There are newer versions of Scenic Sanity , The Last Fall & Tranquility WordPress themes available for download via the SabQat Blog .

Here are the links :

Scenic Sanity v 1.3 : www.sabqat.com/blog/2010/scenic-sanity-v1-3/

The Last Fall v 1.2 : www.sabqat.com/blog/2010/the-last-fall-wordpress-theme/

Tranquility v 1.2 : www.sabqat.com/blog/2010/tranquility-a-tranquilizing-wordpress-theme/

Ataraxis literally means “absence of mental stress or anxiety” . And that is exactly what this beautiful WordPress theme does !The Ataraxis is a nature-themed two-column 800px wide WordPress theme with widgetised sidebar , Cufon text-image replacement for headers ,
jQuery tooltips on links ,Rotating headers , Custom logos , reply/quote feature on comments , collapsible widgets , built-in social bookmarks on posts and many other features.

The Ataraxis Features

• 800px wide
• Two-columns with left sidebar
• Cufon text-image replacement for headings
• 4 different nature-themed header backgrounds
• Collapsible widgets
• Sutured Javascript for faster loading
• jQuery animated tooltips on links ( use the title attribute)
• Reply/Quote feature on comments
• Zebra stripped and Admin highlighted comments
• Custom logo support
• Search Engine Optimized
• Smooth scrolling for internal links
• Custom description in footer for better SEO
• Builtin social bookmarking for 6 most common sites
• Ability to add custom CSS from theme options page without having to edit the stylesheet
• Google Analytics integration
• Displays a browser warning to IE 6 users
• CSS 3 curved border and text-shadow effects
• Easy to customize and clean CSS
• Some custom CSS classes that you can use in posts :
  • .highlight , .note
  • .warning , .error
  • .download ( use on <a> )
  • .frame ( us on images to give them a silvery frame )
• Around a dozen theme options

Download The Ataraxis v1.0

The latest and greatest version of jQuery , v1.4 is now out. This version comes bundled with many new great features such as per-property easing , new live events ( including submit !) , ability to delay() animations & new focusIn and focusOut events .
Net tuts published an article summarising the new features in jQuery 1.4 .

Download jQuery 1.4 directly from here : http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.js

Wishing all of you a very happy , prosperous, productive and joyfull 2010 ahead!

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