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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!

The ninjas are feared assassins in Japan and have kept their secrets among themselves for hundreds of years. Very little is known about them so I was quite shocked to have found out this website called ‘Ask a ninja’. It is started by a ninja who have decided to go against the pact of secrecy and reveal (within limits) the intimate secrets of ninjahood.

I would like to salute this brave ninja for risking his life by doing this but nevertheless he’s providing a great service for humanity.

Be warned that due to the nature of the ninja profession, the video podcasts does mentioned death quite a lot and some of the topics are certainly not for the squeamish. Although I would highly recommend it to anyone interested to find out more about this secret brotherhood and their deadly arts.

Here’s a sample video, don’t say I didn’t warn you…

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.

If you are a theme author and would like to allow your theme users to configure elements of your theme from the admin pages you will be grateful for the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh.

I’ve integrated this excellent plugin into my Tiga theme and now some of the things that the Tiga theme user¹ will be able to do are :-

1. Easily modify the height of the header.
2. Easily add background image to the header.
3. You can now set the minimum and maximum page size to avoid your page from being stretched or squished to ridiculous values.
4. Widths of left and right sidebars are now modifiable.
5. Some color and font adjustments are also possible.

My thanks to you Ozh for contributing a great tool to the WordPress community, what a great time saver for theme developers.

1. Also known as ‘Tigarati’ . [back]