From colorful journal pages to creatures made of salvaged materials, here’s a glimpse at the imaginative worlds of textile and multimedia artists on WordPress.com. The Pale Rook We discovered Glasgow-based textile artist Johanna Flanagan after stumbling upon her post, “Artist’s Statement: Part Two,” and were immediately pulled into her curious world of dolls that are hand-drawn, sewn, and embroidered. We ...
Happy Theme Thursday! Today we’re introducing three new free themes to our collection: Libretto, Lovecraft, and Publication. Libretto Featuring big, bold drop caps and oversized images, Libretto is ideal for showcasing longform writing or stunning imagery. Its classic design and typographic details will give your blog a sophisticated, elegant look. Fully responsive, the theme adapts easily to tablets and other ...
Looking for summer reading suggestions? Or perhaps winter reading suggestions, should your hemisphere be the Southern one? Look no further than these three authors who — like you — make their online home at WordPress.com. Claire Fuller Claire Fuller‘s debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, has been called “impossible to put down” by Amy Gentry at the Chicago Tribune. Claire ...
Our editors dove into the archives to resurface top posts published on WordPress.com this year, from personal essays to comics, and photography to fiction. Here’s a glimpse of what you published — and what the community especially loved — in 2014. “Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did,” Stephan ...
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do when not in front of a computer — from talking about making great products to using design to tackle social challenges. Recently, Story Wrangler Cheri Lucas Rowlands and Happiness Engineers Carolyn Sonnek, Deborah Beckett, and Jen Hooks ...
Last week, we announced a few updates to the WordPress.com interface, including faster stats and enhanced site management on both desktop and mobile devices. Our push to make all WordPress.com sites faster and easier to access and manage continues. This week, we’re thrilled to unveil a few brand-new features that allow bloggers, publishers, and business owners to run their sites and ...
Reblogged from Tech: Let's answer that question straight up front: you don't. Not today, where nothing exists that'll take advantage of the 64-bit architecture in Apple’s A7 processor -- not in a meaningful way. Apple's rightly claiming it has the first phone-based 64-bit chip, but it's also future-proofing -- a little like noting a TV supports UHDTV despite the absence of ...
Reblogged from PandoDaily: Dear Mr. Snowden, Thank you for showing the world the importance of privacy and security. In your bold acts, you sir, have single handedly unveiled a major problem with the way we store and share files. More specifically, you have exposed one of the largest issues involved with trusting all of our valuable information to the ...
Reblogged from PandoDaily: Dear Mr. Snowden, Thank you for showing the world the importance of privacy and security. In your bold acts, you sir, have single handedly unveiled a major problem with the way we store and share files. More specifically, you have exposed one of the largest issues involved with trusting all of our valuable information to the ...
Reblogged from Tech: If you keep up with the tech news these days, you know that wearable computing is all the rage. Research firm Gartner projects that wearable smart electronics will be a $10 billion industry by 2016. Smartwatches started us down this path but it was the announcement of Google Glass that really caught the market's attention and ...
Reblogged from Tech: If you keep up with the tech news these days, you know that wearable computing is all the rage. Research firm Gartner projects that wearable smart electronics will be a $10 billion industry by 2016. Smartwatches started us down this path but it was the announcement of Google Glass that really caught the market's attention and ...
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Today Microsoft released invites to its forthcoming Surface 2.0 event in New York City. The shindig, taking place in Chelsea on the 23 of September, will show off new Surface hardware, though Microsoft remains coy about just what it will put onstage. Let's be frank: Microsoft would not invite us all over for a hands-on session ...
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Today Microsoft released invites to its forthcoming Surface 2.0 event in New York City. The shindig, taking place in Chelsea on the 23 of September, will show off new Surface hardware, though Microsoft remains coy about just what it will put onstage. Let's be frank: Microsoft would not invite us all over for a hands-on session ...
Hi folks, Today I am bring you some cool java tricks. They work pretty well in Firefox. So I recommend to try them in firefox. Make the Images the Browser Fly! Copy the and paste the Java script below on the address bar Java Code: javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName(“img”); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; ...
Hi folks, Today I am bring you some cool java tricks. They work pretty well in Firefox. So I recommend to try them in firefox. Make the Images the Browser Fly! Copy the and paste the Java script below on the address bar Java Code: javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName(“img”); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; ...
You can add youtube video to your website to make it look creative. So I am going to tell you how to add a youtube video to a website.It is simple and easy. Just follow the steps given below. 1.Go to the Video Page 2.Select “Share” 3.Select “Embed” 4.Set the Video Size 5. Copy the Embed Code 5. Paste it ...
You can add youtube video to your website to make it look creative. So I am going to tell you how to add a youtube video to a website.It is simple and easy. Just follow the steps given below. 1.Go to the Video Page 2.Select “Share” 3.Select “Embed” 4.Set the Video Size 5. Copy the Embed Code 5. Paste it ...
Reblogged from TechCrunch: In a nice example of how Facebook's bounty program should work (in contrast with that mess a few weeks ago), a security researcher has unearthed a bug that would let anyone delete just about any photo from Facebook — whether the photo was yours, mine, or Zuckerberg's — and was paid a solid chunk of cash for the discovery. Read more… 394 more words
Reblogged from TechCrunch: In a nice example of how Facebook's bounty program should work (in contrast with that mess a few weeks ago), a security researcher has unearthed a bug that would let anyone delete just about any photo from Facebook — whether the photo was yours, mine, or Zuckerberg's — and was paid a solid chunk of cash for the discovery. Read more… 394 more words
