Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Apple's secret weapon - CNN.com - Technology

Apple's secret weapon - CNN.com - Technology


Apple's secret weapon

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:36 AM PDT

John Brownlee says the company doesn't just innovate, it masters the supply chain and freezes out competitors

Cyber criminals target travelers

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:11 AM PDT

An FBI warning about hackers targeting guests' data when they log into hotel Wi-Fi overseas is a salient reminder to travelers of the risks to data security on the road.

Can Rio +20 save the world?

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:08 AM PDT

Rio +20, a major international environmental conference held in Brazil this month, is being billed as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to safeguard our planet.

CookingPress - Recipe & Food WordPress theme


CookingPress is a WordPress theme for foodies. This recipe theme will let you share all your recipes and cooking tips with wide audience. It’s one of the first WordPress recipe themes with support for Google Recipe View. What does it mean? it means that your blog will be understand not only by people, but also by search engines.
RickBakas says
After installing this theme almost 2 months ago I can say this is by far the best theme I’ve had on my blog since it was established in 2008. I LOVE it! My readers love it. The responsive design is awesome. The forethought in the design for little touches here and there is awesome. This takes blogging to a whole new level.
saynernz says
Hi there, great theme! Solved a lot of problems for me and even made me learn stuff, so a win all round!
gogenny says
Thank you for making this theme! It’s beautiful and makes my life a lot easier.

Each recipe is created via easy to use creator (with features like ingriedients autocompletion) and shown in standarized markup, valid with hRecipe format or Schema.org format (you can decide which one you prefer). When recipe information is marked up in web pages, Google may use that information to show rich snippets for recipe results, and for inclusion in Google with Recipe View.



Check these example

schema.org is a collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to improve the web by creating a structured data markup schema supported by major search engines. On-page markup helps search engines understand the information on webpages and provide richer results. Learn more on www.schema.org.

hRecipe is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about recipes for cooking in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS , and arbitrary XML . hRecipe is one of several microformats open standards. Learn more http://microformats.org/wiki/hrecipe.

It’s also responsive theme, it means that it will adapt to the device it’s viewed on. Let’s imagine situation when visitor of your blog really wants to make your recipe, but he doesn’t have a printer. WithCookingPress he can just open it on iPad or iPhone, and take it to kitchen. Recipe will adapt to browser size, and he will see just things that are important to him. And even more, each ingriedient and instruction (if it’s a list) has checkbox next to it. Just touch it, click it, and mark it as done!

Adding recipes is easy, check screencast





Theme features

  • HTML5 & CSS3 (real html5 markup, not only doctype ;))
  • Responsive design
  • support for hRecipe and Schema.org
  • 3 layouts to display posts (grid view, excerpt mode and full posts)
  • Left or right sidebar
  • Recipe creator
  • 4 Designs
  • Localization (.po and .mo file)
  • Shortcodes, page templates
  • CodaSlider and FlexSlider
  • Upload logo
  • Change layout versions
  • Decide which Post meta elements show (Date, Author, Category, Time..)
  • Create your own custom colour scheme
  • Change fonts
  • ..and more

Fashy - Left & Right Layout Wordpress Theme


   

Fashy – Fashion Premium Wordpress Them

Fashy is a Fashion Blog and Portfolio Premium Wordpress Theme, suited for users who want to run a professional or personal blog and wants to showcase your products, services or news with a unique looking website.
This Fashion Wordpress Theme uses a layout that is a bit different then in most themes. You can choose to have either a left or right layout.
Slideshows are a unique part of the theme and were inspired by a great site for tutorials calledTympanus. A big thanks to them for some piece of really great work!
This Premium Wordpress Theme comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend. You can choose any color you want to be the Theme’s leading color (you can see 10 examples in our preview). You will notice the horizontal borders in the header and slideshows. You can turn them on or off in the backend. We used widget lines under the titles in the sidebar. These can also be turned on and off in the backend to give you full control over these features.
The theme allows you to change all the main colors of the Theme (background color for titles, color of title fonts, color of hover elements, color of shadow used on text) along with the background. This means that you can change all the colors and looks of the theme with just a few clicks.
The greatest feature on the home page is the recent posts / portfolio section. It will allow you to add several posts and portfolio projects to the front page in a unique way. It is designed so your visitors can see the description and images from the post on the fly without leaving the front page. Be sure to click on the posts to see this great feature in full. You can set the number of posts in the Theme’s administration.

Fashy Premium Wordpress Theme Features

  • 3 built in sliders (Slideshow with thumbs, simple Nivo and advanced Nivo with Thumbs)
  • left or right layout
  • 4 custom Widgets
  • Google Web Fonts
  • Unique Recent Posts / Portfolio Items widget on the front page
  • Wordpress 3 Ready
  • Video, Gallery and Link Posts Templates (3.3 Wordpress Feature) browser!
  • CSS3 Features and Animations
  • Detailed written help file
  • +30 shorcodes with easy shortcode generator.
  • Use your custom logo and favicon icon.
  • 3 home page layouts.
  • 3 portfolio page layouts (2,3,4 columns)
  • 10 Home Page Templates
  • 4 Post Templates (Standard, video, link, gallery)
  • Filterable portfolio items.

Documentation

Documentation can be found on our website under the post Fashy Premium Wordpress Theme.

Support

Support is available for verified buyers, go to our Envato Support Forum and make an account with your Envato login name. Choose your password and enter your purchase code. For General inquiries go toGeneral section of the forum and post your questions / suggestions about our Themes and plugins.

Current WordPress Theme


 

Features of the Current theme in a brief glance

  • Responsive Theme
  • SEO Ready
  • Unlimited slideshows
  • Blog pages unlimited – Multicategory and Sortable
  • Portfolio pages unlimited – Multicategory and Sortable
  • Contact page with ReCAPTCHA and Google Map
  • Sidebars unlimited – can have double sidebars on a page
  • Featured Post Video
  • Widgeted Front page
  • Skins – unlimited color options
  • Custom CSS class support for widgets
  • Fonts 800 plus styles – Support Cyrillic, Greek, Khmer, Vietnamese
  • Sitemap configurable
  • Latest Posts Ajax sliding plugin
  • Internationalized, provided with POT file for tranlations
Read below for the details.

Responsive Theme

The Current theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme. It adapts the layout to fit into multiple device interfaces. The image sizes are automatically taken care of by the dynamic CSS .

SEO Optimized

The “Current” theme is fully SEO optimized. The code is compact and have made proper use of headings. If you notice that each page’s title is rendered using H1 tag and the other heading tags h2-h6 have been appropriately assigned to the rendering of the content.
The loading of the scripts and css files is optimized based on the usage of respective modules and components on different pages. Example! If a page is not using a slideshow, the script for the slideshow is not loaded at all. Furthermore the code is clean xhtml/css and div based.

Unlimited Slideshows

The “Current” theme features a cool Mocktail slider. This powerful slider module lets you choose up to Two images for a single slide and also add a third component of html markup. This flexibility provides you with a great control to customize and convey your message to the viewers.
Create any number of the slideshow instances. Each with its own unique configuration and slides. There is no limit on the count of slideshows you can create. Given the cool features of the slideshow module, you can create different styles for each of the slideshow.
You can independently configure each Page, or Post to have its own slideshow or share a common slideshow. That is when the power of having multiple slideshows comes into use.

MOCKTAIL SLIDESHOW FEATURES

  • Responsive slideshow. Re sizes as per the browser resolution.
  • Create unique multiple Slideshow instances.
  • Add/Remove or edit slides specific to each of the instance. All the instances are independent in settings and content from each other.
  • Drag and drop to change the order of slides.
  • Select from among “slide”, “fade” or “mix” options for the appearance of slides.
  • Control the aspect ratio of the slideshow by specifying the height parameter.
  • Set up to Two images for each slide.
  • Add HTML markup in addition to the images for each slide

Blog – Multicategory and Sortable

The most important page template. After all WordPress is a Super blog platform. Once you have assigned the Blog template to a page and saved it, a new MetaBox with the title “Blog settings” will appear somewhere below the Content edit box.
What options does the Blog functionality offer in the “Current” theme. Its a roller coaster ride from here. ENJOY

THE BLOGGING FEATURES

The Blog settings metabox provides you with cool options to :
  • Specify a particular category of posts for this blog page.
  • If you are feeling greedy, it also lets you select multiple categories to form one blog.
  • And in case you are going to use multiple categories for this blog page, would you not like to have an option to turn on sort by categories options on top of the blog page? I knew it, so its there. Ha ha
  • Know what? it also lets you choose to display either the post content or the post’s excerpt in the blog view.
  • You can also specify your own pretty words for the “Read more” button that will appear on this blog page.
  • You do not like the read more button? well, leave the text blank and the button will never show up. But then where would you click to open the full post? Common, like you did not know that you can still click on the post thumbnail and the post title.

Wordpress for Beginners

Wordpress for Beginners


How to Get Google’s Verified Authorship for your WordPress Blog

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Everyone is talking about how the search is going social. Google +1 buttons are now integrated in websites, search results, and even in Google Ads. Well all that is important, but we are now seeing a rise in verified Authorship for Google search results. Finally with the new redesign, we have added it in WPBeginner as well. Now when you search our articles, you will see the picture of our founder Syed Balkhi in the results like the screenshot below:

Google's Verified Authorship Results

We heard folks claiming that this is increasing click through rates and sometimes rankings as well. In this article, we will show you how you can get google’s verified authorship for your WordPress blog.

You need to add the following code in your theme’s <head> section. (Don’t forget to change the Google+ profile URL to yours). Normally you can do this by editing the header.php file

<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/101623299936375408403/posts" />

If you are using a theme framework or just want to put this in as a function, then you can add this by hooking into wp_head(). Paste the following code in your theme’s functions.php file.

  add_action('wp_head', 'add_google_rel_author');  function add_google_rel_author() {  echo '<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/101623299936375408403/posts" />';  }  

Next thing you need to do is go to your Google+ profile, and add link to your website under the contributors section.

Add Website to Google+ Contributor Section

Lastly, make sure that your +1′s are public on your Google+ profile or this won’t work.

Now you are done. Simply wait for Google to re-crawl your pages and show your face next to it. You can check to see if you did everything right by going to the Google Webmasters Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Below is a screenshot of what it should look like.

Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool Preview

This trick would work great for sites with individual authors. If you are running a multi-author blog, then you would have to be a little more nifty. You can add an additional user profile field for Google+. Then run a conditional statement in the header area to see who is the author, and display the appropriate URL. Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin will now includes this feature in the newest version.

How to Get Google’s Verified Authorship for your WordPress Blog is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

Strengthen Your Profession with MFA Creative Writing-online creative writing course, copywriter jobs, copywriting training, copywriting services

Strengthen Your Profession with MFA Creative Writing


by Robert Green


MFA creative writing courses are offered by numerous colleges all through North America, and in other areas of the world. It's a qualification that may open up numerous doors to suit your needs within the literary world, in addition to giving you additional reputation for almost any projects you may desire to execute yourself. It undoubtedly will take time to study for a qualification which can give you numerous rewards, but this does not now need to occur in a college campus because there are online study options for those who need them.

You may take a creative writing course with several targets in your mind, but the most typical is career relevant. It's a long course and will need to have considerable capital, hence make sure that this is something you wish to accomplish. For those who have just quit school and therefore are searching for even more opportunities, you will probably have to go into debt in order to finance the course. In such cases, you will have to be absolutely sure that there is a career waiting around at the end of it that may allow you to pay off the loan and then make progress after that. There are commercial writing possibilities, but few are guaranteed.

Young adults are usually better advised to study on college. Although it may take even more cost and restrict you in the approaches you may earn money to support yourself over the experience, it can offer possibilities that this online equivalents cannot supply. The most apparent of these is the possibility to network along with other students and even with tutors that may hold other jobs of influence.

Numerous older students will not be able to agree to master for an MFA creative writing qualification at a college. They will have existing careers and possibly young families to back up, and is going to be in no situation to move away from home even for a short period of time. The launch of online studying has offered brand-new opportunities for a lot of these people, and there's no basic difference between the online program and the main one taught inside the colleges. Creative writing applies completely to the online learning platform since all the work may be sent in electronically with no attendance is ever needed.

The sole vital consideration with online studying is that you should be the kind of individual who can adapt to it. Most creative writers are normally capable to function and think in their own personal space not being watched; hence they make best themes for online learning. The only real possible difficulty comes when there is an especially challenging portion of the program, because there are no tutors on hand to help. Should you genuinely do have the inspiration to do well with creative writing; you'll not think it is an issue to look for help when it is necessary.

There are also family considerations which can be crucial with MFA creative writing classes. It really is essential that you're able to dedicate time and energy to the training course with no distractions, and this is often a challenge for folks with young families. Ensure that you might have your own personal room reserved for studies, because you will not be capable to handle creative writing tasks doing work in the kitchen table with screaming children all around your feet. Have a do not disturb sign made for your own door, and be sure that the family respects it. Provide it with due care as well as attention, and you can be successful with MFA creative writing.




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