Unhandled Perception

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It’s so simple you’re going to kick yourself for not using it.

To create a post/page in WordPress which becomes a gallery of images (thumbnails):

1. Create a new page/post
2. Upload/Attach images to the post or page using the ‘Add an Image‘ Upload/Insert feature above the content editor
3. Add the shortcode “[ gallery ]“ anywhere in the post/page (remove the quotes and spaces)
4. That’s it.  All images attached to that page/post will be displayed as a gallery

Some Options:

• columns - How many columns will be used to display the gallery of images
• size - What size should the images be presented in (“thumbnail”, “medium” and “large”)
• orderby - Order to show the gallery

This is a great way to create simple galleries, listing of screenshots or a neat order display of images attached to a post/page.

Read more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

Tomorrow, Gmail is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox that is going to be a Godsend for those of you who dread opening your email. In short, Google has built a system that figures out which of your messages are important, and presents them at the top of the screen so you don’t miss them. The rest of your messages are still there, but you don’t have to dig through dozens of newsletters and confirmations to find the diamonds in rough.

Link: http://techcrunch.com/…

Smashing Magazine’s very large list of Free WordPress Themes, 2010 Edition.

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick overview. The collections from 2007, 2008 and last year are still useful, but some of the themes are outdated or updated now.

Veign has been getting deeper into WordPress customization.  In a week or so I will be releasing the first plugin developed by Veign.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

Link to try Realtime Search: http://www.google.com/realtime…

Sam, it’s suitably anonymous – lives in a three-bedroom semi-detached house in London, drives a vintage Jaguar and runs his own company. But “it’s not not all rock and roll and big money”, says Sam. What isn’t? Spamming websites and blogs with text to pump up the search engine rankings of sites pushing PPC (pills, porn and casinos), that’s what.

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/…

Once license to give.  leave a comments.

Expression Web 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/…

Scan a website to see if there are any known, or recorded, exploits or malicious threats.  Not really something I would use since I never click on what I don’t know or looks fishy and when I do Google does a pretty good job or warning me.

Either way a tool like this is good to keep in your Security bookmark folder just in case.

Link: http://www.urlvoid.com/

Steps to properly block comment spam on your WordPress blog:

1. Activate the Akismet plugin that comes with your blog (located in the Plugins section).  If you don’t have it download it here.
2. Get an Akismet API key
3. Go to the Akismet Configuration screen located in the Plugins menu group (left side bar menu in WordPress)
4. Enter your key and press Update Options

Now your popular blog will be well protected using Akismet. Don’t forget to make sure all comments are moderated or you’re asking for major problems.

Information on smartphones is stored in flash memory and some data can be stored on a memory card. For the memory card, simply remove it from the phone. However, to delete flash memory data…

A great topic that people tend to not think about.

Link: http://www.erbandevelopment.com/…

kicking off another “Do-It-Yourself” Marketing Month for entrepreneurs. In honor of the celebration, I’ve compiled a list of 15 DIY marketing articles to keep you busy. The list includes a mix of SitePoint articles, as well as some of my other favorites from around the Web. I tried to include a lot of variety, so there should be something in here for everyone.

Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/…

Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new feature called Places that lets you and your friends check in to locations, Foursquare-style. If you’d prefer to keep your location private, or at least stop your friends from posting it, here’s how.

If you’re not convinced that posting your location can be a bad thing, check out PleaseRobMe for some evidence. Of course, if you’re careful, check-ins aren’t inherently a bad thing. Whether or not you want to disable them is entirely up to you, but Facebook—yet again—has made the assumption that you want to take part in all of their privacy-eroding new features. If you don’t, or want a little more control over who can divulge your location, you can make this change pretty quickly through your privacy settings.

Facebook Places, one more thing that everyone should disable.  Why on earth do you want to share with the world where you are, and the fact you’re not at home.

Link: http://lifehacker.com/5616395/…

Very cool cover – [nsfw because of language]

What do you think?