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Is SlideDeck 2 the worlds best WordPress slider plugin?
Sliders, slideshows, slidedecks… Whatever you call them, they’re ubiquitous. They’re everywhere. For good or for bad. Mainstreamed and popularized by Apple. So if you have a WordPress website, chances are that you’ll also want or need a WordPress slider plugin of some sort. But which one? Free or premium? Simple or advanced? Basically, the way…
Giving a talk on Headway at WordCamp Denmark 2013 in Copenhagen
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be delivering a kick-ass presentation on the wonders of the Headway theme framework at WordCamp Denmark 2013, here in “Wonderful” Copenhagen as the tourist agencies brand it. WordCamp 2013 will be the third time I’m presenting at WordCamp Denmark! First time was back in 2010, about WordPress SEO. Second time…
Headway Skins vs Headway Child Themes – What’s the difference?
Headway being a WordPress theme framework, and not a canned, ready-made WordPress premium theme, ready to go out-of-the-box, makes Headway a great tool for custom wordpress designers like me. To create a web design from scratch is always the way to go if you want to create a tailor-made website, specific to a clients needs and…
Best WordPress Hosting: Media Temple (gs) review
If you’re a small business owner like me, you probably also have a few websites. Your business depend on them being online, accessible, stable and reliable. Choosing a web host can be a frustrating experience! And I’ve been there: Horrible support and unstable, slow servers, seems to be the norm, and few people are truly…
Free Headway tutorial videos (UPDATED for 2013)
As you may already know by now, I’m a big fan of the ultra unique and super slick Headway Theme framework. It is fast, efficient and elegant, both when considering its codebase as well as the end results you can create with it. But everything – including the Headway theme – has a slight learning…
Thesis 2 Skins – Where are they?
Ever since Thesis 2 was finally released by DIYthemes aka Chris Pearson in early October 2012, customers have been waiting for the release of the promised, supposed-to-be-bundled, Thesis 2 skins. Namely the Pearsonified skin, and the Social Triggers skin. But these two Thesis 2 skins… Still aren’t available! In my popular (and quite frank) Thesis 2…
Mayan Calendar Predictions vs Terence McKenna
Fortunately, the world didn’t come to an end on December 21′st 2012. That’s obviously a good thing! I never expected it to, though. What most people don’t know, is where that whole “the world will end” idea originated from. Yes, almost anyone has heard that it’s because of the ancient Mayan long count calendar ending…
Scroll is *not* a dirty bitch that should be hidden in your basement
Many people – fellow web designers and clients alike, often hyperfocus in an obsessive compulsive manner about “the fold” as if scrolling is this dirty bitch that should rather be hidden down in your basement. There is this common perception that scrolling is always bad. That having *anything* below the fold is somehow dirty, and…
Headway Themes Fall Promotion – Save 33% on Headway today!
Just wanna let you know that the great guys behind Headway – Grant Griffiths (dad) and Clay Griffiths (son – they’re family, isn’t it cool?) are running a time limited Fall Promotion on Headway – my favorite theme framework for WordPress by far – it simply kills the competition! Now’s the prime time for you…
Making It All Work – The New Testament of GTD
Productivity guru David Allen is the man behind the Getting Things Done productivity system, aka GTD. A phenomena with many fanatic fans and dedicated followers. Some even say GTD is the holy grail of personal productivity. When I first “read” David Allen’s first book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity I got intensely…
DIYthemes Thesis 2.0 – Less than impressed. Depressed.
Thesis 2 by DIYthemes was vaporware for years. Now that it’s here, I gotta say it sucks! Built for everyone, yet only geeks will be able to figure it out.
Pump up your business with The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz
A few years ago I was at the annual entrepreneur fair Iværk & Vækst here in Copenhagen, at which a guy called Mike Michalowicz was booked to deliver a talk on entrepreneurship. When Mike entered the stage I must admit my first thought was something along the lines of: Oh no… That guy looks exactly…
ColorSchemer Studio 2 vs Spectrum by Eigenlogik
As a professional WordPress and Shopify web designer, I often spend time creating beautiful, harmonic color schemes for my clients. Color is a highly emotional phenomena, and a very subjective one, which means that color palettes are always a time-consuming discipline, sometimes open for hefty discussions. Hence, every tool that can be an aid in…
Why I love my Fuji X100 camera
I love my Fuji X100. First of all, it has saved me a lot of money. I was strongly considering a Leica M9 or Leica M9-P. Thanks to the wonderful guys in the Photografica camera-store here in Copenhagen, I had a chance to play around with, and shoot with, both the FujiFilm X100 and the Leica…
Create your product before you create it
As Stephen Covey (who sadly died recently) proposed in his classic 1989 book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – you should start with the end in mind.
Happy Birthday Final Cut Pro X
Today it’s one year since Apple finally released Final Cut Pro X – the long-awaited update to Final Cut Pro. Reception was mixed, and many dedicated long-time users of Final Cut Pro were, understandably, worried and frustrated. Final Cut Pro X wasn’t just an update. It wasn’t even “just” a rewrite. It wasn’t “just” a…
Version 3.2 of the amazing Headway theme framework just released!
The good people from Headway Themes have been busy lately. Yesterday they launched their Extend marketplace (offering child themes and extensions) but they also just came out with Headway version 3.2! What I’m personally most upbeat about:
Headway Themes just launched their Extend child theme marketplace
After being delayed for a few days due to technical challenges regarding the coincidental release of WordPress 3.4, Headway Themes, makers of the Headway theme (you’d never guessed that would ya?) just launched their fancy new, long awaited aaaaand much anticipated: Extend marketplace. The idea is to sell Blocks (Headway extensions) as well as Headway child…
3 Reasons Steve Jobs was an Objectivist
I’ll start out right away by openly declaring my admiration and high regards for both Ayn Rand and Steve Jobs. Both were great visionaries, that the world needed in order to progress forward. Whenever I read Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead, I can’t help thinking that the one real life person who’ve most obviously exemplified…
Freemium is Not a Business Model, it’s a Marketing Model
I’ve spent some time this Sunday morning, watching a video on Carsonified’s Vimeo channel, in which Jason Fried from 37 Signals gives a FOWA speak on making money off your by-products. In it, he touches delicately upon the subject of “freemium” and why he thinks it is a bad business decision to give away stuff…
Review of the Sony HDR-XR500/520 video camcorder
I visited a Sony store in Barcelona back in March and I remember how surprised I was to find that Sony products suffer from such poor design nowadays. I had heard Sony Vaio laptops was praised for their design, yet to me they looked extremely cheap. Shiny plastic, in an uncool way. It just screams…
Olympus E-P1 Sample Images – My Initial Impressions
Well, when I first saw the Olympus E-P1 I was hooked. The design, the idea of having 720p video with shallow DOF (depth-of-field) and beautiful bokeh in a compact camera with interchangeable lenses. Being a Sigma shooter, a Foveonite if you will, I also got a lurking feeling of disbelief. This will be the end…
IntenseDebate Review – Short and Sour
This morning I’ve had a rather intense debate with myself. Should I uninstall the IntenseDebate blog commenting system, recently purchased by Automattic the WordPress kings. After some internet research I found out it was not just me. Other people have had problems with spam not getting filtered properly, comments not showing but was supposed to….
Panasonic DMC-GH1 = Wauw!
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to take the leap from shooting still images, to dabbling with moving images. First came the measly Nikon D90 and the mighty Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Then came the Nikon D5000. I got excited! Then came reality. They all suffered from various problems. Wobbly jello effect because…
Gary Fong Lightsphere & Cactus V2s
This morning I was woken up by the mailman who had a package for me, from China. Whoohah, I was instantly on, as I knew that could only be… something good… something I’ve been looking forward to… something… from… Gadget Infinity! Any Strobist fan knows that Gadget Infinity is heaven for both your photography, wallet,…
Deep! Post Millenium Image Search
Ironic Software earlier today released version 1.0 of their new app called Deep of which I’ve been a beta tester. If you don’t know Ironic Software, they’re the makers of Leap and Yep. Don’t know Leap and Yep? Well, first of all they’re both apps made exclusively for Mac OS X, so Windows users need…
Textpattern vs WordPress – a Lack of Momentum
When it comes to content management systems, there are plenty to choose from. I’ve worked with Textpattern, Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, WordPress, and Textpattern. The reason I mention Textpattern twice, is because it has often been my first choice since early 2004, and often has been the second choice that got the job done when the…
Curio 5 – A giant creative application must-have!
If you are a creative, working on a Mac computer, you are already familiar with Adobe’s Creative Suite and possibly some of Apple’s pro applications, like Final Cut Pro, Motion or Aperture. You may even be using Apple’s iWork suite, using Pages for layout and writing as well as Keynote for presentation slides. Curio =…
Printer settings for making the ColorMunki work (on a Mac)
Due to popular demand I’ve had a few requests from ColorMunki users, that I would please post how I made my ColorMunki properly create good, solid printer profiles. So, here I go. Printer profiling with the X-Rite ColorMunki is easy… When you know how. At least that was my experience. I had to do more…
Keep it cool with the Rain Design mStand
Get on with the ergonomics Being in front of a laptop for 8-10 hours a day (yes I have a lot of work to do these days) 6 days a week, will almost certainly rear its ugly head at some point in the future, as severe back pains, neck pains, the works… So, today I…
The My-Way-or-The-Highway’s
When I went on vacation to Ibiza in late July, I brought with me the audio version of Ayn Rand’s classic Atlas Shrugged, the bible of many libertarians, which I consider myself to be. It is a dry read though. More than two days and nights of strong selfishness. Anyway, tonight we were watching a…
Review of the ColorMunki Photo from X-Rite
Back in May 2008, when I was first introduced to the ColorMunki, via the Inside Digital Photo podcast, I laughed out loud. The name sounded silly and it looked funny. But in the following days, I could not get my mind off the monkey. Something kept me fascinated. I felt the ColorMunki was The Missing…