Ritmo are another cheap webcam manufacturer who seem to make it hard for us to download simple drivers.
Ritmo have some of these drivers on their ftp site when it is working. If not grab them here. They are the latest ones I could find. This one is for my mother, who like most people, need to install a driver from time to time after misplacing the install disc. (3211 is yours Mum)
Searching or creating a wordpress theme to suit can be a long and tedious affair. There are an abundance of free themes available and you could spend days finding one that you like. Sure you can create a theme from scratch or use a free one as a starting basis, but this takes time - and time is valuable.
Why not buy a premium theme?
In my journey into the wordpress world of online blogging and publishing, I have come across some sensational wordpress templates. Some like the one this site is using, can turn a simple blogging platform into a fully dynamic cms. Check out some of these paid wordpress templates:
One Theme has a great many features, in fact, it is a downright amazing achievement for a Wordpress template. Widget ready, Adsense ready, Custom Backend control panel, SEO optimised code, the list goes on. So confident are the creators that you will love using it they are prepared to offer a free 3 day trial.
The impressive administrator control panel will simplify a lot of things we do manually. No fumbling around with php in order to get something done.
Elegant Wordpress themes have some rather spiffy looking designs covering almost everything you could want out of a blog. My wife uses the Elegant Bluemist theme which you can see here: HeVShe
Simplicity, professionalism and a dose modest elegance is what you will find at Elegant Wordpress themes and at a price of $19.95 per year for unlimited access, you can’t go wrong.
Woothemes sell wordpress themes separately or packaged with their themeclub and have on offer some truly impressive designs covering magazine type designs to marketing blogs. A custom admin backend is also on offer along with custom write panels and some fascinating uses of wordpress.
Cutting edge WordPress templates
Press 75 themes are truly remarkable and undeniably sexy. If you are looking for something to suit a media site you cannot go mast these amazing designs.
Video Elements is my favorite, a clean looking theme with subtle use of black and greys.
Press75 Premium Wordpress themes.
This site uses Shifter, it’s not just a theme - It is a theme system.
What makes it so special? If you have ever used a CMS such as Joomla or Drupal, the Shifter theme system will make you feel right at home. An incredible 13 widgetised module positions compliment an amazingly impressive backend. Fancy a rounded look? It is as simple as flipping a switch. Thumbnailing, featured tabs, php Tabs, fluid of fixed widths the choice is yours.
I was helping someone remove the Rokbridge Joomla 1.5 phpbb3 bridge due to this error:
Warning: plgAuthenticationPHPBB3::require(/home …. failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxxx/plugins/authentication/phpbb3.php on line 66
Google wasn’t much help in diagnosing a similar issue so here goes the sql fix I sent the user:
Fire up phpmyadmin and click your Joomla Database (Left Menu).
Select “jos_plugins” and phpmyadmin will display the Filestructure of this table.
You now need to click the “Browse” Tab to display this table in rows.
Make sure you have all the rows showing i.e. “200 row(s) starting from record # 0”
You Should see the authentication rows named:
Authentication - Joomla
Authentication - LDAP
Authentication - GMail
Authentication - OpenID
I am not sure what the bridge authentication cell will be called - probably Authentication - Rokbridge or similar.
Click “Edit” on Authentication - Rokbridge and change published to 0
Click go
Now click “Edit” on Authentication - Joomla and change published to 1
You should now be able to log in as per normal.
The Microsoft Web Application Installer is a IIIS (Internet Information Services) frontend installer with deployment of popular php and ASP scripts. Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce or even phpbb, whatever takes your fancy. This is only for Vista or Windows Server 2008.
Ok, lets give it a try:
Web Application Installer Beta Download
If the download asks you to install IIS (Internet Information Services) Click Start and go to your control panel, click Programs. Under programs and features you will see “Turn Windows features on or off” Click that and you will see “Internet Information services” in that dialogue box. Click whatever features you desire. see pic1
Pic1
Microsoft describes the Web Application Installer Beta as being able to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites.
While there are plenty of alternatives that can do this, none have thus far been that user friendly and secure for the home user.
Once it is all installed enter your home url in a browser http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/ to test iis functionality. You should see the next screen pic2
Pic2
Now you have the ability to install the following - as shown in Pic3:
Pic3
I was searching for some way to convert a Wordpress post (a blog entry) to a page (static content) without the need to edit individual database entries: ‘post_status’ column - from ‘publish’ to ’static’ etc when I came across p2pConverter
Wonderful guys these plugin writers!
Converts either a static Page into a Post, or a Post into a static Page!
Just click on the Manage tab in the Admin interface, and click the Posts or Pages sub-tab. Within that page you will see an extra column, with a Convert! option. If you want to convert a page or a post to the either, click that link! Or you can click Convert while editing a post or page in the bottom right side bar.
ozsource.net The original aussie web and media lifestyle blog.
hevshe.com is another web experiment: The alternative ♀♂ source. Not sure what I’ll be doing with it though it gives me something to do when I should be working. I also need to stop being lazy and start doing some wordpress themeing.
I have been looking at the US game providers intently in the last few months and whilst a couple have made it to our waters, it is currently only Hypernia that have managed to infiltrate our market. With incredible Features, Pricing and performance, they have given our few Aussie competitors something to think about.
I can fully recommend Hypernia in a big way, there is nothing like this in Australia:
A 10 slot, 66tick Source (steam) server comes in at around A$20 a month with free 20 slot Teamspeak or Ventrillo server along with it. In line with US pricing with slots around A$1.60 to A$2.00 a month for most games.
I grabbed a HL2DM server which you can find the setup details here: OzSource :: Resurrection
Or test our Hypernia powered HL2DM server:
Great latency and professional service, their dedicated Server packages offer great value also.
If anyone wants to share one of their dedicated servers for a gaming community let me know by contacting me here or on OzSource.
You have to give it to Microsoft for having a sense of humor. Whilst browsing the Microsoft Photosynth site on my Mac at work, you are presented with this text: “Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.”
Nice one Microsoft:
Ozsource Photosynth discussion.
On a side note, I really wished you didn’t have to use Jerry Seinfeld in your response to Apples “Get a Mac” campaign. Ricky Gervais would have been a far better alternative.
Wearing the ozsource blue Skin for Shifter by AzzX
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