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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!

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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…)

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):

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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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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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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…)

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…)

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…)

20 different Blood Brushes for Photoshop:

Click here to download (372KB)