CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages, compatible with most internet browsers and operating systems,. It is a WYSIWYG editor, which means text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features like you use on editing applications such as Libre Office, Microsoft Word and OpenOffice etc.
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Trvl is a WordPress theme created by Danny Cohen. Theme is fast responsive, provides you a simple layout tumblelog theme, good for personal blogging site.
Remember old MS Office days where you have an Office Assistant, an Intelligent User Interface for Microsoft Office that helps users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content. It used technology initially from Microsoft Bob and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms. Lasgo is something like that only.
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There are large number login screen customizer plugins available in WordPress plugin repository but after 3.8 update many are left broken, some are updated and working, still there are some creating conflict and showing error. So if you have also missing any old login customizer or waiting for it to update then just don’t worry a new Simple Login Screen Customizer plugin is now available in WP plugin repo.
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Few months back we discussed about the plugin that makes your website completely ajaxified which means there will be no browser reloading between clicks. We have also posted tutorials on preloading page plugins like Ultimate Preloader and Loading Page plugin.
This tutorial is on something new and more powerful. There are some WordPress themes that doesn’t support ajaxified plugin we discussed before. On some WordPress themes AJAX loading function crashes displaying CSS of your websites. Preloading and AJAX Loading plugins works fine on most WordPress theme but not all. Specially they crashes on sites using premium and highly customizable themes.
Simple Page Transition, This new awesome WordPress plugin automatically enables simple transition between pages (between unload and load) and hence your visitors don’t see page loading. The plugin automatically starts working after activation. Just install and activate it the move to the frontend, click different pages and see how it looks like.
It provides you customization options. You can use your own loader image, setup a custom background color, position and and also the duration of the transition from its admin page present in your dashboard’s settings menu.
You can easily import all external images attached in your website content without going through any difficult steps instead you just have to click a button and wait till it automatically imports all your post images. Sometimes when you imported XML file, specially when you are migrating your WordPress installation to a new server, the default WP importer provides you option of downloading all file attachments to media library but in-most cases the feature doesn’t works.
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Before starting a blog first thing you need to do is decide what blogging platform you will be using, free blog hostings like Blogger.Com, Tumblr.Com etc or self-hosted blogging platforms like WordPress. Generally people start blogging with free-hosted blogs but they are not actually free. Yes, they don’t charge you a penny but they takes away all your freedom and keeps control in their hand.
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Mailstrom is an amazing web app that allows you to quickly make your inbox zero. One of its user Greg Major says, “Mailstrom is awestrom! Yeah, I said it. I just nuked nearly 3,000 old, useless e-mails (22% of my 8 year old account) in 45 minutes while eating lunch. The way Mailstrom works makes cleaning your inbox in substantial chunks nice and easy.“
Using this cool app you can remove thousands of messages in just few simple clicks. It unlocks the patterns hidden in your mailbox and reveals fastest path to Inbox Zero. You can slice through tens, hundreds, or thousands of emails at once. You can use it periodically or every day, as per your mail volume.
The service works with your existing email service so you you keep using your favorite mail tools no matter if it is Gmail, Google Apps Email, Apple, AOl, Exchange IMAP or any other email service that supports IMAP.
It identifies bundles of related mail and you can easily act on them. Using Mailstrom, you never have to worry about missing anything important. It’s provides you total control.
Icon List is the new WordPress widget plugin that cab be used for various purposes like professionally displaying address & contact information or for showing your website’s social media information. It provides you a flexible widget for displaying a standard list with cool icons.
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WordPress automatically creates an attachment page for every media file uploaded to its media library. Some themes provides you feature to enable and disable search engine indexing for attachment pages. Other than this popular SEO plugin by Yoast also allows you to disable indexing for attachment pages and you can redirect them all to their parent post URLs.
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Mostly webmasters don’t like uploading videos on their server, there are many reasons. In general, bloggers upload their tutorial or other kinds of videos first to YouTube and then they embed them on their website, blog posts etc. Now this tutorial is going to make your work easy. Now by using new WordPress plugin you can record and upload videos directly from your WordPress site to your YouTube account.
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Simple Screen Recorder is an easy user friendly program you can use for making demos, tutorials, or recording videos or games. You can use this program to record your screen, you can set a custom record size, you can record a specific section, you can use the mouse and follow the cursor, you can scale video, include microphone etc.
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You must have seen animated various kinds of animated GIFs on social networking sites. Linux news websites use them for showing why everyone loves to hate Ubuntu Unity interface, Health and Fitness websites use them for showing exercise moves etc etc. Now you can also create GIFs from any YouTube video or if you like making GIF from a video you have then you can upload it to YouTube first and then make its GIF image file.
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Just like Facebook and Google+, you can enable live preview feature for links in WordPress. WP Live Preview Links is the new WordPress plugin that enables a live scaled preview of website you are linking to prior to clicking on it. The preview goes of as soon the user stop hovering the link. See it live working here.
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Open Source Web Design (OSWD): The website provides web designers a collection of various web designs submitted by community members. It provides free web design downloads which you can use for styling personal websites, blogs or a fully featured CMS for businesses.
40 Professional Icon Sets: A collection of 40 high-quality professional designed icons for desktops and web designing purposes, all icons are free for download and can be used both for private and commercial purposes.
1000+ Classic Icons: Free online collection of free icons available online. Icons are in png, icns, ico-formats as well as .EPS vector files.
Free CSS Templates: The website contains standards compliant CSS templates for free. You are free to use the templates both for personal or commercial purposes.
Free Icons Web: Provides you resource of 15000 high quality icons and all are free downloads. It provides icons for Windows XP, Vista, Macintosh, and Linux. But here the icons are for personal use only. For using their stuff commercially, you will have to pay a certain amount of royalty.
Iconspedia: The website provides free icons download of various categories like animals, food and phones etc.
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.
