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GIMP Plugins

Monday, January 11th, 2010
GIMP splash screen

GIMP splash screen

A buddy of mine asked me today to make him a plugin for GIMP. I’ve never written a true plugin for anything, but have wanted too. Now is a great opportunity. I need to start reading up on this subject and give it a try.

If you haven’t tried it yet, GIMP is a free program similar to Photoshop. In Ubuntu you can install it easily by running the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt-get install gimp

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Alex’s Antidote now iPhone Friendly

Monday, January 4th, 2010
Alex's Antidote iPhone icon

Alex's Antidote iPhone icon

That’s right folks, my website is now iPhone friendly. (Note: from what I understand it should also work in certain other fancy phones too)

Here’s how it goes:

Step 1 – Open Safari -> Navigate to: alexsantidote.com

find Alex's Antidote in iPhone's Safari Browser

find Alex's Antidote in iPhone's Safari Browser

Step 2 – Check out my fancy mobile theme

New Mobile Theme

New Mobile Theme

Page Menu

Page Menu

Step 3 – Bookmark for future reference

Bookmark Options

Bookmark Options

If you’re really awesome you’ll bookmark it to your Home Screen ;)

Bookmark to iPhone's Home Screen

Bookmark to iPhone's Home Screen

And you’ll see a nice shiny icon that will take you straight to this website when you touch it!

Shiny Bookmark Icon!

Shiny Bookmark Icon!

How’d I do it?

  • Install the WordPress plugin called: WPtouch Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress
  • Make a custom icon in GIMP (sudo apt-get install gimp)
    • The icon should be saved in .png format.
    • You will need 2 different sizes: 57 x 57 and 32 x 32
      • Name the 32 x 32 icon something that reflects the name of your blog (I used: Alex`s Antidote)
      • Name the 57 x 57 icon “apple-touch-icon.png” without the quotes.
  • In WordPress Settings you will find a menu called: WPtouch, upload the 32 x 32 icon there (look around, you’ll figure it out), then make necessary adjustments below (lots of settings to play with).
    • Be sure to save!
  • FTP/SSH into your root (and/or wordpress) directory for your blog and copy over the 57 x 57 icon you named “apple-touch-icon.png”
  • Done!

Let me know what you think in the comments (if you have time).

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