Manila Freelancer

It has been a Year for all of us and its the perfect time for a personal realization. Did you achieve you previous year’s personal or business goal? Its your perfect time to set your new goals! Forget the bad things but remember the lessons learned from it.  Oh btw! Make sure to avoid fireworks! Its hard to BLOG with incomplete fingers (LOL)

Wordpress themes are an excellent way to change the look of your website and add spice to your otherwise boring or oft-seen-before web page styles. The best place to find themes is online, which makes for faster viewing, choosing and download. Here are some sites you can use as sources of some great Wordpress themes you can use:

www.WPThemesFree.com
Wordpress themes on this site are classified by category. All you have to do is pick the category you like and browse for your favorite.

Some of the categories you’ll find here include: animals and pets, electronics, fashion, entertainment, online store, personal pages, religious, real estate, even plain themes.

Select the theme that appeals most to you and then choose the type of theme property you want to use. There are also plug-ins and widgets for you to choose from. You’ll find enough here to use with multiple sites.

www.Wordpress.net (www.theme.wordpress.net )
This is a good source for some great-looking Wordpress themes. Simply choose which category you like and download. You can also choose the color and column styles you prefer. Some of the most popular Wordpress themes are found on the homepage and you can either download one or run it to see how well it will fit your site.

www.TemplateMonster.com
There are professionally designed Wordpress themes here and plenty of styles to feed your eyes on. There are also Flash-powered templates here if you prefer a bit more excitement.

www.Blogcut.com
There’s a whole collection of themes here, including Wordpress themes. The themes are named and you can do a live preview or download your choice right away.

www.dailyblogtips.com
Great resource for clean web2.0 Wordpress themes. They also provide great tips on blogging and online marketing.

You might think thats its just a joke but its confirmed. Netscape Web browser support will be stopped by AOL ,  Netscape’s parent company.  AOL officialy announced that they will cease support for the current version of Netscape.  Although Netscape will be officially gone by February 1, 2008, a Netscape theme will be created for the current version of Firefox to make it look like Netscape 9.

I got this Q&A from Netscape’s Blog

AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.

Q: What will this mean?
A: We’ll continue to release security patches for the current version of the browser, Netscape Navigator until February 1, 2008. After February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.

Q: I use Netscape now. Now that Netscape is stopping support, what do I do?
A: The Netscape Team fully stands behind the fine work being done by the Mozilla Foundation. We recommend that you download Mozilla Firefox and give it a try. We know you’ll enjoy it!

Q: Will I still be able to use Netscape?
A: You will still be able to download old versions of Netscape from the Netscape Archive (link coming). However, these products are no longer supported. Our recommendation for the nostalgic out there is to download Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and Netscape extensions which are available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/56836

This way you’ll have a current web browser that is very secure, and has the look and feel you have grown accustomed to with Netscape.

Q: Will anyone be around to answer my questions?
A: The following sites will continue to exist and offer information about Netscape after February 1, 2008: The UFAQ (http://www.ufaq.org/), the Netscape Archive, the Netscape Community Forum (http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ws-nscpbrowser&redirCnt=1).

Please bear in mind that no active product support will be available.

Q: Does this mean that Netscape is dead?
A: While we will no longer support the Netscape web browser as of February 1, 2008, Netscape.com (http://www.netscape.com) will still continue to serve as a general use Internet portal.

Do you love Photography? Want to showcase your best photograph by joining Photography Contests? PhotographyCorner has announced the 2007 Photograph of the Year Contest. The contest features twelve, high-profile sponsors with over $20,000 in prizes to be won including a grand prize valued at $5,000. The contest is free to enter, with submissions accepted via email. Any photograph taken in 2007 is eligible to be entered.

The PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year marks the 2nd annual photograph of the year contest organized by the popular photography resources site. With over $20,000 in prizes available to be won, and with first prize alone valued at over $5,000, the PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year contest stands to be even a bigger success than the inaugural one held last year.

PhotographyCorner.com is a leading portal for photographers, which includes member-written articles, tutorials, forums, a photography directory, Photography Corner Blog and projects. The site runs a monthly Photograph of the Month contests and fifteen yearly Contest Corner Challenges, as well as providing an area of the site for photographers to receive constructive criticism of their work in the Critiques Corner. As a further resource to photographers, PhotographyCorner.com provides photography news, camera reviews, and information on photography contests and events throughout the world.  PhotographyCorner.com was launched in March 2004.

This post is Sponsored by www.PhotographyCorner.com

What is Entrecard? I’ve been seeing a lot of bloggers writing about Entrecardand its usability.  Entrecard is not just about an ordinary banner advertising exchange program, it is your 125×125 Internet business card.  

Entrecard is also an ad network for you to get free quality traffic. It is an easy way to network with fellow blog owners; users can drop their card to any Entrecard members blog to earn points. Joining Entrecard is “FREE” and you can advertise your own blog to any popular blog in exchange of Entrecard points you have accumulated.

I have been getting alot of traffic to my blog with the entrecard, you can have it too.

List of Pinoy Entrecard blogs from Pinoy Blogero [More]

A regular job is just that – regular. Sure, you get some excitement once in a while, like a raise or a promotion or maybe a new company policy that gives awards and to-die-for perks to people like you. But if you’re looking for a way to work independently and aren’t scared to take some risks, you’ll find that a freelancing job has some advantages you might find hard to ignore. These include:

You get to build your reputation.
Freelancers use their own skills and talents to earn money. That means everything you do will be attributed to you, without your boss or peers sharing the credit. You bask in your own glory and also get to build a solid portfolio all by yourself.

You get to enhance your business sense.
Were you ever curious about how business owners run their businesses? Here’s your chance. Freelancers are businessmen and when you work as one, you’ll have the advantage to implement your own rules and policies.

You also handle the business strategy, planning and finance side. Best of all, after Uncle Sam has received his cut of your earnings, everything else is yours to spend as you wish.

You basically own your own time.
As a freelancer, you might have to work doubly hard initially. However, once you get the hang of your job, you’ll have the kind of flexibility you could only dream about in the confines of your cubicle. You set your own time, work as late as you like and be free of the 9-to-5 schedule.

You can Blog and Make Money Online!
What in the world is a Blog and why would I want one? This is probably one of the burning question a lot of people are asking themselves everyday. Almost every blogger benefits from blogging, it could be personal or monetary. Starting a blog is quite easy, It pretty like a regular website you have started with Geocities.com before, it acts like a website but it is so much more.

I stumbled upon Thoughts.com, A website that can help you start a blog and learn at the same time. Thoughts.com is a free blog community that allows anyone to open an online journal, upload photos, videos or do podcasting, add friends and be rated for the quality of their posts. It is a combination of blog and social networking at the same time. It is a place where bloggers discuss things and meet other bloggers with the same interests.

They offer a blog post rating system, that allows other bloggers to rate every post that they read. They also offer prices to the most active bloggers in the community.

What can you do on thoughts.com?

• Create Blog Posts
• Share Photos & Videos
• Share Music Files & Podcasts
• Post in the Forums
• Discuss Current News
• Meet New People

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