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The Audio Player WordPress Plugin is an excellent way of streaming audio from your blog posting.

Here’s an example of it in action from my collection of mp3s :-

Mind blowing isn’t it

A few people have asked me about WP plugins that I use for this website. Well here it is taken directly from my ‘Plugin Management’ page with some slight editing :-

click for slideshowAutostitch is a great piece of software to automatically join multiple photos into a single panoramic image.

There are many other software that will allow you to perform the same function but Autostitch have two great things going for it, it free and it requires no user input in stitching a panoramic view. Just point Autostitch to your group of photos and it will magically figure out how to join those photos together.

Excellent stuff!

A while back a new plugin called WordPress Widgets (WPW) was released. This plugin allows WordPress users to easily customize their theme by dragging and dropping widgets into their theme’s sidebar(s).

I’ve updated the Tiga theme theme with support for this plugin.
To install:-

1. Download the latest version of the Tiga theme.
2. Download and install the ‘Wordpress Widgets’.
3. In the Admin page go to ‘Presentation>Sidebar Widgets’ and drag & drop the widgets into the sidebars.

At the time of writing there’s still not many widgets out there yet, but this is definitely the way forward.

I’d like to say thank you to the guys at Automattic, Inc. for developing this fantastic plugin.

Keep up the good work guys!

ColorPic from Iconico is the best free screen color picker tool that I’ve found so far. Extremely easy to use and the feature that I like the most is that it magnifies the area which you are selecting allowing you to easily do pixel wise color selection.

Brilliant!

I’ve just discovered a new feature from Google video that allows you to link to videos in its repository.

Basically if you click on the ‘Put on site’ link on whichever video you want to link to, you’ll get a snippet of code which you can insert in your post.

I see this as a cool bandwidth saving feature. You can upload your videos on Google video and just link it to your website like what I’ve done here. No need to host a large video file on your server anymore .

Here’s one video I’ve created earlier……

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If you need to post some time in the future, for instance if you have a backlog of articles but want to appear as if you are posting on a daily basis, what you can do is :-

1. Set the time and date in the ‘Post Timestamp’ control to some future time.
2. Make sure that the you’ve checked the ‘Edit timestamp’ checkbox.
3. Make sure that the ‘Post Status’ is set to ‘Published’.
4. Click ‘Save’.

Et voila, unattended posting, like this post.

Have you ever commented to a blog and have to regularly check back to see if the blog owner has replied to your comments?

If your answer is yes and would like to make life easier for your readers you might want to take a look at the subscribe to comments plugin.

This useful plugins allows your readers to subscribe to comments on a particular post. If the person comments to your post he/she will automatically be added to the subscribe list and be notified via e-mail when new comments are posted.

The user is also able to subscribe without commenting and also remove himself from the subscription.

I’m actually using this plugin for this site and you can see some extra fields in all the comments section that is added by this very useful plugin.

I wish more blogs would use this plugin.

What are you waiting for?

Install it ……now!

I was looking at my web logs and found a hit from Taiwan and it turned out to be from a Chinese language rap oriented website using the Tiga WordPress theme I’ve created a while back.

Ok, I’m taking a big risk posting this because this site might change it’s theme at any time, but what the hey…… I just can’t resist it because I find that their music is pretty catchy and deserves a shout out.

Here’s a sample of their music.

Very cool stuff.

Now how do you say “Yo G, I’m gonna put a cap in your white a**¹” in Chinese .

The color change to predominantly black seems to work quite well here.

Well, I guess black……is the new white .

1. I don’t really know what that actually means but I guess that’s what the kids say these days . [back]

In developing the Tiga theme I often need to test my changes on various web browsers, but since I only have access to PCs at home and at work, my testing have been limited to Firefox, IE and Opera on XP.

So I was grateful to have found safaritest which allows you to see how your website look like on the Apple Safari browser.

Although to be honest I don’t really need to use it that much because Safari’s compliance to web standards is pretty good. So as long as I keep my pages XHTML compliant, it should look the same across most browsers. But for ocassional testing……indispensible.

Highly recommended.