List Last Changes, a simple lightweight WordPress widget plugin that simply displays a list of the last changes (with date) made in your website on your sidebar or any other widget area your theme provides.
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IG PageBuilder provides you a user friendly way to build a complete WordPress site in a few minutes. By default WordPress provides you with Visual and Text Editor present in Add New/Edit content pages. Now this new plugin adds a new Page Builder Tab in default WordPress visual editor and it is accessible for all pages, posts, even on custom post types. Using this new Page Builder tab you can design stylish pages with convenient drag and drop functionality and its intuitive interface which is simple and extremely easy to use.
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Shardul Pandey: I welcome you Morgen at SANGKRIT.net, please tell our netizens
Morgen Stiegler: I’m a professional Jazz, Pop and Rock singer from Ohio. From a young age, I loved jazz. My grandfather was a swing clarinet player. My first exposure to jazz was to hear him play and to see how much passion and love he had for the music. I never thought that I would be a jazz singer, or even a singer at all. It was not until a few things happened on my journey that I realized this was my calling. The first was a call from Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices. She remembered hearing me sing in college and asked me to open for her at a small show. I felt so honored. I did it, and then I studied with her for a few years. She helped me to grow so much as a singer and a person. In 2011 I released my first album, Reaching for the Moon. My career started to gain speed, and as it did I became very interested in recreating the 1940s and 50s in my performance through fashion. At first, this was just a passion of mine, but this year the British fashion magazine Vintage Life wrote a review of my album and featured me and my performance style in their July issue. I am working on a second jazz album, and have also launched a retro rock band called The Pinup Project which is really taking off.
Shardul Pandey: What makes your endeavors unique ?
Morgen Stiegler: I am not only a one faceted performer, but perform across many genres with one unique image. I live out 1940s and 50s fashion and aesthetics on stage, but do so as a jazz musician and through my various projects. One such project is my retro rock band, called The Pinup Project. We reinvent rock and roll from all genres from a jazz perspective with a rockabilly image. Another project I have is a free improvisation group that reinvents Kurt Weill songs. This is more of an art music/new music setting. I strive to be genuine in how I present myself and use clothing, hair and aesthetics as a way to express myself and to connect with my audience. I was recently featured in Vintage Life magazine because of this mission.
Shardul Pandey: On what musical projects you are currently working one? What can we expect from you in the next few years ? Any long term goals?
Morgen Stiegler: I am in the studio now creating a “straight ahead” jazz album with Gene and Ray Parker, a father son team who have played with some of the greats in jazz. This album will be intimate, focusing on all jazz standards and featuring Ray Parker on upright bass and Gene Parker on vibraphone. We may also release a Christmas EP next year. I am also planning to get into the studio with my rock group The Pinup Project.
Shardul Pandey: What is your foremost experience as an artist ? Any favorite moment you would like to share?
Morgen Stiegler: There are many moments that stick out in my mind, but most valuable to me are small moments of connection with my audience. Hearing from an audience member that the song I sang was exactly what they needed to hear warms my heart so much. I view a vocalist’s role as being a vessel of the lyrics.. it gives us a supreme purpose to be there. Telling a story allows us not only to transport ourselves but to connect with others that may be walking the same journey.
Shardul Pandey: Any other creative mediums you work in?
Morgen Stiegler: I teach ethnomusicology, which focuses on studying the musics of the world. I have been known to draw, paint, and create visual art, but my preferred form is and always has been music. I truly believe it is a window to the soul.
Shardul Pandey: How do you best describe what music is to you?
Morgen Stiegler: Music is a means of expression, an outlet for frustration and elation, and a way to connect with other members of this human race. We are all so different, but there are many basic needs and desires that make us very much the same. Some of them are the desires to be loved, understood, and heard. Most importantly I think, is this need to be connected to others. Music is a direct way to achieve this connection… Regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, political views, etc… we have all experienced heart-break. We all know what it’s like to feel down and out, and we all crave happiness and acceptance. Music taps on this raw nerve in us, and brings out the best, the worst, the saddest, and the happiest parts of who we are. It is truly a beautiful thing that helps us to adapt, grow, accept, and move on.
Shardul Pandey: Who were your biggest musical influences ?
Morgen Stiegler: My grandfather was my biggest musical influence. He was a jazz clarinet player. Famous influences include artists from many genres that have in common one thing – to connect to the audience and touch lives. Some of them are Louis Armstrong, Carmen McCrae, Ella Fitzgerald, Holly Cole, Tori Amos, Kimbra, Sting, Eva Cassidy, New York Voices, and many more.
Shardul Pandey: What songs get you moving ?
Morgen Stiegler: Groove is my one guilty pleasure.. I will move to anything with a great sense of groove. I love so many types of music styles that achieve this – rockabilly, rock and roll, hip hop, country, r&b.. it all comes down to the connection factor.
Shardul Pandey: Any plans for an international tour on your skyline?
Morgen Stiegler: I have lots of plans in my mind… of course an international tour would be great!
Shardul Pandey: What you feel is your strength as a musician and how would you like to be remembered ?
Morgen Stiegler: My strength as a musician (I hope that I achieve) is creating a genuine connection with my audience. I love connecting with new people from all over the world – people I may not meet in any other place, but I have the privilege of being with them at a show or sharing music with them. I hope that I am successful at this goal, and that I am remembered as someone who makes music for the sheer passion and love for making it, and I hope to touch some hearts along the way.
Shardul Pandey: What advice would you give to newbie musicians?
Morgen Stiegler: Have PASSION! This world is not always an easy place to live, but passion can drive you to places you never thought you could go. Passion also makes life so much more positive and enjoyable.
Shardul Pandey: What is your web address, do you own a domain ? Where netizens can find latest news feed about you and your music ?
Morgen Stiegler: I own a domain Morgenstiegler.com and also a new website coming in this month for my new retro rock and roll group, called The Pinup Project. I also have a Facebook page: Facebook.com/MorgenL.Stiegler. The Facebook page for The Pinup Project is launching soon and the address will be: Facebook.com/thepinupproject.
Shardul Pandey: What is your ultimate message for netizens ?
Morgen Stiegler: No matter what you do, what is happening in your life, or where you are on your journey… always remember you are not alone. Find your passions in the small things, and live big dreams by doing this.
Slax is a fast, modern, lightweight, live boot free operating system with a modular approach and outstanding layout and style. It is small in size but still it provides you a wide range of pre-installed software useful for everyday use. It includes a well organized GUI (Graphical user interface) and recovery tools. Other than this it also provides you various modules you can download if you are missing any specific feature. For Example: If any networking tool or game is missing you can download its module with the software and copy it to your Slax OS without running any installation or setting up any configuration settings.
A few easy steps (no software installation is required) can turn your Ubuntu Laptop in to a Wireless Router and you can share your Internet connection with other users using other devices may be Netbook, Tablet or Laptop etc. You can do this thing visually right from the Ubuntu GUI (Graphical User Interface) but there are some limitations like for some devices. There are some devices that may not support ad-hoc wireless networks and Ubuntu can only create wireless hotspots using weak WEP encryption instead of strong WPA encryption.
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Insert blank CD/DVD into your burner. A ‘CD/DVD Creator’, ‘Choose Disc Type’ or ‘Blank Disc’ window might pop up. Close it.
Now look up for the downloaded ISO file in the file manager, right click on the ISO file and click ‘Write to Disc’:
Where it says ‘Write disc to’, you might have options like ‘File image’ as well as your CD drive. Select your CD drive.
Now select write speed. For burning an Ubuntu Live CD it is recommended to write at the lowest possible speed. Finally, start the burning process.
After it finishes, verify that your CD now gave multiple files and folders and not just the ISO file you have burnt. If you can see multiple files and folders in the CD then congratulations, you have successfully completed the ISO burning process.
Admin Toolbar Menus, a new WordPress plugin add 3 new menu locations to the WP toolbar and you can easily create your own custom toolbar menus with default WordPress menus functionality present in Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus page. It supports multi level navigation and works seamlessly with existing toolbar menus.
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Sticky Social Icon is a simple sticky container of social media icons glued on the right side of your website. The container provides you animated social icons with css3 transitions and transform rules with different color code. To start, install and activate the plugin in your WordPress installation.
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Now there are many plugins you can use for transforming your WordPress admin section in your own colors. Now you know how to create your own color scheme, you know how to change frontend admin bar color as per admin color scheme selected in backend, you know how to randomly change color schemes as soon any new post is published or an old post updated and there are a lot more tips, tricks and plugin.
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The tutorial is about installing Android on your laptop. This is possible for average Linux users and you can do it yourself without any coding skills required.
To Start, first thing you need to do get latest Android download so refer to Androidx86 project download page, Lookup for section RC 1 and download Android ISO for your laptop/tablet or netbook ISO and as you can see there are a few options available:
Second step is to copy it to a flash drive. You have the ISO file and now its time to write it on a USB drive so that you can boot from it on your laptop.
You can create a flash drive by using UNetBootIn, it is an open source cross platform app about which we have already discussed. If you are using Ubuntu Linux the refer to its tutorial we posted before other wise you may install it on Windows, MAC etc by refering to its webpage here. Windows users can also use Linux Live USB Creator, best for windows users.
Copy the contents of the ISO to a flash drive, unlike to other ISOs, this can be done in just 1 GB USB drive.
Finally, Third step is to boot your laptop on USB. Put your USB and boot your laptop from USB drive and follow/select from on screen instructions.
It provides you various options for partitioning, dual-botting etc. Check out the Androidx86 installation guide here.
UNetbootin is an opensource cross platform application that provides you functions to easily create bootable Live USB drives for Android, Ubuntu, Fedora and other Linux distributions without any burning a CD. The application is compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Also you can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or you can supply your own Linux .iso file if you’ve already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn’t on the list. For installing UNetbootin in Ubuntu you have to give a few simple commands from terminal.
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It is not always easy to switch between e-mail provider but the new Outlook.com’s Gmail import tool looks a bit different from past tools. This tutorial is on new Gmail import tool and here we will discuss how to switch to Outlook.com using this new tool.
Step-1 Click the gear icon and choose “More mail settings”
Step-2 Under “Managing your account,” click the “Import email accounts” and then Google. (Here is the direct link to Gmail import tool)
Step-3 From import tool page, click the Options link, By default it imports your messages to existing folders and automatically creates new directories for any custom Gmail labels you used in Gmail but still you can decide how you want to import them. Finally, click Start.
Step-4 It will prompt you to authorize Outlook.com for accessing your Gmail account, authorize it. It takes some time depending upon the quantity of messages are to be imported. After it finishes you get an e-mail with all import results.
The tutorial is on activating WordPress shortcodes functionality in comment’s form so that you can enable your commenters to use some shortcodes (assigned by you) while writing any comments on your website. Shortcode in Comment is a handy plugin for this. The plugin lets enable decide which shortcodes you would like to enable in the comment form.
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New Author List by buffercode.com lets you display your blog author list with an hover effect that displays a bubble showing number of posts they have written on your website. Author List is a WordPress widget plugin with following features:
So what all you have to do is install and activate this new WordPress plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page, drag ‘Author List’ widget to sidebar and set Custom Name, Number of Authors to show, Set Author Image Size.
Now very easily you can add a simple widget in your WordPress site and enable your website visitors to listed to the radio of country selected by you. You select the country and your website visitors can themselves change to various radio stations and listed to music on your website. The widget is fast and loads up very fast.
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TechFileFormat from from Ace.Net.Nz provides you an online utility to find almost any file format. It provides you A to Z alphabet links which when clicked opens up a page showing file format with their full forms. To start visit this URL and you can navigate by clicking alphabets.
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Every week new plugin for admin color schemes are populating WordPress plugin repo. Today we are discussing about another interesting plugin that lets you create your own admin color schemes. The plugin is an official WordPress.Org release which enable you to visually create new color schemes with easy color picker.
First install and activate Admin Color Schemer plugin, upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Admin Colors page and selet colors
You can select color for Base, Icon, Highlight and Notification. You can also click ‘ Show Advance Options‘ link present in there to customize every admin color like: Button, Text (over Base), Body background, Link, Link interaction, Checked form controls, Menu background, Menu text, Menu icon, Menu highlight background, Menu highlight text, Menu highlight icon, Menu current background, Menu current text, Menu current icon, Submenu background, Submenu text, Submenu alt, background, Submenu text interaction, Submenu current text, Bubble background, Bubble text, Bubble current background, Bubble current text, Menu collapse text, Menu collapse icon, Menu collapse text interaction, Menu collapse, icon interaction, Toolbar avatar frame, Toolbar input background.
Few days back we discussed about Tweaking Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme, Making It Full Width, Center Aligned, Etc Etc. Now this tutorial is on new WordPress theme. Anjirai, is new child theme for new Twenty Fourteen. Anjirai is a Tamil word which means a beautiful Wing. With this new awesome WordPress theme you can customize every element’s color of your Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme.
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Keeping similar title in more than one blog post is not good for SEO. Duplicate titles, WordPress allows them by default and that is why many a times it happens that by mistake you give same title to multiple posts and you are not aware of that. The functionality is good because you can keep multiple posts with same title and WordPress will automatically generate unique URLs for duplicate posts which is very useful for hobby bloggers but not for pro-bloggers.
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Prevent Duplicate Tabs, a Google Chrome App. that tells everything from its name and that all what it does. The extension closes old tabs and also prevents you from opening new ones. Tab addiction is something that most web surfers have and many a times people don’t even remember what that have opened thirteen tabs back.
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A big headache when exporting your WordPress site content is to take along your site’s featured images. Earlier we discussed about exporting your site menus and now this tutorial is on how you can easily export featured images. By default WordPress allows you to export all text content but there is no option for exporting featured images assigned to your blog post, pages and custom post types etc.
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