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Fixing the “visual editor not working” in wordpress.

Posted on June 22, 2013 by lars

My visual editor has not worked for sometime. Don’t exactly know from which update. It at least did not work in 3.5.1 and 3.5.2.

Did some googleing and found several posts with many solution, but none of them worked for me.

Tried adding the line to wp-config.php:
define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

Cleared browser cache and logged in again. Didn’t work.

Next I tried was to delete my wp-includes folder and then copying it back from the tar.gz installation file. Edited a post and did a page refresh. Then the editor worked again.

Not sure excatly what was wrong, but at least now it’s working again and I didn’t have to do a full reinstall of WP.

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NURVO ROCKCHIP 3066 ANDROID TV

Posted on June 19, 2013 by lars

My latest gadget is a Nurvo Rockship 3066 Android TV. It essentially turns your TV into a big tablet. It’s very reasonably priced, and I got mine from Dustin. With a dualcore Cortex A9 at 1.6Ghz, 4Gb memory and 1Gb ram it’s a little more powerful than my Samsung S3 mini.

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No more midnight sun

Posted on July 10, 2012 by lars

As always northern Norway has shown how beautiful it is. We had many days and nights with sun, but also some rainy days. When we left the sun had started just setting below the mountains, but it still doesn’t get dark.

Midnight sun, almost…

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Another lichen wallpaper

Posted on May 23, 2012 by lars

From my house there is only a short walk to get into the woods. I love photos with lots of empty space and bokeh as my wallpaper. The lichen is a strange organism that has beauty of it’s own. Lichen is a symbiosis between algae and fungi. Read more about it on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

High res: 2640×1760

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Green L Close-up +2 review

Posted on May 12, 2012 by lars

I already have a dedicated macro lens. A Canon 100mm F2.8, but I wanted to test close-up lenses on my Canon 70-200 F2.8 IS. The best option is with no doubt Canons own close-up lens 500D, but at $150 it’s a bit over my “just-for-fun” budget.

First I purchased a Fotga +3 close-up lens for $5. The combination with the 70-200 was so bad that cropping and interpolating is much better. (However, it performed much better together with my Tamron 17-50. Guess it’s better on shorter focal lengths ) Then I ordered a Green L close-up +2. At the pricetag of $7 I didn’t expect to much. This lens is as I understand it equivalent to the 500D in terms of magnification. To my suprise this combination also worked much better.

Tulip photographed with 70-200 F2.8 and Green L close-up +2

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A mouse

Posted on May 4, 2012 by lars

At first I thought it was a bird that sat in the topp of some plants. However it seemed to act strange, so I went closer to get a better look. To my suprise it wasn’t a bird, it was a mouse. A Wood Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus). I didn’t have my dslr with me, but the ixus 860 can perform quite well too.

Mouse in a plant

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Vipera berus

Posted on May 1, 2012 by lars

I’ve long been wanting to photograph the Norwegian viper (Vipera berus) and today I finally came upon one in the wild. Sitting still it circled around me several times, but it was not me it was interested in. There also was a female hiding in the grass. The other viper was more shy, so it was hard good photo of it. When I left the two snakes were snuggled up so I left them alone to reproduce.

Vipera berus, Norwegian common viper, common adder, hoggorm, huggorm

After twenty minutes it finally came up close.

Vipera berus, Norwegian common viper, common adder, hoggorm, huggorm, mating, parring

The viper is courting a female.

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Lichen wallpaper

Posted on April 26, 2012 by lars

Just a quick post today. Went for a walk with the stroller this morning and stopped to take this picture as I thought it would make a great wallpaper. Lichen is actually a great subject for macro photography.

Feel free to download and use this image under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Abstract wallpaper

Posted on April 18, 2012 by lars

What better for #WhateverWednesday than an abstract photo taken through the windshield when running my car through the carwash.
#WallpaperWednesdayContest #snart

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A mini review of Green L ND filters

Posted on April 6, 2012 by lars

Sometimes its desired to get long exposure time to blur everything moving or you need to get exposure time up to allow for use wider apertures in bright light. To control exposure one can use neutral density filter, or ND filters. They cost from a few bucks on eBay to more than $100. I wanted to play a little with ND filters to learn more about photography techniques. To start off I ordered a couple of Green L filter for less than $6 each from eBay. For that price I weren’t expecting the best quality. Continue reading →

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