Miscellaneous Files

This page contains links to files I’m willing to share use at your own risk), but don’t know what else to do with.

AndyBlue-Emergy C Wordpress Theme

Some explanatory comments:

• It works in Wordpress 2.2, is free, and should be unencumbered by my adsense code. (At least I think I got it all out of there.)
• Standard installation rules apply: unpack the archive under /wp-content/themes, and customize to your heart’s content.
• The theme is widget-friendly. You can find a few custom widgets I created for the theme in functions.php.
• The default search box (in searchform.php) assumes Google sitesearch and needs to be customized for your site. You may wish to substitute in searchform.php.original if you prefer.
• For adsense ads, I use the Adsense Manager plugin. One of my widgets assumes that it’s installed.
• For the “related posts” widget, I assume that the Related Posts plugin has been installed.
• I run Gallery2 and make use of the WPG2 and WPG2 Random Image plugins. Within Gallery2, I use the wpg2connections_G2 theme (no URL handy, but should be findable via google), and I’ve provided appropriate wpg2header and wpg2footer files.
• Emergy-C is a color scheme publicized by Mark Ontkush as being both reasonably aesthetically attractive and being more energy-efficient than the dark-text on light-background coloration used on many websites when displayed on CRT screens.
• Standard disclaimers apply. I did strip out some code unique to this site, and I’m not currently able to test the results (having done this work while on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic), but it should be operational. Nonetheless, use at your own risk, etc., etc.

Firefox 2.0 Extensions

Firefox 2.0 was released on 24 October 2006. Unfortunately, a few of the plugins I rely on haven’t been updated as of that date. Fortunately, most of them work under 2.0 with a minor hack to the install file.

In case others need them, I’ve made my hacked versions available below. (Disclaimer: they’re still owned by their respective creators; hopefully updated versions will soon be available; and I can assume no responsibility for any misbehavior in these files — i.e., use at your own risk.)

Clip to OneNote 0.1 — copy/pastes highlighted text from Firefox to a OneNote sidenote. (Extension homepage: http://www.freewebs.com/onenote/)

SyncMarks 0.3 — allows automatic export of Firefox bookmarks to MSIE Favorites; seems to run much slower in Firefox 2.0 than in Firefox 1.5. (Extension homepage: http://syncmarks.mozdev.org/)

FirefoxView 0.31.3 — Adds a “View in Firefox” menu item to the right-click menu in MSIE. (Extension homepage: http://www.iosart.com/firefox/firefoxview/)

A fourth extension I used — “Feed my reader” has become redundant with new Firefox 2.0 functionality. A tutorial on how to add a new default RSS reader in Firefox 2.0 is here.

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