• The Great Website Design Gallery Roundup - A huge list of design galleries, complete with information like whether or not RSS feeds are available, how annoying the ads are, etc.
• 30+ FREE Desktop Applications for Bloggers - desktop blogging clients, screen capture tools, image editors, FTP clients, and more.
• Have you heard of Live Blogging? It’s where you cover an event live on your blog. You just keep posting short updates with the time attached. With the free (thus far) Cover It Live, it gets even better. They’re definitely, as their tagline reads, “Live Blogging 2.0.” Watch their video demo, and you’ll see what I mean.
• 27 Creative Business Cards You Should’ve Seen
• 10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers - In addition to “Check email less,” I’d like to add Check your feeds less. Email doesn’t take much time to read, but if you keep checking your feeds, you’ll quickly start wondering whee all your time went.
• Bloggers Face-Off: David Peralty vs. John Cow
• XKCD has taken an interesting approach to moderating their IRC channel. From now on, every message must be unique. When someone posts a message in the chatroom, it is logged and will not be accepted again.
• GreenTech WordPress Theme Released
• 10 steps to a more splog-free WordPress blog - A useful read. Spam-blogs are becoming more and more prevalent, and they’re a real pain to deal with.
• DreamHost yet again earns the right to their nickname “NightmareHost.” They’ve just billed their customers a total of $7,500,000. Some customers were individually billed as much as $9,000. Do you really want to trust your website (and credit card number for that matter) to these guys?
• Have you heard about the iPhone’s latest feature? It’s called “webclip.” You can “clip” a website, and put it on the iPhone’s main screen as an icon. The iPhone can even remember the exact place where you were scrolled/zoomed. Web Apps have just started to make more sense. This guide shows how to customize the icon that will appear on the main screen.
• 31 Days to Becoming a Better Blogger
• “How to Make Your Blog Posts Stand Out From the Rest - Lessons from the MacBook Air”
• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time Part 1 - CSS Sprites, rounded corners, image replacement, sliding doors, drop shadows, transparency, etc. A nice, long resource post.
• How to Create Social Media’s Favorite Type of Blog Post - Step 1, pick a large number. Step 2, think of a topic. Step 3, think-up a headline with the number and the topic in it. Step 4, write the post. Easy.

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