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iTheme is a WordPress Theme for Mac lovers – a work of art by N.Design Studio. I love the colors and how sleek it looks!
View a demo or download iTheme here.
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I was reading this interesting article called 7 Things you don’t see in Web 2.0 from Web 1.0 and realised that the websites from 10 years ago seem to have most of the things mentioned in that article. The author of the article listed the followings as web 1.0 characteristics:

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The above pixel art describes web 2.0 perfectly.
I spotted the following logos/web 2.0 brands:

TechCrunch
myspace.com
WordPress
Flickr
Skype
YouTube
Google
eboy
RSS
Boing Boing
Rollyo
del.icio.us.
odeo
Blogger
Technorati
last.fm
AdBrite
gtalk
Newsvine
Backpack™ (37signals)
Amazon
Ask
43 Folders
Digg
Yahoo!
Zoho

Did I miss anything? My eyes are about to pop out so help me make the list complete, please?
The pixel art is called FooBar and all credits go to the creator – eboy (such a [...]

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Ever wonder how the Internet looked like 10 years ago in 1997? Now thanks to The Wayback Machine (otherwise known as Internet Archive), we can get a glimpse of the Internet from the past.

Yahoo!
Then (January 1997) and Now
Yahoo! to Go

Slashdot
Then (January 1998) and Now
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When designing a favicon (favicon.ico) for your site, you should try to incorporate at least one of the followings:
- Site logo
- Letter(s) that represent your domain name/site name
- Mini icon/picture that represents your site (eg: if your site is about beauty products, you might want to use an icon of a lipstick)
- Site color scheme [...]

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Ninemsn (An Australian Version of MSN) has recently redesigned their frontpage.

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This is a step by step tutorial with screenshots on how to create a web 2.0 star burst in Adobe Photoshop. web 2.0 star burst has become very popular recently thanks to web 2.0 hype. Those glossy web 2.0 star bursts are also known as Star flashes, Seal, web 2.0 Badge and can be seen [...]

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This is a step by step tutorial with screenshots on how to create a reflection effect in Adobe Photoshop. Reflection effect has become very popular recently thanks to web 2.0 hype. Those shiny reflection effect can be seen everywhere especially on web 2.0 logos. At the end of this tutorial, you [...]

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Technorati website has been redesigned in celebration of its 3rd Birthday.

The Goods:
- More features
- Increased Usability
- Improved functionalities for registered users
- Increased reliability and accurancy
- More content
- Advanced Search Engine and Results
- A good use of Ajax technology
The Bads:
- Homepage is a bit busy
- A bit too colourful
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