So I managed to get our wedding slideshow into a flash video enjoy!
DVD Backup Software
Have you ever needed to make a copy of a DVD and wondered how to do it? Well it is very simple. I just used this software to create a copy of our Wedding DVD so we can burn multiple copies and you can also watch the .VOB file via any media player so you do not have to worry about the DVD the software is super easy to use and creates files that can be easily burned to a DVD using NERO Burning ROM.
Wedding Slideshow
Well we finally had our trip and got married in Cozumel Mexico on 3/21/2009. I have attached the pictures to this post. These are just 106 of the 450+ photos the professional photographer from the hotel took. We also had Jessica and my dad taking pictures as well as about 20 digital cameras rolling around. So lets just say that this wedding was well documented!
We were very surprised at the quality of these shots and it also came with a nice little DVD and we also have all the raw images they took. We will be putting together a little slide show for the reception here in Denver but thought I would upload these for everyone to enjoy.
Lacie USB Key Drive
Why it took so long for these products to actually materialize I will never know. I always have kept a USB drive on my key chain but I have had issues with it breaking or being a little too bulky or fragile. These new ones from Lacie are all metal and the shape of your keys so they fall in line super easily. Since they are a whopping $27 for 8 GB I think I will be picking one of these up when they come back in stock. Check them out: Lacie Key Drives
Change Default Uploader in WordPress
For some reason some of my sites always freeze with the flash uploader, and chances are if I am bulk uploading I will just upload via FTP. I searched around for a long time for a plugin that would control the default uploader for WordPress and finally found it. You can change it via the plugin WP-CMS Post Control it does a little more than just change the default uploader but it does work.
CD Drive Gone – Windows XP Fix
Have you ever had your CD drive disappear from the explorer window and no matter what you did you couldn’t get it back. Then if you go into Device Manager you notice that it is saying your CD drive has an invalid drive? Only to search and find there are no specific drivers for you to update? Well if you have like I recently did download this little zip file and then run the registry file to clean out the issue. It seems it comes down to a registry hack to fix this issue and it is pretty common in Windows XP. I am not a fan of running registry files and adding them but this one did exactly what I needed it to do.
Too Big To Fail
I couldn’t help myself and I have to post this as I think it sums up things very very well!
Email Linkage Quick Reference
1. Send an email to Barack Obama (single recipient)
<a href=“mailto:obama@whitehouse.gov”>
2. Send an email to Barack and Michelle Obama (separate multiple recipients with a comma)
<a href=“mailto:obama@whitehouse.gov,michelle@whitehouse.gov”>
3. Send an email to Barack but put Michelle in the CC: list and Joe Biden in the BCC: list
<a href=“mailto:obama@whitehouse.gov?cc=michelle@whitehouse.gov&bcc=joe@whitehouse.gov”>
4. Send an email to Barack Obama with the subject “Congrats Obama”
<a href=”mailto:obama@whitehouse.gov?subject=Congrats%20Obama”>
5. Send an email to Barack Obama with the subject “Congrats Obama” and some text in the body of the email message
<a href=”mailto:obama@whitehouse.gov?subject=Congrats%20Obama&body=Enjoy%20your%20stay%0ARegards%20″>
WordPress Themes WPDaddy
I just came across another site with some fancy WordPress Themes: WPDaddy can never have too many sites to choose from when looking for a good template. Now I just need to find an easy CSS editor to play with the templates a little easier
WordPress Theme Highly Customizable
Well in helping my sister with her new website she came across a theme that I haven’t really looked at too much. This theme basically has all the options that a premium paid theme does but doesn’t cost a single dollar. It is available on the WordPress theme directory at WordPress.org It is great all the settings are under a page that comes up under the presentation button in WordPress. From there you can control all the CSS settings.
The settings allow you to change the layout from fluid to set, you can change the colors super easily, you can change the number of columns in a click of a page. Also the header is a rotating image and looks at a specific folder so you can rotate image headers super easily. Also sections are super easy to hide just by setting values to zero
Not that it is very difficult to do this yourself with the CSS file but this makes things really really easy to modify a site (ie…making it quick!). I am currently using it on two of my sites (BloomIntoYoga, JMRossPhotography Blog) Chances are I would have done my ARP site that way if I would have known about this theme earlier!
