Over the weekend I updated this site by adding a new tab called Projects.
When clicking Projects you can read about a bunch of my projects including my latest, Ken’s Today Screen. I hope to add all of my previous projects eventually. I’d like to add a new one each week until I’ve got all of the up.
As for Ken’s Today Screen, you can now download it and use it for FREE!! Go take a look and let me what you think.
It’s a simple and powerful “Today Screen” replacement for Windows Mobile. I wrote it in C# using the Compact Framework. In this project I implemented a few firsts for me, including finger gestures and animation. I’m very happy with the outcome. I also spent many hours on the Graphic Design of all of the icons and buttons. (Graphic Design ain’t my thing!) This program is far better than the original Today Screen in terms of ease of use. I can now quickly get to the things I use most often. I may post the source or the exe if people are interested. Let me know.
1. The Home Screen. Here you can get to your most used programs.
2. You can change the programs by right clicking on them. (I made extra images that are installed with the exe, including a Calender Icon as well as a few others.)
3. The Contact Screen. Here you can call your top friends by just clicking on their face!
4. You can delete a contact’s shortcut by right clicking on the contact and clicking delete. To add a contact just click on the plus icon and choose a contact.
5. There are actually 16 saved shortcuts. If you make a finger gesture dragging from the bottom to top, you can see two more rows of contacts.
6. You can use finger gestures to change tabs as well as clicking on the tabs. To move by gesturing, drag from the right to the left to move to the next tab. Drag from the left to the right to move back.
7. Ken’s Today screen shows more notifications than the default notification bar does. Ken’s Today screen has: Email, text message, missed calls, voicemail, bluetooth connection, wifi connection, network, network strength, phone speaker, and battery power.
8. When there is music playing, the name of the artist, track, and album scroll across the screen under the time as a marquee.
9. In the settings tab you can change the phone to automatically turn the speaker phone on. Also you can change what happens when clicking on the time.
That’s it!
After creating a Nike Plus Mini avatar in the Nike+ website, this plugin will add a widget to your sidebar showing your mini avatar.
There are customizable settings for size and background color.
All it needs is your Nike+ screen name.
1. Download the zip file Nike+ Mini Wordpress Plugin.
2. Unzip it and upload the folder wp-nikeplusmini to your website’s /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
3. In your WordPress dashboard, click Plugins and activate WP-NikePlusMini.
4. Now go to Design->Widgets
5. Add WP-Nike-Plus-Mini to a sidebar
6. Click Edit
7. Edit the Options and click Change. Be sure to add your Nike+ Screen Name.
8. Save the changes and your done!
This is my first WordPress plugin and use of php. If you try this plugin, let me know what you think in the comments.
I hate tag clouds… They look so unorganized and messy. But I don’t hate them as much anymore. And that’s because of WP-Cumulush. WP-Cumulush is a Wordpress plugin by Roy Tanck that creates a flash based tag cloud. This one moves in 3D and looks really nice. I like it because the UI is seamless and instantly knowable. Just hover your cursor around to make it move. It really is brilliant. Try it out on the side —–>
I found that it was better to have the plugin wider than high, so that the tags would not be cut off.
An easy way to make the tag cloud look seemless is to check “Background transparency” in the options.
In the Settings section of the dashboard you will find the same options for wp-cumulush that are shown above. Those don’t seem to work.