Would you like a new, elegant theme for your Tumblr blog?  One of my favorite WordPress theme sites, Elegant Themes, has just started porting their new Tumblr-style WordPress themes to Tumblr.  Let’s look at their first Tumblr theme, DailyNotes, and how to set it up on your Tumblr blog. In the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of articles at How-to Geek on Getting Started with Tumblr.  I’ve really enjoyed using Tumblr, and...

Like it or not, humans are forgetful.  Admit it; even the best of us have forgotten lots of important information over the years.  Ask me; I managed to forget to make hotel reservations three days in a row this week, even though people reminded me each day!  I’ve often envied cameras and phones; they run out of storage space, and we simply stick in a new, larger SD card.  Evernote claims it can help you Remember Everything, but...

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Would you like some free tech eBooks to read?  O’Reilly Press is one of the world’s largest tech publishers, and today the majority of their books are available for purchase as DRM-free eBooks in PDF, mobi, epub, and Android app formats.  Their eBooks are often substantially cheaper than the print books, but still often cost between $9 and $30.  If you’d like some free books to read, though, O’Reilly has some that...

Want to design standards-compliant websites, beautiful modern Windows applications, or even create beautiful vector icons and graphics?  Expression Studio 4 is a nice suite of applications from Microsoft that lets you do all this and more, and it shows that Microsoft has been paying much more attention to design and standards compliance in the last several years.  Creative Suite Web may offer similar features and more, but it is still...