Monthly Archive for April, 2007

Integrating SPGM with Wordpress 2.x

SPGM is a php script to create a photo gallery out of a directory anywhere on your server. I have been using SPGM for quite some time now and the best thing i like about SPGM is that, i can just FTP in my images to a folder inside my gallery, and i know it will show up in my photo gallery for my friends to see. There is no web based interface to deal with, which makes it faster. It also supports an infinite number of subgalleries, which is very important for me.

When i moved on to wordpress, i wanted a photo gallery that could integrate seamlessly with my wordpress blog. This means, i wanted the gallery to have the same appearance as my wordpress theme and i wanted it to reflect the changes automatically when i changed my theme from within wordpress.I looked at a lot of alternatives for similar features and the only one that came even close was fgallery+. But the subgallery feature in this tool is done pretty shoddily. Finally, unable to find a good alternative, i decided to integrate SPGM with wordpress myself.

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DIY Mini Canister Filter With CO2 Reactor

This easy to make DIY filter can double up as an excellent Co2 reactor. I must admit, it worked quite better than i had expected and the results were excellent. This filter will give you crystal clear water effectively eliminating suspended particles from the water.

Features
- Can be easily cleaned
- Efficient mechanical pre-filter
- A biological filter that is protected from clogging
- Maximum diffusion of CO2 into the water coloumn
- Can generate very low to medium turbulence as desired
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