.COM Domain Name

One of the very first Top-Level Domains (TLD) established in January 1985, .COM has since become the largest TLD, accounting for just under half of the 174 million domain names currently registered. This TLD means “commercial” to the vast majority of Internet users. Dozens of other TLDs are now available, including .ME, .CA and, more recently, .IN. But no matter how many new extensions may be added, everyone agrees – .COM is still the “Rodeo Drive of the Web.” (CNNMoney.com) Do you have yours?

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Take a ride on a windswept ship, alone on the ocean. You call out through the mist, as the rolling beat carries you away.

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Track Details:

Royalty Free Music for Films, Video, Ads, Web, Radio, Flash & Games.

Yes.. you read that right, we will be creating and selling completely original Royalty Free Audio tracks for you to use in your projects. Our current focus will be on creating music that will work well for Films, Video, Ads, Web, Radio, Flash & Games.

All audio tracks that we create will have a sample rate of 16-bit Stereo, 44.1 kHz, and a bit rate of 320. File formats provided will include MP3 and WAV. Upon purchase, you will gain immediate download access to the high quality version (watermark removed).

We will be adding more and more original Royalty Free audio tracks to our store in the near future, so please check back later.

If you need a custom audio track, please contact us.

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Introducing WordPress Jetpack.

What features does it have?

Version 1.1 of Jetpack includes:

• Gravatar Hovercards: Find out who’s commenting on your posts with enhanced information for Gravatars (includes full name, bio, other web profiles).
• WordPress.com Stats: Keep on top of your traffic with powerful and simple to understand statistics for your site.
• Twitter Widget: Keep your readers more up to date by syncing your tweets to your site via a simple widget.
• Shortcodes: Quickly add movies, images, and more to your posts and pages with a single line of code.
• Shortlinks: Automatically creates an easy to copy/paste mini-url for any post on your site.
• : Use the famous markup language to quickly create beautiful mathematical expressions and equations.
• Sharedaddy: Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks.
• After the Deadline: Your writing will improve thanks to this artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker.

Some of these features use the powerful WordPress.com cloud, others are popular features provided for the convenience of not having to install and manage several separate plugin installations.

It’s easy to see that this one plugin, might just replace quite a few plugins that people use everyday.

Which feature interests you the most?

Microsoft has recently launched the ie6countdown.com website to help transition people over to a more modern browser. From a web developer point of view, let us just say: “Three cheers for Microsoft!”.

10 years ago a browser was born.

Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.

This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.

In a recent tweet, they said:

It’s not often that we encourage you to stop using one of our products, but for #IE6, we’ll make an exception

Why is this a good idea?

There are still quite a few people in countries all around the world using IE6, and helping them transition to a newer/better browser not only helps them, but helps advance the web.

To read more about why updating your browser is a good idea, read our recent article Web Browser Dinosaurs Still Among Us. Also, don’t forget to leave a comment below and let us know what you think about the ie6countdown website.

Highlighted features:

• Internal Linking
• Admin Bar
• Streamlined Writing Interface
• Post Formats
• Network Admin
• List-type Admin Screens
• Exporter/Importer Overhaul
• Custom Content Type Improvements
• Advanced Queries
• Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme

New features like the admin bar and internal linking tool will be useful for clients that want to update their own website. WordPress developers and theme creators will find the new Post Formats to be a very welcome addition.

Internal Linking

When you create a link in WordPress you now have the option to choose from existing content on your website. This is a nice feature that speeds up finding internal links within your website when you want to create a link. In the past, you either had to know the URL, or find it on your website and copy and paste it in the old link editing window.



Admin Bar

The admin bar is nothing new to people who use wordpress.com to host their blog, but for a self hosted Word Press website.. this is new. The admin bar appears at the top of your website when you are logged in. It adds tools for you to quickly add and edit posts and pages, and also provides quite a few other tools. The bar is context sensitive, so the tools available to you change depending on what type of content you are looking at.

While the admin bar can be helpful, if you find that you don’t like the new admin bar, you can disable it by going to your personal user settings in your WordPress admin area.

Post Formats

Just like tumblr, the new Post Formats enable theme developers to customize the way different Post Formats appear on the website. Supported Post Formats include: aside, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio, and chat.

tumblr post format

Summary

All in all, the new features in WordPress 3.1 look to improve upon an already great platform. You can download WordPress 3.1 here or update from your WordPress dashboard.

Don’t forget to leave a comment and let us know what you think of the new WordPress.. do you like the changes? or not?

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Why choose .US?

• Create a uniquely American identity on the Internet.
• Associate your site with American values.
• Instill pride in your workplace or home.
• Promote your cause.
• And much, much more. The possibilities are as endless as the opportunities this great land offers!