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Author Pages with hCard & jQuery
Posted by Mark | Filed under Web Design, WordPress
While I’m definitely not the designer that any of the people who created these beautiful hCards, I was greatly impressed by them. In particular, I liked the personal hCard created by Tim Van Damme and decided to make my own version of it. Only since I’m using WordPress rather; than a static site, I wanted […]
Tags: hCard, javascript, jQuery, microformats, PHP, Theme, WordPress
Fixing Now-Reading’s Admin Menu
Posted by Mark | Filed under Plugins, Software
I like using Now-Reading to track what books I’m currently reading, have read and want to read on my website. Unfortunately the plugin’s author has been too busy of late to update the plugin and one of the recent updates to WordPress caused Now-Reading’s admin menu to break (when using the single menu option). PHP […]
Tags: Now-Reading, PHP, Plugins, WordPress
py2avi released!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Software
py2avi is a python script I wrote to make it easier for me to transcode video files from MKV to AVI while not forgetting to extract the subtitles from the MKV file. On the off chance that somebody out there in Internet-land has a similar need, I’m releasing the script under the GPL 2.0. So […]
Tags: avi, mkv, Python, transcode, xbmc, xbox, xvid
Jaunty Upgrade After Effects
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software
Being something of a linux/technology geek and with the recent-ish release of Ubuntu 9.04, I decided to upgrade my home desktop PC from Ubuntu 8.10. Like the last time I ran through the upgrade, I was surprised at how smooth the upgrade process went. Unfortunately 2 new problems appeared after the upgrade was complete, with […]
XBMC-Hulu Update
Posted by Mark | Filed under Software
I’ve been using the Hulu plugin now for a few days and it’s great but I do run into the occasional problem. So I’ve been following the thread over at XBMC Forums about it as the plugin is under active development. In a recent post to that thread, one of the developers said: Please use the […]
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