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Portable Audio in early ‘09

willi — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:58:21 +0000

It’s a Sunday afternoon and I should be out in the sunshine. But I’m thinking about my need for storage and tuneage!

Should I move to the Ipod side of the universe? It must be a mighty compelling platform. But I just can’t shake that rebel urge. And my love of L.A. FM radio in the form of KCRW, KPFK and KXLU (listener supported).

When is the Ipod going to support FM?

So, anyway, this is what I’m thinking today:
Great user interface, nice sized screen, FM tuner, good sound, great price ( for the storage).

ZEN ZEN4GBBK – MP3 Players – Credit card-sized media player

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aStore into K2 theme on WordPress

willi — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:55:36 +0000

Wha? If you have an Amazon Associates account, you can create a little store. If people buy from that, then you get PAID! That’s what the g-units want isn’t it? To get paid?

SO… You will have to search the web for tips on how to set up and customize your store but here’s how I made it look nice in my K2 powered blog over at Kulcha.

First thing, I got the inline frame code for my store and it looked horrible… about 2 inches wide and scrollbars everywhere!

Next, I created a template in my theme which would elminate the sidebar:

Take page.php & add template php code to the top e.g.,
Remove the from near the end of it
Save this as pagenosidebar.php and upload to theme directory
Create a css class to increase the width of your primary div (I put it in the css of my custom K2 style)

After that, I had to edit the css of my aStore. (That sounds dirty huh?)
I just trimmed the margin of the body div from 24px to a lovely 5px.

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K2 Theme for WordPress

willi — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:29:16 +0000

This theme is kind of a monster. But in a good way. It has a kerjillion features and the code is diligently maintained. K2 has a very clean look and can be easily customized with your own “style”. In the options you can choose to have one, two or three columns.

The latest version (basically a release candidate 3/4 for version 2) boasts an amazing Ajax sidebar manager. There are also very fast live, search features and an Ajax comments engine which posts comments without reloading the page. Sweet?

Searching through themes can be a bit overwhelming… I’ll be looking for function and get distracted by form. Or I’ll be looking for something cool but then remember that I want it to be supported by the latest version of WordPress. K2 is, for now, taking care of all that for me. I’ve got other fish to fry so… I’m using it a lot. Isn’t that what its for?

Oh yeah, you can get it here. And there’s forums where you can post your nubile questions… or heck, ask me?

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SoulCode Moves On WordPress 2.3

willi — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:17:48 +0000

So, this is getting better and better! Ya’ll should really check this out.

I know that I still have much to learn but dang I like this software!

Coolest New Features in no particular order:

Convert categories to tags
Improved plugin management

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