After three weeks of a peaceful and full of scenery snapping vacation, Orphicpixel is happy to be back with this exciting giveaway from our generous sponsor DepositPhotos.

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DepositPhotos.com is your #1 resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. Our vast library of imagestock coupled with our wide variety of flexible purchase options makes us the most convenient and profitable tool for designers, artists and photographers.

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About the Giveaway:

There will be 2 lucky winners of stock photos account with worth of $30 credit each from DepositPhotos

How to WIN:

1. Retweet this giveaway
2. Press the LIKE button at Orphicpixel FB page
3. Leave a comment on this post with your Facebook account for me to check who liked my page and don’t forget, use a valid email address.

This giveaway will ends on September 15, 2010, winners will be selected using random.org. The winner will be contacted via email by DepositPhotos.com.

Real time search engine Sency got its start focused on chatter. Since its launch in September of last year, It helped users to easily discover what was being said and which links were being shared.

In an effort to differentiate and better focus its offering, 6 months ago Sency entered the GEO space. Sency begun allowing users to search what’s being said right now inside of the 14 major cities it covered. It then extended its offering to 24 major US cites and 8 international cities. The title of the city initiative was conveniently called, Sency for Cities.

Sency for Cities made perhaps its most important launch 2 months back when it launched Places Trends. The places trends show the user 10 popular places now, and 10 popular places lately, in each of the 32 cities it covers. These places trends now update every 4 hours giving users fresher results in regards to what places are popular right now. There is also a Twitter feed allowing users to get updates in their Twitter timeline when a place becomes popular in the city that they live in.

Sency has worked hard to curate these Places trends in an effort to ensure airports, Starbucks, and train stations don’t show up in its trends…

In search of best picture is over… for the lucky winners.

Subscription giveaway worth of $199 from Pixmac.com is over, and this time, I would like to express my gratitude to our generous sponsor for providing such a giveaway to all of you readers of orphicpixel.com and to all who participated, thank you so much.

Here are the lists of people of commented to the post and have the eligibility for the said giveaway.

As stated in the giveaway post that winners will be chosen through random.org

And the winners are:

• k1922h
• Carlos
• Erwin | GWD

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all of you who spend time and for supporting our sponsor.

Premium business card giveaway from SonicPrint is over.

Before I am going to announce the lucky winner to the said giveaway, may I take this time to acknowledge the generosity of our sponsor – SonicPrint. Thank you so much for giving me the chance to host your giveaway.

Here are the lists of people of commented to the post and have the eligibility for the said giveaway.

As stated in the giveaway post that winners will be chosen through random.org

So the  winners are:

• scott
• Lucas Cobb Design

Congratulations to winners, and thank you to all of you who spend time and support our sponsor.

Some of the finest WordPress themes currently available are those that offer a sparse, minimalist platform for users to present content and build customized sites. This post brings together 25 examples of brilliantly austere contemporary themes, a mixture of free and premium, available for download and ready for users to create their utilitarian WordPress niche.

1. Zalika

Zalika is a clean, minimal premium theme designed for professional corporate portfolios, with custom project and folio templates, customisable homepage, drop-down menus, threaded comments and admin panel theme options.

2. Classic Theme

Classic Theme is a very simple and accessible theme with a clean layout, eight-page template with sidebar, multiple colour scheme options, jQuery slider to display images on the homepage, blog page with custom category, portfolio and contact pages.

3. Utilitarian

Utilitarian, as the name suggests, is an austere and functional theme built to be clean and minimalist. The page layout resizes to comfortably fit the viewer’s browser window.

4. Horizontal

Horizontal is a premium theme designed on a crisp grid layout with the emphasis on simple functionality. The theme can be easily customised and integrated with the user’s Twitter account.

5. Manifest

Manifest is an extremely sparse theme based around a single-column design, 500-pixel wide layout with no sidebars, no widgets and all the focus on the textual content.

6. The Seven Five

The Seven Five is a minimalist, one-column and semiautomatic theme that enables users to integrate multiple web services such as Flickr and Twitter into a single homepage. Customisation options include theme background, font colours, border colours, and users can arrange home page sections in any order using widgets.

7. Fifty Fifth Street

Fifty Fifth Street is a straightforward greyscale theme with a nicely balanced grid system and emphasis on precise typography. The theme is great to use with its default settings, but the customisation options allow users to tailor the pages to meet their requirements working on a solidly structured ‘blank canvas’.

8. The Erudite

The Erudite is an unfussy theme aimed at writers who want to showcase text in simple, attractive format, with carefully crafted typography and great use of white space allowing text to breathe. While the white background makes texts easy to read, there is a dark theme option for a different look.

9. The Standard

The Standard is a gracefully simple theme with a jQuery slider integrated into a clean grid layout, based on designer Vladimir Carrer’s ‘Golden Grid’ system. The backend admin area allows for a great deal of user customisation.

10. Neutra

Neutra is an elegantly simple theme with a strong grid system, white background and dabs of colour to accent the typography-focussed layout. The design is aimed at showcasing content free from distractions, with easy organisation and navigation via drop-down menus, nice icons and post metadata that sits at the bottom of the page.

11. LifeStreaming White

LifeStreaming White is a brilliant minimal and clean two-column theme utilising a jQuery slider to display recent updates in a horizontally scrolling timeline. The Lifestream plug-in allows users to integrate social networking services into the homepage.

12. Clear

Clear is a sparse theme designed for writers to showcase their work in an extremely clean one-column layout. There’s plenty of white space, no clutter, and all the widgets are arranged at the bottom of the page so the viewer’s attention rests solely on the content.

13. Miniml Press

Miniml Press is an accessible, widgetized theme with three columns laid out cleanly on the ‘Golden Grid’ system.

14. Clean Home

Clean Home is a stylishly simple theme with full CSS widgetization, a right sidebar, two columns and a good deal of white space in the design.

15. Vostok

Vostok is an elegant utilitarian one-column theme, designed to showcase text, images and videos without distraction. The theme features stylish greyscale colour scheme and precision typography. A simple footer provides categories and information about the site.

16. TLight

TLight is a simple, clutter-free and functional two-column theme with a sidebar and plain grey, blue and white colour scheme.

17. Karppo Style

Karppo Style is a really minimal and utilitarian theme with a clean layout designed for print-ready content.

18. WP Framework

WP Framework is a blank theme framework on which to build a WordPress website, with all the essential features and no clutter. The theme offers a traditional template structure, clean coding and flexible customisation options.

19. aav1

aav1 is a minimal grid-style theme with a fixed-width, two-column layout in a black, green and white colour scheme, right sidebar and all the emphasis on textual content.

20. Toolbox

Toolbox is an extremely sparse HTML5 starter theme with great potential for custom development, translation-ready with language support.

21. Roughdrive

Rough Drive is a minimalist and functional theme with a widget-ready layout, gravatar-support and standards-compliant framework.

22. Minimal Guy

Minimal Guy is a pared-down, utilitarian theme with a sparse white design, unobtrusive footer and sidebar, no header, no widgets and no extra features for a purely minimal aesthetic.

23. Basal

Basal is a no-nonsense clean two-column theme with a minimal structure and no images, making it ideal for text-orientated blogging niches.

24. Simplr

Simplr is a classic utilitarian one-column theme, simply structured but with plenty of scope for customisation, perfect for writers wanting the focus to fall purely on text content.

25. Infimum

Infimum is a sparse, no-frills, two-column theme with widget-ready and gravatar-supporting structure. A simple black, white and blue colour scheme and slender right sidebar make Infimum a fine example of utilitarian WordPress themes.

Written exclusively for Orphicpixel by James Adams.

James Adams is passionate about WordPress and blogging. He is currently a full time blogger for one of the leading print cartridge suppliers in the UK where he covers developments in tech news, analyses and reviews hardware and posts about advertising and design on their blog.

At Yogile they have developed a new photo sharing service that makes it incredibly easy to share images privately and within groups.

While established photo sharing sites already exist, Yogile is different because it lets multiple people contribute with ease. Once you create an album, you get a customizable URL and e-mail address to share with anyone who wants to add photos, either as e-mail attachments or uploads through the site. There’s no need for these users to register, keeping the process simple and hassle-free.

Take a wedding, for example. Dozens of attendees take their own photos, all from different cameras and angles. While you might try asking everyone for their shots afterward, Yogile offers a smart alternative.

Visit http://www.yogile.com to try it out!

The announcement of winner to the 500 Business Card Giveaway from PrintRunner should be posted last week, August 2, 2010 as stated in the giveaway post.

Pardon me for the last announcement, I am spending my annual vacation to the Philippines and gone to some places with no internet connection at all.

Anyway, here are the two winners of 250 Business Card each courtesy of PrintRunner.

Here are the lists of people of commented to the post and have the eligibility for the said giveaway.

We uses random.org Random Integer Generator to pick up two number from 1 to 8. And here are the lucky winners.

Congratulation to:

• Steve Capell
• Steve Robillard

Winners, you will be contacted through your email on how to claim your prizes.

At this point in time, I would like to acknowledge the generosity of our sponsor PrintRunner thank you much, and to all who participated and supported this giveaway, THANK YOU.

I am glad to inform you that we have a generous sponsor who will be giving away a 3 free subscription worth of $199 at Pixmac.

Pixmac is here to be the fastest, most usable and reliable microstock agency out there. If you’re looking for the best picture or just trying to sell your best shot, Pixmac is your perfect tool, with accurate search results and helping you at every step.

No need to register – you can buy an image in less than 3 minutes! Try also our other features, such as similarity search or download any images from our Free section.

How to Participate?

1. Leave a comment on this post with your valid email address.
2. Follow @PixmacUS and @orphicpixel on twitter
3. Retweet this giveaway post.

When will the Giveaway End?

The contest shall end on 20th August 2010. 3 winners will be selected using the random generator from Random.Org on that day. Good luck everyone!

You can also follow Pixmac on Facebook.

So you want to have your own flash website? But the question is, you don’t have the ability or skill to do it on your own.

You start swarming the internet to find a freelancer, but the with your decision, it will just costs you a huge amount of money. Why not find a free website builder?

Try WIX.

Wix.com is a free Flash website builder that enables anyone to create a Flash website without the need to program or code. The Wix website builder is a simple and ideal solution for artists, photographers, musicians, small businesses, non-profit organizations, and anyone interested in a personal website with which to promote their products, services, cause or ideas. An intuitive drag and drop interface makes it easy and enjoyable to customize the design of Wix’s free Flash templates.