I just logged in to my gmail this morning and found this new notification about themes. I clicked on it and it took me to the Account Setting where i found the new 31 different themes that you can choose from. 

To choose these theme:

1. Click on Setting, located at the very top right hand corner near the sign out link.

2. You will be presented with normal account setting similar to the picture below

3. Click on themes link which the very last tab on the tab bar

4. Select the theme you like!

You can also try the unofficial way of changing Gmail’s Theme here. It seems like TechCrunch has already made a post on this :-) 

What do you think of these themes and which one do you like the best?

What would you normally do when you have plans to start your own web design project? Thinking hard, trying to come up with the next best Site design. Or you just want to come up with some amazing and creative ideas. However at times your mind and mouse are not moving as one or just maybe you are not in the creative mood to work. If you want some fresh and creative examples then look no further than these 14 websites!

CSS Remix | The FWA | CSS Dance | CSS Heaven

Design Shack | CSS Nature | Best Of The Web Gallery

CSS Design Yorkshire | Best Web Gallery | CSS Gallery | CSS Moon

CSS Elite | Oriental Web Design Inspiration | Cool Homepages Web Design Gallery

I think these are some of the most beautiful examples of what can come from a dedicated hard working web designer. If you’re stuck I suggest taking a good hard look at some of these web sites and if you keep at it you can really make something special! Enjoy!

Soundsnap is a great platform where you can find and share free sound effects and loops. So you might ask where do these sounds effects and loops come from, well It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s. This is exactly what makes it legal.

It was originally started by a small group of so called “sound people” from all over the world. Their belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not!

Their users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too. They encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping them make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap. I like the domain name as it seems pretty relevant and interesting but very hard to find in near future.

Some of things that Soundsnap shouldn’t be used for are:

• An alternative to Myspace, Limewire or BitTorrent.
• A place to upload your band’s songs or your favourite mp3’s. Soundsnap is only for sound effects and loops.
• A place you can upload or find sounds from commercial libraries. All sounds here are original- made or recorded by its users.

I love to promote this company as it is free to use and as i am a lover of open-source. Hope to see this company grow huge on the net.

Please share your thoughts and opinions on this great music sharing website.

Blog Rankings is designed to be a central destination for the blogosphere, its basically a website that features many of the newest most popular blogs that are being constructed. Its free to add your blog to their extensive list. The some of the most popular category’s they have are:

• Art and Culture
• Humor
• Automobiles
• Business
• Current Events
• Entertainment
• History
• Hobbies
• Internet
• Personal
• Science
• Sports
• Technology

It also has a “site of the week” blog, which I think is pretty cool. You can check out BlogRankings Here

I am starting to use more web-based tools than traditional desktop tools. So while browsing around, i found this interesting website posted on a blog. I tried this website and found really good information that can potentially help me make my decision on many aspects of this blog. The application is called QuarkBase. I guess it uses Ajax programming to retrieve relevant data about almost any website in the world except the QuarkBase website itself.

QuarkBase gets all its data from over 30 data sources and uses many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc.

The information is categorized into various tabs such as traffic, people, spotlight, technical information etc. Moreover it also gives information about the inbound links, number of social bookmarks, server specifications, feed subscribers and traffic sources.

I would definitely recommend that you try this great web innovation. The team who made this currently stands at two but may become the next big thing like Alexa despite this web service collecting data from Alexa ;-)

Share your thoughts about this web application. What do you think about it?

We use Google Search to search almost everything online, so while searching around, i found a Google Cheat Sheet that you can use to get better search results.

Some of the common ones are listed here:

define: phrase

Shows a list of definition for phrase

cache: www.website.com

Google’s cache for website.com

link: www.website.com

List of web pages that link to website.com

related: www.website.com

List web pages similar to website.com

info: www.website.com

Show the info that Google has about website.com

site: www.website.com

List of all web pages hosted at website.com

allintitle: query

Restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title

intitle: query

Restrict the results to the documents containing that word in the title

allinurl: query

Restrict the result to those with all of the query words in the URL

inurl: query

Restrict the results to the documents containing that word in the URL

world * warcraft

The words world and warcraft separated by exactly one word

Motorola  $100…300

Search withing a range of numbers for a Motorola Phone between $100…300

safesearch: sex education

Search for sex education material without returning adult sites

If you want all kinds of way you can improve your search results, you should try this official cheat sheet pdf.

I am sorry for not positng for so long, usually you will see atleast a post daily but due to a new forum that was setup for Teckitech, I couldn’t find to post thing on this blog. You can visit it here and it is ready for some serious discussion.

Anyway, back to the topic, so if you want those simple google chrome looks but don’t want to leave firefox then we got a alternative for you. Check out the new Chromifox that looks and feels like Google Chrome but give that power of firefox.

You can download the add-on over here. And the good thing is it is compatible with most popular Operating Systems like Windows, Mac, Linux.

Happy Chroming!

GSM Arena is basically a website that helps you choose a cellphone to buy! When you’re looking for one, of course. It has all the brands and models on the market today. It really helped me choose my phone the Nokia 6120. GSM Arena includes reviews on all the latest phones and it is in my opinion the best and most up-to-date website on the internet.

You have the option to compare certain phone models with features and statistics, as well as what the particular phone scores in Design, Performance and Features. GSM Arena currently has a database on these models: Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, Apple, HTC, i-mate, O2, Eten, HP, Asus, Gigabyte, Qtek, Palm, BlackBerry, Vodafone, Sagem, Alcatel, Philips, Sharp, Toshiba, BenQ-Siemens, Siemens, BenQ, Panasonic, NECWND, Pantechi-mobile, VK Mobile, Haier and Bird. Check it out at here.