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  • Random Photos

    the fog off the lake and the sun on the trees

    So one of the things I really like about the smart phone I have is all the functions that are always in my pocket.  I have all my phone numbers and email addresses, nearly infinite music, web surfing, directions, and my favorite photos.

    It’s not like we don’t have a camera, we have kids and all, but it’s a point and shoot.  Kinda fancy so I can do stuff manually if I want but in the end, it’s only 7 mega-pixel.  And my phone is 5 MP…  The lens is nicer on the camera, optical zoom and what not but I don’t carry it in my pocket all the time.

    With this respectable camera along with me all the time, I have started taking more photos.  Fall is here with the colorful trees, some snow on the mountains, random shots of the kids doing something fun.  I have a some interesting things that I would not have captured otherwise.

    The problem I have now is the camera has not been set to take a full 5 MP photo.  It has been set to take 640×480 photos for at least a month.  So photos that I took and planned on cropping later, photos like the one above where the light is good, the weather is just so, I can’t do much with. I am so grumpy about that right now.  I reset the camera to take the largest photos it can, but I don’t know what happened to make the resolution so small.  It might happen again and I’ll have more unuseful photos.

    Anyway, here are the small but hopefully still interesting photos I took with my camera –

  • WordPress tricks

    I am trying to get started more seriously on becoming WP-Guru and ran across this nice addition
    http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/14/advanced-layout-templates-in-wordpress-content-editor/
    This allows you to create a template within the text editor for various post types.  As you define these and then populate them, it drops preset HTML into the new posts/pages/whatever.  Then tied to additional styling and/or JavaScript on the front end you have a simple way to keep the layout and site more consistent without teaching a lot of code to the end users.

    When I start working on custom templates this seems like important knowledge-
    http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/12/developers-guide-conflict-free-javascript-css-wordpress/

    I found this on social media plug-ins: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/top-social-bookmarking-wordpress-plugins/.  I have a like button (feel free to click it) but there is more than Facebook out there! 

    Otherwise I am reviewing lists and lists of plug-ins and other tools to see what works best for me.

  • I Am Such A Joiner

    I have a profile now at – http://about.me/johnChinkes

    Not quite sure what I am going to do with it but I have one! I was researching something else and found a reference to it. If anyone has any tips please comment!