For the past two years, I have been relying on my Dell Inspiron 1720, a 17″ laptop for all my computing needs. Since I have enrolled myself in a flying school last year September, located next to an airport near 2 hours drive away from home, I have been carrying that 4kg monster home and back to my hostel every weekend. To add more strain to my shoulders, I’m also carrying it to my class almost every other day.

I finally got enough of it and decided to get a new lightweight laptop with long battery life and reasonable performance. It makes sense now that I’m subscribed to a wireless broadband, I can basically carry it anywhere I want and get online at any location.

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You are likely to stumble upon one of these WordPress themes released by Smashing Magazine, somehow, somewhere, in your quest hunting for a WordPress theme. Being the top web design blog, you can expect only the best WordPress themes from them and it makes perfect sense to browse all of the themes to find your perfect theme.

Smashing Magazine started releasing WordPress themes since 2007, but there isn’t any easy way to see all of them on one single list as far as I’m concerned. To make life easier for you, I have compiled all (if I didn’t miss any, that is) the WordPress themes released by Smashing Magazine, all the way from the first theme dated in year 2007 to the most recent one released in February 2010.

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Printing from an iPad made easy

• Fun Buttons
  56 different buttons that make different fun sounds, including memes like “It’s a trap” & “trollololol“.
• Korean StarCraft Commercial
  StarCraft has some hefty repercussions in this funny ad for Korean TV.
• RIAA, MPAA would like to scan your hard drive for infringing content
  So, the same technology that protects you from Internet nonsense—”hey, knucklehead, that 1MB DVD rip of “Avatar” you’ve got there is a trojan, delete it—would instead be used to spy on you.
• Internet Porn
  Historians have referred to Internet Porn not only as one of the most important advancements of the technological era, but also “sooooo awesome”.
• Just saying: Android voice control > Apple’s
  It’s always nice to have an iPhone owner salivating over your Android phone.
• 9 Ways to Do Good With 5 Minutes or $25
  Here are nine ways you can make a difference in people’s lives with just a few minutes of your time or a few dollars from your PayPal account.
• Top 10 YouTube Videos About Mobile
  From the very first cell phone TV commercial, to a huge T-Mobile publicity stunt, to children in Africa who mine the Coltan we use in our mobile devices, here’s our collection of the top videos about mobile.

If you’ve been using the internet for a while, you should have come across names like OpenDNS and Google Public DNS. All these free DNS server provider claims to speed up your internet experience and improve security—so which to choose?

Rarst suggested two tools to test which DNS server has the best performance for you, namely namebench and DNS Benchmark. I prefer the latter for its simplicity, but the former has a more detailed test report if that’s what you prefer.

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How often do you see an amazingly beautiful WordPress theme, only to disappoint when you discover its price tag? If content is king, I would say design is queen.

Why is appearance important? Just imagine Obama campaigning for his presidency in just sandals and short pants.

There is definitely no shortage of good WordPress themes, but the free ones are used by so many other blogs that it has lost its uniqueness, while for the premium ones are sometimes just to pricey.

Now what about this—join a premium WordPress themes giveaway which will guarantee you a win if your blog has a PageRank of higher than 2? That’s exactly what ThemeGrade is doing.

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Google Maps is no doubt one of the most used tool to find almost just any location or place on planet Earth. There is one problem though. You can only enjoy such convenience if you are connected to the internet. There is an option to print on Google Maps, but the limited map size and zoom level doesn’t make it any helpful.

Here’s a simple tool that can partly solve the problem, Google Map Saver. With it, you can save any part of Google Maps as an image to your local disk, at a zoom level and resolution of your choice. Being able to select the zoom level lets you dictate how detailed you want your map to be.

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