Author: David Cochran

professor, geek, nerd, husband, dad

jQuery Plugins for Your WordPress Site: Roundup from WPMU.org

An excellent roundup of some great jQuery plugins, for things like:

  • selecting and embedding Flickr photos
  • building a wall of sponsor logos
  • implementing full-screen backgrounds
  • turning a gallery into a slideshow
  • adding an announcement bar to the top of your site
  • creating forms using a drag and drop interface
  • allowing users to schedule appointments online

21 New jQuery Plugins to Add Cool Effects to Your WordPress Site — WPMU.org

Aloha WYSIWYG Editor and Front-End Editor Plugin for WordPress

Aloha Editor makes browser content editableI was excited today to stumble across the Aloha Editor after seeing in mentioned in the HTML5 Boilerplate discussion list.

It’s point? Enable users to edit content in their website right from the front end — by simply clicking into the desired element, editing, and submitting.

THEN I discovered that some savvy coders have integrated it into a nice little WordPress plugin, called Front-End Editor. I’ve now tried it out and have to say that I like it.

Kudos to these teams of coders!

Aloha Editor – HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor

“The world’s most advanced browser HTML5 based WYSIWYG editor lets you experience a whole new way of editing. It’s faster than existing technologies and offers unprecedented WYSIWYG functionalities.”

Front-end Editor — WordPress Plugin

“Lets you make changes to your content directly from your site. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo. Goals: save as many trips to the backend as possible; compatible with any theme, out of the box; light and fast.”

Small Cameras, Great Images: Sony NEX-C3 and Olympus PEN EP-3

New Sony and Olympus Cameras

In an exciting review, David Pogue walks through some of the features of new cameras by Sony and Olympus, specifically, the Sony NEX-C3 and the Olympus PEN EP-3.

To provide a succinct summary, key selling points of these cameras include:

  • “set new records for speed and photo quality”
  • “turn this camera on, focus and snap in under a second”
  • “an autofocus lamp which beams out enough light for the camera to use for focusing in dim situations”
  • “a brilliant OLED touch screen … [that] lets you do things like double-tapping to zoom in during photo playback, tap to show where you want to focus, and even tap to fire the shutter”

Not a Dream – Small Cameras, High Quality Images – _ State of the Art – NYTimes.com

When iPhoto Stops Working in Snow Leopard: Here is what to do

Several Mac users have reported iPhoto problems in OS X Snow Leopard, where the app refuses to open or crashes. Here is what to do.

  1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
  2. Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name
  3. Re-install.
    • If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.
    • It will also be on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first disk and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only…’
If that fails, then try:
  1. Trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
  2. You’ll need to reset your User options afterwards. (These include minor settings like the window colour and so on.)
  3. If you’ve moved your library you’ll need to tell iPhoto where this is.

If that also fails:

Post the Crash Log in Apple Support.

  1. Get the crash log from Home / Library / Logs / Crash-Reporter / iphoto.crash.log
  2. Double click on the file and it will open in the Console.
  3. Copy and Paste the contents here, at bottom of this discussion.

From: iPhoto won’t open since Snow Leopard…: Apple Support Communities.