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iPhotoToGallery, is an iPhoto plugin to export your photos to Gallery.

The latest version if iPhoto at the time of writing this entry is 0.52, with support for iPhoto5. iPhotoToGallery is still very incomplete but I used it without any problem.

The installation is very simple, just download the .zip and click on the iPhotoToGallery.pkg file. You can now run iPhoto and start exporting your photo to Gallery.

You can export your photo(s) by selecting the photos or album you want and then go to Share > Export. For the first time, you need to add your Gallery information to iPhoto (Yes, you do need to have a working installation of Gallery on a webserver).

Once your gallery is added, you can now upload photos/create album directly from iPhoto.

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The Golden Grey is a theme for WordPress, Content Management System. The theme is designed with webstandards technology (XHTML, and CSS). To use golden grey, make you sure you have a working installation of WordPress.

Once WordPress is installed, download Golden Grey and unzip it, you can upload all files into your wordpress directory in in wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. Now that you’ve finished uploading all the files, you need to login into your wordpress administration panel, go to Administration Panel > Presentation.

Requirement: WordPresss 1.5+ (It works with WordPress 2.0 and Widget Plugin) Price: $0 (Free!). Please consider leaving the credit and link to this site if you use the theme.

View demo of Golden Grey theme.

Download Golden Grey for WordPress

I am available for a custom blog design for your personal blog or business blog, please contact me

An essential upgrade for all Mozilla Thunderbird users has been released. Thunderbird 1.0.2 is a stability and security update. All users are recommended to download.

I was visiting an Apple Store today and I notice the wallpaper on the Powermac G5 is rotating (dissolving) every five seconds.

I knew about this feature a long time ago but I never bother to turn it on, since my desktop is empty and I never use them. But I realize, this is a very beautiful feature for demo.

To rotate your desktop wallpaper, go to Desktop & Screen Saver Preference pane and tick the Change picture option and select the time frame. You could also tick the random order option to randomize the wallpaper.

The latest Apple PowerBook G4 came with a new trackpad with scrolling capability. You can now scroll through documents or web pages easily by dragging two fingers over the trackpad. This blog entry will introduce you to iScroll2, a driver you can download and install to add two-finger scrolling capability on your older powerbook or ibook.

I recently started learning Japanese and I wanted to type Japanese characters on my Macintosh.

Choose Apple Menu (That is the blue apple logo on the top left-hand corner) > System Preferences, and click International (Under Personal). Go to the Input Menu tab (The third tab from the left) and select the Kotoeri Input Method. (Screenshot)

I selected the support for Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji Japanese Writing system.

Once finished, the Romaji, Hiragana, Katakana, language will be available under the input menu in menu bar. Go to the input menu on your menu bar and click on show input mode palette.

The input mode palette is floating somewhere on your screen, and lets you switch between English, Romaji, Hiragana/Kanji, Katakana. Clicking on the American (or Australian) flag will switch the input mode back into English.

I can now type using Japanese character on my Mac. Not all application support other languages though, you have to check the application manual to find out.

Most Macintosh application I use supports Japanese/Chinese character. The applications I tested to work with Japanese text input are Safari, Mail.app, Proteus, and TextEdit.

An external link is a link that goes from one website to another website, at different address.

For usability reason, a little icon is now displayed on the right side of external links within this site. So this is what internal links would look like and this is what external links would look like.

The trick to make external link to display an icon is easy. All I have to do is include a rel attribute with the value offsite to indicate external links.

Now, we need to style the links using CSS. Using the attribute selector allows us to style links with rel attribute.

The following Stylesheet is used to style my external links:

a[rel~="offsite"] {
    background: url(/img/offsite.png) no-repeat right;
    padding-right: 15px;
}

Resources: Attribute Selectors CSS 2.1

Mozilla Firefox is my favorite web browser. Many people I know are still using Internet Explorer and it’s very selfish if I don’t introduce them to Mozilla Firefox.

I decided to create a slideshow on Mozilla Firefox called Introducing Firefox: Rediscovering The Web. The slideshow is made using Keynote 2 from Apple’s iWork.

I decided to publish the slideshow on the web as a PDF document.

I found out a new Friendster Blog Service powered by TypePad. There are blog account levels.

• Friendster Blog Pro gives you unlimited number and allows you to customize your blog design with expert HTML control. 200 MB Storage, and 5 GB bandwidth / month
• Friendster Blog Plus gives you three blogs and allows you to maintain photo album
• Friendster Blog Basic is ad-free, more bandwidht and storage. No photo upload ability
• Friendster Blogs Free is of course free

You have to pick a username for your blog when you create it. The URL of your friendster is http://username.blogs.friendster.com/.

Once you created your blog, you’ll be able to create name for your blog, and customize the layout. Since I’m using the free account, I won’t be able to customize the HTML/CSS of the page. Friendster gave me four layout structure to choose:

• 2 Columns - Left navigation
• 2 Columns - Right navigation
• 3 Columns
• 1 Column

There are six design styles available for the blog. I chose the blue one and that’s it. Congratulations your new friendster blog has been created. You can also choose to tell all your first degree friends about your new blog.