I just included an automatic “Popular posts” list in my sidebar.
It is a very efficient way to show your visitors other popular content on your site. It is automatic and does not need you to do any manual work after you have installed it.
This is what you do:
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I always have to google this when my phone needs a complete reset, so for future reference, here it is.
You simply enter the numbers mentioned here like they where a phone number.
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Edit: I have just tried a product called ORB. And, my first impression: truly amazing! Register at Orb, install a free application on your media server and Orb lets you access your music, video, TV-Stations and pictures from wherever you are. No hassle. No opening of extra ports in your FW. No need for a static IP. If you want access to your media through streaming then Orb is something that you should consider. Not as flexible as SlimServer, but extremely easy to set up, and it gives you access to all your media.
Edit2: You can now read more about my ORB experiments here: Checking out ORB!
I am still amazed over the power of SlimServer. It is a very stable and user friendly tool that lets you stream your music to wherever you want. It is multi platform and it is free!
It works very well together with different standalone harware players, but can be used to stream your music to any networked computer as well.
So, here is a short guide to encourage you to try it out.
My attempt on an illustration to describe how it works (click the image to enlarge):
The concept:
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I have a Nokia 6630 mobile phone. It has a memory card. It can play MP3. So, for me it is perfect for listening to podcasts.
Update: I have installed a third party MP3-player to enhance my listening experience. Link.
Update2 I have modified my Nokia headset to accept regular headphones.
You need:
1. A cellphone that can play MP3 and has a memory card
2. iPodder or a similar software
3. Windows Media Player 10
4. A card reader for the memory card of your phone
This is the basic concept:
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Update:
I have played around with another PDA Remote solution as well here.
I have been using NetRemote for a long time. NetRemote is a little application that runs as a server on the box with your music. You can then connect from a client running on another PC or a PDA. From the client you can control what is playing on the box running the server.
This works very well towards J. River Media Center and Meedio that I have been using before. Of course, I could install J River on my new MCE box, but it would be much more interesting to directly control the same media library that I have in MCE.
There are some dedicated remote solutions for MCE out there. I had to test them…
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I just got Windows Media Center edition up and running with 3 tuners. I am using one old standard edition Hauppauge PVR-250 and one new Hauppauge PVR-500MCE. The PVR-500 has two tuners, so together with the 250 I have three.
It took some experimenting to get this up and running, so I’ll post some of my experiences here.
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Add a thumbnail of the trendmap
First, go to the page with the trendmap you want. An example:
Trendmap for eirikso.com
You find the complete list of trendmaps here.
Then click the link: “- Go to code examples for this chart – “
Then open the template for your sidebar. For WordPress 1.5 that is:
/YourWPdirectory/wp-content/themes/YourCurrentTheme/sidebar.php
Insert the code for “Code to add a thumbnail of the trendmap for…” from the code example page.
…or you can insert a badge with a link to the trendmap. Simply insert the “Code to add a trendmap badge with a link to the trendmap for…” from the code example page.
To be able to control my music collection from all the devices in my house I have set up NetRemote. It works very well towards J. River Media Center that I use to manage my music collection. In addition to this, there is a J River Plugin for Meedio, so my TV Screen will always be updated with what I am playing, and I can always change music with the remote in my living room.
To the right you can see the remote I use most of the time. My good old HP Jornada PDA. It has been upgraded with a WLAN CF-Card and works very well.
I am running the client on my laptop, my desktops and the touch screen in the kitchen. All the screens updates live if I change music from one of the devices.
And, last but not least – Meedio, controlled by a Snapstream Firefly remote from the couch.
To make the point clear: I use NetRemote to control what is playing in my living room. In our flat the living room is the hub of the home, so it actually makes sense to control the music playing there from my laptop sitting at the balcony or while making food in the kitchen.
Still, the main functionallity is the ability to control my music collection without having to turn on the television screen.
When I want to listen to music in another room or at a completely different location I use Slimserver to recompress, stream and control the music at that location.
Update:
At the bottom of this page you can find a simpler solution to this question.
Update2:
I have currently removed the random banner from my design. Not because it didn’t work well, but because I wanted a simpler design.
As you might have noticed, the banner at the top of this site changes as you navigate the site. To implement this in WordPress is quite simple.
You need this plugin:
Random Banner
Random banner how to install
And a couple of banners. I made mine with a template I made in Photoshop. You can download my template here:
Template to edit the default banner in WordPress
Or you can make a couple of banners using this tool:
flickr-to-WP-banner
When you have set up Random Banner and made some top banners, place them in the random banner folder as noted in the instructions for the plugin.
Activate the Random Banner plugin.
Now you need to edit line number 27 in “header.php” for your current theme. You should replace the existing line 27 with this one:
#header { background: url("") no-repeat bottom center; }
NOTE: I have not bothered to install a plugin that lets me print pure PHP-code on my page, so you can not copy line 27 directly from here. You need to delete the space between < and ? before "php random_banner…"
…and off you go!
You can read about my current banners here.
It is a completely and utterly fantastic plugin for WordPress. It makes it extremely easy to upload pictures, make thumbnails, downscale and watermark. All from the standard WordPress web GUI in a very user friendly system.
It took some time before I could find the controls in the WEB-gui. I had to apply a fix for the way DreamHost run PHP. What you do is:
For Exhibit, you might find this useful (a user[1] contribution to Dreamhost’s really quite useful[2] KnowledgeBase)
In exhibit10.php, there is a block of code near the very beginning (line 46) that says:
$_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’]=
…
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]);Remove that whole block and replace it with:
$_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’] = $_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_URL’];
Before I found that, I couldn’t get Exhibit to appear in the admin interface
[1] Not me – found it after much head-scratching and googling
[2] Understatement – it’s an excellent resource for DH users
In addition to this you have to do a fix for WordPress 1.5:
In the file “exhibit10.php”, around line 130, you should find this line:
$this->tableexhibit = $table_prefix . $this->exhibit_db_table;
I replaced this line with this:
$this->tableexhibit = “wp_exhibit”;
I found these fixes here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=8501
And here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24124#post-136294
The thumbnails at the top of this post are inserted using the Exhibit plugin.
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