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My wordpress themes

Theme for WordPress 2.7

Esther Artistic
Simple two columns holiday theme for this purple valentine’s day.

hoPE Theme
Fixed three columns with flickr or Picasa photo gallery.(more update)

Theme for WordPress 2.6+

1. Violinesth Forever
Violin wordpress themes two columns with right sidebar.(for WP 2.6) It’s allowed to custom your own favourite photo. More information in theme directory

2. Violinesth V3
Another violin wordpress themes three columns with left and right sidebar. It’s allowed to custom your own favourite photo or image.  (for WP 2.6+)

Theme for WordPress 2.5+

1. Violinesth
Simple and clean purple music theme with violin, right sidebar, sticky post and gravatar support.

2. Pressthor
Three columns with orange feel. Widgets support theme. This is designed for wordpress version 2.5.

3. Esther
Two columns WordPress theme with right sidebar, It is allowed to custom your own photo on the photo frame. Live demo

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My wordpress plugins

1. Paypal Donate Widgets
This is a simple plugin for wordpress widgets that let your user can make paypal donation via your blog site.

2. WP Snap Preview
This is simple snap preview anywhere, less option but full.

3. WP Amazon context link ads
Amazon Context Links are a quick and convenient way to add links to blog and help you monetize your content. Context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your blog content to Amazon products.

4. WP Flickr Widgets
Get your flickr photo shown on your blog’s sidebar.

5. WPMU Share This
This is Share This modified version for wordpress MU base on Alex’s excellent plugin. Just download and upload to your wordpress MU mu-plugins folder. No plugin activate request.

This plugin allows you to easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Very useful for featuring things that might otherwise slip into the nether regions of your archives.

6. WP Odeo Plugin
Embbed Odeo Audio on your blog content.

7. Doogate Search Widgets
Adds a sidebar widgets to let users search your site with Doogate.com

8. WordPress Meebo Widgets
Embed meebo widgets on wordpress sidebar.

9. WP Bookmarking Widgets
WP Bookmarking Widgets is allowing people to subscribe to your blog via services such as Google Reader, Bloglines and MyYahoo! and more.

10. WPMU Comment Timeout
Reduce your comment spam with comment timeout. This plugin automatically disables comments on older blog entries after a certain period of time. It also gives you an option to automatically keep them open for longer wherever there is an ongoing discussion. This WPMU Edition is modified by Patrick Chia based on James McKay Comment Timeout.

11. WPMU Latex Math
This is modified based Anders Dahnielson mimeTex. It’s allowed blogger to include inline Latex formulas in blog posts and comment. It’s use wordpress.com format to embed the code, example: $latex your-latex-code-here$

12. WPMU Random Blog Redirect
Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. This is modified based on Matt Random Redirect.

13. WPMU Random Captcha
Stop a lot of spambots from polluting your site by making visitors identify some random text displayed as an image before signup blog. The latest version add captcha image on signup and login page.

14. Theme Extras: Snow Effect
Add snow background effect to your blog for coming Christmas. (Please see this blog) This plugin is make your blog like winter. So you no need to change your blog theme.

15. WordPress and WordPressMU Standard XML Sitemap
Add standard XML sitemap into your wordpress blog and robots.txt automatically.

16. Multiple Twitter Widgets (Latest: WordPress Plugin Directory)
The widgets allows for multiple twitter widgets to be displayed.
for WordPressMU and WordPress Personal

17. Dashboard-Myblog Widgets
Showing user’s blog on the right now with dashboard and settings link. This plugin for WordPress MU only and version 2.7.

18.  WPMU-Admin-Languages (Latest: WordPress Plugin Directory)
Simple plugin that allowed user to set up different language in Admin Panel and blog interface.

19. Gravatar Favicon
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar favicon for your blog and admin logo included Apple touch icon. Just activate the plugin, and it will add gravatars to your blog template and admin panel automatically, no setting and nothing.

Blog, Essays, Jewellery

Pros, but cons as well…

New, revised, expanded edition of the first and only book of its kind. Covers the latest gems, synthetics, treatments, and instruments. Easy to use. Practical. Non-technical. Shows how to identify diamonds, colored gemstones, and pearls, and separate them from fakes and look-alikes. Explains what instruments are needed, how to use them, where to get them, and what should be seen for each gemstone.No science background necessary.

Faster than you can imagine, anyone can learn to identify most of the gems and imitations found in the marketplace. This practical volume is the key to avoiding costly mistakes and recognizing profitable opportunities. Essential reading for collectors, investors, jewellery lovers, hobbyists, jewellers, antique dealers, fine jewellery shop and gemology students. With this highly accessible guide, anyone can begin to master gem identification.Selected Contents:Setting up a basic lab. Description of Each Instrument: What It Will Show & How to Use It.Dark Field Loupe – Synthetic Emerald Filters – Immersion Cell – Synthetic Diamond Detector – Loupe – Chelsea Filter – Electronic Diamond Tester – Refractometer – Ultraviolet Lamp – Microscope – Spectroscope – Polariscope – DichroscopeWhat to Look For, Gem by Gem Antique & Estate Jewelry – The True Test for the Gem Detective.Dyeing – Composite Stones – Foil Backing – SubstitutionsAppendices: Charts and Tables of Gemstone Properties, Schools, Laboratories, and more.

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Get your horoscope reading everyday

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How do you think put a horoscope reading on your blog?

Patrick has wrote a widgets that show your horoscope reading on your blog. Just drag and drop the horoscope widgets to your sidebar and choose your horoscope sign. 

It's will show your horoscope reading everyday and update automatically. Enjoy your blog!

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