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Rommel’s WordPress Theme

By • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Tech Talk

It is still largely a Mimbo Theme with an added dash of dKret and of course the default WordPress Theme. The concept is simple – It allows you to highlight a number of posts using 3 distinct divisions – the FEATURE STORY SECTION, the RIGHT FEATURE COLUMN and the LEFT FEATURE COLUMN. Then followed by [...]



Piclens and Gallery Flash

By • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: Media, Tech Talk

I love the world of Word Press, it’s the perfect opportunity to explore CSS, XML, PHP, AJAX and all the web acronyms you can throw at it. The Mimbo Theme that I’ve been using is almost unrecognizable, I’m thinking of renaming it as my own already but I have problems yanking code of others and [...]



The MIMBO Theme

By • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: Tech Talk

This theme can turn your WordPress site from a blog to a magazine style content management system (CMS). It is not as easy to use as a regular theme, but configuring it is half the fun.



Restoring WP Database in an Offsite

By • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Tech Talk

A brief description on restoring a WordPress database SQL backup into a different site. It contains notes on the experience, problems encountered and gotchas. Overall – it’s a simple process but assumes some SQL admin knowledge.



Gravatar and MyAvatar Enabled

By • Feb 9th, 2008 • Category: Tech Talk

This site is now Gravatar (short for Global Avatar) and MyAvatar enabled. If you post comments in this site, a default icon will appear next to your name. To have your own unique icon (avatar), upload an avatar in http://site.gravatar.com using the email address you use when you post your comments.



WordPress Gem

By • Feb 8th, 2008 • Category: Tech Talk

One frustrating experience when blogging is when you’ve written so much and hit the save button – only to find out you’re not connected to the net anymore. Worst, if it occurs on the post phase – you could lose everything you’ve just typed.



Smilebox Scrapbook

By • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Family, Media, Tech Talk

Sample blog on how to embed Smilebox presentations on a blog.



XSPF Player

By • Dec 25th, 2007 • Category: Tech Talk

I was trying to discover various ways to use the flash media player plugins for PMWiki when I stumble into another internet gem. The XSPF player – which is an open shareable XML playlist.



WordPress Media Player

By • Dec 22nd, 2007 • Category: Tech Talk

Here’s another gem I found while working on my PMWiki. A media player for WordPress, an implementation of the JEROEN WIJERING Media Player. It allows you to include multi-media in your blog.



This Masquerade

By • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Media, Tech Talk

This post contains the lyrics for the song Masquerade and photos taken at the Nielsen Australia – Christmas Party of 2007. This also uses the WordPress Optional Excerpt. Without this, the excerpt will inappropriately cut in the middle of a Java Script and will show broken codes.



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