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noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:14:00 +0000

How to Rename Files Quickly (using Excel and command Prompt)

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Read These instructions once, then follow along with the images.

Create a spreadsheet with 3 columns

column with current name
column with future name
paste in equation ="ren "&A1&" "&B1

Open the start menu, click in the search field and type CMD
Open the program called CMD, it should open a little black screen.
Go to the folder where the images exist. In the top bar, right-click folder name and select "copy address as text"
Back in the CMD program type CD then right click to paste the address that you just copied. Press enter
In your spreadsheet, copy the entire column 3 that includes the equations you made. It should resemble ren currentname.jpg goodname.jpg
Back in CMD right click and paste your equations in. it should automatically rename everything for you.

How-To: I'm Feeling Lucky Short Cut

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:45:00 +0000

Google's answers usually get me the best result first. Here is a chrome shortcut how to get to "i'm feeling lucky" first result!

1. Copy this URL:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&aq=f&oq=

2. Go to Chrome Settings

3. Go to Manage Search Engines

4. Scroll to bottom and you'll see blanks to create new

5. In first box type "I'm Feeling Lucky"

6. In second box type "iflucky" or "ifl" (whatever you type here will be your shortcut in the search bar.

7. In the third box paste the URL i asked you to copy

It should look like this image below.

Now it should work. Open a new tab and in the search bar type "ifl best waffles"

How to Rename Files using Excel (windows)

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:20:00 +0000

I sell lots of things to hardware stores. Retail stores keep track of items by their own internal number. We refer to those numbers as 'customer numbers' because we have lots of customers and customers each have their own numbers.

They each call them the SKU number aka STOCK KEEPING UNIT.

I had 450 image files listed by model number(our number) that needed to be changed to customer numbers(their number). Here's how i did it.

Create an excel spreadsheet with current filename(with file extension) in column A
Put the filename you want in column B.
Put an equation in column C that is "ren " and column A and " " and column B.

spreadsheet should look like this:

Current Filename	Filename You Want	="ren "&A1&" "&B1
10036.jpg	B000HJDBAU.pt01.jpg	ren 10036.jpg B000HJDBAU.pt01.jpg
10038.jpg	B000VRDIA6.pt01.jpg	ren 10038.jpg B000VRDIA6.pt01.jpg
10040.jpg	B000BQ7UW4.pt01.jpg	ren 10040.jpg B000BQ7UW4.pt01.jpg

After you have a completed the spreadsheet open CMD like this:

After the CMD is open, you need to open the folder where your images are. find your pictures and right click to 'copy address as text'

Back in the CMD type: CD [right click to paste the address that you just copied]

Now copy column C from your spreadsheet and paste into the CMD. It will find all the current filenames and change them to the ones you want!

How to Add an Alias to Outlook 365 / Exchange Hosted Email

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:49:00 +0000

My email used to be exchange, but we recently were moved over to outlook365, this post is to help people who use outlook365, but also people who think they're using exchange who are using outlook365.

I wanted to create some emails that automatically forward to other people in the office. Often companies use these 3:

info@example.com
sales@example.com
orders@example.com

First visit portal.microsoftonline.com - if you have never used this, you might not have the same capability.

Click "Home":
Click "Options":
Click "Manage Myself" and change to "My Organization"
Click "Distribution Groups"

Here is where you can Edit or Add new Alias Email Accounts on outlook365.

To Create New:

Click "New"
Display name - This is similar to account holder name. Just put "sales" or whatever, you can change this later.
Alias is the internal name for the group, should be unique and descriptive so everyone joining knows what group they're part of.
Email - This is where you select the name. put 'sales' or 'example'
create a simple description. this will help you in the long run.
Ownership - people that can edit the group
Membership - people that receive emails sent to the alias
Membership approval - you can change rules for who can be in the group.
Click Save!

For more info read this:
If link is private

Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Live@edu
Topic Last Modified: 2011-12-01
After you create a distribution group, you can view the properties of the group or make changes and set additional details in the Exchange Control Panel. Here's how:

Select Manage My Organization > Users & Groups > Distribution Groups.
In the Groups list, select the group you want to view or change.
After you have selected a group, click Details. You can view or change the following:
General This section provides basic information about the group.
- * Display name This name appears in the shared address book, on the To: line when e-mail is sent to this group, and in the Groups list. The display name is required and should be user-friendly so people recognize what it is. It also has to be unique in your domain.
  If you've implemented a group naming policy, the display name has to conform to the naming format defined by the policy.
- * Alias The name portion of the e-mail address that appears to the left of the @ symbol. It has to be unique in your domain. When a user types the alias in the To: line of an e-mail, it resolves to the group's display name.
- * E-mail address The e-mail address for the group. If you change it, it must be unique in your domain.
- Description Use this field to describe the group so people know what the purpose of the group is.
- Hide this group from the shared address book Select this check box if you don't want users to see this group in the shared address book. To send e-mail to this group, a sender has to type the group's e-mail address for this group in the To: or Cc: fields. Consider hiding security groups because they're typically used to assign permissions to group members and not to send e-mail.
Ownership Use this section to assign group owners. The group owner can add members to the group, approve or reject requests to join or leave the group, and approve or reject messages sent to the group.
- * Owners By default, the person who creates a group is the owner. All groups must have at least one owner. You can add owners by clicking Add. You can remove an owner by selecting the owner and then clicking Remove.
Membership Use this section to add or remove members. Group owners don't have to be members of the group.
- Members To add members, click Add. Select a user or other group and click Add. When you are finished adding members, click OK to return to Group properties. To remove members, select a member from the list and click Remove.
Membership Approval Use this section to specify whether approval is required for people to join or leave the group.
- Choose whether owner approval is required to join the group These settings apply to membership. Select one of the following settings:
  • Open: Anyone can join this group without being approved by the group owners
  • Closed: Members can be added only by the group owners. All requests to join will be rejected automatically
  • Owner Approval: All requests are manually approved or rejected by the owners If you select this option, the group owner or owners receive an e-mail requesting approval to join the group.
- Choose whether the group is open to leave Select one of the following settings:
  • Open: Anyone can leave this group without being approved by the group owners
  • Closed: Members can be removed only by the group owners. All requests to leave will be rejected automatically If you select this option, the group owner or owners receive an e-mail requesting approval to leave the group.
Delivery Management Use this section to manage who can send mail to this group.
- Only senders inside my organization Select this option to allow only senders in your organization to send messages to the group. This means that if someone outside of your organization sends an e-mail message to this group, it is rejected. This is the default setting.
- Senders inside and outside of my organization Select this option to allow anyone to send messages to the group.
  You can further limit who can send messages to the group by allowing only specific senders to send message to this group. Click Add and then select users, groups, or external contacts. If you add senders to this list, they are the only ones who can send mail to the group. Mail sent by anyone not in the list is rejected.
  Important If you have configured the group to allow only senders inside your organization to send messages to the group, e-mail sent from an external contact is rejected, even if they are added to this list.
  To remove a person or a group from the list, select them from the list and then click Remove.
Message Approval Use this section to set options for moderating the group. Moderators approve or reject messages sent to the group before they reach the group members.
- Messages sent to this group have to be approved by a moderator This check box isn't selected by default. If you select this check box, incoming messages are reviewed by the group moderators before delivery. Group moderators can approve or reject incoming messages.
- Group moderators To add group moderators, click Add. To remove a moderator, select the moderator, and then click Remove. If you have selected "Messages sent to this group have to be approved by a moderator" and you don't select a moderator, messages to the group are sent to the group owners for approval.
- Senders who don't require message approval To add people or groups that can bypass moderation for this group, click Add. To remove a person or a group, select the item, and then click Remove.
- Select moderation notifications Use this section to set how users are notified about message approval.
  • Notify all senders when their messages aren't approved This is the default setting. Notify all senders, inside and outside your organization, when their message isn't approved.
  • Notify senders in your organization only when their messages aren't approved When you select this option, only people or groups in your organization are notified when a message that they sent to the group isn't approved by a moderator.
  • Don't notify anyone when a message isn't approved When you select this option, notifications aren't sent to message senders whose messages aren't approved by the group moderators.
E-Mail Options Use this section to view the e-mail address for the group.
MailTip Use this section to add a MailTip to alert users of potential issues if they send a message to this recipient. A MailTip is text that is displayed in the infobar when this recipient is added to the To, Cc, or Bcc fields of a new e-mail message. For more information, see Configure MailTips.
For example, you could add a MailTip to large groups to warn potential senders that their message will be sent to lots of people.
When you're finished, click Save to keep your changes or click Cancel to close the dialog box.

Something Ventured - Venture Capital Documentary

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:20:00 +0000

Something Ventured is a great ride through the 50's, 60's, and 70's of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Its the techcrunch and pandodaily of our time because it eloquently frames the businesses and deals in a format comparable to current companies. You can tell that money and value grows in the same pace as memory grows in technology. it doubles every 18 months. if one company is worth 50million today, the next biggest company will be double.

ok maybe thats a stretch. but you can tell that powerpoint was the instagram or siri of our time. being purchased and swallowed into huge companies to become giant parts of the business.

there are always businesses that have had bullshit ideas that pivoted and created a valuable business. There are also genius ideas that truly satisfy a huge need and reduce friction for current lifestyles.

Basically, its a great documentary for anyone that reads techcrunch/venturebeat/pandodaily/mashable/AOL(jk)...

Learning Python

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Google put out some videos about learning python. A decent tutorial and discussion.

Setup and materials

Lecture Videos

Godaddy edit wp-config.php file

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:44:00 +0000

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The only reason you should edit your wp-config.php is if you have recently updated your database password.

If you're using using godaddy, click "My Account" then "launch" your web host.

click the large button that says "FTP* File Manager"

edit "Page Size: 25" to "Page size: 50" and find wp-config.php, make sure you don't select wp-config-sample.php

click the edit button.

Set Database Password

Replace yourpasswordhere, with the your password, e.g. MyPassWord.

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'MyPassWord'); // Example MySQL password

Now you can go back and use phpMyAdmin to edit your wordpress database

the complete guide is Delete all Comments from wordpress hosted on godaddy

Resetting your mySQL database password with Godaddy

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:36:00 +0000

You probably got here from

To Reset Your MySQL Database Password

Log in to your Account Manager.
Click Web Hosting.
Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
In the Databases section of the Hosting Control Center, click the MySQL icon.
Click the pencil icon next to the database you would like to change the password for to open its edit features.
Click the Password icon in the menu bar.
In the Update Password window, enter the new password you would like to use in the Enter New Password and Confirm New Password fields. Click OK

The password for the selected database will take up to one hour to change. Use this new password to log into the Database Manager of this database.

NOTE: If you use a MySQL-based application, such as WordPress, you must update your connection strings to use the new password.

how to delete all comments from wordpress on godaddy

Using phpMyAdmin to Manage Mysql databases

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:31:00 +0000

This is one step in helping you delete comments on wordpress. I'll try to make a master guide.

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To Manage Your Databases Using phpMyAdmin

Log in to your Account Manager.
Click Web Hosting.
Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
In the Databases section of the Hosting Control Center, click MySQL.
Click Manage via phpMyAdmin for the database you want to manage with phpMyAdmin.
Enter your user name and password. The user name is the same as the database name.
TIP: If you don't know your password, see Resetting Your MySQL Database Password for information about changing it.
Click Go.

When you're inside your MySQL database, delete all comments from wordpress.

How to Delete All Comments From Wordpress hosted on Godaddy using myPHPadmin

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:11:00 +0000

So far i have not seen any good plugins to delete old comments. My website thatmusicblog.com was on autopilot for a year without akismet and racked up literally 484,000 comments. I was not going to go through deleting them 20 at a time, and all the plugins i tried just didn't work.

After reading about myPHPadmin, i was slightly scared to log into the backend and send a script to the mySQL database.

Its easier than it sounds.

log into godaddy
launch hosting control center and select databases > mySQL

If you know your database password, skip to #2. if you don't, continue

if you don't know your username and password, you'll have to change it. IF YOU CHANGE IT, you must also go into the FTP file manager and tell wordpress you've changed your password, i'll explain how below.

click the pencil on the far right, next to "Manage via phpMyAdmin"

click the password button on top nav

put in a new password. you must remember this password and put it into the wp-config.php file.

hover over content, right click "FTP file manager" and "open in new window"

change the "page size:25" to "page size: 50"

scroll down until you see "wp-config.php", click it and select "EDIT" on the top nav bar

THIS FILE IS VERY IMPORTANT, DON'T FUCK THIS UP...

press ctrl +f to bring up the find function and type the word 'password' without quotes

here you will see a line: define('DB_PASSWORD', 'old_password');

update 'old_password' with the new password you created. make sure quotes are included on the file.

if you changed anything else, you fucked up.

click the little "save" icon on top left.

Select Manage via phpMyAdmin

Login with username password

click the SQL icon to enter code, it will bring up a new window.

Below are 3 different ways to edit your comments.

After each query it will update another window, and it will say "xyz fields updated in abc seconds"

You can refresh your website comments section to see if changes are happening.

Here are different commands you could enter:

SQL Command to Delete all Pending Comments In Wordpress:
Code: delete from wp_comments WHERE comment_approved ="0";

SQL Command to Delete all Approved Comments in Wordpress:
Code: delete from wp_comments WHERE comment_approved ="1";

SQL Command to Delete ALL Comments In Wordpress:
Code: delete from wp_comments;

Design, Prototyping, and Manufacturing of Physical Products Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:33:00 +0000

Below is a Design, Prototyping, and Manufacturing of Physical Products Guide that i found on Hackernews that i wanted to save for eternity.

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Best Cheap Design Package:

Ailbre Design (as low as $50) http://www.alibre.com/
I used this before Solidworks, if the design isn’t extremely complicated this is the software to use. Make sure to find a coupon, they offer 50% off about every other month. There are 3 different price points depending on what you are doing. Very active community that helps newcomers learn.

Enclosure Prototyping in the US:

http://www.protomold.com/ or http://www.quickparts.com/
I tend to use Quickparts more, but Protomold is also very good. All you do is upload the design and they price it. Also Quickparts offers samples that show you different finishes, materials, and designs problems to avoid. If new, definitely order one. Design Guidelines: http://www.protomold.com/Resources.aspx Shows you the general rules on materials and design.

Outsourcing Design Work:

http://elance.com/ or http://guru.com/ Excellent locations to find extra help, only accept companies after you have talked to them (I suggest IM for overseas) and only if they have sample projects and references within the US. Place a keyword at the end which they must reference in the bid so you know they read your requirements.

Electronics Prototyping in US:

This really depends on the type of parts, the mount, and quantity. Generally though I use http://www.screamingcircuits.com/. For just a couple there are a few cheaper options. Electronics Layout: http://www.cadsoftusa.com/index.htm It’s cheap and gets the job done for simple projects. They have a free version to test.

Parts Supplier:

Small scale: http://digikey.com/ Large scale: http://arrownac.com/ If you get in touch with a sale or tech rep at Arrow they can be a great help in putting you in touch with oversea producers. Arrow’s website sucks so just find your local rep and call them.

Producing in China:

There aren’t really any go to firms, it depends on what you are building. For rapid injection and electronic assembly I have used http://icomold.com, they even do design and prototyping. The design work is done in the US while the manufacturing is completed in China. They sell steel injection molds for the same price as a lower quality aluminum mold in the US. The general rule when producing in China is to NEVER have a product completely assembled in 1 factory unless you want copies going out the back door. How to do it:

Have the device produced in 1-2 locations without the software
Have the boxes produced
Ship the unboxed products to the US, (LA)
Hire a firm to box the product and flash the hardware If there are more questions I would be happy to try and answer them.

Links: Best Cheap Design Package: http://www.alibre.com
Enclosure Prototyping in the US: http://www.protomold.com or http://www.quickparts.com
Outsourcing Design Work: http://elance.com or http://guru.com
Electronics Prototyping in US: http://www.screamingcircuits.com
Electronics Layout: http://www.cadsoftusa.com
Parts Supplier: Small scale: http://digikey.com Large scale: http://arrownac.com
Producing in China: http://icomold.com -----

How to Stop getting Facebook Notifications from Close Friends

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:33:00 +0000

I recently saw a facebook popup to "Star" some friends to indicate they're close.

I didn't realize that i'd get a notification for every single post they made. WOW.

Here's how to turn off notifications:

Log into facebook

Now on the left click down to view your lists! You can use this link if you want >>> https://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/lists

Click the notifications button and turn them OFF.

Xbox is the Best Opportunity Microsoft has to remain a Consumer Company

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:01:00 +0000

People are constantly finding more ways to spend less money on cable/comcast without giving up the content. All the content providers and networks are making fantastic content but none of them are pushing it out there.

Eventually things we dream about will come true, our questions will be answered.

Why can't i watch this hockey game on the internet. Why can't i watch it on my xbox? why can't i watch it on my PS3/ROKU/boxee/etc.

I think there needs to be an open-source distributor, who literally only keeps enough money to pay the bills and expand.

Facebook Photos Screensaver Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:49:00 +0000

I wanted to share this windows screensaver that pulls in recent facebook photos. Its called photogroupr and it pulls in recent facebook photos and creates a screensaver for your windows PC.

You can create groups so that recent photos from everyone in the group are uploaded to all the screensavers

http://www.photogroupr.com

How to Batch Merge photos by rendering them as image sequences

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:55:00 +0000

I was wondering How to Batch Merge photos by rendering them as image sequences. A friend gave instructions.

Family Computer Repair Man? Get Soluto

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:31:00 +0000

I saw this video, then ignored and badly needed to find it three weeks later
Family Computer Repair Man?

Soluto Intro from Soluto on Vimeo.

In Header Text

Help my parents update their computers remotely

update my computer remotely

cloud computer management

Computer updates as a service

Family Computer Repair Man

Family CTO?

Hate fixing parents computers

Update parents computers for them

Are you the person that family, friends and colleagues call with a problem with their pc?

Then we've got somethign that will make you and them happier.

soluto lets you help other people with their PCs, to see whats frustrating them, before they call you to complain

make their pc as cool as yours. Silently upgrade stuff to stop nagging reminders.

spot when hardware repairs are needed.

install the apps that no-one should be without.

and chop their boot to get their PC started faster and running smoother. you can do all this even if their computer is off or in another country. They don't need to do a thing. No buttons, no NEXT NEXT. It all happens as if magic. Techcrunch article about soluto

The Future of ECommerce 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:50:00 +0000

I get excited about Ecommerce, because there's so much potential! we have smartphones suggesting restaurants when we walk by them on the street, but 99.99% of retail stores don't have active live inventory updated on their ecommerce stores. I'd say i've never seen a retail store that did this because it hasn't been easy. Behold the future; Your warehouse-manager/Receiving-clerk will scan-in inventory as they normally do, and it will instantly be published to your website. Anyone following that item can be notified. The copy/content is pulled from other websites. Basic product knowledge is not protected by copyright, as it is common knowledge. When someone buys online, a big red light will appear, or a sound will be made on the stereo, or something similar that the owner chooses. That way they'll know to remove an item from the shelf. the label will be printed, the box will be suggested.

Use Spree as your E-Commerce Platform

Pay someone to install Spree POS to your store.

Now you have a live POS that keeps inventory active with your online store.

PhotoQ Archive - i love this plugin too much

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:20:00 +0000

PhotoQ by Manu is one of the best plugins i've ever used for wordpress. It lets you Bulk upload photos into a queue into their own posts. ITs amazing. Sadly he has stopped working on it. Below is the a copy of his content in case he stops paying for his hosting.

PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin

PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you are a photo enthusiast or simply have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch image upload functionality. PhotoQ places uploaded photos in a queue which gives you a convenient way to manage photos to be posted. The plugin then gives you the possibility to have the top of the queue automatically posted at a given interval.
PhotoQ was designed to automate and simplify your photo posting process as much as possible. It takes away the hassle of browsing uploaded image files and embedding them into posts: You simply upload your photo to the queue and enter desired information about the photo. PhotoQ then automatically generates the post based on this information. PhotoQ is also able to automatically generate custom field content required by your theme: Gone are the days when you had to remember special post formatting instructions when publishing your photo posts. PhotoQ is compatible with virtually any WordPress theme. For your convenience it comes already bundled with configuration presets for some of the more popular photo centric themes.
To make a long story short, “WordPress + PhotoQ = Photoblog”. In addition to what is described above, PhotoQ also includes EXIF support, watermarking, batch editing and multiple image sizes.
An example of a photoblog running on WordPress and PhotoQ can be found at http://www.whoismanu.com.

Feature List

Convenient queue-based photo management
Bulk uploading of photos to your photoblog
Hassle-free, fully automated posting of photo posts
Integrates with virtually any existing theme
Zero-configuration presets for some of the most popular photo centric themes
Compatible with WordPress Site Networks (new)
Advanced Support for EXIF metadata, automatic generation of post information (e.g., title, date, tags) from EXIF and IPTC data (new)
Photo Watermarking to protect your photos
Possibility to add custom metadata to photo posts
Automatic generation of thumbnails and alternative image sizes
Future-proof thanks to automatic updating of all posted photos with only a few clicks
Automatic posting through cronjobs
Integration with Lightbox, Shutter Reloaded and similar libraries/plugins
Available in several languages through i18n support

Screenshots

Requirements

PhotoQ 1.9 requires at least WordPress 3.0. PhotoQ 1.9 has been tested successfully up to WordPress 3.0. As of version 1.9, PhotoQ also works with WordPress Site Networks (replaces WPMU support added in version 1.8.3). While most of PhotoQ’s features work in exactly the same way in a single install and in a Site Network, there still are a few differences that are described in the Site Network section of this documentation.
If you insist in using an older WordPress version, please look for older PhotoQ versions that are compatible. Note however that I stopped developing the old branches, so there will be no updates/support in this case.
PhotoQ 1.9 requires a web browser with at least Flash Player 9 installed and has been successfully tested under Firefox 3 and Safari under MacOSX; Firefox 3 under Windows XP. There is, however, no reason to believe it won’t also work with other common combinations. It would be nice if the first people who test it with other browser/platform combinations could drop me a line or post a short comment. This would allow me to extend this compatibility list.
PhotoQ requires at least PHP 5.1.2. As of version 1.9 support for PHP 4 has been discontinued and PhotoQ will no longer work under PHP 4. Further, PhotoQ only runs on web servers with PHP safe_mode turned off. If your web hosting provider has safe_mode turned on you can try to ask them to turn it of. Most web hosting providers will disable safe_mode for your web page on request. In addition, PhotoQ needs either GD or ImageMagick to be present on the server for image manipulation.

Installation

Get the latest version of the PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin.
Unzip the downloaded file, you should end up with a folder called “photoq-photoblog-plugin”.
Upload the “photoq-photoblog-plugin” folder to your “plugin” directory (wp-content/plugins).
If you plan to use the automatic posting capability, move the file “photoq-photoblog-plugin/wimpq-cronpost.php” to the same directory as your wp-config.php file.
You now have to setup a directory on your web server where your image files will be stored (called “imgdir” directory from here on). By default this is the directory “wp-content”. If you do not stick to the default one you have to create your directory now.
Make sure that the file permissions of the “imgdir” directory are such that the plugin is allowed to write to it (otherwise, uploaded photos cannot be stored).
PhotoQ also needs a “cache” directory to store temporary files. This is the directory
‘wp-content/photoQCache’. If PhotoQ has the permissions to write to ‘wp-content’ the “cache directory will be created automatically. Otherwise you have to create the ‘photoQCache’ directory now and make sure that the file permissions are such that the plugin is allowed to write to it.
If your web hosting provider enabled the mod_security Apache module on your web server, you need to add the following directives to your .htaccess file in order for batch image uploads to work:SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off See the Troubleshooting section for more information.
You are almost done. Just go to the “Plugins” WordPress admin panel and activate the Photoq plugin.

Upgrading

If you use PhotoQ in combination with the iQ2 Photoblog Theme, please upgrade iQ2 to the latest version before upgrading PhotoQ. If you don’t it may happen that, PhotoQ cannot be activated while the old iQ2 theme is running.
If you upgrade from a version prior to 1.5.2, please read the instructions in the post about PhotoQ version 1.5.2. Note that as of PhotoQ 1.6.5 upgrading functions are under “Settings->PhotoQ->Maintenance”.

Using PhotoQ – The Basics

Now that you successfully installed PhotoQ, you are ready to go. First you need to setup some of PhotoQ’s settings:

In the “Settings” panel of the WordPress Administration you should now have a subpanel labeled “PhotoQ”. Go there.
If you did not stick to the default “imgdir” during installation, you need to specify your choice under “Further Options->Image Directory”.
If you missed anything during installation or if your web server is missing some requirements you will see a warning at the top. The warning is there for a reason, so if you see it please try to fix it before going on ;-)

Next, you need to setup PhotoQ to work with your theme. In particular, PhotoQ needs to now what image sizes it should automatically create and how these should be displayed in your theme. If the theme you are using boasts a PhotoQ preset there is nothing simpler than that:

If the theme preset is bundled with PhotoQ go to step 4 (see “More on Views and Themes” for a list of themes with bundled preset).
Create a folder named “myPhotoQPresets” inside “wp-content” (make sure PhotoQ has read permissions on the content of this folder).
Place the preset file in the “myPhotoQPresets” folder.
Select your theme in the drop-down list under “Settings->PhotoQ->Auto Configuration” and hit “Load Theme Preset”.
That’s it, you can go to the fun part below and start to fill your photo queue.

If your theme does not yet have a preset, or if you want to customize your theme, here are the basics for setting up the theme display related settings of PhotoQ:

For every photo you post, PhotoQ can automatically generate alternative image sizes. Per default it generates two image sizes called “thumbnail” and “main” in addition to the “original” photo. With the “Image Sizes” option you specify their respective dimensions as well as the desired image quality. Unless you decide to crop the photo PhotoQ always keeps the proportions of the generated image sizes the same as in the original photo. Also note that PhotoQ will not generate images bigger than the original. To fit in with a wide range of photoblog templates, PhotoQ gives you three possibilities to define dimensions:
- “Maximum Dimensions”: you define a rectangle of maximum width and maximum height. Whatever constraint is met first determines the value of the other dimension. If you check the “crop” checkbox, the proportions of the original image are not kept but the photo is cropped to the exact width and height given.
- “Smallest Side”: you fix the smallest side of the thumbnail to some value and have PhotoQ adapt the other side accordingly.
- “Landscape Width”: you fix a maximal width. If your thumbnails orientation is “landscape”, it will have this width. If your thumbnails orientation is “portrait”, its height will be adjusted such that it matches the height of a photo with “landscape” orientation.
- “Original Size”: the photo is not resized.
If you think that the three provided image sizes “original”, “thumbnail” and “main” are not enough for you, you can add further image sizes by entering a name under “Name of new image size” and clicking on “Add Image Size”.
If you are all confused now, I suggest that you leave the default options for now and play with the other options later. Also forget about the “Watermark” and “Hide original folder” options for now, they will be explained later.
PhotoQ uses the two built-in WordPress template tags the_content and the_excerpt, that are also present in any regular WordPress post. Under “Views” you tell PhotoQ what to place in the content part of a post and what to place in the excerpt. For now we stick to the “Single Photo” option. The dropdown menus show the image sizes that are available and that we defined in the steps before. I suggest that for now you choose “main” for the_content and “thumbnail” for the_excerpt to place your main image in the content part and a smaller thumbnail version in the_excerpt. All the options are described in the “More on Views and Themes” section of this post.
In the section for the_content you have an option to “Include photo description in post content”. If you check this option, the description of the photo is included in the content part of the post, just after the photo. The description is then placed in a tag with class name “photoQDescr” to allow for easy styling via CSS. If you do not check this option, the description is only placed in a custom field with name “photoQDescr”. In short: if you do not know how to or do not want to tweak themes, check this option. If you know how to access a custom field from a theme and want greater flexibility, don’t check this option.
“Further Options->Enable Batch Uploads”: Allows you to toggle the batch upload capability on and off.
Skip the other options for now and click on “Save Changes” to, well, save the changes you made so far.
Note that whenever you change a setting that affects the way a photo post looks (e.g. changing an image size, changing a view, changing the watermark), PhotoQ will update all previously posted photos to maintain a consistent look throughout your blog. Depending on the settings you changed, the number and size of your photos (“do I really need to upload a twelve megapixel original photo to my blog? wouldn’t a downsized version do the job as well?”), this update process may take a while. So once you click on “Save Changes”, do not interrupt the process, rebuilding all your photos might take a while. If a photo post does not get rebuilt properly, you can rebuild it manually by clicking “Rebuild” in the “PhotoQActions” column under “Posts->Edit”.

Now comes the fun part, you are ready to manage your photo queue:

In the “Posts” panel of the WordPress Administration you should now have a subpanel labeled “PhotoQ”. Go there.
As you have not yet uploaded any photos the queue is empty. To upload a photo click the button “Add photo to queue”.
I think that the upload process is pretty self-explanatory. If you have batch uploads enabled, click on “Select photos…”. You can then choose several photos (via the standard cmd-click on MacOSX and ctrl-click on Windows) in the “Select Files” dialog box that pops up. The selected photos are queued for mass upload. Once the dialog box is closed, uploading starts automatically. If you have batch uploads disabled, the process is similar only that you choose the file to upload via the “Browse” button.
Once the upload is completed you are presented with a panel where you can enter information that is common to all the photos you just uploaded. This batch editing is especially useful for entering tags and categories. Once you entered the common information (if any) click on the “Enter Info” button.
You now get the chance to add information that is specific to a single photo. Choose the categories for the photo, add a title, a short description and some tags if you want. If the title is too long you might want to enter a shorter slug. Sometimes it is nice to see a photo in detail when entering information about it. PhotoQ easily allows this: if you click on a thumbnail, the corresponding photo will open in all its beauty in a new window. Once you entered the desired information, hit “Save Batch Info”. Don’t worry all the information can still be changed at a later stage.
If everything went smoothly, you should now see the photos you just uploaded in the queue. You can add other photos to the queue if you like.
Each entry in the queue can be edited by clicking on “Edit”. This gives you the possibility to alter all the fields.
Entries in the queue can be easily reordered via drag-and-drop.
You can remove photos from the queue by clicking on “Delete”.
To publish the photo at the top of your queue to your photoblog, hit “Post top of queue”. PhotoQ then automatically generates a post according to your settings and the information you entered.
The entry at the top of your queue should now be removed from the queue and appear as a new post on your photoblog.
Check the result directly on your photoblog or in the “Posts->Edit” section of the WordPress Administration panel.
Published posts can be edited through the standard WordPress post editing. There you also have the possibility to replace a published photo by uploading a new one.
PhotoQ also has a dashboard widget that shows you the status of your queue at a glance.

More on Views and Themes

The laziest option when it comes to WordPress themes for PhotoQ is to use a theme that has a corresponding PhotoQ preset and to setup PhotoQ via the auto-configuration option described above. The following popular themes have presets that are already bundled with PhotoQ (Are you a theme author and would you like to see your theme in this list? Read on here.):

The rest of this section explains how to use PhotoQ with any existing theme and what you need to know should you decide to build your own. PhotoQ only relies on custom fields and standard WordPress template tags like the_content and the_excerpt. It should therefore not be too difficult to use virtually any WordPress theme with PhotoQ. In almost all cases you should not even have to adapt the theme at all, just choosing the correct PhotoQ settings should be enough.With the Views Setting (under “Settings->PhotoQ->Views”), you define which image size and what information PhotoQ places in the content part and what it places in the excerpt part of a post (we’ll call content and excerpt views from here on).
In addtion to the default “content” and “excerpt” views, you can define your own custom views by entering a name for the view to be created and hitting “Add new” in the Views settings. In your theme you can then use the the_content and the_excerpt template tags to show the respective default view. Information placed in your custom views is added to a custom field with the same name as the view. To display custom views in your theme, you thus display the corresponding custom field. We are now going to have a look at the different view options:

“Empty, don’t manage” (content and excerpt only): Pretty self-explanatory, tells PhotoQ to not put anything in the corresponding view.
“Single Photo”: A single photo is placed in the view. You choose the image size to be used from the drop-down menu. The corresponding tag has the CSS class attribute “PhotoQImg”.
“Image Link”: Instead of a single photo, an image link is displayed. With the drop-down menus you choose the image size that is displayed on the link as well as the target image it links to. This allows for integration with libraries like Lightbox that show JavaScript pop-up images. Just install, e.g., the Shutter Reloaded plugin, check this option and see what happens. You can specify what special attributes that are needed by the JavaScript library should be added to the link. The default option works for Lightbox and Shutter Reloaded. The tag inside the link has CSS class “photoQLinkImg”.
“Freeform”: This is the most powerful option, giving you complete control over how you want to format your view. You can define whatever HTML code you would like to have displayed in the view. PhotoQ also defines a list of placeholders (shorttags) that you can add:
- [title]: is expanded to the title of the post
- [descr]: is expanded to the photo description
- [exif]: the EXIF information associated to the photo formatted according to the EXIF formatting options.
- [imgUrl|sizeName]: the URL of the photo. You additionally have to specify which image size you want the URL of. E.g. [imgUrl|main] to get the URL of the original photo.
- [imgPath|sizeName]: the path to the photo on the webserver.
- [imgWidth|sizeName]: the width of the photo.
- [imgHeight|sizeName]: the height of the photo.
- One shorttag with the same name as the field for every PhotoQ Meta Field that you defined.
As an example, assume you have a view called “mainLink” that uses the following freeform option: [imgUrl|main]“>[title] ( [imgWidth|main] x [imgHeight|main] ). To every photo you post, PhotoQ will thus add a custom field with name “mainLink” that contains a link to the (main image size version) of the photo, the link’s text being the title of the post, followed by the dimensions of the photo. In your theme you can show this link with the usual call to something like get_post_meta().
“Photo Description”: For the content view you can inline the photo description. If you choose to do so, the description is not only stored in the “photoQDescr” custom field but a tag containing the description and having a CSS class name “photoQDescr” is added after the single photo (image link, respectively).
“Exif Meta Data”: For the content view you can also inline EXIF information. If you choose to do so an unordered list with selected EXIF tags is displayed at the end of the post. See the EXIF section for more information.

With every post, PhotoQ also stores a number of custom fields that you can use in your templates. We have already seen some of them like “photoQDescr”. To display a custom fields in your theme you can for example use the WordPress function get_post_meta. Example: ID, 'photoQDescr', true); ?> Here is a list of custom fields provided by PhotoQ for every photo post:

“photoQDescr”: Contains the description of the photo.
“photoQPath”: Contains the path of the original image. Never remove this, it is crucial for the functioning of PhotoQ.
“photoQImageSizes”: Contains an associative array (key = name of image size) with info on the image sizes. This allows easy access to the different image sizes from a template. For every image size there are the following fields: ‘imgTag’, ‘imgUrl’, ‘imgPath’, ‘imgWidth’, ‘imgHeight’. I guess the names are pretty self explanatory. To output the tag of the “main” image size you could do something like: $sizes = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'photoQImageSizes', true); echo $sizes['main']['imgTag'];
“photoQExif” and “photoQExifFull”: See below under “EXIF Support”.
One custom field per “Meta Field”, see below under “Meta Fields”.

Theme Authors – Create a Preset for your Theme

If you want your users to benefit from PhotoQ auto-configuration, you, as a theme author, can easily create presets for your theme:

Configure PhotoQ to your liking.
Once you are happy with how it interacts with your theme, go to “Settings->PhotoQ->Auto Configuration”.
Fill in the form by providing information about your theme. All information is optional, but it might help your users as well as myself if you enter all the information accurately.
Once you hit “Create Theme Preset”, PhotoQ generates an XML file that contains all your current settings that are relevant for how your posts are displayed. In particular these are all the “ImageSizes” settings, all the “Views” settings, all the “Meta Fields” that you defined and the “Exif Formatting Options”. Further, you also have two checkboxes that allow you to additionally include the “PhotoQ Default Category” and “PhotoQ Default Tags” options, if they are required by your theme.
Your users can place the generated XML file in a folder called “MyPhotoQPresets” that they create inside “wp-content” (PhotoQ needs read access to this folder, of course). The preset then shows up in the list of presets.
You can also send me a pointer to the XML file, I might then include it as a default in future PhotoQ versions.
Of course, even if you are not a theme author planning to release a preset, creating a preset is also a simple means of saving the current display related PhotoQ settings, such that you can reload them later.

EXIF/IPTC Support

PhotoQ has built-in support for displaying EXIF and IPTC metadata added to your photos by your digital camera. Whenever you upload a photo, PhotoQ learns about EXIF tags (all of the following applies to IPTC tags as well, they are both treated in exactly the same way; for simplicity we will solely use the term “EXIF tag” to denote both.) present in the photo. For every photo posted, PhotoQ stores two custom fields along with the post.

“photoQExif”: You can select which EXIF tags to include in this field by dragging EXIF tags from the “deselected” list to the “selected” list under “Settings->PhotoQ->Exif”. You can also move tags between these two lists by clicking the corresponding “Switch Sides” link. EXIF tags will appear in the custom field in the order they have in the “selected” list. They can be reordered via drag-and-drop. For every EXIF tag you can also choose a custom display name. This allows you to e.g. display “DateTimeOriginal” as “Date” in your theme.A new cool feature is the possibility to automatically generate WordPress tags from EXIF metadata. If you e.g. check the “Create post tags from EXIF data” check-box of the “Make” and “ApertureValue” EXIF tags, PhotoQ will automatically add WordPress tags “f/2.8″ and “Canon” to the post of a photo that was shot with a Canon at f/2.8.For every available tag, you can also see a value in parentheses next to its name. These values are example values found in one of the photos you uploaded and are simply there to give you a better idea of what the corresponding EXIF tag is about.The custom field is formatted according to the settings under “Exif Formatting Options”. By default it has the following structure of an unordered list allowing for easy CSS styling: tag name tag value
“photoQExifFull”: This custom field contains an associative PHP array (with keys corresponding to EXIF tags) containing all the EXIF data present in the photo. You can use this in your theme if you wish to have more flexibility than with the unordered list in “photoQExif”.

Watermarking

To protect your photos, PhotoQ gives you the possibility to add a watermark. Watermarking settings are found under “Settings->PhotoQ->Watermarking”. I think that the options are quite self-explanatory:

Upload an image file to be used as watermark.
Select position, opacity and margin from edges.
For each image size defined under “Settings->PhotoQ->Image Sizes”, decide whether it should show the watermark or not via the “Add watermark to all images of this size” checkbox.
Note that watermarks are not applied to the original images you uploaded. If you want to show a watermarked version of your photos in original size, you have to create another image size where you check both the “Original Size” radio button and the watermarking checkbox.
If you don’t want people to have access to your non-watermarked original photo, you can check the “Hide original folder” option under “Settings->PhotoQ->Image Sizes”. PhotoQ then places original photos in folder with a name that is hard to guess instead of the standard ‘original’ folder, hiding your original photos from unwanted access.

Meta Fields

If you want to add more information to your photo posts than just the title and description provided by default, you have the possibility to do so via “Meta Fields”. Assume you want to associate each photo with the place where the photo was taken:

Go to “Settings->PhotoQ->Meta Fields” in the WordPress Administration Panel.
Click “Add Meta Field”.
Give it a name, e.g. “place” and hit “Add Field”.
For every photo you upload you will now have an additional field called “place” where you can enter the desired information. Once posted, the field is saved as a custom field with the same name.
The list of Meta Fields can be edited by clicking on “Rename” or “Delete”.
The three options “Upon Add/Delete/Rename” define whether changes you make to a Meta Field are also applied to the corresponding Custom Field of already posted photos. Example: Assume you already posted 20 photos and only then decide to add a new Meta Field called “place”. If you check “Upon Add, Add to already posted as well”, a Custom Field named “place” (with an empty value) will be added to all of the already posted photos as well.

Automatic Posting Via Cronjobs

PhotoQ allows you to have the top of your queue posted at regular intervals. This is especially useful if you go on a vacation and still want your photoblog to go on. Just fill up the queue before you leave and have PhotoQ do the rest. To set up automatic posting, you need to do the following:

Set the frequency at which the posts should occur. This can be set in “Settings->PhotoQ->Further Options->Automatic Posting”.
Remember where on your web server you saved the file “wimpq-cronpost.php”.
Setup a cronjob to execute “wimpq-cronpost.php” at your desired interval. Don’t worry, most often your webhost will set this up for you if you tell him/her the URL of your “wimpq-cronpost.php” file and when and how often you want the cronjob to be executed.
Upon each execution of “wimpq-cronpost.php”, PhotoQ checks whether the last post occurred more than X hours ago (where X is the value you set in the PhotoQ Options panel). If so, the top of your queue is posted automatically.
It might thus be a good idea to set the PhotoQ cron job frequency slightly lower than the interval of the actual cron job. E.g., assume you want a post once a day. Setup your cron job to execute the “wimpq-cronpost.php” file once a day at the desired time and set the “cronjob runs every x hours” in the “PhotoQ Options” to “23h”.
One execution of the cron job can post multiple photos if you check “Use settings of second post button for automatic posting.” In this case you can set the number of photos to post in the “Second Post Button” settings under “Further Options”.
You can also add all photos in the FTP upload folder automatically to the queue when the cronjob runs. This can be useful on a fully automated site where you have some mechanism to automatically upload photos to the FTP directory, and you want its content automatically posted. To do so you need to check “When cronjob runs, automatically add FTP uploads to queue.” and FTP uploads need to be enabled and configured as well of course. Also make sure that PhotoQ has write permissions to the FTP directory, otherwise it is not able to move the photos from the FTP directory to the queue but it will only copy them and reattempt to move them again the next time the cronjob is executed.
Note: If your webhost does not allow you to setup your own cronjob you might be able to do something similar with a WordPress plugin such as WP-Cron (I have not tested this, so should you be able to make PhotoQ work together with such a plugin, please drop me a line).
A neat alternative solution to the above has been brought to my attention by Phil from halfmad.com. If your webhost does not allow cronjobs you can alter the WordPress index.php file in the following way: require('./wp-blog-header.php'); ?>This then emulates a pseudo-cron executed every time a user visits your website. Thanks Phil, for pointing this out.
A nice tutorial on how to setup a cronjob for WordPress and PhotoQ was written by Jay Versluis. Thanks a lot!

`More Options`


The following options are not explained elsewhere in this post. They 
can all be found under “Settings->PhotoQ->Further Options”.


“ImageMagick Path”: Here you can set the path to the ImageMagick 
convert binary on your webserver. If you set this path, PhotoQ will use 
ImageMagick instead of the GD library. A note shows you whether the path
 you entered is correct. Depending on the amount of memory assigned to 
PHP and the size of your photos, you may have to configure ImageMagick 
for PhotoQ to work properly.
Import photos uploaded via FTP. The option “FTP Upload” lets you 
enable importing photos from a specified directory on your server. Once 
enabled, you get a new button “Import from ftp directory…” when adding 
photos to your queue. A click on the buttons leads to the FTP import 
screen where you can choose which photos from the ftp directory PhotoQ 
should import and where you can also enter common info for the photos to
 be imported. Note that depending on whether PhotoQ has write 
permissions to the ftp directory it will copy (if it doesn’t have write 
permission) or move (if it does) the selected files from the ftp 
directory to the queue.
Publish several photos from the queue at once. In the PhotoQ 
management panel (“Posts->PhotoQ”) there is a second post button to 
the left of the “Post Top of Queue…” button. With the “Second Post 
Button” option you can specify how many photos are published at once if 
you hit this button.
Roles and Capabilities: As of version 1.7, PhotoQ supports WordPress
 Roles and Capabilities. The following roles are allowed to use PhotoQ: 
“administrator”, “editor” and “author”. Administrators are the only ones
 allowed to change PhotoQ Settings. All three roles are allowed to 
access the queue. However, authors are only allowed to edit/delete the 
photos they uploaded to the queue themselves. Additionally, PhotoQ 
defines the following three capabilities: The capability…

…to reorder the queue
…to use the primary post button to publish posts
…to use the secondary post button to publish posts

For both the editor and the author role you can decide whether to grant or deny any of these three capabilities.
“PhotoQ Default Author”: If no author was specified / could be 
determined, posts generated by PhotoQ will be published under this 
author.
“PhotoQ Post Status”: Here you can choose the status of posts published via PhotoQ.
“PhotoQ Default Category”: Here you can choose the default category for PhotoQ posts.
“PhotoQ Default Tags”: Same for tags, here you can choose the default tags for PhotoQ posts.
Lists of categories can be folded away throughout the plugin which 
is convenient if you deal with a lot of categories. The “Fold 
Categories” option lets you decide whether you want category lists to be
 open or closed by default.
“Deleting Posts: Delete image files from server when deleting post”:
 If not checked, image files associated with a post are left on the 
server if you delete the post.
“Admin Thumbs”: Here you can define the size of the thumbnails shown in the Admin section.
“Auto Titles”: Here you can specify whether to generate titles 
automatically from filenames or from the EXIF “ImageDescription” tag. If
 you choose to create titles from filenames, you can enter a regular 
expression defining what parts of the filename to omit for automatically
 generated titles. Further, you can define rules that specify how 
automatically generated post titles should be capitalized.
“Auto Description”: If you annotated your photos with a description 
embedded in the EXIF “ImageDescription” tag, you can choose to 
automatically generate the photo description from this tag here.
“EXIF Date”: If checked, the post date is set according to the date 
the photo was taken instead of the date when the post was published.


Under “Settings->PhotoQ->Maintenance” you will additionally 
find a button called “Rebuild All”. This can be used to force rebuilding
 of all your posted photos. Every downsized version of a photo is then 
rebuilt from its original according to your PhotoQ settings and the 
corresponding post is adapted accordingly. Note that “Rebuild All” is 
meant as a maintenance tool. Normally, you should not need to use it to 
keep your website consistent: PhotoQ rebuilds posted photos whenever a 
relevant setting changes.

`PhotoQ for WordPress Site Networks`


Most of PhotoQ’s features work in exactly the same way under a single
 install and a network of sites. Here is a list of the few things that 
are specific to Site Networks.



FTP uploads are disabled in Site Networks. Users likely do not have FTP access anyway.
“imgdir” cannot be chosen but is fixed to the upload directory of the individual blog.
All users share the same cache directory located at “wp-content/photoQCache”.
Some settings like, e.g., the ImageMagick setting, can only be 
changed by site admins and are  sitewide, i.e., they apply to all blogs.
You can place your own theme presets in the folder 
“wp-content/myThemePresets” (just create it if isn’t there and make sure
 Photoq has read access). These presets will then be available sitewide.
Cronjobs: Put the “wimpq-cronpost.php” file (or to whatever you 
rename it to) to the WP root as explained in the PhotoQ documentation. 
To run the cronjob on a specific blog you need to execute the 
corresponding url: e.g., blogXY.yoursite.com/wimpq-cronpost.php or 
yoursite.com/blogXY/wimpq-cronpost.php instead of what you would do with
 standard WordPress (which would be yoursite.com/wimpq-cronpost.php). 
How to automate this process upon creation of every new blog is 
explained in an excellent tutorial (in French) by Stéphane Briot (Note that this is for the old WPMU, not sure to what extend this applies to Site Networks). Thanks Stéphane!








PhotoQ in Your Language
PhotoQ has support for internationalization. Translating PhotoQ is  handled through the collaborative GlotPress tool. Thanks to  this wonderful tool, everyone can easily contribute to translating  PhotoQ at the following URL: http://www.whoismanu.com/translate/
 . Contributing to translations is really not difficult and pretty self 
explanatory and I am happy about any contributions I can  get. Even if 
you only  translate one single line, you help to bring this  project 
forward. So, now it is your turn… ;-)


To log in, you use the same credentials as for the forum. If you  don’t have an account yet, you can register at the forum.
 A registration also allows you to directly download the latest  
language .po files. If you feel highly motivated and want to become a  
validator for a specific language (preferably your mother tongue),  
please let me know (Note that you can contribute without being a  
validator). If you want to contribute to a translation in a language  
that is not listed on the page, please let me know and I will add it.


If you feel that you need more information, I suggest that  you start by reading the “Getting  Started Guide” at wordpress.org to get a short introduction to  GlotPress. More general information on translating WordPress can be  found in the codex.


As explained above, the latest .po files can be obtained directly 
from the the translation page. All i18n related files that are available
 at the time of publishing are also bundled with PhotoQ and can be found
 in the “/lang” directory inside the plugin folder. Currently, the 
translation status of PhotoQ is the following:



Chinese – Hong Kong – 香港 (zh_HK) initial translation by Anthony Chan: .mo, .po
Chinese – Taiwan – 臺灣 (zh_TW) initial translation by Anthony Chan: .mo, .po
French – Français (fr_FR) initial translation by Ulrich Sossou: .mo, .po
English: default, part of core
German – Deutsch (de_DE): part of core, bundled with PhotoQ
Spanish – Español (es_ES) initial translation by Caleidos: .mo, .po








Troubleshooting – Help it doesn’t work!
Here is a short checklist in case something doesn’t work as expected. Please go through this before asking me for help.



Did you check the requirements?
Clearing your browser’s cache can work wonders.
Did you check the PhotoQ options? Especially, are the paths to your “imgdir” correct?
Are you sure “cache” and “imgdir” file permissions are set correctly?
Do you have other plugins installed? If so, disable all other 
plugins and check whether it works now. Should you find any 
incompatibilities with other plugins please let me know. So far I know 
about the following plugins that are not compatible with PhotoQ: 
“Lighter Admin Drop Menus v2.3″.
Does it work with batch uploads disabled? If not, try to make it work with batch uploads disabled first.
“Everything seems to work but even if I enable batch uploads, I only
 get the option to upload one file at a time!” Is JavaScript enabled in 
your web browser?
“I get a HTTP 403 error message when trying to do a batch upload?” 
Most probably, your web hosting provider enabled mod_security on your 
web server. Batch upload makes use of Flash and Flash is known to send 
malformed http headers which are rejected by mod_security. The only 
solution seems to be to turn off mod_security by adding the directives given above to your .htaccess file. Anyone having a better solutions is most welcome to let me know about it.
“I am getting a ‘Warning: set_time_limit() has  been disabled for 
security reasons…’ or similar”. Some web hosting providers limit the 
execution time of PHP scripts and do not allow you to change it. PhotoQ 
tries to remove the limit because if you have a large batch upload, it 
might take some time. If you get warnings like the one above, you can 
comment the line set_time_limit(0); in the beginning of the whoismanu-photoq.php file by replacing it with //set_time_limit(0);Huge
 batch upload jobs might then however sometimes be aborted if they take 
longer than the maximum execution time allowed by your web hosting 
provider.
“In the admin section I get light blue images with a red warning 
like ‘… All attempts to create GD image source failed …’ instead of the 
thumbnails”. You hit the memory limit with the GD library. This leaves 
you with three options in order of preference:

configure ImageMagick (see under “More Options”)
increase memory allocated to PHP by adding something like php_value memory_limit 16M (and where you replace 16M with the amount of memory you want to allocate) to your .htaccess file.
upload smaller, down-sized images.


“When I click on ‘Select Photos’, nothing happens!” Probably you are
 using Flash Player 10 and a PhotoQ version prior to 1.6. Upgrade to at 
least PhotoQ 1.6 for Flash Player 10 support.

If nothing helps, don’t hesitate to ask – I would be glad to help. In
 order to be able to help you, I need to at least know the versions of 
WordPress and PhotoQ you are using, your browser/platform combination, 
whether it works with batch uploads disabled and of course the potential
 error message you are getting. If you get an error message of any kind,
 it might also be helpful to know what you were trying to do just before
 you got the error message. But please check the points above 
before writing about a problem. At least double-check the requirements. 
It will save me (and you!) a lot of time that is better spent improving 
PhotoQ  than looking for imaginary problems. Also please use the Support Forum for bug reports and support questions rather than posting here or sending me email. Thanks.









Support PhotoQ – Help to Make PhotoQ Better
You like PhotoQ? Here’s what you can do to support PhotoQ and help making it better:



Any comments, suggestions, bug reports, feature requests, 
contributions to future versions, compatible themes, etc., etc. are 
highly appreciated. Any help to improve PhotoQ is more than welcome. I 
cannot fix/improve anything if I don’t know what is wrong.
You use PhotoQ? Why not give PhotoQ credit through a backlink on your website?
You think PhotoQ is the greatest plugin out there? There are many 
ways to promote PhotoQ: Tell your friends, or even tell the world by 
writing a blog post, …
You made a photoblog using PhotoQ? Let me know. I will soon include a list of the best PhotoQ based blogs.
You made/saved money thanks to PhotoQ? Due to repeated request I set
 up a donate link to give you the chance to give some of it back ;-)








Version History

16.07.2010 – 1.9: A lot of bugs fixed. IPTC support, post date from EXIF date, compatible with PHP 5.3 and WP 3.0.
22.11.2009 – 1.8.3: WPMU compatible, queue sorting, non-standard wp-content dirs, new handling of permissions. Some bugs fixed.  
23.09.2009 – 1.8.2: Fixes bug resulting in queue not posted in correct order.
22.09.2009 – 1.8.1: Fixes bug with photo uploads on Windows servers. See the forum for more bugs fixed.
18.08.2009 – 1.8: Major update: new freeform view settings, extended theme support, auto-configuration for themes. Some bug fixes.
23.07.2009 – 1.7:
 Major update: adds internationalization, roles/capabilities, new EXIF 
handling, automatic tags from EXIF information, new handling of 
published photo editing, proper capitalization of auto titles, dashboard
 widget, default status of PhotoQ posts. Update to PhpThumb 1.7.9. A lot
 of bug fixes.
16.06.2009 – 1.6.6: Now compatible with WP 2.8.
08.04.2009 – 1.6.5: Time consuming tasks now split 
over several Ajax requests. Rebuild all photos with single click. Bugs 
fixed: wrong escaping in batch uploads; unnecessary photo rebuilds when 
changing options.
18.03.2009 – 1.6.4: Bugs fixed: PhotoQ default category and default author that stopped working in 1.6.3 now should work again.
11.03.2009 – 1.6.3: Bugs fixed: Now compatible with
 WP 2.7.1: No more disappearing photo descripitons etc. after batch 
uploads; Database table definitions adjusted to prevent problem with IIS
 servers. Option handling refactored. Same goes for object handling in 
PHP4.
25.01.2009 – 1.6.2: Better interaction between iQ2 and PhotoQ, singleton pattern updated.
16.12.2008 – 1.6.1: Cron jobs should now work 
again. Multiple photos can now be posted automatically at once, upon 
automatic posting photos uploaded via FTP can now be automatically added
 to the queue.
12.12.2008 – 1.6: Compatible with WordPress 2.7, 
compatible with Flash Player 10, regex for auto titles, better support 
for Canon EXIF maker notes, puts less stress on web server.
13.11.2008 – 1.5.3: Fixed problem with identical post dates when batch posting.
04.11.2008 – 1.5.2: Introduces FTP uploading, batch
 publishing, category folding and nicer default titles. Cache folder is 
no longer inside plugin folder to prevent problems with auto upgrade. 
Database changes include new id for the main table and WordPress 
charsets and collations for all PhotoQ tables. inline description moved 
from  tags to 


to prevent problems with the WYSIWYG 
editor.

24.09.2008 – 1.5.1: Repacked PhotoQ with new folder
 structure on WordPress plugin directory to overcome auto upgrade 
problems. Root plugin directory is now “photoq-photoblog-plugin” instead
 of “whoismanu-photoq”.
22.09.2008 – 1.5: Major Update, most code 
rewritten. New libaries used: phpThumb and Exifixer. New features 
include: multiple image sizes, exif, watermarking, easy update of posted
 photos.
15.07.2008 – 1.2.6: Compatible with WordPress 2.6.
06.05.2008 – 1.2.5: Category handling adapted to WordPress 2.5.1. Two new settings to choose default category and author of PhotoQ posts.
22.04.2008 – 1.2.4: Bugs fixed: Problems with 
filenames containing special characters; Disappearing Media Library 
update links in Write panel caused by PhotoQ.
16.04.2008 – 1.2.3:  Bugs fixed: PHP4 compatibility
 restored, no more lost settings; Now compatible with localized WP 
versions, no more “swfu not defined”. Now also compatible with IE7; 
SWFUpload updated to 2.1.0b2.
04.04.2008 – 1.2.2: Bugs fixed: Ajax queue ordering
 did not work if dashes present in filenames; Header of queue no long 
sortable; Correct authentication of Ajax queue manipulations; Cookies no
 longer sent during Ajax calls.
15.03.2008 – 1.2.1: Fixes a bug that could under some conditions provoke empty width and height attributes
09.03.2008 – 1.2: Compatible with WP 2.5. Migrated 
batch uploads to SWFUpload 2 for greater stability. Ajax Queue 
Management. Lightbox Integration. Runs on Reusable Options.
25.11.2007 – 1.1.5b:
 PhotoQ is now able to truly resize photos. It now also integrates with 
existing themes more easily because of the new option to directly 
include the description in the post content. Category display bug when 
updating queue has been corrected.
07.11.2007 – 1.1.4b: PhotoQ is now again 
retro-compatible with WordPress versions that do not have built-in 
tagging support. Only update if you use a WordPress version prior to 
2.3.
04.11.2007 – 1.1.3b: PhotoQ now supports WordPress’ native tag handling introduced in WordPress 2.3. Please read this post to see how to import tags from meta fields to the new structure.
20.10.2007 – 1.1.2b: changed require_once 
statements so that the plugin also runs on web servers that don’t like 
relative paths in these statements. Update only if you encountered 
problems with version 1.1.1b.
17.10.2007 – 1.1.1b: “Largest Side” 
image/thumb-size option is now a “Smallest Side” option.  “Largest Side”
 can still be mimicked by setting both values in the “Maximum 
Dimensions” option equal to the desired value.
14.10.2007 – 1.1b: first major update. Features mass uploads via SWFUpload.
 New options for image/thumbnail sizes. Better photo preview in admin 
section. Enhanced security due to use of wp_nonces. Under the hood, big 
parts of the code have been restructured.
07.10.2007 – 1.0.2b: patch to make it compatible with WordPress 2.3.
22.01.2007 – 1.0.1b:
 fixed a bug that caused PhotoQ to handle some paths and urls 
improperly. Anyone wanting to use PhotoQ should update to this new 
version.
11.01.2007 – 1.0b: first public release.








Acknowledgments
Thanks to all the PhotoQ users who help to keep up my motivation to 
continue this project. Thanks for all the kind comments and helpful bug 
reports. Many thanks to the guys at http://swfupload.org. Without their great SWFUpload script, there would be no batch uploads in PhotoQ. Sames goes for James Heinrich who wrote the phpThumb Library and Jake Olefsky who wrote the Exifixer library. Without their great work PhotoQ would not be where it is today.

Amazon Product Image Shortcut URL from ASIN

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:18:00 +0000

I'm trying to find a better way to build my affiliate pages. I've discovered a great way to find images of items that i hadn't known about before.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0051VVOB2.01.LZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/ <- this is required
B0051VVOB2 <- this is the ASIN
.01.LZ.jpg <- this is required to follow the asin for large photos

If you would like smaller, remove the LZ.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0051VVOB2.01.jpg

Gopro Automatically Record When Turned On, Turn Off to Stop Recording

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Gopro makes it possible for "1-button" recording. Instead of turning on, then pressing the record button, again to stop recording, and another button to turn off. You can make the settings so that it starts recording when you turn it on. Below is the instructions.

CHOOSING ONE BUTTON MODE ON / OFF
"one button mode on" forces the camera to automatically begin recording video or photos once the camera is turned on, depending on which default power up mode the camera is set to.
In "one button mode On" the camera is either "on and recording". or powered off. This simplifies camera operation when loaning the camera to friends or when you know you only want to shoot in one mode.

The shutter button is disabled in "One Button Mode" and will not start or stop the recording while the camera is on. "One Button Mode" is convenient when you only want to shoot one type of video and prefer to simplify operation of the camera to be on when recording.

TO TURN "ONE BUTTON MODE" 'ON'

Press the Shutter button to toggle between the SET MENU choices and stop when on0 (One Button Mode On) is showing on the screen.
Press the POWER/MODE button to save which ever setting is showing on the screen and continue to the next feature option.
turn your camera off and then on again and the camera will begin recording in whatever the default power on setting and resolution is set to.
Press and hold the power button for 3 seconds to stop recording and turn the camera off.

Open NAT on DIR-655

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:10:00 +0000

I needed to open my NAT on my DIR-655 dlink wireless router. i made a screencast.

Life Hacks

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:13:00 +0000

DIY
Distilling with a Wok Still
DIY AC
DIY Fleshlight
DIY Outdoor Luxe
DIY PBR Burner
Downloading
Free Sunlight Forever
Guide to Downloading ebooks on IRC Part 1
Guide to Downloading ebooks on IRC Part 2
Steampunk Goggles
Weapons
Delayed Fire and Incendiary Bomb
DIY Shotgun
Pipe Hand Grenade

Drugs
Drugs Venn Diagram
Hallucinogen Awareness
Painkillers
Periodic Table of Beer Styles
The Golden Age of Pills
Recipes
Creating LSD
Extraction of DMT
How to Cook Crack
Mescaline Capsules
Weed
Green House Seed Flavour Pie
How D'ya Smoke Pot and Stay Out of Jail?
Okay You've Been Careful But...
Stoner Etiquette

Fashion
A Very Short Guide to Dressing Well
The 20 Laws of Fashion
The MANual

Food
About Bread
Foods on the Cheap
Drinks
Coffee Types
Emergency Coffee
Hollywood Happy Hour
Mind Fuck Coffee
Mixing Drinks
Recipes
3 Minute Brownies
3-Bean Burritos
Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Pizza
Bacon, Meat, Salsa Explosion
Big Mac Secret Sauce
Black Forest Cake
Bruschetta Chicken Breast
Cannabutter Cookies 1
Cannabutter Cookies 2
Cheesy Bacon Log
Cheesy Pasta
Chicken Crunch Wrap Supreme
Chicken Picata
Honey Soy Chicken with Steamed Vegetables
McGangBang
New and Improved Ramen
Ramen Noodle
Rice Krispie Treats
The Bacon Log
Wendy's Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich

Health
/fit/ Notes
Acne Help Guide
Anti-Anxiety
Bent-Over Row
Dinosaur Arms
Health and Fitness
Heart Rate Guidelines
Hierarchy of Needs
How to Gain the Most Size and Strength
Ken's Manly Guide to Clear Skin
Lifestyle & Hormones
Muscle
Progress Chart
Pull-up
Self Defense - Vulnerable Points with Methods of Attack
Self Defense for a Man
Shiatsu Self Massage
Social Anxiety
Strength Standard
Tear Out & Go Workout
The Power Clean
The Precious Set of Monks' Isometrics
The Squat
Tips for Everyone
Wolverine's Workout
Bodyweight
Advanced Bodyweight Exercises
Bodyweight Exercises
No Weights? No Problem!
FAQ
Fit FAQ 1
Fit FAQ 2
Fit FAQ 3
Shock Techniques
Shock Techniques 1
Shock Techniques 2
Shock Techniques 3
Supplements
Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner
Creatine
ECA Stack
Must Supplements 1
Must Supplements 2
NO Supplements
Nutrition in a Bottle
Pre and Post Workout
Protein
Sport Supplements
Steroids
Supplements
Vitamins & Minerals 1
Vitamins & Minerals 2
Vitamins & Minerals 3
Vitamins & Minerals 4
Tuna
For Losing Weight
Guide to Bulking
Love Handles
Meals
Oats
Stretch
What to Do After the Newbie Routine
Where to Start with Lifting
Workout
Types of Exercises
Bridges
Pulls
Push-ups
Raises
Squats
Stands

How To
50 Ways to Cope with Stress
A Voyeur's Cheat Sheet
Bundle Wrapping Instructions
Common Passwords
Fucking Headphone Guide
Get Bogo
Hide Your Fap Folder
Hide Your Files
jpg+rar guide
Jump from a Bridge or Cliff into a River
Live to 100
Make a Truly Hidden Folder
Make Animated gifs
Remove Clutter
Ruin Life Tactics
Study Tactics
The Friendship Algorithm
Train to Run Long Distance
Transform Any Song You Want into 8-bit
Transform Your Hoodie into a Computer Sleeve
What to Pack
Why I Love Gmail
Wrap Stuff
Disobey
Bumping a Lock
Fantastic Picks
Hop a Fence
Notes on Store Policies
Pick a Pin-and-Tumbler Lock
Remove Change from a Vending Machine
Stencil Stealthily
Successfully Run Away from the Police
When Dealing with Police
Gambling
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Blackjack- Counting Cards
Magick
1/3
2/3
3/3
Math Tricks
Mighty Multiplications 1
Mighty Multiplications 2
Mighty Multiplications 3
Russian Multiplication
Photoshop
Blood
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
Vectorize

Literature
Science Literature

Music
Music Theory Cheat Sheet
New to /mu/
Rock 'n' Roll Metro Map
So You Want Free Music

Protips
68 Protips
100 Protips
Frugal
Guide to Success
How to Be a Boss
How to Budget
How to Change Your Life - 10 Steps
How to Not Fail at Life
Life Hacks
Life Lesson #332(a)
Lucid Dreaming
Protips 56-60
31 Pages of Protips
Protips 1/31
Protips 2&3/31
Protips 4&5/31
Protips 6&7/31
Protips 8&9/31
Protips 10&11/31
Protips 12&13/31
Protips 14&15/31
Protips 16&17/31
Protips 18&19/31
Protips 20&21/31
Protips 22&23/31
Protips 26&27/31
Protips 28&29/31
Protips 30&31/31

Seduction
A Map of the Lands of Human Sexuality
Attraction Graph
Cunnilingus
Guide to Successful Navigation of the Friend Zone
How to be More Successful with Women
Mental Attractiveness vs. Physical Attractiveness
The Authentic Women's Penis Size Preference Chart
The Friend Zone
The Vice Guide to Picking Up Chicks

Running and Reading

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Politics and The American Dream - Geroge Carlin

noreply@blogger.com (Blair Anderson) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:07:00 +0000