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...

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...

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...

There are probably more then 1,000 plugins avaliable for wordpress, and some of them have to be good. But how to determine which one you need for your blog? There are a lot of “best wordpress plugins” out there, so this list isn’t intended to be a list with the “best” plugins, but I show you here the plugins I use on all my blogs and are essential in my eyes. So, let’s get...

Nachdem mein Laptop (Dell Latitude D510) seit geraumer Zeit sehr langsam laeuft und machmal nach dem Anmelden gar nicht mehr reagiert, habe ich mich entschlossen, Windows XP neu zu installieren. Dazu habe ich die Festplatte komplett formattiert, und dieses Mal wollte ich nur Software installieren, die wirklich unverzichtbar fuer mein System sind und die ich auch wirklich haeufig benoetige. Ich wollte dieses...

Well, before starting I’ve to say how I started using zooomr. I had a flickr pro account, was quite happy, but didn’t understand why I had to pay 25 US$ for a service which is fairly slow, sometimes buggy and not always easy to use. After my pro account expired, I found out, that of my more tham 1,000 photos only the last 200 are still available, if I want to get access again to the other ones, I...