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cool and the guide
`Cool and the Guide` launched a daily briefing on travel, trends & culture. Anchored out of Tokyo or from wherever we happen to be on the globe. A casual place for us to take notes of things we find interesting or just too beautiful to leave unnoticed.
miniml press theme
Last updated 11.24.09
Miniml press is the second theme released by siiimple.com, the first being the daily grind theme, which has received a warm reception. miniml press has been in the works for awhile. it is a personal favorite - and I have paid special attention to its detail. it came about as an offshoot to the un.complicated - http://www.un-complicated.com/ site I developed sometime ago.
I was asked if un.complicated could be easily enough converted to a wordpress platform - and so I began the process of this conversion. with that said, I believe it has it's own identity, separate from un.complicated.
This theme is wigetized. like the daily grind, it was built with the wonderful bare basic nude wordpress platform that goes by the name Starkers. and again, like the daily grind, it implements the fantastic web grid system "the golden grid".
Demo & Screenshot
See Demo Here
Plugins Used:
In the demo, I'm utilizing 4 plugins, and they are as follows and you should either activate or remove them from the code, otherwise you'll get a call to undefined function error:
twitter tools - by Alex King http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
the excerpt-reloaded - by Kaf Oseo, Rob Bresalier http://robsnotebook.com/the-excerpt-reloaded/
Get Custom Field Values - by Scott Reilly http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/get-custom-field-values/
Get The Image - by Justin Tadlock http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/05/27/get-the-image-wordpress-plugin
Some Side Notes:
*The images in the posts are utilizing Get The Image plugin, and are set to the width of 470px x 150px - of course, you can change this by finding this code in the index.php:
<?php get_the_image(array('custom_key' => array('feature_img'), 'default_size' => 'medium', 'width' => '470', 'height' => '150', 'image_class' => 'feature')); ?>
Here is the custom key and the width/height values.
*In order to set the categories you need to find the # of the category, once it is created in the admin section. the number will be at the end of the url, like this:
http://s51370.gridserver.com/_minimalwordpress/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=1
1 = the category ID
*I used delicious api to call my bookmarks. in order to do the same, visit delicious.com
enjoy!
Justin from siiimple
the standard
It has been too long since siiimple has offered a wordpress theme so here is another one, The Standard.
As you can see, it is a slight departure from our previous themes, since it incorporates a fancy jquery slider - but it keeps to a grid layout, once again built onVladimir Carrer's "Golden Grid".
The administration area is rather extensive and allows for a tremendous amount of customization. Inside the download you can find the readme.html file that explains the themes usage.
Here's the working demo: Demo
Thanks and enjoy.
infinite usb
While the laptop is getting smaller, the USB ports are getting less and limited. But more and more devices are using USB port. So this IniniteUSB can solve this problem. When there is a new USB device plug in and occupied one USB port, at the same time, it provides one more USB port. If more and more USB devices are designed the plug like this. There won’t be any limitation of the number of USB port anymore. Also, the colorful design helps users recognize the device easily, and makes a series of USB plug more vivid. test blog post
In a recent post, Twitter API Lead and frequent unwilling flamewar spark, Alex Payne, called for the "reintroduction [of] logical thought and civil society" to online technical debate. In addition to the usual lamentations over the substitution of Language Wars and political polemics for hard-evidence, reasoned argument, and sympathetic dialog, Payne also made an usual call for programmers to acquire better tools for dealing with the softer, more subjective side of the debate:
In a recent post, Twitter API Lead and frequent unwilling flamewar spark, Alex Payne, called for the "reintroduction [of] logical thought and civil society" to online technical debate. In addition to the usual lamentations over the substitution of Language Wars and political polemics for hard-evidence, reasoned argument, and sympathetic dialog, Payne also made an usual call for programmers to acquire better tools for dealing with the softer, more subjective side of the debate:
