Just installed the P2 theme by Wordpress; needed a more clean theme and found out with http://fan-tas-tic.com designing your own is too much time consuming…
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Gallery Image Sharing with Google Buzz
Google Buzz seems the next hot thing in the tech savy blog world…and I kinda like it. There are already a lot of tutorials for getting started as a developer/designer with it, but as always the one feature I need for my gallery site is missing: sharing gallery images with Google Buzz.
For some live demo and examples check out the sub categories, sub stats, tags or any single posts at the Fan-tas-tic! Inspiration Galleries: click on the Google Buzz button and see what the buzz is about!
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Tschai
AZIndex: sort groupheader URL
Like the TDO mini form plugin the AZIndex is an incredible powerful plugin…but also lacks a certain feature, which would make it just perfect: URL’s for the header, the subheaders are grouped by.
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Fan-tas-tic
FTT!:10 fan-tas-tic images of 2009!
Simply a selection of 10 of the most fan-tas-tic images from fan-tas-tic.com. The site is still in alpha and there has been only a soft launch, but it working out quit well.
Once in beta the site should be full of images which can only rated as as ‘FTT!’…fan-tas-tic!Eos Divine Protection
Red Sonja
Flight of the Dragon
Tschai
Don’t believe the hype of Gridservice
The MediaTemple Grid-service “is a cluster-based, modern hosting service powered by hundreds of servers working in tandem to power your websites, applications and email with unrivaled power, burstability and reliability”.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Background story
I’ve just recently moved to MediaTemple and at this moment my following sites are hosted with (mt): aytemir.com (that would be this blog), fan-tas-tic.com and VoetbalPortaal.com.
All three sites have very humble amount of traffic to handle and are Wordpress or vBulletin powered, with some standard popular plugins or mods.
Nothing fancy. Nothing special.
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Rich Pollock
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Jerome
Hi, for a project I’m working on, I have almost identical issues at Mediatemple as you have.
I put a complaint at their helpdesk about the bad performance of their grid service (GS) and they point the finger to me, or te be more specific, the code I wrote.
On the MT forum, there are more people having major issues with the GS, so I think it’s time to move on to another provider.
Fan-tas-tic
Fan-tas-tic! User Generated Galleries
It took me longer than foreseen, but after a couple of different approaches there is a final alpha version of my fan-tas-tic project. Although still in a alpha stage, I think a soft launch with this post is a logical move prior to a beta version: behold FAN-TAS-TIC! User Generated Galleries.
WTF is FTT!
FTT! is actually designed and developed as a pure personal project: a fantastic image gallery, with ‘fantastic’ covering the genres science-fiction, (heroic) fantasy/sword & sorcery, gothic, horror, anime and the quality of the art self displayed at the gallery.
So…yet another gallery?
Supervisually yes…it’s nothing more than just another gallery.
However some of the features what should make FTT! really unique compared to other galleries are: (More …)
Tschai
1 reason why ‘Avatar’ is gonna be the most overrated movie of 2009!
Visitors on this blog and commentators on Reddit gave me a harsh time on my post 10 reasons why ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’ is the most overrated movie of 2008! back in 2008.
So with this post, which is just based on a teaser, I’m not gonna be that harsh myself this time: I’m just stating 1 obvious reason why James Cameron’s Avatar is going to be the most overrated movie of 2009!
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Danila
I am underwhelmed. The story is unoriginal beyond belief – member of group A fights with group B, realises B are good and joins them. The graphics are great, but that’s really nothing special – there were good graphics before. The scope of the project? I don’t believe it’s that special – large Hollywood projects have always been huge in scope. Take any film – Gladiator, Godfather – any film with that budget would have thousands of original items researched, designed and manufactured. Doing that in 3D makes it even easier. Designing for another world is not somehow special – it’s just that the setting is another planet, not another era or another place on Earth.
The science behind this film appears to be weak and almost non-existent. The assumption the director makes is that technological progress will stop (artificial limbs are commonplace today – check out “Wounded Warriors” organisation, for example) and traditional ground combat will dominate the war, not use of smart robotic platforms. I don’t know how can he be so naive. If that’s just “creative vision”, it’s a retarded one. If you can grow a body, grow the guy some legs. If you don’t get it, James Cameron, grow yourself a brain, because your own one doesn’t function properly.
Stupid hype which I am not buying into.
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Wee Boon Tang
Yes, but we must all remember what Avatar is: an original story (regardless of the level of originality) in a very, very long time. No movie would be able to top this one for years to come because movies nowadays, pardon me saying but, suck. S-U-C-K. CGI porn, that’s what it is. If Avatar doesn’t succeed to make money, we could all say goodbye to the possibility of better movies that would surpass Avatar. H-wood would say “I told you so” and that’s it for our fight.
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Kyle McGregor
Avatar is overrated and too many fanboys are drinking the kool-aid! It’s not on the level of Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, which I expected since so many critics and people are in a rave. Great effects don’t make up for lousy story telling and political cheap shots. Focus on better writing and screenplay then you can give us your two cents about “FIGHT TERROR WITH TERROR!” Seriously?!! Overall, District 9 cost a small fraction of what this movie cost and it had, in my opinion, a better story, better acting, and the graphics were comparable.
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CRITICS SUCK
ok.. before watching this movie all my friends and coworkers made it seem like this is a really GOOD movie.. i watched it.. and didnt get it.. didnt understand whats so great about watching Pocahontas all over again. ok the 3D effects were cool but that too.. wasnt the best thing in the world.. i still enjoy the Terminator 3D at Universal better lol… the neon bright colours were cool.. ill give props to that.. but really THATS IT!! story was very CLICHE! DIALOGUE was lame.. to me.. a Great movie consists of everything right? i movie cant be good just cuz of special effects.. thats lame.. well sorry to burst anyones bubble who absolutely adored this movie.. thats my opinion anyway..VERY OVER HYPED BTW
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Steve
lol it may have an original story line but other moves have had original story line as well. only reason this movie made large is because the so called amaxing CGI drew everyone in so basically it’s making large off new technology…..fucking crock off shit. FUCK YOU AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Federicco
I like the graphics of this movie but the story isn’t really that good. It’s kinda childish and like you said the theme isn’t new. I was praying for it to stop but it was like 200 minutes.
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Carl
this movie was extremely average with awesome effects. gay how he rode the main bad ass flying dude and gay how he could just beam to his avatar body…
gay how the humans just get defeated and dont come back to own their alien asses with nukes and sh!t … too many holes in the plot.
average movie
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Susan Modresy
I absolutely hate computer generated Movies. I think a nice twist ending to the avatar would a blue alien hand pushing a delete key and the entire movie goes blank – in 3-D, of course.
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ESTEBAN
TAKE MATRIX, POCAHONTAS AND ANY OF THE STAR TREK MOVIES, THROW IN THE BLENDER AND YOU GOT… AVATARRRRRRRR!!!
THIS IS THE SAMPLE OF HOW HOLLYWOOD PROTECTS ITSELF FROM THE ECONOMICAL CRISIS. THEY JUST SAID: WE ARE BROKE, WE HAVE THESE GUYS THAT BURNT SEVERAL MILLION BUCKS IN THIS STUPID UNORIGINAL FILM… LETS MAKE SOME NOISE, CALL THE CRITICS, CALL THE TVS, LETS TELL THEM TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS THING TO BRING A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TO PAY FOR THIS MOVIE ANG GET OUR BANK ACCOUNTS OUT OF THE HOLE… WE NEED TO CHANGE THE MERCEDES THIS YEAR AGAIN.CHECK OUT MY GROUP IN FACEBOOK:
AVATAR IS OVERRATED
Tschai
From splitting headaches to splitting blogs
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Yes, this is a typical post where the blogger tells that he’s aware that he hasn’t blogged for a while. And no, I don’t think that blogging is dead nor have been converted (fully) to Twitter or FB (yet), although I do have sleeping account in the meantime at both services.
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TDO Mini Forms: upload path/URL mini hack
The TDO Mini Forms Wordpress Plugin is simply one of these plugins you’ll end up using, when you’ll be using WordPress for more than ‘just another blog’.
For my upcoming project I was looking for a fully customizable end user form and after having tried a bunch, TDO mini forms was simply the best.
I still don’t understand why it is called ‘mini’ because it has a ton of options and almost all of them very useful.
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Ragnar
Thanks a lot, dude. Prolly can put it to use, too, now. ^^
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Ragnar
Ah, what the hell… after adding all that my admin gives me a blank page. :S
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Ragnar
Okay, never mind, I got my admin page back… but the code doesn’t seem to work… added all these new thing right where supposed to but TDO still uploads it to some id folder.
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Ragnar
4th comment here, hello!
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Derek
I have had great success with TDO Mini Forms and your mini hacks have been of tremendous help. One thing I am seeking is how to use TDO Mini Forms with video options. Wondered if you might had an ideas on what I may be able to try.
Thanks!!
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Tim
People who want to use this (for example) when using a post form for unregistered users: be careful!
If the post is rejected (deleted) by an administrator (at the ‘moderation’), the whole folder of that specific month is emptied… see what I’m saying? Careful.
Just a tip. Good hack though!
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admin
Tim, thanks for the warning…I wasn’t aware of this, obliviously.
I’ll test this and implement your suggestion and will come back to you…
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admin
Shit…you’re right,I’m seeing it only now: at http://fan-tas-tic.com, where I implemented the hack, I’ve already deleted all other images in the same folder with the one I only wanted to delete!
Thanks for the warning…
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Tim
No problem!
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Tim
Suggestion in this case
$postdir = $options['path'].$yearID.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$monthID.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$post_ID;
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iqbal
hii…every one…i just wanna ask how to make a submission form like for sample…downarchive.com…that another or registered users can submit their download to our site??
can we hack TDO mini Form tobe like it??
sorry for my bad english…
thanks for helping…
Tschai
Glad to hear it’s working and thanks for letting know…
Tschai
Do you want to upload these video files to your own server or do you just want to refer to some external (youtube, vimeo) URL’s?
The latter should be very easy.
The first option might require some hacking…
Derek
I was attempting to upload vids to my own server and then embed them in a post.
That’s where I am having the problem, videos upload fine just can’t get them to display.
Tschai
If you’re able to upload the video and retrieve the URL generated by TDO forms, than from here your problem is a general issue and not TDO mini form related anymore.
You probably need the right plugin to show the video, depending on the format of your video.
Have you tried something like this one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embedded-video-with-link/, which seems to support almost any format? If you’re able getting the full URL/path, this should do the trick for you…
http://richpollock.com/therealmt/