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Creating a pull quote in WordPress without adding plugins or changing WordPress install

By Jaems • Sep 20th, 2009 • Category: TutorialsNo Comments »

A pull quote is the kind of quoted passage that you can see in the box to the right, otherwise known as “here”.  Pull quotes are useful for the purposes of creative formatting, generating interest, and promoting clarity and focus within your blog.  There are a few WordPress plugins that claim to do this for [...]

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Reformat your Facebook RSS Blog feed into a clean-formatted excerpt with backlink to your Blog

By Jaems • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials3 Comments »

Despite the fact that I frequently praise Facebook’s built-in RSS reader for being one of the best ways to integrate WordPress posts into Facebook, it is surprisingly lean on features and customizability.  You are basically given the ability to add your Blog’s RSS feed, and manually update posts as you write them.  In addition, the [...]

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Cross-posting Blog comments to Facebook using Disqus and Facebook Connect – from a user point of view and documented with pictures

By Jaems • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials9 Comments »

For a few weeks now, I have tried to test the new and revolutionary Disqus commenting system together with Facebook Connect, a system that allows users of Wordrpress Blogs to cross-post comments to their Facebook  News Feed (otherwise knows as the “Wall”).  Unfortunately, previous attempts to explain this system have been flawed due to the [...]

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Towards a more perfect union: linking your WordPress blog to Facebook, volume 2

By Jaems • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials3 Comments »

I recently posted about linking a WordPress Blog to Facebook but I have since then discovered two valuable tools that I didn’t know about. Actually, I should say I discovered one tool and rediscovered the other one.  Let’s assume that we have the following goals: Blog posts made on WordPress Blog are cross-posted to Facebook [...]

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Brandenburg Concerto 3-1 with 10 melodica tracks and live video for 9 parts

By Jaems • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: VideoNo Comments »

With 10 solo parts divided into three trio groups and continuo, this semi-lengthy movement required the use of at least 9 individual video tracks in order to make it work. Because of the natural size restrictions that embedded video presents, I needed to make three sets of individual movies with 3 soloists each and then [...]

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Restoring the Recent Items menu in Mac apps if upgrading to Snow Leopard has revealed that they are always empty

By Jaems • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials4 Comments »

Many users (myself included) have noticed to their dismay, that the Recent Items menu of the native Mac applications such as Preview and Text Edit are empty no matter how many times they are opened.  I had to choose the wording of this posts’s title carefully because the current theory seems to indicate that the [...]

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