Creative package design
Awesome! So creative, so attractive! This is the first time I see such creative packages like these!
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Cuong Dang
Customize Flickr Photo Album plugin and P2 WordPress theme
I love both the Flickr Photo Album (Tantan-flickr) plugin and the P2 WordPress theme, but it seems that Tantan-Flickr doesn’t work smoothly with the P2 theme due to CSS issues.
I spent more than 1.5 hours to figure out these stuff by using Firebug add on on Firefox. (I am not very good at CSS!!!).
Here is my work around to fix some problems of them.
A. Viewing single photo bug
B. Photo album index
For the photo album index view issue (like: http://cuongdang.info/photos ), I have not figured it out yet, but I fixed some issues by removing some lines in the photoalbum-styles.css file, (then test again again, so arrogant I am??).
Updated: May 24, 2010: We need to modify something to the photoalbum-index.php file. Read this post
Now it is quite OK! ^^ Test http://cuongdang.info/photos
If you want to download all of my modified files, the link is here:
(Guide: Unzip and replace those 3 files to your templates folder: ../wp-content/plugins/tantan-flickr/templates)
If you also love the Tantan-Flickr + P2 and having a better customization, please share with us here! Thanks! -
Cuong Dang
IT makes us feel more freedom and improves overall well-being
A research which is based on data collected from more than 35,000 survey respondents across the globe from BCS shows that:
- People around the world think that IT (i.e. Internet access) increases their sense of freedom by 15% and improves their overall well-being. Altogether, our life satisfaction increases by 10% when we have IT access, the study, from UK research firm BCS suggests, concludes.
- Benefit most from IT access are:
- Women
- Individuals in lower income households and those with less education.
Because “IT helps to promote and enable empowerment and autonomy.” For women specifically it serves as an important “social and family network support tool.”
For further information, read the BCS’s report:
Info Dividend 1
Adapted from:http://mashable.com/2010/05/14/it-and-happiness/" target="_blank">The Web Makes the World Happier [STUDY]
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Cuong Dang
SETI@home and BOINC: compute for science
BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others.
What is SETI@home?
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.Read more about SETI@home: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like.
You may run this software on a computer only if you own the computer or have the permission of its owner.
Download BOINC client software
Read more:
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Cuong Dang
The sound of the ocean helps your privacy on the beach and your Office?
The sound of the ocean creates privacy on the beach
Think of the ocean. On the beach the sound of the surf and the wind help create a certain degree of sonic privacy. You can still talk to people near you, but you aren’t dealing with as much distraction from the conversation of people sitting nearby. Even though the ocean is making quite a bit of noise, it isn’t a distraction.
Most people don’t realise how much distractions cost them. If your job involves anything beyond very mundane work, it is impossible to jump right back into where you left off once something breaks your concentration. Even for very average work, it will often take 10 to 15 minutes to get back to your full level of concentration. That means if you make $20 per hour, every interruption costs you around $5 in work value. Yes, I know you probably still get paid–even when you are interrupted, but your output is often what will determine your raises and promotion, so interruptions of your concentration do eventually cost you money.
SO CAN IT really HELP YOU CONCENTRATE better if you listen to the “OCEANIC SOUND” while you are working in YOUR OFFICE or WORKPLACE?
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Cuong Dang
Download Android for iPhone
Planetbeing has offered iFans a biggest news in iPhone hacking. Google’s Android Mobile OS can be installed on the iPhone! ^^ Now it is just in alpha version, having some limit, and only for 3G version (3GS may need more work).
Check it out:
http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-working-on-this-quietly-in.html
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Cuong Dang
Ubuntu – show battery status for Openbox
There are several ways to show your battery status in Openbox.
Here I use conky, which has many useful function like weather cast, network status also… here I just want it to show my battery status, cpu, ram and dates on my desktop screen.
OpenBox Conky Battery show
Ok, first of all, install conky via Terminal emulator (select from the right click menu – root menu)
sudo apt-get install conky
Now you can run it by typing
conky
As you can see now, by default conky does not show your battery status. To let it do that, create a .conkyrc file in your home directory
gedit ~/.conkyrc
Paste the following code into .conkyrc file, save it and restart conky (ctrol+c, type conky again in the terminal):
Code ref: Various sources from the Internet and my own experience by studyihttp://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
# Use Xft?use_xft yesxftfont DejaVu Sans:size=8xftalpha 0.8text_buffer_size 2048# Update interval in secondsupdate_interval 4# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.# Set to zero to run forever.total_run_times 0# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)own_window yesown_window_transparent yesown_window_type normalown_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)double_buffer yes# Minimum size of text areaminimum_size 180 0#maximum_width 200# Draw shades?draw_shades no# Draw outlines?draw_outline no# Draw borders around textdraw_borders no# Stippled borders?stippled_borders 0# border marginsborder_margin 5# border widthborder_width 1# Default colors and also border colorsdefault_color grey#default_shade_color black#default_outline_color greyown_window_colour grey# Text alignment, other possible values are commented#alignment top_leftalignment top_right#alignment bottom_left#alignment bottom_right# Gap between borders of screen and text# same thing as passing -x at command linegap_x 25gap_y 25# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?no_buffers yes# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercaseuppercase no# number of cpu samples to average# set to 1 to disable averagingcpu_avg_samples 2# number of net samples to average# set to 1 to disable averagingnet_avg_samples 2# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFToverride_utf8_locale yes# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.use_spacer none#################################Dates################################TEXT${alignc 35}${font Arial Black:size=12}${time %A, %d-%m-%Y}${font}${alignc 35}${font Arial Black:size=12} ${time %H:%M:%S}${font}#################################System Default conky config################################${color grey}Acpi temp:$color $acpitemp C${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax – $memperc% ${membar 10}${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 6}${color grey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes$hr#################################${color grey}File systems:#/ $color${#fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}################################${color grey}Name PID CPU% MEM%${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}$hr${color grey}Networking:Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color grey} – Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}#################################Battery################################$hr${color grey}Time left or until charged:$color ${color red} ${battery_time BAT0} $color${color grey}Battery:$color${battery_bar 6,150 BAT0}${color} ${battery BAT0}${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime#################################Weather Can Tho VMXX0004################################That’s it.PS: You can also read this post on my Google docs (publicly viewable) -
Cuong Dang
OpenBox – how to add application shortcuts to the right click menu (root menu)
I have just installed Open Box for my Gnome running Ubuntu 10.04 beta2 Lucid. It is interesting. After logged in, I waited about 2 minutes with the black screen to expect something else happens lol. You know, I tried testing left and right click everywhere on the black screen to hope to get something. And it is Open Box: just the black screen and a right click menu (latter I know it is called the root menu).
In this post I will just show you the way I add more application shortcuts to the root menu.
Open Box with thunar Screenshot
Edit the right click menu (root menu)
(Sorry there is NO space in the command, there are some security issues with my WP, if I write the correct command (no space), the post will not be saved! so you may have to type it manually):cp / etc / xdg / openbox / menu.xml ~ / .config / openbox / menu.xml
Then just open ~ / .config / openbox / menu.xml and edit the .xml with you favorite editor. It is easy to understand the menu structure and add more shortcuts here.
In fact, you just need to copy add paste more <item></item> tag like other shortcuts there, then edit 2 places give it a name to the item label, for ex item label=”Thunar File Manager”, and execute, for ex <execute>thunar</execute>.
I like using thunar as my File Manager in Open Box, so I install thunar and make a shortcut for it to the root menu. (Install thunar: sudo apt-get install thunar)
After finished, save your .xml file, right click on the black screen, select Reconfigure to apply changes you have just made for OpenBox. Here is my Menu.xml file
PS: 1- You can also read this post on my Google docs (publicly viewable)
2- There is a great Open Box guide publicly viewable at WP or my G Docs
model (portfolio) 6:17 AM on June 6, 2010 Permalink
thank you for the pictues !
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