Blog Oh! Blog, the designer of Techicon theme, has released a new free WordPress theme. This theme is called Chronicles. Chronicles is a dark-brown colored, 3-column, XHTML Compliant, widget-ready WordPress theme with rounded edges all around it. The theme design is simple and looks clean. Take a look at the screen shot below.

The color scheme is beautiful and you will love it, if you prefer a brown color for your blog. The blog search field is on top of the blog header and below it, there is a button for your RSS feed. I think that this is a good feature of Chronicles theme. Blog Oh! Blog says that the Chronicles theme will be revised regularly.

You can Test Run the Chronicles theme, before downloading and using it on your blog. If you like it, download the Chronicles theme. This is a free theme for WordPress blogs!

Want to test a new theme, before using it on your blog? Use Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin. Theme Test Drive plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator. When you enable this plugin, your visitors will see your current theme and you can continue testing your new theme. Your visitors will never know that you are running a different theme for yourself.

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin is very useful, when you want to replace your old theme with a new one and you need to do some changes in your theme codes! After installation of this theme, you can choose the theme that you want to test from the ‘Presentation>Theme Test Drive’ tab. If you wish to stop using Theme Test Drive, press Disable button or deactivate the plugin.

How to install Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin?

• Download the Theme Test Drive plugin.
• Extract and upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
• From your WordPress dashboard’s Plugins tab, activate the ‘Theme Test Drive’ plugin.
• Go to ‘Presentation’ on your dashboard and you will see a ‘Theme Test Drive’ tab. Select the theme you want to test drive and press Enable button.
• That’s it. Open your blog on a new window and you will see the test theme.

If you want to see whether it is working or not, log out from your WordPress admin panel and open your blog. You will see the current theme that you have enabled in your ‘Themes’ tab. Or, you can test it on a different browser also. Please note that, if you use WP-Cache plugin on your blog, you might need to disable it to use Theme Test Drive properly. I am using Theme Test Drive and it really works. So, during your next theme update, don’t forget to use Theme Test Drive.

My friend Justin Tadlock has released a new magazine style WordPress theme, called ‘Options‘. As the name says, this theme has lots and lots of options for you. The front page comes with five different blocks or sections. To decorate your blog, you can choose from 14 different options for each of these sections. It is definitely a beautiful and complete WordPress theme. And I think that Options is a must for news related, information packed blogs!

The Options theme comes with two different stylesheets. You can choose either Dark or Light stylesheet from the theme options page. It also comes with customizable, widget-ready sidebars. Even it has a few pre-built widgets that are ready for use. Features of options sidebar includes – Tabs widget, Multiple ad widgets, Tag cloud, Flickr photos, Recent posts, Asides or sideblog, Recent video by post, Video non-posted, Feed and email subscriptions and Customizable widgets.

Take a look at the Live Demo of Options theme. I am sure that it will catch your attention and you will fall in love with it! Download Options Theme and use it today on your blog.

The Options WordPress theme now supports Chinese, Japanese and Spanish language. Justin is looking for help in translating the options theme into other languages. You can contact him to help in translation.

Do you like to gamble online or just play some casino games for fun online? If yes, you will enjoy reading this post. But, if you don’t then you might want to discontinue reading this post. Because this post is about a site called OnlineCasinoBlueBook.com, that is related to online gambling. If this type of topic takes your mood off, you can read my other posts related to blogging and make money online.

OnlineCasinoBlueBook.com is your online casino gambling guide with Casino reviews and Rankings. Want to play some online casino games? But not sure about the legitimate online casinos? Don’t worry, as OnlineCasinoBlueBook.com may help you out!

The site maintains a nice list of the top ten legitimate Online Casinos of the world. This list can help you choose the right casino for playing games. Their ranking comes with some valuable information about the casinos. You can learn about their world rankings, welcome bonuses offered, payout percentages etc. Also you can read the solid reviews about these casinos.

The site design of OnlineCasinoBlueBook.com is very simple and easy to navigate. The first page shows the the top 10 online casinos ranked by bonus size, payout percentage, customer service, game features, number of games, software graphics, and ease of use. Here, I must mention that they need a re-design. The present design looks very ordinary!

The site has different listings for different types of casinos. With the help of these lists, you can learn about the top No Deposit Casinos, Bingo Halls, Poker Rooms etc. In the resource section, they have some good information about rules and strategies. Interested players can check their articles on different games like Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Poker, Slots, Video Poker etc. For example the Blackjack section has some nice tips about playing online blackjack.

Personally I am not so interested in online gambling. But, as law permits it in some countries, I don’t think that there is anything wrong in playing games in legitimate online casinos. If you want to play, then surely you can refer to OnlineCasinoBlueBook.com.

Google AdSense has updated their Terms and Conditions in order to meet the future requirements. As Google AdSense is trying to monetizing more online and offline content, some new advertising formats and mediums may appear in the scene! So, they are getting ready for the future with the update of Terms and Conditions. The changes in this update are mostly related to future products and features and privacy requirements.

The new changes are mostly related to future products and features and privacy requirements. One of the main changes in AdSense Terms and Conditions is that the terms anticipate future products that may become available in other advertising formats and mediums, for example new Gadget Ads.

Then AdSense also added some specific requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy that users see. According to this new policy, every publisher must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process. This change mostly relates to advertisers’ use of innovative products and features like Gadget Ads and other offerings in the near future.

Soon, AdSense will prompt all publishers to accept the new Terms and Conditions. As, Google AdSense has also made small changes in different parts of the AdSense Terms and Conditions, it is advised to read them thoroughly before accepting.

FriendFeed is now officially open for public. What is FriendFeed? FriendFeed is a unique way to discover and discuss information on the web. It aggregates information about your friend’s activity on the web and then provides them to you in the form of a feed. So, it simply helps you to stay up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing.

The goal of FriendFeed is to make content on the web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information. You will get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared. This feed contains all type of information, from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. On the other hand, your friends also get their customized feeds, full of the cool stuff that you’ve shared.

How does FriendFeed service work?

FriendFeed aggregates all of your activity from the social sites you choose using a special web crawling technology. For most sites, all you need to provide FriendFeed is your username, and the FriendFeed crawler will automatically find and broadcast all of your public activity on those sites. For other sites, or for services that contain private data and require special forms of authentication, FriendFeed takes advantage of the APIs provided by those sites to collect your activity.

After crawling, FriendFeed prepares the feed and delivers it your friends. You have full control over who sees your feed. You can make your FriendFeed either public or private. Public feeds can be viewed by anyone and private feeds needs your approval for subscription requests. Similarly you can view activities of your firends that use FriendFeed service. You can view your feed in your iGoogle homepage or read it in a feed reader. FriendFeed generated feed contains all comments, likes, and thumbnails, as well as detailed Media RSS tags.

FriendFeed service presently supports Amazon.com, Blog, del.icio.us, Digg, Flickr, Furl, Gmail/Google Talk, Google Reader, Google Shared Stuff, iLike, Jaiku, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Ma.gnolia, Netflix, Pandora, Picasa Web Albums, Pownce, Reddit, SmugMug, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, Upcoming, Vimeo, Yelp, YouTube and Zooomr. Now, FriendFeed also works with Facebook.

FriendFeed makes social networking a little more social, by automatically importing shared stuff from sites across the web. Create a FriendFeed account and use it to automatically share your stuffs from other sites.

Today’s Sunday Links post is all about buying and selling of blogs. Now a days, buying and selling of blogs is a common practice in the blogosphere. Many people are making a good amount of money online, through buying and selling of blogs and domains. Are you interested in buying and selling of blogs or domains? Follow the links in this post. I am sure that you will get some good information about buying and selling of blogs and domains.

• Quality of blog content, inbound links, search engine rankings etc., decides the true value of a blog. What are the factors that you will consider while making a final decision in buying or selling blogs? Read “Buying and Selling Blogs: How Do You Value Blogs?“, to know more about valuation of blogs.
• What are the advantages of buying a blog? Need some guidance in buying and selling of blogs? TylerCruz has a nice guide on Buying and Selling of Blogs. Read it and I am sure that you will get some cool tips for your success!
• Want to sell your blog? Is it the right time for selling your blog? Know what buyers wants from you. For more information, read “Selling Your Blog: What Are Blog Buyers Looking For?“. In this article, Lorelle VanFossen has nicely pointed out some important tips for you!
• Interested in buying and selling of domains? Off course you would like invest in the valuable domains. So, first try to know the characteristics of a valuable domain! Blogtrepreneur has a quick guide on Buying and Selling of Domains. Read it to know more about domaining.