WP-Cycle is a WordPress image slideshow plugin that uses jQuery. It can link to any post, page or a URL outside of the site. It can be set to any size and has a number of other useful settings. I’ve used this plugin on a number of sites and really like it for it’s ease of use. It does, however, have the limitation of single use and all images added in the settings have to be used.
When I was setting up up the NextGen Gallery plugin to manage my portfolio I decided I also wanted to display a slideshow of the images on certain pages. Since NextGen has a Slideshow feature built in (sort of but I’ll get to that) I assumed that this would be a piece of cake (and why is something that is easy called a piece of cake anyway?). But it wasn’t as simple as I though it would be. Fortunately, I found some awesome resources to help me out.
Let’s step back for a second though. NextGen DOES have a slideshow but not ALL of the functionality is built in.
Lo-fi librarian mentioned MyJugaad.in, which is a tool to create an online slideshow of webpages. You can use any RSS feed, popular sources such as google news, a tag on del.icio.us, or a list of sites.
It seems as if all my projects recently involve using the Green Tweeter data but since the data is already compiled and the pipes have already been created it is an easy resource to use and the data is interesting and informative. So, I created two slideshows; one for the twitter feeds of the green users and the second is from the rss feeds of the blogs of the green twitter users.
The slide is changed every 60 seconds but that settings can be adjusted. There are also controls for Previous, Next and Pause and the shortcut keys for the settings are shown when you hover over the link. Continue …
Birthday Party Ideas
My daughter’s 6th birthday is tomorrow and we are having a party for her on Saturday. Her party is going to include classmates, gifts, cake and will have a Dora theme. I wanted to do something a little different this year but wasn’t quite sure what to do. It couldn’t involve anything expensive as we are on a limited budget since her father and I split up at the beginning of the year. Since the Wii has a slot for an SD card and a photo channel, I decided to create a slideshow of the first six years of her life and have it play on the television in the background during her birthday party. Birthday cakes are one of the most important things of interest in any birthday celebration. A birthday party with no tasty birthday cake will not make that event complete. Regardless of whether or not you are an adult or a kid, you would always be happy to have a cake around. Children are always full of life when they see cakes around and the more unique your cake is, the more your party becomes unique. Birthday cakes are usually of different types, depending on the ingredients used. People of different ages also have different tastes for them. For instance, kids usually like chocolate flavored cakes. The decorations and icing are always unique and striking and many mothers have always been very creative with the preparation of birthday cakes for their children. In the case of teenagers, they are a bit more mature and are not likely to go for a birthday cake with cartoon characters. Therefore, they like cakes which are simple in designs or cakes with styles such as bikes, cars, teen stars, chocolate bar, baseball, cakes, and so on. A birthday party is not complete without birthday cakes. Here you can easily find that eggless cakes are getting popular in Singapore for the birthday party. Organizing a birthday is an opportunity to show love for one another, either to a kid or an adult. An ordinary menu with cake is sufficient to make you have an ideal birthday party. It’s not necessary to spend much before people would know you have had a nice birthday party. Birthday cakes make the day complete.
Since my daughter is six and I have taken numerous pictures of her, going through them to create the slide show took a considerable amount of work. Fortunately, they are organized in folders by year and date on my computer. Continue …
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