WordPress 2.5 was released on March 29th and it includes a host of changes and improvements.

One of my favorite (although widely disputed) changes is the usability overhaul of the admin user interface.
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Want to use your own URL as your OpenID login?

The OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin helps you easily setup a WordPress-powered site URL as your OpenID login.

Within a total of 10 minutes, I got my free OpenID from MyOpenID.com, installed and configured this plugin, and tested it out. Viola!

For more info on OpenID, check out:

• OpenID Official Site
• OpenID on Wikipedia (geeky)

This cool post on Design Vitality lists a bunch of sites and tools for website designers including:

• open source web design programs
• website templates & css layouts
• automated CSS tools and generators
• blog themes & templates

I’m really looking forward to attending WordCamp.

Looks like a lot of great sessions and wonderful opportunities to meet with, and learn from, other WordPress users and developers.

I’ll post again during, or after the conference.

Also, check out the WordPress Podcast for conference coverage, interviews, and other WordPress goodies.

It’s a great show and both of the hosts, Charles Stricklin and Aaron Brazell, will be at WordCamp.

Colorjack is a cool open source color picker DHTML tool that allows you to add a color picker to your web project.

Another related plugin (seemingly still under development) is Sphere, which is a color picker based on a color wheel.

Check out moe cool Javascript Design Tools and widgets.=