10 Minimalistic Alternative Movie Posters by Grischa Stanjek

by admin on May.27, 2010, under Graphic design

These minimal movie posters were part of my application for my communication design studies. I tried to reduce each movie to one single object… Have fun. Feel free to comment!

Clockwork Orange Movie Poster (continue reading…)

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How to download tracks from soundcloud.com

by admin on May.26, 2010, under Stuff

Have you ever tried to downloada great track (mp3) from soundcloud.com? There are several ways to download a track from soundcloud… I show you how it works. (continue reading…)

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Make the Tweetmeme Retweet Button (iframe) Transparent

by admin on Feb.14, 2010, under Web Development, Wordpress

The Internet Explorer (IE) is acting strange when it comes to transparency, for instance transparent iframes like the retweet button from tweetmeme. I’m using the great Tweetmeme Plugin for Wordpress, but the problem with the transparency appears no matter which way of implementation you are using.

In IE 6, 7 and 8 it looks like this (ugly white background):

reweet button no transparency (continue reading…)

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Wordpress: Could not create directory – Theme Install Failed

by admin on Feb.10, 2010, under Wordpress

This error appeared every time I wanted to install a theme automatically, even in the current version (2.9.1) of Wordpress:

Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/sample-theme.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the theme.
Could not create directory. /var/www/html/web999/blog/wp-content/themes/sample-theme/
Theme Install Failed.

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Wordpress: Could not create directory – Plugin Install Failed

by admin on Feb.10, 2010, under Wordpress

This error appeared every time I wanted to install a plugin automatically, even in the current version (2.9.1) of Wordpress:

Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sample-plugin.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the plugin.
Could not create directory. /var/www/html/web999/blog/wp-content/plugins/sample-plugin/
Plugin Install Failed.

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How to Use a Double Dash / Hyphen in Wordpress

by admin on Feb.02, 2010, under Web Development, Wordpress

Wordpress is converting two dashes, called double dash, (“–”) into a en dash (“–”) automatically. It’s possible to hack the formatting.php to prevent this, but this is much more easy: (continue reading…)

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How to Create a MySQL Backup of a big Database

by admin on Feb.02, 2010, under Linux, Web Development

It’s not possible to create a backup from a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin which is bigger than 2 MB. If you are running MySQL on a Linux based system, try this: (continue reading…)

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How to Add Multiple Line Breaks in Wordpress

by admin on Feb.02, 2010, under Web Development, Wordpress

Wordpress strips / deletes automatically all <p> and <br> tags. If you want to have more than one line break, paragraph or spacing between two lines you’ll get problems. (continue reading…)

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20 Free Photoshop Blood Brushes

by admin on Feb.02, 2010, under Graphic design

20 different Blood Brushes for Photoshop:

blood brushes
Click here to download (372KB)

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