If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a Wordpress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that.

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Blank templates are stock photos designed in such a way where some parts are blanked-out so you can insert your own creatives. These type of stock photos comes pretty handy for companies or freelancers (even for bloggers); all you need to do is find the correct background, throw in your campaign texts or titles and it looks as good as new piece of ad. It saves time, effort and best of all, saves money for getting a new design ground up.

Here’s a compilation of 40+ high resolution blank templates you can use. They’re free, but you might want to dig further into the copyrights if you are using for commercials. Full list ahead.

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If you prefer to blog with your iPhone, you now have another good alternatvive. Typead, the developer of Blogit, a software that allows you to post blog entry to Twitter, Feedfind, Facebook, etc has just released a Blogit for iPhone. This is a web application, so no installation is required. Just point your iPhone to this URL - http://blogit.typepad.com

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Vector Magic allows you to convert bitmap images to vector directly from their website. The process is fully automated, so for those who don’t have a Photoshop or Illustrator, converting images into vector format is not a problem now.

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If you roughly browse through, you might think they are nothing but some normal iPhones. Take a closer look, you’ll be surprise. Now scroll down the list, you’ll be jaws dropping surprised. China alone has more than 20 different iPhone clones in the market. Here’s a list of iPhone clones we are able to find. These are not mocks or dummy handsets, they works. Now are your iPhone one of these?

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[Windows only] TVU Networks offers free TV service, that means with a computer running Windows (XP or 2000), you can download their Player software and watch TV shows and programs that you can only get from cable TV and satellite. TVU is free, and no registration is required, however it’s encouraged to do so.

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Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job.

Here are some of the best Photoshop text effects tutorials on the web, and as usual it’s the creativity that counts. Full content after jump.

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Firefox tabs kept webpages organized within single browser, but if your tabs are overflowing your tabs bar, consider grouping them up with this Firefox plugin - Tab Groups.

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You want to access a website blocked by your ISP; on the other hand, browsershots, a free webservice that allows you to test your web design in different browser. How can it help you? Think about it.

We mentioned about browsershots.org about a year ago. It’s a free service that help you test your web design in different type of browsers so you don’t really have to install them on your machine just to check on the designs and alignments. Type your URL in Browsershots, and it will generate screen captures for you.

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Steve Job announced the highly anticipated iPhone 3G as expected yesterday in WWDC. So basically the new iPhone comes powered with 3G, slimmer, better connection speed and a slight twist in the back cover where they’ll be using glossy black plastic instead the current aluminum. The new iPhone will be launched on the 11th July, exactly 1 month from now. Starting with $199 for a 3GB, $299 for the 16GB. But where can you buy it?

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When Google first introduced their new favicon, the whole blogosphere were talking about it and most of them were like, did not like it very much. I too, personally prefer the old one. But that being said, even the new ‘g’ favicon looks really simple, it didnt take these guys few minutes to come out with.

The Google design team took more than 100 approaches before they came to this simple ‘g’ favicon. However nothing is final yet, and if you think you know how a Google favicon should look like, Google is inviting you to design one.

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WWDC is tonight! (or moning, wherever you are) and if you want to get live update on the event or being the first to cheer and get all excited when Steve Job announced what’s new in Apple product line, here’s few sites you can logged on to, where live news/blogs on the event will be provided.

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[Windows only] Everyday we perform hundreds of activities on Internet and each activity actually has been recorded down in a form of cookies, logs or temporary internet files. Some of these files are useful, but some actually do harm. It would be safe to clean out unwanted traces of your online journeys and keep you Internet privacy after accessing some security website, for example, online banking website.

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If there’s any cell phone out there (currently before the WWDC) that will make me abandon my iPhone for, it has got to be this - HTC Touch Diamond. For Malaysians who live in KL, you should know that there’s now a HTC concept store over at Low Yat Plaza. ground floor. So if you are interested in knowing more about this cool mobile phone or just wanna touch and feel it, I urge you pay the shop a visit.

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