- Waterworks – great feel to this image.
- Modsecurity and WordPress paper – I haven’t used ModSecurity myself but it seems like something good to know about.
- Let’s Dance – I love the long exposure flowing crowd!
- WiFi in an SD card? No more wires or plugging your camera’s flash card into a reader! Now, I want a CF version, and one that’s certified outside the US!
- Another new WordPress MU user blogs.
And now, having this multi-user version, we can literally host hundreds of blogs using the same WordPress instance. Imagine a company with several brands or locations that wants to have their sites all look and behave similarly but also wants each to manage their own content.
- A GIMP plugin rss feed has been created by Garrett. I’m subscribed!
- If you thought morning traffic was bad, be glad you don’t need to take a detour like this. (via)
- Heroes in Cork – Heroes comes to Cork apparently and the Irish accents are awful!
Donncha's Saturday Links
Catching up on some links.
- Cubic Telecom win it@Cork emerging company award. Congrats Pat!
- Keith says Airtricity have a simple approach to electricity meter reading. Email and text. Sure you could lie, but they have a good notion of how much electricity you use and I’m sure a meter reader would be out after another month of only 10 units used.
- 494 comments – I need to paginate the comments on that post.
- GIMP plugins I discovered through the GIMP Registry RSS feed: photo effects contains a bunch of pretty effects. Cross processing and cross processing 2.4 make your image all green and contrasty. Sort of like these cross processed pictures.
- Figmentation has some great photos. Another Irish photoblog.
- My funny video blog now has a pagerank of 2! Not all sites went down I guess. Here’s a great clip of Jeremy Clarkson in his Peel P50 driving around the offices of the BBC in London!
Donncha's Tuesday Links
There’s nothing like the laughter of your baby to perk up one’s morning after a bank holiday weekend!
- WordPress 2.3.1 was released on Friday. The new WordPress MU will be ready soon.
- Omry has released a new version of WPMU Plugin Commander to make administrating regular WordPress plugins in a WordPress MU install easier. Here’s the discussion thread. Looks like a very useful tool and I’m glad I was able to help even a little bit!
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Home ownersMortgage payers deserve some humour too. - New jQuery anti comment spam technique. It’s a prototype. Hopefully it’ll never make it into a plugin! Via Joseph
- Matt blogs the new subscriber numbers in Google Reader. Bernie looked at Irish subscriber numbers a while back.
- Code Search Sitemaps will allow you to tell Google about public source code on your blog. I should do this with my WordPress plugins!
- GIMP 2.4 has finally been released. Well worth the upgrade.
- Barry reveals some of the details behind what powers Gravatar now.
- How to empty your brain.
- Robert had to go to the dentist. I’ve had problems with PRSI in the past too and I’m self employed now so even a regular check up costs €50 or more.
- Yes, I wish kids and babies knew about daylight saving time too.
- WordPress wins best CMS, beating Drupal and Elgg!
Linux Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy – no problem
I upgraded my Ubuntu 6.06 install to the new Edgy soon after it’s release using the simple command gksu "update-manager -c". Several hours later, and after clicking on a few dialog boxes to update files in /etc/, I’m not running Ubuntu Edgy on my desktop box.
Initially I wondered where Firefox 2.0 was hiding, but on my upgraded system it’s /usb/bin/firefox.ubuntu so it’ll live alongside version 1.5. I also noticed that when saving files in the GIMP the filename would disappear when I clicked on a new folder in the “bookmark” folder of the Gnome file dialog. Once I noticed, ctrl-c to record the filename and ctrl-v to paste it in again worked fine. I rename my files when saving so it’s not much of a hardship.
My machine seems slightly faster but I haven’t delved too deeply into what has been upgraded but Firefox, xchat, terminal, GIMP and Gthumb all work fine! Did your upgrade go as well?
Cross-Processing in Photoshop
Cross processing is the method by which camera film is developed as if they were slides, or visa versa. Here’s how to do Cross-Processing in Photoshop and create some interesting photos.
Must try it myself.
Hue Rotation Using the Gimp
This tutorial explains how to change the palette of an image, and goes over scripting it too! Oooer! Scheme? ugh!
GIMP Tutorial – Arwen Icon
Here’s a very detailed tutorial showing how to create a beautiful avator icon from a photo in the GIMP. Lurvely!
Lots more icon stuff in the noldo icons community too!
Gimp Tutorials
Simple Vignetting using The GIMP
Vignetting is usually something to be avoided, but this tutorial shows how it can be effective in creating a stronger image.
GIMP Preview – the why and what of it
A recent thread on the GIMP User mailing list asked about why previews are so small, and why the “main window” preview isn’t available everywhere.
Replies were soon forthcoming. It seems that plugins can’t preview their changes in the main window, but built-in tools can.
Carol Spears even offered a small tutorial explaining how you can increase the preview size in plugins very easily!
