I’ve only been using 2.7 for a but, since I’m more building sites than blogging nowadays, but I have to say I love it. It looks much, much better, navigation is a bit unusual but overall easier, the whole structure is more logical than ever. However, as a coder working with Wordpress on a day to day basis, I see a lot fo things that could’ve been improved.
My biggest criticism is that basically Wordpress didn’t get better underneath, they just changed the packaging. While the change is welcome, there are a lot of areas, especially media management which could use some work. Many time I get asked to build in some sort fo featured image capability, or a different post view in different circumstances. It would be awesome if you could select two different types of post views, one for the main page, and one for the archive page, adding featured images only shown in one place, perhaps as a background to the text. This can be done by editing templates, but not everyone knows how to do this, so flexibility in this area would’ve been better I thnk.
Media management has been improved a lot in the last bigger release, but is still miles away from something which could be used flexibly. Adding Flickr integration, easy few click gallery creation, gallery views and so on would be wonderful, this can truly only be done by plugins at the moment.
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Windows
open source, Tools, wordpress
There are two types of Internet users out there. Those that despise anything that has to do with clip art, animated gifs or funny PowerPoint presentations and the ones who love them and cannot get enough. If you are of the latter kind you might also like the royalty free clip art gallery which comes in the two packages animals and holidays for Windows and Linux.
The clip art was taken directly from the online clip art search engine wpclipart which contains dozens of categories including the downloadable holiday and animals category. The two clip art galleries that come as packages can be downloaded to the computer. They have a size of 50 and 170 Megabytes. The download page provides additional downloads, one of them the full clip art collection which totals more than 650 Megabytes and the clip art viewer.
The collections come with a clip art viewer that can be used to browse through the clip arts. This is not necessary though because the clip art is also viewable in the default photo viewer.
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Windows
christmas clip art, clip art, clip art cd, clip art download, clip art gallery, entertainment, free clip art, public domain clip art, royalty free clip art, Tools, windows software
The first thing to do when connecting a new computer monitor is to calibrate it properly to ensure that it displays the best possibly image. Most computer monitors come with a CD that can be used to calibrate the monitor. Most of the time those programs are not the best possible way to calibrate the monitor though. We already covered a few applications in the past like Calibrate Your Flat Screen Computer Monitor or Monitor Calibration Wizard.
The specialty of the Online Monitor Test is that it comes as a online service but also as an application. Both versions are divided into different test areas: Color Range, Trailing, Homogenuity, 1×1 pixelmapping and Text. Each section is accompanied by a info panel that is explaining the test at hand so that the user understands what the test is about. The info panel can be turned off once the user knows what the test is about to have full access to the screen without obstruction.
Both versions can be run in full screen mode for maximum effectiveness. The Color Range test is basically testing the color reproduction of the computer monitor by displaying color gradients and percentage screens.
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Online Services
calibration, computer monitor, computer monitor calibration, flat screen computer monitor, monitor, monitor calibration, online monitor test, Online Services, Tools, Windows
Video analysis is an area that we have not covered before here at Ghacks. Kinovea is an Open Source video analysis software for coaches, athletes and medical professionals. It can be used by anyone else obviously since it is freely available from the program’s homepage. It can be used to analyze virtually anything from Wii Fit performances to the performance of professional athletes.
You can basically load one or two movies into the application to analyze them. Most features can be used to analyze the movement of athletes or objects. A set of tools has been designed for the analysis like manipulating the playback speed between 2% and 200% or comparing two videos of the same scene from different angles.
Other features include a magnifier, 3D plane, image adjustments, comments, chronometers, trajectory analysis and saving a sequence as images.
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Windows
analysis software, kinovea, open source, sport analysis, Tools, video analysis, video analysis software, Windows, windows software
Sometimes I find a free resource wich is just so much higher quality than most paid sources it’s astounding. I mean if someone can design 9 free fonts that look this good, how does his commercial work look like? Judging from the webpage and the fonts, this person truly loves typography, and the free fonts are his children, which are truly amazing.
You don’t only get one font weight with only a few extra characters. You get the full deal, with different font weights, characters, and in some cases all characters have a unique shape (Delicious font). There are also some nice descriptions, which make me realize how hard font design must be. Apparently “The Delicious italic is not a slanted roman, but a true italic.”… No comment from me, I have no idea what he’s talking about, but the font looks awesome!
My favorite one is Museo and Diavolo. I love the elegance that the narrow Museo offers, especially in its thinner variants. Diavolo is probably one of the coolest fonts I’ve ever seen. Put a bold heading on any page in Diavolo and the font itself makes a statement instantly. My only problem is now that I can’t use these fonts in my web pages because few people have them, let’s hope css3 changes this and enables embedding of fonts properly. Anyway, these fonts are awesome, check them out and download them right now!
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The Web
design, fonts, The Web, Tools
Windows’ built-in CD writing software lacks the ability to write a disc image (such as an ISO) to a disc, which forces people to have to buy software like Nero Burning ROM or find a freeware equivalent.
This can be very annoying if a file generally distributed as an ISO, such as an operating system, has to be burned on a computer without essential software, for example at the house of a friend, who only uses the default disc burning tool.
ISO Recorder is a tool for Windows XP and Vista which provides a simple wizard to burn an ISO disc image onto a CD (and, in Vista, onto a DVD).
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Windows
disc burning, iso, iso recorder, Tools
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