I used to use Lightbox 2 plugin from Rupert Morris. However, up to today, this plugin is still not compatible with WordPress 2.5.1
But the good new is, the alternative one works just fine. If you want to add cool Lightbox to your WordPress and don’t want to wait for update, do the following:
1. Install Lightbox-auto. (optional)
This plugin for Wordpress automatically add the rel=”lightbox[ID_OF_THE_POST]” to images linked in a post. So you will never have to add rel=”lightbox[ID]” when you write a new post.
2. Install Wp-lightbox. (Required)
The alternative of Lightbox 2. It is a plugin that turns linked images into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
3. Install Flexible Upload. (Optional)
Flexible Upload is a plugin for Wordpress 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.5 to enhance the image upload functionality.
For wp-lightbox, in order to see the “Previous” and “Next” links, you will need to tweak line 45 of the lightbox.css file to read width: 45%
Here it is inline:
#prevLink, #nextLink{
width: 45%;
height: 100%;
background: transparent url(../images/blank.gif) no-repeat;
display: block;
}
You have some many files on your hard drive and want to backup them? You don’t have to buy an external hard drive or burn them to CDs. You can simply enjoy the free file hosting service from the following two sites.
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About this company:
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After the trial period expired, you can sign up again for a new account, so that you can enjoy the free service for a longer period of time.
Why ubuntu is starting to attract more people? It’s free, of course. Also, it has some cool plug-ins that make your desktop look very different from Microsoft Windows. They are very cool! Let’s look at the most famous one: compiz fusion.
First, let’s watch a short demonstration video:
After watching this, what’s your first impression? I think you are eager to have these effects on your computer. Unfortunately, if you are using Windows, you can’t. However, if you are using ubuntu, please follow this detail guide to install these two plug-ins:
The guide is written for Nvidia video cards, but it would be the some procedures for ATI cards.
I hope you will finally configure your desktop like the followings:
The first time I installed Ubuntu, I couldn’t run make, run command for C programs. The reason for it is that Ubuntus default installation doesn’t have the compilers installed.. (dont know why). actually they are in the Ubuntu-CD, but you have to install them separately.
You can install the compiler by using the following command.
sudo apt-get install build-essential