Gravatar Profile — Building and Tweaking

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Avatar, blog tool, Gravatar, HTML embedded profile, Public profile, WordPress, wordpress blog

Your WordPress profile can link to a public Gravatar profile and you can control what is publicly displayed and even provide links from your Gravatar profile to your pages at WordPress or elsewhere.

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I try to use the Gravatar links from my pages to WordPress users that Like my posts. In many cases (the majority), the Gravatar link is a dead end. If you haven’t been using the Gravatar profiles to provide a link to your WordPress blog, this tip is for you. Even if you already do this, there may be a tip in this post that works for you as well.

To begin: https://wordpress.com/settings/public-profile/

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You can fill in the basics on your WordPress profile — click to open your public profile. Open https://secure.gravatar.com/site/wpcom/

Add your Name and Details. 

You may add HTML links in your About Me text if desired. I added a link to my WordPress blog using embedded HTML code so that the link can be clicked from my WordPress pages. Its simple enough — just change my hunt4truth to your WordPress blog name and insert the code in your About Me text box as shown here:

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Next, choose an image to display and insert your links to blogs or Websites.

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Check out your profile and make sure everything is as you like it.

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WordPress offers lots of wigdget and custom theme tweaks. It took some time for me to figure them out, but I did make my page quite nicely do what I like with some customization tweaks to The Chateau Theme that I settled upon.

Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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More Hunt4Truth WordPress Tips:

Posts I Like: widget

posts I like… another cool feature on my pages

My Blog ID – readerlist

its snowing … at WordPress

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Posts I Like: widget

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Posts I Like, widget, WordPress

Widgets: Posts I like

Have you learned about using widgets yet? WordPress standard (free) has some widgets that you can use to dress up your blog. I’ve included an advance tutorial here but the Widgets I am using are really easy and I’m highlighting the “Posts I Like” widget today. 

I hope this is useful.

The Widgets interface is located from the dashboard in the Appearance sidebar.

Widgets are independent sections of content that can be placed into any widgetized area that is provided by your blog theme (generally these are sidebars and footers). To populate your sidebars/widget areas with individual widgets, drag and drop the widgets title bars onto a desired area. By default, only the first widget area is expanded. To populate additional widget areas, click on their title bars to expand them.

The Available Widgets section contains all the widgets you can choose from. Once you drag a widget into a sidebar, open it and fill it in with your settings. When you are happy with the widget settings, click the Save button and the widget will go live on your site. If you click Delete, it will remove the widget.

My image is of the “Posts I Like” widget displayed on my sidebar. All I had to do was drag it to the appropriate spot in my sidebar in the Widgets window and then select how many posts I wanted to display — 14 is the maximum (limit). I selected a Grid for my display.

 

 

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I used the widget Posts I LIke display when I created my page: Spring – my favorite.

When you get an extra minute, please explore the “Posts I Like” widget and visit some of my favorite bloggers by uing the links from my sidebar. 

 

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

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Invisibility technology

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cloaking spray, invisibility, invisibility paint

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Cloaking spray

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OK – so…
if this works out,
there will be a spray on the market in your future…

How do you think an invisibility substance might be useful?
Would you like to cloak something?

Make a comment…
come on…
have some fun…
its just crazy day.

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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Neuro-bots, AI and Transhumanism

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nanotechnology, Robotics, Robots, scientific exploration, technology toy

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Artificial Intelligence and Tech advances are expanding our abilities already. The future arrived – did you notice? Here is a robot that has no programming instructions for movements. It has a “Brain” — a Neurologically-Based Control System. It can generate instructions based on experiments. It can create self models, take action, and generate instructions based on its analysis of its models and actions:

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Here is a short video that demonstrates amazing robot technology:

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Now, here is the mind blowing stuff… things that were science fiction are real and the future of technology is focusing on transhumanism: http://www.disclose.tv/embed/142140

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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Super Tech Toys 2013

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American International Toy Fair, Christmas, Giant Skylanders, gift, Nintendo, PlayStation, Skylander, technology toy, Toys R Us, Wii, xbox

“I was born too soon.”

Skylanders character play figures

Personal Robot Suit

Battle Mech Warrior Machine prototype

Thanks for visiting,

 Eric

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Gadgets my son wants… Anki Drive

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Anki, Anki Drive, Apple Store, Artificial intelligence, Boys toy, Christmas, gift, IDevice, race car, Slot car, Tech

Remember Those Crazy Toy Cars at WWDC?
They’re Called Anki Drive and They Go On Sale October 23

Anki’s eclectic experiment, dubbed Anki Drive, resembles a slot cars game — one that happens to conceal advanced robotics wizardry.

By Matt Peckham@mattpeckham Oct. 17, 2013

I’d almost forgotten about them: a crew of colorful toy cars you drop on a stylish track-etched mat, then watch as they scoot around on their own, intelligently weaving and shifting, angling for better positioning, smartly avoiding each other while acing red-lined curves at breakneck (for a bunch of toy cars, anyway) speeds.

They’re from a company called Anki, not to be confused with Ankh, which is  an Egyptian hieroglyphic character used in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, a 1980s-era computer roleplaying game.

But there’s your hook: Anki’s eclectic experiment, dubbed Anki Drive, resembles a slot cars game — one that happens to conceal advanced robotics  wizardry. You might not get that, watching a bunch of Hot Wheels-wannabes scoot around a track, sometimes manipulated by humans standing nearby with phones or tablets. Haven’t we had remote control race cars for decades? Aren’t we now piloting drones that can hover way, way up in the sky — drones capable of guiding people around like Halo‘s 343 Guilty Spark?  What’s the big deal about a handful of plasticky race cars?

Artificial intelligence, says Anki, that’s what’s different:

Like the slot cars you grew up with, you can hold Anki Drive cars in your hand. But each car has advanced artificial intelligence and robotics built in that gives it unique personality traits and characteristics that evolve the more you play.

Similar to a video game, your character evolves over time. You get to upgrade with new weapons, you can play offensively or defensively, and the cars even react to each other. So if you blast your pulse carbine towards the car in front of you, his car will actually spin out.

The cars can be controlled using an iOS device, letting you keep tabs on a  car’s performance and fiddle with metrics like positioning, speed, weaponry and so forth. The cars can even engage in virtual Cars Wars-style battles, sort of like laser tag only the lasers are radio frequency signals conveyed via  Bluetooth.

Anki says they’ll be available in the Apple Store in the U.S. and Canada as well as from Anki.com starting  October 23; $199 gets you the starter set — two cars and the track — and additional cars can be purchased for $69 a piece.

My colleague Harry McCracken sat down with Anki Drive’s creators this summer. Give that a read if you have a few minutes, because while it’d be easy to mistake Anki for a  novelty toy company (especially given how much more sophisticated and expansive  video game racers can be than this), Anki is really a robotics and artificial  intelligence enterprise. Those cars are canny little robots, not rote toys, and  what you’re looking at isn’t just the advent of some multi-stage effort to reconquer slot racing, it’s the vanguard of future artificially intelligent devices capable of doing exponentially more than resting passively in our hands and pockets.

Thanks for visiting,

 Eric

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