I was looking forward to use the thumbnail and gallery options of the SimplePress theme from ElegantThemes, only to find empty thumbnails when I tried it out. A bit of research put me on the way to a solution via ‘How to make TimThumb work with WordPress mu‘. The culprit was the difference between virtual paths and physical paths in a…
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Tip for performance improvement using #urlget
I came across an interesting performance issue using #urlget (from the URLGetparameters extension). The details are here : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:UrlGetParameters#Performance I know it is not directly related to SMW but since I used this extension to customize calls to semantic queries based on URL parameters, this may be relevant to other people doing the same thing. I was able to reduce…
How to import feeds from other sites into Facebook
I came across this little advertised feature of Facebook while poking around in my Flickr account (at least, little known by me at the time). To add feeds from other sites to your Facebook account : 1- Open your Profile in Facebook 2- Click on Options (under the Share button) 3- Click on Settings (same location at Options) 4- Select…
Vista vs OSX upgrades
Every once in a while, planets align in such a way that computers start acting up, regardless of operating system. I have been fighting with my desktop PC for weeks to troubleshoot random shutdowns and blue screen issues. All that time, I was thinking about my MacBook Pro laptop and how stable it is… until I upgraded it to Leopard,…
iPod Touchy
So.. I received my iPod Touch today. It was pre-ordered mid September through the Apple website, with a customization on the back. Announced to be available on the 28th. Shipped and received within two days – not bad. Nevermind the fact that the Touch was already available in stores at the same time the Apple site was listing it as…
Quiet menus for MT 4.0
I could not stand the default behavior of drop down menus in Movable Type 4 interface within 10 minutes of first using it. I want drop down menus that drop when I click on them, not when I mouse over them. So I came up with a simple hack to replace the default behavior of drop down menus by something…
Switched to Movable Type 4.0
The upgrade to Movable Type 4.0 didn’t go as smoothly as some people have reported soon after the release of the final version, but it wasn’t all that bad either compared to past versions. Upgrading, in itself, was an easy task. I just followed the Recommended upgrade instructions, starting with a migration of the database from DB::Berkeley to MySQL. I…
Support Internet Radios
Music for inspiration, without the brainwashing of ads. More signal, less noise. Support internet radios such as Radio Paradise – eclectic online rock radio or Radio Akasha These radios, like many others, are under direct threat from the music industry to fall under the weight of a royalties system not adapted to an internet age. The sad thing is that…
The Filter
I discovered The Filter in one of those ‘Top 10 software you can’t miss’ articles. At first, it seemed a little esotheric – would it really create a useable playlist from a sample of only 3 songs ? After using it for a few months, I can say yes – it is working fine on both Mac and PC. This…
iTunes 7 and a tip to refresh of iTunes library
iTunes 7 is out, and it looks good so far 🙂 …. a good occasion to add a nagging tip to this little collection. As I was trying to keep my iTunes library synchronized between my desktop (windows) and my laptop (mac OS), I found it frustrating to have to delete and reload my library each time I did a…