PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. With just one click, PicLens makes photos come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window.
PicLens suports a number of sites: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, Smugmug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Google Images, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'quick & easy tips'
PicLens a browser slideshow
March 8th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments
Tags: Applications · Technology · Web Browsers · quick & easy tips
Recover Linux reiserFS with bad blocks
January 28th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments
Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true.
Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had not [...]
Tags: Applications · Laptops · OS & Servers · Storage · quick & easy tips
Wordpress get_excerpt - show more words
January 3rd, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment
the get_excerpt function on Wordpress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc. I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the file \wp-includes\formatting.php. In this file you can change the value [...]
Tags: Programming · Web Design · quick & easy tips
PHP Shopping cart
December 24th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments
On my previous post I wrote about e-comerce tutorials. As part of the system I’m buiding I was looking for a pre-coded shopping cart in PHP (the cart only with nothing else attached to it). I was getting very fustrated with the ammount of stuff that came with every single shopping cart I found out [...]
Tags: Applications · Programming · Tutorials / Training · Web Design · quick & easy tips
e-commerce tutorials [ php mysql ]
December 7th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments
I’ve embarked in a journey of building a tailor-made E-commerce system. I need to be able to have everything my client needs so I’m coding it from scratch, with the help of some good tutorials I found online. Sometimes having to search for while to find a good tutorial. My plan is to share here [...]
Tags: Applications · Programming · Tutorials / Training · quick & easy tips
H323 SIP Gatekeeper on Linux - Updated
November 26th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments
Recently we acquired a nice Tandberg Video Conferencing system, we normally stick with the Sony range as its menu interface is very easy to use, but we decided to give Tandberg a try. What a beast, great slick menu system, loads of options, built in MCU (Multipoint Conference Unit), 2 XLR mic inputs (Phantom [...]
Tags: Applications · OS & Servers · Peripherals · Technology · Tutorials / Training · quick & easy tips

