I was taking a look at free wordpress themes which are recently featured in Weblog Tools Collection. I did not see many but the following three are really attractive and catch my eyes.

Word Press’d

Two columns wordpress theme based on Wordpress Admin interface.

• Download & Information
• Demo

Elegant

Two columns with simple color scheme.

• Download & Information
• Demo

Brightness

Really looks professional theme. Brightness is a magazine style two columns widget ready theme. You can change the layout in Wordpress Admin panel. It uses custom field for featuring posts and displaying thumbnails along with excerpt posts in front page.

• Download & Information
• Demo

I have been using Akismet, a free tool that can prevent spam comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for your blog, since I start blogging here. Last couple of months, I noticed that Akismet failed to prevent spam comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for my wordpress blog. Then I switched to Typepad Antispam as a test. I’m very pleased that it does pretty well and probably does better than Akismet.

Typepad Antispam is a free tool to prevent comment spams for your blog just like Akismet. It is developed by Six Apart. It is available for Movable Type and Wordpress blogs.

For wordpress blog

1. Download the TypePad AntiSpam plugin.
2. Unzip the archive and upload to plugins directory under wp-content of your wordpress blog.
3. Deactivate the current Akismat plugin (if you’re using it)
4. Get an API key. If you don’t have it, you can get TypeKey account. (It is FREE)
5. Activate TypePad AntiSpam.
6. Enter the API Key.
7. Done!