This time I wanted to showcase really successful and creative blog designs I found through a lot of searching and comparing to give necessary inspiration for you, and actually for myself too a little bit. I divided all 55 blog designs in three categories – Dark Design Showcase 1-10, Colorful and Very Creative Design Showcase 11-45 and Clean And Elegant Design Showcase 46-55. Hope You enjoy this one!

Dark Design Showcase

1.RoH Blog

2.TextureLovers

3. OTK47

4. AppStorm

5.CSSEvo

6. ArtsThanea

7.Kineda

8. Level Opacity

9. Lubuski Hiphop

10. JosDigital

Colorful and Very Creative Design Showcase

11.Phodana

12.WCRIA Design

13.Cult-Foo

14. Forty Two

15.OcTwelve

16.Productive Dreams

17.Raduceuca

18.PopCultureTees

19.BlogSolid

20.Design Bombs

21.DavidG

22.EvanEckard

23.Tutorial9

24. Samk

25.I Love Colors

26. PodLob

27. DezinerFolio

28.DaleAnthony

29.HenryJones

30. EntropiaBlog

31.Ectomachine

32.LeslyG

33.NYQ Design Group

34.DreamScaper

35. DesignLab

36. Avalon Star

37. DaveJay

38. Zinac

39. Missy

40.FlickOut

41.IconDock

42.ElitistSnob

43. Lense

44. Chronus

45. SplitDaDiz

Clean And Elegant Design Showcase

46.MonoFactor

47. E-Paper Central

48.Kirstin Pauk

49. Line25

50. iPhone Toolbox

51.Campr

52. Brian Jeremy

53.TheCreativeDisctrict

54. Made By On

55.I Love Typography

Other similar resources and further reading:

• 60+ Unusual WP Blog Designs
• 50 Beautiful Blog Designs
• Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs
• 45 More Excellent Blog Designs
• 100 of the best inspirational blog designs
• 100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design
• 40 Excellent Blog Designs
• Blog Designs: 50 Of The Most Creative

Official Twitter badges are boring, let’s put something fresh in your design!

Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog

Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot

Using some basic shapes, effects, and gradients this tutorial will show you how to create a Twitter mascot for your blog or website.

Follow me on Twitter badges / logos / buttons

30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons Download

Twitter Birds by InaliBlast

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet: Another Free Twitter Bird Icon

Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

8 Free Cute & Simple Twitter Bird Vector Graphics

31 Twitter buttons and icons

Commercial Use is forbidden.

6 Free New Social Icons – Digg, Twitter, Stumble, RSS, Delicious & Reddit

The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

10 Twitter Buttons for free

Free Twitter Graphics

Free Vector Icons Set + Twitter Birdy Icon

IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark Icon

It’s Twitter Time! Free vector icon set

Twitter Icons with Attitude

Follow Me…Twitter Icon

Free Twitter Icon

Practika: A Free Icon Set

Twitter bird vector icon set

Free Fat Twitters icon pack

(max)Icone Blog – Set #3

Twitter Icon

2 Twitter Icons

Twitter Icons .PSD by JuliusX

Tweeties: A free icon set

Web 2.0 0rigami

Twitter Block Icons

Kweet- A Free Twitter Bird Icon

Free PSD’s Give Away: High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

Twitter Eggs

Free Twitter Caps

Twitter bird icon

IconsPedia Search: Twitter

This website has listed and featured many lovely twitter icons, now there are 46 Twitter related icons.

FREE TWITTER BUTTONS (Includes Animated GIFs) ( nearly 30 buttons)

Lisa’s twitter bird

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…

Twignature

This webpage is Japanese creation that asks you to enter your Twitter account name and rapidly have personalized Twitter button with you name on it, several sizes and icons available there.

TweetDeck Replacement Icons by tylersticka

Cute Tweeters Icon Set

Free Twitter Icons – Happy Birds

Twitter 4 by jasonh1234

Freebies: 2 Awesome Twitter Icons

TweeterIcon

Just enter your Twitter ID, copy the code and you can use linked twitter icon right away, wide variety of different Twitter icons.

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

Huge giveaway from WebDesignerDepot.

Free Rockin’ Twitter Icon for Your Blog

Twitter Icon – Follow me

Alternate Icon For Twitter

Flickr Twitter Bird Pool

This is also nice Flickr group trying to get featured many birdies!

As always feel free to add your links! Maybe there are something I didn’t listed here?

This list just features 22 resource sites and several very well written articles with premade pattern collections, it was very interesting for me to write this article, I am hoping it will be interesting reading and useful resource for bookmarking.

DinPattern ( ~120 patterns)

SquidFingers ( 158 patterns)

Pattern8

DreamsTime

Did you know there are huge collection of free patterns as well?

Alice Grafixx (609 patterns)

Pattern4U Kollermedia (174 patterns)

Kaliber 10000 (k10k)

Noqta Dromoscopia (33 patterns)

TileMachine ( 130668 patterns)

Really huge collection, a lot of old patterns, but in the bunch I found many useful ones too, there are also pattern maker.

EveryDayIcons ( ~100 patterns)

Ava7Patterns (~ 1000 patterns)

Many creative patterns, also mouse over evil ladybug, kill the fly for extra fun – beautiful website.

Citrus Moon Patterns

Site hasn’t been updated for a while, but still many beautiful patterns can be found there.

DeviantArt Photoshop Patterns

Deviantart is everything related to art, of course there are big collections of patterns!

HoverWebDesign

Design and all those advertisements aren’t quite welcoming, but still a lot of patterns there.

PaternCooler

Another great pattern collections:

200+ Beautiful Seamless Patterns Perfect for Web Design

1000+ Background Patterns You can Use for Free

Nice picks from DeviantArt, big collection.

250+ Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Print and Web Design

100+ Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Web Design and Print Work

400+ High Quality Patterns

Beautiful picks from Deviantart.

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

And of course how could I miss the ultimate collection with Photoshop patterns from SmashingMagazine.

Huge Collection of High Quality Patterns

Nice and very fresh collection from VectorDiary.

And little add, Ronald from Naldzgraphics also compiled nice pattern list which I feel is suitable for including in this article.

Here You go -

500+ Truly Useful Resources of Free High Quality Patterns

I also added WordPress site monthly download statistics to let you know how popular these plugins are, but don’t underestimate new plugins. Just scroll through the list and maybe you’ll get several new features on your blog to make life easier. Hope you like this!

1. WP Greet-Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.

For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction

Downloads 39,232

2. My Page Order

Gives you manual control over the order of your Wordpress pages by letting you easily set an explicit order. Works with subpages too. Now with built-in Widget support.

Downloads 93,157

3. Stray Random Quotes

Stray Random Quotes helps you collect and display random quotes everywhere on your blog with many features. The plugin is so flexible that it can be used to display random words of all sorts: taglines, “leave a response” messages, footer or header sections etc.

Downloads 21,667

4. No Self Pings

Prevents WordPress from sending pings to your own site, for example there are times when you want to link directly related articles like Part 1, Part 2, by default site will get pinged by itself.

Really self explaining so this time I didn’t add any screenshot to this one.

Downloads 12,539

5. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings.

Downloads 87,474

6. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Downloads 59,285

7. Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Pretty useful in long run especially if you have lots of content on your blog.

Downloads 63,951

8. Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging.

Downloads 347,793

9. Post Ideas

Manage and keep track of your blog article or post ideas. I usueally save my links on notepad, but this is a great way how to start writing article or just collect your ideas doing a little research. Set priority, sort ideas, everything is up to you.

Downloads 1,769

10. HeadSpace2 SEO

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site, click through the link to see many features. Pretty popular plugin already, but I think in most cases underestimated, since there are All in One SEO Pack.

Downloads 190,535

11. Eventr – Event Registration Plugin for WordPress

Use this plugin if you want to use your blog an an event management tool. This will let people signup for the event – it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can just deactivate the event – and no more signup will be allowed.

Downloads 2,776

12. FV Community News

Many blogs out there can only produce a couple articles a week while their visitors ask for loads more. It’s sometimes a good idea to add related articles from other blogs to your sidebar. Adding them manually takes lots of time we don’t have. With this new Community News plugin you allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.

Downloads 4,679

13. Sphere Related Content

The Sphere Related Content plug-in displays an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, Sphere finds blog posts and media articles related to your content. See it in action on over 1 billion article pages on popular media sites and blogs like the WSJ, New York Times, TechCrunch and Real Clear Politics. See it live on intowit website.

Downloads 29,274

14. Welcome Visitor

Welcome-visitor is a wordpress plugin, which will welcome visitors ( who come from others sites, e.g. google search, yahoo! serach or your friends’ links), and ask them to bookmark your site or to subscribe your rss feed. It will help you to get more readers and more attention!

Downloads 2,565

15. Role Scoper

Role Scoper is a comprehensive enrichment for access control in WordPress, giving you CMS-like control of permissions. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis.

Downloads 7,184

16. Live Countdown Timer

Widget that will enable you to show a beautifull live countdown timer for an event, where y ou can choose from different designs. Requires JavaScript Enabled (for the countdown to work) or it will not work.

Downloads 882

17. Sliding Panel

The Sliding Panel plugin adds a panel that opens and closes to the top of your WordPress-powered blog. If you’re in need of an area to house more content yet not get in the way, this is the ideal plugin.

The plugin is built off the wonderful jQuery library and is fully widgetized, so you can add any content you want. If you want a login form. Add it. If you want welcome text. No problem. Category list? You’re covered.

This plugin is for WordPress 2.8+ only.

Downloads 723

18. Adsense Stats

Adsense Stats is a widget for WordPress to display detailed statistics about your Google Adsense earnings without requiring login into your Google account.

Downloads 280

19. WP Wall

WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.

All comments are internally handled by WordPress so that means you have normal comment moderation, SPAM protection and new comment notification.

WP Wall is fully customizable with a CSS file and included graphics.

Downloads 58,722

20. Different Posts Per Page

“Different Posts Per Page” plugin will allow you to modify the number of posts shown in home, category, archive or search page. You can even set the order of posts by ascending or descending order.

There’s more settings if you prefer more control over your blog. You can set custom number of posts for other pages as well like: Author, Paged, Feed, Date, Month etc.

Downloads 24,408

*updated!

21. Page Link Manager

Page Link Manager is a WordPress plugin that adds an administration panel that allows you to pick which page links are included in your site’s navigation. Adding it to your WordPress installation is as easy as ever

Downloads 26,609

Maybe you have some more new, but promising plugins in mind? Share them with us!

From jQuery homepage – “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”

jQuery definitely is one of the biggest trends coming in up-to-date designs and the best of all, everything is done without countless code lines. Keeping in mind such aspects I created hopefully pretty complete collection of jQuery sites, tip and trick articles, video screencasts, tutorials, cheat sheets and lot’s more. Took a while to compile and research was really solid. Enjoy as always!

Getting Started

1.7 reasons why you really should learn jQuery

2. jQuery Crash Course

Introduction to Jquery, further reading and basics.

Huge Tutorial Series From Beginner To Intermediate User, Tips And Tricks

3. jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series : Video Tutorials

Over the course of about a month, ThemeForest released fifteen video tutorials that teach you EXACTLY how to use the jQuery library. You’ll start by downloading the library and eventually work our way up to creating an AJAX style-switcher. Beautiful learning and resource!

4. 10 jQuery Tutorials for Designers by WebDesignerWall

This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.

5.4 Jquery Easy Tips And Tricks Tutorial

6.jQuery Essentials Presentation at MinneWebCon (102 pages)

Very well written jquery essentials presentation. Really worth the time.

7.12 Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks

8.Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips

Great tips, even some intermediate users could now know few of these.

9.Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

In this tutorial, you’ll create a sliding panel, that slides in to reveal more content, using JQuery to animate the height of the panel.

Demo

10.Create a Photo Admin Site Using PHP and jQuery : ScreenCast

11.Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud

12.Wordpress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI

This tutorial assumes that you have a wordpress engine running on a server that you have access to upload files, download files and browse to.

Demo

13.How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

Demo

14.Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery

Demo

15.Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework

Coded real-world examples of themeable buttons and toolbars using the jQuery UI CSS framework, a system of classes developed for jQuery UI widgets that can easily be applied to any plugin, and even static content.

Demo

16.jQuery Slideshows With the Cycle Plugin

The jQuery Cycle plugin allows developers to quickly and easily create a slideshow out of anything contained within a given div element. However, this is more than just your grandmother’s slideshow fade plugin. The jQuery cycle plugin comes with a vast array of transition effects for you to use.

Demo

17. InnerFade with JQuery

InnerFade is a small plugin for the jQuery-JavaScript-Library. It’s designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.

These elements could be anything you want, e.g. images, list-items, divs. Simply produce your own slideshow for your portfolio or advertisings.

Demo

18.Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP

Demo

19.Setting Equal Heights with jQuery

Demo

20.jQuery Tools: Scrollable

Scroll your HTML with eye candy

Demo

21.jQuery Tools: Tooltips

Demo

22.jQuery Tools: Overlay

Yet another, beautiful image displaying way – similar to popular Lightbox, but this one seems to be more elegant.

Demo

23.jQuery Tools: Expose

Expose is a JavaScript tool that exposes selected HTML elements on the page so that the surrounding elements will gradually fade out. Works like a charm if you want to stand out.

Demo

24.Create an amazing music player using mouse gestures & hotkeys in jQuery: Screencast

Demo

25.Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML

Demo

26.Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to make portfolio “filtering by category” a little more interesting with just a little bit of jQuery.

Demo

27. jQuery Hover Sub Tag Cloud

Demo

28. How To Build Quick and Simple AJAX Forms with JSON Responses

Demo

29. Simple jQuery Spy Effect

jQuery Spy Effect scrolls the list in a beautiful way.

Demo

30. Slider Gallery Tutorial: Screencast

A tutorial explaining how to create a similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site.

Demo

31. Semantic Blockquotes with jQuery

Blockquotes can really assist in making your text visually appealing. Jack Franklin gives us a great tutorial on how to create blockquotes using jQuery. Even beginners to jQuery will be able to learn how to make these blockquotes.

32. Jcrop – the jQuery Image Cropping Plugin

Demo

33. Horizontal Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery

Demo

34. jQuery Sequential List Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to add a sequent of CSS classes to create a graphical list. The second example will show you how to add a comment counter to a comment list using jQuery’s prepend feature.

Demo

35. How easy to create a slide tabbed box using jQuery

Demo

36. How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface

This tutorial will be showing you how to create a customizable interface with widgets. The finished product will be a sleek and unobtrusively coded iGoogle-like interface which has a ton of potential applications!

Demo

37. jGrowl

jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works.

38. Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery

Demo

39. jQuery and Google Maps Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through how to get started using jQuery inside the Google Maps environment.

Demo

40. How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher

his tutorial will be showing you how to create a style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.

Demo

41. How-To: Reddit-style Voting With PHP, MySQL And jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to create a voting system similar to Reddit with jQuery, PHP and MySQL.

Demo

42. Selecting and Styling External Links, PDFs, PPTs, and other links by file extension using jQuery

This tutorial will explain how to use jQuery to select and style PDFs, PPT, images, and external links all differently using jQuery and CSS.

Further Reading, Advanced Tips and Tutorial Sites

43.Official Jquery Tutorial Directory

As first add is obvious, but on their official website you can find many tutorials related to mastering Your Jquery skills even in several different languages.

44.LearningJquery

Learning jQuery is a multi-author weblog providing jQuery tutorials, demos, and announcements. They have tutorials for all skill levels, and each entry is categorized by level of difficulty.

45.15 Days Of jQuery

Examples and tutorials to help you learn JQuery – it hasn’t been updated for a while, but still a lot of useful articles you’ll find there.

46.jQuery for Designers

Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery – beautiful tutorials and website, if you still can’t find what you need, you can even request a tutorial.

47.Ultimate Jquery List

jQuery Ajax tutorials to jQuery UI examples, you’ve found the ultimate list of tutorials and plugins for jQuery! Everything from Ajax file uploaders to RSS feed plugins, all on one of the longest pages you’ll ever scroll.

48. Bassistance

This blog is about programming (with focus on web applications and JavaScript), music and other stuff the author happens to write about. It’s also the home of several jQuery plugins.

49. Remi Sharp’s Blog

Site with several good tips and articles related to jquery, also the same man behind useful tutorial site – jQueryForDesigners I showcased above.

Online jQuery Cheat Sheets

50.VisualJquery 1.2.6

An online cheat sheet and visual reference to Jquery, where you can find Jquery functions well explained, updated to jQuery 1.2.6. version. While playing with Jquery, this website seems to be a very useful place to visit.

51.jQuery 1.2 cheatsheet wallpaper

The size of wallpaper is 1280×960, two color variations.

52.jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet (*pdf file)

53. ColorCharge Jquery CheatSheet

Further reading, similar articles from other resources:

• 15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch
• 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
• 40 Exceptional jQuery Interface Techniques and Tutorials
• HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery Killer Tutorials
• 18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio
• 25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
• 40+ Excellent jQuery Tutorials
• 51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples
• Top10 Simplest jQuery Tutorials

54. UsejQuery

I got great addition to the list from mustardamus – UsejQuery website is inspirational website showcasing all jQuery based sites and regularly updating. Also there’s blog ThisBlog.UsejQuery with several jQuery tutorials You should check out.

55. jQuery User Interface

I don’t know how I missed this one too, but now here it is, many effects you’ll find here already been premade for you with great support.

jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components — interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects — based on the stellar jQuery javascript library . Each component is built according to jQuery’s event-driven architecture (find something, manipulate it) and is themeable, making it easy for developers of any skill level to integrate and extend into their own code.

Well, good luck in your learning process and feel free to add another great tutorials, links, tips, tricks and related sites.

Let’s think different and scroll through this article, to find something for every taste. As always I tried to find really high-res wallpapers, though there are few just 1024×768, but mostly there are 1600×1200 or 1900×1200 resolution.

1. Luxury Apple Wallpaper by Stratification

Resolution: 1900×1200,

2. Applewood

Resolution:1920×1200

Apple logo on wooden motive

3. Apple Metal by Fi2-Shift

Resolution: 2560×1600, 1900×1200, 1440×900

4. Apple Seal Wallpaper Pack by manicho

A simple pattern + stripe + apple seal wall.

Includes 4 color variations.

Resolution: 1600×1200, wide 2560×1600.

5. It’s like chocolate by kevinandersson

Resolution: 2560×1600

6. Squirt Apple by TheSaintIsBack

Resolution: 1280×800

6. Exagon Rainbow Apple Wallpaper by nricoagostoni

The resolution ratio is 16:10

- 2560×1600

- 1920×1200

- 1680×1050

7. Apple Stiched by Vladstudio

Resolution: 1600×1200 max and many other sizes.

8. Apple Wall by Rob Hedric

Resolution: unfortunately only 1024×768px.

9. Apple Mac Icons Wallpaper by Advent-Media

Resolution:1920×1200

10. Aqua Apple by kevinandersson

Resolution: 1920×1200

11. A greener Apple by kevinandersson

Resolution: 1920×1200

12. Aluminium Apple by ebcube

Four variations included: Apple, Heart, Dot and Clean. PSD included.

Resolution: 2560×1600 (16:10).

13. Apple time machine by Damagot

Resolution: 1920×1200

14. Black Leather Apple Desktop Background

Resolution:1920×1200

15. Apple Modern by Flarup

Resolution: 1920×1200

16. Leopard “Conquer the Universe” BG

Resolution: 1920×1200

17. Wallpaper Apple Galaxy by jetc21

Resolution: 1502×1127

18. BlackWidow by Delta909

Resolutions: 2560X1600,1920X1200, 1680X1050, 1600X1200, 1440X900, 1280X1024, 1280X800, 1024X768

19. -21. Apple’s Aluminum by jNCo-01 (5 versions)

Resolution: 2560×1600, I included 3 versions here.

22. Apple Carbon Wallpaper by LeMarquis

Wide: 2560×1600, 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900

Normal: 1600×1200, 1280×1024, 1024×768, 800×600

Iphone: 320×480 (2 variations)

23. Apple Wallpaper 2 by maxwood

Resolution: 1280×800

24. Industrial Apple by Stratification

Resolution: 1920 x 1200

25. Wallpaper – Burning Mac by esharkj

Resolution: 1920×1200

26. Apple – Think Green by g2k556

Resolution: 1680×1050

27. Milkshake by Mickka

Resolution: 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1280×800, 1600×1200, 1280×1024

28. Computers Apple

Resolution:1600×1200

29. Gosquared Apple + Digg Walpaper

Resolution:2560×1600

30. MacBook wallpaper black by BarLevi

Resolution: 2560×1600

31. Magic Wapple by Aerotox

Resolution: 2560×1600

32. HPMouse: Tiger Hires

Resolution: 1680×1050

33. Mac Crashed by pontodefuga

Resolution: 1600×1200

34. Think Tiki by Vaxra

Resolution: 1152×864

35. Apple Stripe Pack by jamie-lewis

Resolution: image below.

36. Wallpaper Apple Life by hideoo

Resolution: 1680×1050, 1024×640

37. Apple Store Ginza by Atreide

Resolution: 1920×1200

38. Mac Addicted by DaNaT-DuBai

Resolution: 1024×768

39. Think green by Psychopulse

Resolution: 1920×1200

40. Apple green by mr-mucho

Resolution: 1600×1200

Show this article to your friends, PC users, maybe they’ll start to love Apple a little bit more

Which one is your favorite Apple wallpaper?

Twitter has their own tools for displaying Twitter status on website, but they are pretty slow and not too varied or maybe you just need don’t know about such plugins, that’s why I chose to take research and create comprehensive list with Twitter related Wordpress plugins and tools that will help you unite Twitter with your blog.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:

• Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
• Create a blog post from each of your tweets
• Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
• Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
• Post a tweet from your sidebar
• Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
• Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook).

TwitterDash

TwitterDash is a WordPress plugin that adds your friends timeline from twitter into your dashboard.

Thread Twitter

Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.

Elegant Twitter Widget

A WordPress widget that displays twitter updates in yummy valid semantic XHTML code. The code is heavily commented and the output is in template functions so everything is fully customizable.

Twitt-Twoo

Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. AJAX takes cares of the hard work, and means that your page doens’t even have to reload, allowing for quick and easy status updates.

Twitter Retweet

Twitter ReTweet provides a function that displays a ReTweet link which gives visitors the ability to ReTweet the current post; supports custom URLs (perfect for Google Analytics Campaign Tracking

Tweet Tweet

Tweet Tweet is a plugin for WordPress that polls Twitter and archives your tweets and the tweets of those you follow so those insightful conversations you have at 1am are never lost.

Twitter Widget

Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates (uses the Javascript Twitter ‘badge’)

Twitter Widget Pro

A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). Requires PHP5.

Tweet Rooster

Add the code from this website and you can enable users to tweet directly from your website or blog.

WP-Twitip-ID Plugin

Add a twitter field to your comment form (easily).

Top Twitter Links by Twitturls

Widget that displays currently popular links that have been tweeted.

TwitterFountain

Have you ever wanted to see what was happening at that one event you could not go to? Did the plain text-backchannels somehow left you feeling disappointed?

Twitterfountain comes to your aid mashing up tweets and Flickr-images that share the same tags into a spectacular visual. Below is a sample, that you can copy and embed in your own site.

TweetSuite

The first version of TweetSuite, a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the following features:

• Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
• ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
• A digg-like Tweet-This Button
• Automatic Tweeting of new posts
• A Most-Tweeted Widget
• A Recently-Tweeted Widget
• My-Last-Tweets Widget
• A My-Favorited-Tweets Widget

TweetBacks

People are talking about your posts, and not only in the comments to your post. A lot of that conversation is happening on Twitter, and now, you can take that conversation right back to your blog! This plugin imports those tweets about your posts as comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately.

Tweet Stats

This plugin adds two widgets to your site: “Most Tweeted Posts” and “Recently Tweeted Posts”. It depends on the Tweetbacks plugin by Yoast, so make sure you have that plugin installed.

Twitter Remote (beta)

This widget shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website.

Tweet This

Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us, eating up only 19 of 140 characters. Also included: Plurk, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Ping.fm, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Includes the post’s title after the link (can be customized). If your titles are really long, they get cut off at 136 characters with “…”. Customize under Settings > Tweet This. Includes your choice of six buttons.

ComenTwitter

Ultimately plugin’s goal is to give the commenter the option of sending their comment to twitter and allowing people to follow that blogs comments both in the blog and in twitter. The main reason for this is to generate a buzz and encourage commenting on peoples blogs. It will also improve the quality and value of people’s tweets revolving around blog posts.

TweetRoll

This widget shows your friends avatars on your blog/website and encourages more people to follow you. Colour customization and localization options available.

Twitme

This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website. This is good because for example the iPod and iPhone for example have a large amount of twitter clients to pick from. Your blog posts will arrive to people while they are walking the streets.

Twitter Poster

The Twitter Poster is a plugin which allows wordpress publishers to automatically post their new posts to their Twitter account. The Twitter Poster will take the title of a new post and will subit it to the Twitter account specified in the options. It will also add the link back to the post, allowing your twitter followers to access the post details

Twitter Friends Widget

Twitter Friends is a WordPress plugin that displays your Twitter friends/ followers in your sidebar in the same way that they appear on your Twitter homepage.

Tweetable Twitter Plugin

Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published, shortening the URLs with either Tr.im or Is.gd and optionally including Google Analytics campaign tags. You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can even display your follower count.

Twitter Feed

The application will display the latest tweet from all of the active accounts and then displays those latest tweets in date order. So the newest tweet across all of the accounts will always be shown first. It is also possible to switch between allowing/disallowing PM (Private Message) tweets to be included in the display.

Add Twitter RSS

Add Twitter RSS is a simple plugin that adds your Twitter RSS link to the header of your blog. It allows your readers to easily find your Twitter feed.

TwitterCounter

Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog. Additionally, you can add the Twitter Remote to your blog, which shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website. Manually add where you would like to display the badge / remote or use the WordPress sidebar widgets instead.

@ Reply

This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments. When clicked, those links insert the author name and a link to the comment you are replying to in the textarea.

Bird Feeder

Bird Feeder is a Wordpress plug-in that simply tweets when you publish a post. It doesn’t do anything else, nor will it ever.

Twitter Updater

This plugin will let you automatically update your Twitter.com status with your most recent blog post. There are a few options to how the display will look when it updates.

TweetMeMe

At last I found this beautiful website which tracks the hottest links on Twitter, interesting analysis.

Other resources and further reading:

• Official Wordpress Plugins – Twitter Search
• 15 Useful Twitter Hacks and Plug-Ins For WordPress
• 10 Twitter Hacks For Your Wordpress Blog
• 20 Twitter Status Design Tutorials, Icons & WP Plugins
• Top Twitter WordPress Plugin Roundup
• 107 Wordpress Twitter Plugins

Keeping in mind such parameters, I created a list with 30 innovative, beautiful, creative and eye-catching navigation menus for your inspiration in web development process.

1. AlexCohaniuc

2. Jeremymartin

3. Kriesi

If You want similar menu, find explanation in the JeremyMartin website above, inspired by this site navigation tutorial.

4. DragonInteractive

The most beautiful navigation I’ve ever seen to be honest, animation is so real, it’s hard to believe menu isn’t made using Flash.

5. AppStorm

6. Fubiz

Outstanding webdesign and JavaScript implementation.

7. CheckOutApp

8. EricJ

Very creative JavaScript sliding menu and website.

9. Concentric-Studio

10. InternetDreams

Whole website is loaded with jQuery and JavaScript features. Click through to check yourself.

11. Panic – Coda

Popular menu already, you may know about this one before.

12. MariusRoosendaal

13. Helmy-Bern

Excellent example of well implemented grunge website and JavaScript navigation

14. BenjaminDavid

15. DannyBlackman

Just click on the navigation buttons and you’ll understand what’s so unique with them.

16. Voll

Whole website is unique, slide from the sky to underworld using jQuery navigation.

17. SkiAlpine

Simple yet well designed navigation dropdown menu.

18. TapTapTap

Exceptional navigation, you gonna love this one.

19. TheHoleInOurGospel

20. ColourPixel

Very interesting navigation just like the whole design.

21. Apple

Whole website is one big beauty and MAC section has interesting sliding menu.

22. Creasenso

Beautiful rollover effects in navigation.

23. Polargold

Website and navigation created using both Flash and JavaScript techniques.

24. NavigantConsulting

25. Branded07

26. SearchInsideVideo

Static navigation while whole page slides magically.

27. Aperfolio

28. MacRabbit

Simple CSS design, but design on this website is too good to dare not to include this one.

29. MadeByGiant

Unique sliding menu and actually navigation itself is pretty interesting, at first not so recognizable but that makes even more fun to research.

30. AteBits

Digg is one of the best and the biggest social network right now. If you know how to treat it, you can get amazing floods of traffic regularly. However using just their homepage and simple techniques always aren’t enough. Do you know what’s hot now, how many of your friends digg your stories, actual trends and many other analysis about Digg? These trends always continue to change so you need several tools to keep up. And this is place where this article comes handy – I carefully tested many tools and then selected the most usable ones I enjoyed and I hope this research will help you too. Also I am using Firefox, Wordpress and Greasemonkey in regular basis, so on this list you will find a bunch of plugins and scripts too.

1.Digg Labs

The labs provide a broader (and deeper) view of Digg. A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities. Here you can find several tools to make browsing and digging more fun as well as analyze activities.

2. OriginalSignal

This site shows Digg RSS feed in much more handier way, you can also customize font size, view more headlines, change the order of weblogs or just grab RSS feed. Definitely spares unnecessary clicks.

3.Di66

Find out which are top words in titles, top words in descriptions, digg’s stats, top users, top sources. This website analyses statistics to let You understand who and what’s hot on Digg right now.

4.SocialBlade

Similar site like di66, but this one offer more detailed analysis, graphs and statistics allowing You to understand how many comments, diggs, friend diggs etc. are needed to hit digg front page. Analyze, what’s really happening on digg’s front page.

5.Digg Explorer v1.1

This is a tool for exploration of the 500 most popular recent stories from Digg. It uses small circles to represent items of interest which are fluidly positioned in various ways to emphasize patterns of interest. Version 1.1 adds a new graph of the top Users and also fixes a bug in the domain parsing logic.

6.Digg Top

DiggTop is an application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favourite Digg topic or keyword feeds. In addition to the full Digg submission information, it will also display a slideshow of images it can scrape from the linked article.

View video submissions from your favourite Digg video categories, and preview some videos right in the application. You can also set up keyword and Digg count filters that will notify you with a sound and icon when new stories match your criteria.

7.MiniDigg

A digg.com widget that allows you to view and track stories, track Your friend activity and the best of all is, this Adobe AIR application refreshes automatically, default refresh rate is 30sec, but You can change that.

8.Digg Alerter

This tools tracks your submitted stories informing with sound when story gets new digg, as well as comments and who dug your submission.

9.Feeddit

Feeddit is an improvement to the standard rss feed on Digg.com, it’s longer, fatter and more awesome. These new feeds are 100 stories long and has the actual link so you can skip past Digg and get directly to the story. This site lets you follow to digg front page even easier! Just subscribe and let the news come to you.

10.Neaveru Digg Comment Statistics

Fill in your Digg username right on their site to get statistics about your Digg commenting.

11.Digg Comment Viewer

Online application which lets you view all your Digg comments quickly and easily. It also can track your friend comments easily as well, several more options.

12.Digg Notify

Digg Notify is an application that pops up a small box in the bottom right hand side of your screen. It tells you when your story hits front page as well. The window never gains focus so it should not bother you. You can configure the minimum amount of diggs before the messages start coming. You can also configure the amount of stories it scans for. Once your story hits front page it will notify you of that and then ignore it so you don’t get swamped with messages. You also have the option of ignoring/unignoring certain stories.

13.Digg Friend Statistics

I just cannot explain how valuable this tool is. Must have – to let you evaluate some of your Digg friends or fans and some of them just remove.

Enter your Digg user name and this script will tell you which of your friends are digging your submissions – and which aren’t. DiggStatistics.com will analyze your Digg friends list and tell you which of your friends have dugg the last 10 of your digg submissions, and which of your friends have not. It will also tell you which users in the digg community other than your friends have dugg more than five of your submissions.

14.The Digg Oracle

This tool lets you find already long time ago dugg stories – useful if you use Digg as bookmarking tool.

Why not just go to Digg.com and search?

Digg no longer allows you to perform searches on your voting history. Many people use Digg as a bookmarking tool, and thus intend to reference back to specific articles. There may be thousands of stories on the same topic, not all will contain the same content as the story you are looking for.

15. DiggLicious

Digglicious.com is a mashup of three fantastic websites; digg.com, del.icio.us and reddit.com.This site combines information from these three sites to provide lists of items that are being dugg, items that are being bookmarked on del.icio.us, and items moving up the homepage of reddit.com. The main page uses AJAX to show activity for the sites.

16. DiggWatcher

This simple Flash app is designed to run in the background and monitor a Digg story of your choice. It will alert you with sound upon receiving new diggs, new comments, and becoming popular.

Firefox Extensions

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17. Smart Digg Button 1.01

The Smart Digg Button is simple Firefox extension which allows you to see whether or not the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg and lets you submit it if it hasn’t.

Unfortunately not yet compatible with latest Firefox version.

18. The Digg Toolbar

The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you’re not on the Digg site itself. With a notification window built into the toolbar, you’ll never miss a popular story or when friends Digg, submit, or comment on stories.

I am pretty big fan about this extension, it’s similar like Smart Digg button, but this one offers more options. However if You don’t need them, I’ll suggest previous extension.

19. TADSEE

The Anti-Digg/Slashdot Effect Extension provides, in the right-click context menu, options to open the Coral/Google cache versions of a link in a new tab.

20. Socialphile

Socialphile Firefox Extension assists users with comfortable searching based on ranking of each search result at social news websites like Digg.com

21. Digg Sidebar

Shows the Digg stories in real time in the Firefox sidebar.

Greasemonkey scripts

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Download Greasemonkey Firefox plugin

22.Digg.com shorturl remover ( Greasemonkey script)

Digg.com direct url in front page – I enjoy this script, because usually I digg stories and if I want to bookmark them, I click through and get digg link. This scripts practically saves You one click through.

23.Digg Button Animation Enabler

Enables the animation when pressing the digg button on an article that includes one, so you can digg it and keep reading.

24.Google reader digg news

Adds a digg control to every news-item in google reader

25.Digg Rating Extender

A greasemonkey script (for Firefox) to show the digg ups and digg downs on digg stories. Here’s a picture of what it looks like:

26.Digg – Add mirrors

Adds links to rorr.im, Coral Cache, DuggBack and Archive.org wayback machine to every story. What separates this from the rest is that it’s better integrated with digg: it’s displayed beneath every digg-button.

WordPress Plugins

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27. Digg Digg

Integrate “Digg Button” , “Reddit Me Button” , “Dzone Button” and “Yahoo Buzz Button” Into Wordpress Content. Setup screen provided to let user choose where user want to display Digg , Reddit , Dzone and Yahoo Buzz buttons. I am using this plugin on my very own site.

28. diggZ-Et – digg WordPress Plugin

diggZ-Et is a digg WordPress plugin that automatically displays a “digg” button for each post/page, with several admin settings so you can customize as you need.

29. WP Digg This

WP Digg This is a plugin that adds a Digg button, but with a twist. Instead of adding a Digg button to all your posts, WP Digg This plugin selectively adds the button only to posts you want.

30. Digg widget

Displays your past 10 dugg stories and make it a widget.

However feel free to add your foundings too, maybe I missed something?

Just scroll through the list and pick Your favorite ones! Which is Your favorite desktop background? Mine is the first one “Elements” and “The other side”!

1. Elements by Uribaani

2.Nature Landscape by w1zzy

3.Aurora Borelis From Space

4.Summer Car

5.The Church at Budir in the light of the Aurora

6. Borealis at Heart by ksuyen

7. Enchanted Forest by neorotic

8. Grass

9.Aurora Over The Big City by killerc19

10.The Rock by DJMattRicks

11. The Other Side

12.Waterfall

13.Waterfall, Foz Do Iguazu, Brazil

14.Ethaer

15.Paramount

16. Nexus – Summer Tropical Sunset

17.Elbalia

18. Viva La Nature Wallpaper Pack 5 by GeekGod4

19. A place to rest

20. Spring Flowers

21. Water In The Leaf

22. Wasteland – 3D Landscape Wallpaper

23. Darkness To Light

24. The Greenway

25. Reaching for the Stars Wallpaper

26.-29. Vr6fern Wallpaper Pack (7 wallpapers) by yethzart

Beautiful pack with photomanipulated landscape wallpapers, I included 4 of them here.

30.Enlightened

31. The Forsaken Soul

32.Terragen – The way God made me

33. Descent Heart

34. Rain is coming

35. It Was a Beautiful Day by -kol

36. Tropical Moon

37. Survivor

38. Distraction – WP Pack Collab by mpk

39. Aker by Kobhen

40. Beautiful Flowers

41. Sunflower

42. Autumn by sican

43. Leaf and Water

44. Hummingbird

45. Silence of The Storm by angelreich

46. Tower Bridge. by phyzer

47. FISSURE by Nameless-Designer

48. A Dark Starry Night Wallpaper by s3vendays

49. Earth 2049 – The End by taenaron

50. Space Lighthouse wallpaper by FISHBOT1337

51. Infinity – Widescreen by Morague

52. Loose Leaf

53. Ladybug

54. Run in Fields by gabrielsalazar

55. Tanzania

56. Golden Dream Wallpaper by moroka323

57. Ladybug wallpaper by Feni-x

58. Rainy day in sunny June by ssilence

59. Hug a tree by goergen

60.Dark Aurora wallpaper

61.Sky Aurora

62. Coastal Sunset by nuaHs

63. Desert Journey by -kol

64. Living nature + Wallpaper pack by haaru

65. The Sounds of Nature by Thurgood

66. Desert storm by kac2or

This list should satisfy Your thirst after beauty for some time! Enjoy!