glemak » usefulness http://glemak.com/blog another nomadic audio production Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 widgets: messing with raw sugar http://glemak.com/blog/2006/09/05/widgets-messing-with-raw-sugar/ http://glemak.com/blog/2006/09/05/widgets-messing-with-raw-sugar/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:08:59 +0000 glemak http://glemak.com/blog/2006/09/05/widgets-messing-with-raw-sugar/ added the widget that raw sugar produced, thought its got a problem right out of the gate – missing part of the needed path – /links/ in front of the user name…

i did get really quick support from bill lazar at the company – kudos for that…

good to have them part of the community…

update: still not working so am trying /rss/ in front of user name instead…

update2: switched back to /links/ and heard from bill again so they’re trying to help too, the customer experience side of raw sugar is great :)

update3: gave up on it here for now, though i did get it working on my typepad site…

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instead of manually adding which plugins i’m using to my sidebar, i found this cool plugin (spanish) that does it automatically – neat…

one of the things i’ve figured out is that while i don’t mind tweaking to figure out how to integrate and properly configure a plugin or modification to the blog – if it requires to much research (read – debug) its better to dump it and look elsewhere, there are so many good developments out there that if one doesn’t work right (say for you theme) there’s bound to be another that’ll do it differently and better…

]]> http://glemak.com/blog/2006/09/04/still-tweaking-the-blog/feed/ 0 testing quick post – simple applications are a joy http://glemak.com/blog/2006/08/20/testing-quick-post-simple-applications-are-a-joy/ http://glemak.com/blog/2006/08/20/testing-quick-post-simple-applications-are-a-joy/#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:02:44 +0000 glemak http://glemak.com/blog/2006/08/20/testing-quick-post-simple-applications-are-a-joy/ John’s Adventures: John’s Background Switcher

“I wanted a way to periodically change the wallpaper on my computer at set intervals and couldn’t find any decent software to do it, so I wrote my own. It’s simple, powerful and once you’ve told it what to do, it sits quietly in the system tray going about its business.”

i’m testing the post capability directly from a site i want to comment on into my wordpress admin panel – seems to work great, though i need to look around and see what sort of plugins are available to extend it…

spell checking is one thing i need – as i am a terible speler ;)

the application i wanted to comment on is called john’s background switcher – and i absolutely love it…

it lets me switch my background automatically every 30 minutes – the images come from a flickr set that i’ve setup for just this reason – anytime i put up a new photo that i think would make a good background, i just add it to that set and it joins the rotation – simple and elegant, these sort of light-weight online applications are the best…

you can configure it whatever way seems best to you – every 1/2hr, hour, day – feed by either a few images, a monitored folder or almost anything inside flickr – brilliant…

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