By Glitch on January 8th, 2010
If you own a Home Theater PC like me, a new gadget has been announced that might be interesting to you. Boxee, the company that develops on XBMC based mediaplayers has announced a new remote control that features a QWERTY keyboard. This can ofcourse be very useful whila managing your system.
At the end of 2009 Boxee already announced a co-operation with D-Link to integrate the software from Boxee with the mediaplayers from D-Link. It now appears they are taking it a step further with a new remote that will be supplied with the D-Link mediaplayers but will also be sold seperately. Below are a couple of screenshots and the link to the original post by Boxee.
Continue reading at bloggingabout.com …
By Glitch on January 7th, 2010
In this article I’ll describe various methods of creating and adding a favicon to your website or WordPress blog. Below is a short explaination on what a favicon is for those who are unfamiliar with the term.
A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Webdesigners or bloggers can add such an icon to their website. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page’s favicon in the browser’s address bar and next to the page’s name in a list of bookmarks.
Finding the right favicon
There are a lot of resources for finding a favicon that suits your website or blog if you don’t want to create one yourself. Here are a couple of websites that supply download ready favicons.
Continue reading at bloggingabout.com …
By Glitch on January 6th, 2010
This article describes a way of separating trackbacks from comments in your WordPress theme when you are using WordPress 2.7+. I have noticed that a lot of tutorials on the internet that explain how this is done are based on older versions of WordPress. These tutorials don’t work anymore because WordPress uses a different way of displaying comments now. This new way makes it easier to separate trackbacks from comments but the outdated tutorials can be very confusing for inexperienced users who want to separate trackbacks from comments in their own WordPress theme and rely on these tutorials.
If you don’t know the difference between comments and trackbacks but you have become interested, please read this first before you read on.
Comments vs. trackbacks
At the time of writing WordPress by default (in the default theme) does not separate trackbacks from regular comments. When kept together the trackbacks are shown as links and snippets of text in the same list as the actual comments posted by users. Separating the two can greatly improve the user experiences for the people who comment or read the comments on your blog and it looks much cleaner in your theme as well. You see more and more theme designers are implementing this feature in their themes but I think it should be done by default. If you run WordPress 2.7+ and you want to separate the trackbacks from the comments in your own them then follow the instructions below.
Continue reading at bloggingabout.com …
By Glitch on January 5th, 2010
I have been using MP3Gain for years now to adjust the volume of my MP3 collection. I often burn random selections of tracks to a CD for playback in the car and it’s really annoying if you have to change the volume with every song. With MP3Gain you can analyse and adjust the volume of MP3 files to the same level. The changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
By Glitch on January 4th, 2010
For quite some time now widgets have been growing in popularity and are cluttering our desktops. I think widgets can indeed make your life easier and I have been using widgets since Vista was released. Widgets I have been using since that day are notes, RSS news and stock index. At that time I was using the Vista Sidebar widgets but I was unsatisfied with the often bloated and poorly designed widgets available in the Windows Live Gallery. I needed something that I could fully customize to my own needs.
After a quest around the internet I stumbled upon Rainmeter, which was an abandoned project at that time. Rainmeter is a Windows customization application capable of showing widgets (Rainmeter calls them applets) on your desktop.
Continue reading at bloggingabout.com …
By Glitch on January 3rd, 2010
Link directory plugins for WordPress will create a list of the links and/or link categories you have defined in the links section of the WordPress administration panel. These lists can be shown on pages and/or posts. On another website of mine use a link directory plugin for the list of free webdesign resources on the internet.
Here are a couple of free and commercial link directory plugins that I have evaluated in my own search of a good link directory plugin.
Continue reading at bloggingabout.com …
By Glitch on January 3rd, 2010
I’m a great fan of a Windows application called ReNamer. The name of the application pretty much says it all. This nifty tool can batch rename files and folders. ReNamer offers various standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc..
Continue reading at bloggingabout.com …
