Need a beautiful WordPress theme? Take a look at the ArtFull Magazine theme, a three column magazine style WordPress theme. It comes with a beautiful three column fluid layout and built in recent comments, related posts, flash clock, custom date options, social bookmarking etc. The graphics are of excellent quality and suits the theme. ArtFull 3.17 is a complete theme, that you can try in your new blog!

Some features of ArtFull Magazine 3.17 WordPress Theme:

• Three column WordPress theme.
• The frontpage shows nine latest posts aligned in magazine style.
• Built in recent comments and related posts. No need in install any plugins!
• Page navi support and custom field options.
• flickr support to show your favourite images.
• Popular posts enabled theme.
• CSS/JS date display in header section.
• Domtabs for video section.
• Social bookmarking enabled.
• Poll enabled.
• Cool flash clock.

Take a look at the demo of ArtFull Magazine theme. If you like it, you can download it for free and use it on your blog, as long as you keep the credit for the theme designers. And don’t forget to give your thanks to the theme designer.

A new update from ShareThis. After Blogger and TypePad, this is the time for MySpace! ShareThis now has the ability to post to MySpace. Now with the help of ShareThis, you can post anything and everything you find on the web to your MySpace page. Even you can send any web content as a bulletin to everyone in your MySpace network. This update will definitely help the MySpace users.

New Features of ShareThis:

• Allows ShareThis users to post to their MySpace page or send as a bulletin.
• New Text Clipping enables users to insert text directly in the message field by highlighting and clicking the ShareThis button.
• Dynamic Widget Sizing will automatically resize the ShareThis widget based on the amount of social web services.
• Relative Widget Positioning locates the ShareThis widget directly underneath the button link rather than off to the right.

ShareThis has also made some other changes and bug fixes to their widgets and plugins. Now the rotating icons for the button link are operational for Blogger and TypePad platforms. The “close” link on the ShareThis widget will now adjust its color based on the luminosity of the widget header background color.

If you want to use ShareThis button on your WordPress blog, you can use the ShareThis WordPress Plugin. It is a cool plugin and will help your blog readers to post your blog content to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail & other communication channels like Facebook and MySpace.

Good news for all users of Blogger. According to the Blogger in Draft blog, Blogger is now testing a cool new feature that will enable you to write scheduled blog posts. With the help of this feature, you can write a blog post now and have it automatically published at some time in the future. Scheduled blog post is one of the important features of the popular WordPress blogging platform. It helps you to maintain the regular update of your blog by managing your time.

Writing scheduled posts is very simple. Just follow these simple steps:

• Write your blog post in the post editor.
• Click the “Post Options” button below the post editor. It will reveal the Date and Time fields.
• Enter a post date and time that is in the future.
• Then click the “Publish” button. Now your post will become “scheduled.”
• When the date and time of the post arrive, your post will be automatically published to your blog.

All your scheduled posts will appear in your Edit Posts list, alongside your drafts and published posts. To un-schedule a post, simply save it as a draft any time before it gets published.

What scheduled posts can do for you? Imagine you are going to a remote area for a long vacation. How you are going to continue posting to your blog? Simply write some scheduled posts before you start your journey and gift your readers regular blog updates!

Right now, this scheduled posts feature is not available in the common Blogger platform. You can use it when you are logged in to Blogger in Draft.

Thirty years after the release of James Bond movie “The Spy Who Loved Me”, someone has finally experienced the under water car driving! Swiss design company Rinspeed has created ‘sQuba’, the world’s first real submersible car. The sQuba is based on the Lotus Elise and works fine both on roads and under water! With this all-electric convertible car, you can drive to the lake in style and then dive underwater to a depth of over 30 feet.

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In sQuba, Elisa’s engine was removed and replaced by three motors — one for land driving, good for up to 75 mph, and two others for the underwater propellers. The power is supplied by rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries.

This zero emission vehicle can transport a driver and a passenger in its open cockpit. The open cockpit design is intended to allow the occupants to escape easily in case of emergency. When underwater, the occupants breathe air carried in the vehicle through scuba-style rebreathers. Without occupants, the sQuba will surface automatically.

The functioning prototype of sQuba cost more than $1.5 million to build. Well, at present Rinspeed has no plans to start production of sQuba. Want to take a glimpse of sQuba? Go to the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, where sQuba will have it’s world debut or watch the video!

Want to manage and track the downloads from your blog? Use Download Monitor, a WordPress plugin that will help you in uploading and managing your downloads, tracking the download hits, and displaying the download links. Even you can add links to your existing files and track their downloads. So, if you have some files to offer as downloads on your blog, use it and stay cool!

Features of Download Monitor Plugin:

• Special admin page for uploading/linking to downloads, and specifying information.
• Drop-down menu in non-rich text WordPress editor for adding links.
• Records download hits. Does not count downloads by admin.
• Can show popular, recent, and random downloads in your blog’s sidebar.
• URL hider using mod_rewrite.
• Can show a download image.
• Ability to re-upload files.

How to install this plugin?

• Download the plugin from here.
• Extract and upload the ‘wp-downloadMonitor’ folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory.
• Change the permission of the ‘user_uploads’ directory inside the ‘wp-downloadMonitor’ folder to 777.
• Activate the plugin from the Plugins tab of your Dashboard.
• After activation, go to the Manage > Downloads and start managing your downloads.

A fan of Facebook? You are surely going to love the Facebook Layouts theme. Facebook Layouts is a free, three column, widget ready theme for WordPress blogs. It looks like the home page of Facebook! Take a look at the screen shot below. The design is minimalistic and looks professional. In this theme, you can easily change the color scheme, to suit your need.

Some features of Facebook Layouts WordPress Theme:

• 3 column WordPress theme.
• Ability to change the color scheme (Blue, Green, Red, Black, Grey, Brown, Pink, Yellow, Light Blue and Purple).
• Ability to toggle WordPress logo on or off.
• Classic widget control version is also available.
• Compatible with WordPress 2.2 onwards.
• Tested in FF, IE6 and IE7.

Demo & Download:

View the Demo
Download the Theme

Getting tired of the old news aggregator sites? Give a look at the Newspond, a brand new news aggregator site. Launched today, Newspond calls itself as the most advanced news site. Why? The news stories that surface on Newspond are found and sorted by real-time global popularity, by their own news engine. No news editors, no voting system! Sounds interesting? Read on.

Newspond displays the hottest news from technology, science and gaming. It gathers all of the intricate information about a story and displays how much buzz a particular story has, with a special number called “Buoyancy Rating”. This number constantly changes and shows the exact popularity of an article at any given point in time. With the help of Buoyancy Rating, stories are sorted and displayed in the front page of Newspond.

Below every news story you can view the sources reporting that story. This is an interesting feature and very valuable too! The commenting system is very beautiful and supports threaded commenting.

Newspond is cool and unique. In their own words:

At the heart of Newspond lies a self-sufficient news engine. This machine intelligence continually watches over and reads hundreds of different websites, including everything from major news portals, to the tiniest blog, or forum. As a news story surfaces across one or more of these sites, Newspond notes every detail about it – from how fast a story spreads throughout the internet, to the amount of discussion surrounding the story, to even things like the rate at which people click on or bookmark the article and the size of each of the sites reporting it. Every detail is carefully noted, sized, and gauged, reading at a faster rate of speed than any human editor.

Features of Newspond:

• Smooth user interface. Very attractive design.
• No human editors and no voting system.
• See which article is the most popular on the internet right now.
• Buoyancy Rating for every news story.
• See the top stories of the day, week, or month.
• Highly advanced comments system with a full comments history.
• Create news playlist by saving your favourite stories.
• Share your favourite stories with your friends.

Newspond is cool and beautiful, from top to bottom. From the design of front page to the commenting system, everything is beautiful here. I am sure that you have never seen such a beautiful news aggregator site. It is free. Give it a try!