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Changing Volume with Mouse Wheel in Windows 7

This is only a very small tip but anyway it’s useful. Did you know that you can change the volume in Windows 7 using the mouse wheel?

It’s simple: click on the speaker icon in the task bar and the volume dialog will appear. Now move the mouse wheel up or down to change the volume.

Windows 7 has some of this nice features. The thing is to know them I guess there are much more.

Good iPad Apps

Education

• Star Walk
  Lean about the sky.

Musik Maker “Ipad”

Finally I got my own iPad. Not yet sure what I will do with it, still searching around for nice apps. I will post a few apps I like soon. But nevertheless the video below is pretty cool, all instruments were  played using iPad applications from iTunes.

Have you recognized that you are able to watch the embedded Vimeo video with your iPad/iPhone/iPod? It’s possible using the new embed code which Vimeo offers. I use it together with the vimeo quicktag WordPress plugin. This plugin embeds Vimeo videos using the new embed code which works with iPad etc. very nice!

Limit Your WordPress Tag Cloud

You might have been wondering how it’s possible to modify the number of tags in your WordPress tag cloud. Until now I could not find a way to change this within the wp-admin area, what a shame. I don’t know why this has still not been integrated into the admin area of WordPress.

I guess you have three choices to come around this issue.

1. Modify the WordPress core source code

I found this solution from seorankings.com. This solution is quick and dirty. It may happen that you will have to apply the hack again when you update your WordPress version.

To modify open the file wp-includes/category-template.php and find the function wp_tag_cloud(). Change the number assignment from 45 to what ever you need.

function wp_tag_cloud( $args = '' ) {
 $defaults = array(
 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,

2. Add the tag cloud function call to your template

Another option is to add the wp_tag_cloud() function call into your template. I’ve not tested it but it should work when you add the call into your sidepar.php:

wp_tag_cloud(‘smallest=8&largest=22&number=30′);

Now you can easily adjust the number of tags in your cloud. For this option it’s needed to remove the tag cloud from your widgets within the wp-admin I guess.

3. Use a Plugin

Optionally search for a configurable tag cloud plugin and use it.

WordPress Page Navigation Plugin “WP-PageNavi”

I think the original page navigation of WordPress is not very nice. Simple, but not very nice. Searching for a nicer version I found the plugin WP-PageNavi. It generates a page navigation which looks like:

Pretty nice. But it needs minor modifications in your template code after installation. In my case I had to replace the following lines of code in a few .php files in my template.

<div id="pagenavi">
<!--
 <div><?php posts_nav_link('','','&laquo; Previous Entries') ?></div>
 <div><?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries &raquo;','') ?></div>
-->
 <?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
 </div>

Simply find all code places with the posts_nav_link(..) function call, remove them and add the wp_pagenavi() function call. That’s it.

Plugin Homepage: WP-PageNavi WordPress Plugin