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TwiBadge is a WordPress plugin, in a widget format that resides on your WordPress blog sidebar. It displays all your Tweets and replies, basically what you see on twitter.com/home. TwiBadge also comes with a follow button that allow any interested visitors to easily add themselves as followers.

Computer desktop is a very personal thing. Each of us has a personal preference how our desktop should looked like. Modding (customizing) a desktop can be as simple as changing the desktop wallpaper, or messing with the default icons. It can also go as far as tweaking the entire navigation … Continue reading »

We previously showed how you can display Feedburner feed count in raw text. However, if you’ve recently migrated your feed from Feedburner to Google Feed, you’ll noticed those codes will no longer work. Here’s the workarounds, for those who wanted to display Google Feed subscriber count in text for better … Continue reading »

Imagine an artwork without type – you can only make assumptions what the graphics are trying to deliver. Type enhance and ensure you get whatever message the campaign is delivering. Typography design on the other hand, is what many designers are striving to improve and excel. Getting to the next … Continue reading »

Credit: Image taken from 10steps.sg A web designer’s bad day scenario: Your clients are bored with the usual work you present them; your boss wants to see more magic in the design; You are finding it harder to impress your associates or stand out from the crowd. One way or … Continue reading »

Whenever you noticed a contact in your Gtalk/Google Talk has not been online for some time, have it ever crossed your mind you’ve been blocked? If you are curious in finding out who actually blocked you in Gtalk, here’s a workaround you can try. This following method we attempt to … Continue reading »

The most anticipated moment during every festival and event celebration countdown is definitely the second where fireworks are set off at the stroke of midnight. The combination of these beautiful colored flames and twinkling sparks are indescribably stunning. Its captivating movement and pattern transformation is worth every moment of watching, … Continue reading »

BannerSnack is an online tool that allow users to create banners (flash banners in particular) easily and export them in .SWF format. Even if you barely know Adobe Flash, you too can have a attractive flash banner. BannerSnack make text effects, transitions and other animations easy. Check out more examples … Continue reading »

In another week or two, 1.3 billion from China and 40 million Chinese around the globe will be celebrating Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year), the year of Ox. For designers who are working on designs and promotional campaigns for this festive season, we figured you could use more resources. … Continue reading »

A friend once asked "why do you still surf for web templates when you can create one?". I answered, for fun. But then again I start to ponder and realiazed even if we are capable to create, there are still many great reasons to check out free templates out there. … Continue reading »

Following one’s Twitter tweets are as good as subscribing to the RSS feeds. Not only it feeds you the latest updates, it’s also a perfect medium for communication and networking. Realizing how Twitter can potentially help to increase readerships, more and more bloggers/webmasters are massively promoting their Twitter account through … Continue reading »

If you are generating revenue off your website or blog, chances are you serve banner ads and they are either updated manually by adding the images and URLs into the source codes or with the help of external ad-serving scripts like OpenX or OIO Publishers. Google has a similar web … Continue reading »

We constantly see a lot of impressive advertisements in the magazines, posters and all but that’s just what being printed for us. Chances are, there are lots of great designs out there that have not surfaced. These designs could be done by students for school projects, passionate graphic designers or … Continue reading »

Thanks for participating in the previous 2 Christmas giveaways and here comes the third (final) one. This is something we thought most WordPress bloggers would want – Free premium WordPress themes, that’s right! Together with ElegantThemes, we are giving away 10 membership accounts (up to 1 year) to Hongkiat readers. … Continue reading »