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AfterShip, a shipment tracking and customer engagement technology company, has announced a new delivery date prediction API that is intended to provide developers with the most accurate shipping information possible. The company claims more accurate delivery date predictions than are available directly through carriers.
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BuddyPress is the backbone of WordPress social networking. If you are looking to create a social network (or a community) on your existing WordPress platform, BuddyPress is the plugin you want. The plugin “unlocks” the social networking capabilities of WordPress. In other words, BuddyPress allows users to register and create profiles, post messages, build connections, […]
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Anybody here who can tell me how to send a link in Instagram chat? Of course, not as plain text, but as a link.
Thank you
1Password, an enterprise password management solutions provider, has announced a new Events API that is intended to improve login visibility for IT professionals. This new offering greatly expands the number of events that are reported programmatically on the platform.
Create a table with following rules and regulations ma
1)Id should b identity
2)Name should allow only starting Letter with a to p
3)city should not allow Chennai,cbe, Salem
4) department should allo only cse,it,ece,
5) college default should b anna university
6) per should above only 70%
7) year of passing should be between 65 to 85
8) mailid should not allow null values
9)ph num should b primary key
10) designation should b unique constraints
11) salary default should b 0
My bluetooth and WiFi are no longer visible on my device and even after installing a Bluetooth driver it is still not available.
It shows we couldn't find wireless device on this PC
There is also no Bluetooth nor 802.11 driver in network adapter,
What should I do?
It is hard not to look through a list of upcoming WordPress 5.8 changes and not find at least a little something to whet your appetite. With so many enhancements headed our way, even we have not been able to keep up with them all here at WP Tavern. The next release will bring a few much-needed media-related upgrades.
Users should enjoy WebP image format support and a copy-to-clipboard button on the media upload screen. Developers have a new hook for filtering the image output format, and the platform is dropping infinite scrolling.
WordPress 5.8 is scheduled to ship on July 20, so these changes will be landing in less than a week. If you have not already done so, give WordPress 5.8 Release Candidate 3 a test run and report any issues.
The upcoming core release will drop infinite scrolling for media in favor of an Ajax-powered “Load more” button. The admin screen and editor’s media overlay will cap the initial and subsequent “pages” to 40 media items each.
This change is a part of an effort from the WordPress accessibility team to improve the experience for end-users. Team member and core contributor Andrea Fercia noted two a11y problems with infinite scrolling. The first is that it is impossible or nearly for keyboard users to reach content appended to the screen. Second, there is no audible feedback or instructions about how infinite scrolling works for screen readers.
He also noted usability and performance issues. Infinite scroll can break the browser’s history, and there is no JavaScript fallback. And loading hundreds or more large-sized images increases the memory footprint.
While the media library is getting the Ajax treatment in WordPress 5.8, we should expect similar updates for other areas in the future, including:
This change is an enhancement that rids the platform of a small but noticeable nuisance that has plagued it for years. When uploading an image from the Media > Add New screen in the WordPress admin, there was no way to grab its URL without clicking over to the edit screen.
WordPress 5.8 introduces a “Copy URL to clipboard” button that appears after the image has been uploaded. No need to leave the page and track down the URL. The change also makes the user experience consistent with the Media Library screen and overlay in the post editor.
More often than not, browsing Trac means seeing many of the same names. This time around, it seems that a regular user wanted a feature. They created an account — perhaps for this purpose alone –, wrote a support forum post, was directed to Trac, and created their first ticket. It took eight months to work its way into WordPress, but it is one of those success stories of an average user making things happen by just providing feedback. Thanks for the contribution, @anotia.
WordPress is allowing a new image format. And, no, it is not SVG (technically not an image). There are still security hurdles to jump for that to ever happen. However, it now supports WebP, which carries with it the promise of better performance for those who use it.
As Sarah Gooding reported for WP Tavern last month:
This modern image file format was created by Google in September 2010, and is now supported by 95% of the web browsers in use worldwide. It has distinct advantages over more commonly used formats, providing both lossless and lossy compression that is 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs and 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images.
In the report, she noted that only 1.6% (currently at 1.8%) of the top 10 million websites used the WebP format. With WordPress now adding support, that percentage is likely to rise in the coming years.
For developers who want to transform images with one mime type to another, 5.8 introduces the image_editor_output_format filter hook. Plugin authors can convert all newly uploaded images or only overwrite specific formats.
The following example converts JPG images to the new WebP format:
add_filter( 'image_editor_output_format', function( $formats ) {
$formats['image/jpeg'] = 'image/webp';
return $formats;
} );The output format will be applied to all image sub-sizes as they are created. However, this will only work for WebP images if the webserver supports it.
As an entrepreneur, you’re always looking for new opportunities to expand your business and generate sales. Having an effective and high-quality content strategy is one way you can increase your reach. The most straightforward way to implement your content marketing plan is in-house. However, it’s not the only option. You can get people to submit […]
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Firefox seems to work fine so what should I be looking for when Chrome and Opera show The End with a circle loading graphic that never ends?
Did I find The End of the latest posts? (Nah, it's something but I don't know what to check.)
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In today’s article we’ve rounded up ten of the best tools and websites to generate a color palette for your web design project. With some of these tools you can use a photo or image to generate your palette. Some use artificial intelligence. And some are completely unique, with communities that you can check out other designers’ submitted palettes as well as share your own. Let’s check them out!
Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes, available in the browser, iOS app, Adobe extension, and Chrome extension.
Whether you’re a professional designer, a starting artist or just a curious beginner in the world of art and design, Paletton is here to help you with all your color palette needs. You don’t need to know the ins and outs of color theory in order to use Paletton’s unique and easy color wheel. All you need to do is choose the basic color you are interested in exploring, and get inspired.
Colormind is a color scheme generator that uses deep learning AI. It can learn color styles from photographs, movies, and popular art. Different datasets are loaded each day.
With Adobe Color, you have access to the powerful harmonization engines for creating beautiful color themes to use in Adobe products. Start your color journey by exploring themes from the Color community. Be inspired by other creatives in curated Trend Galleries from Behance and Adobe Stock. Import photos and images to generate cohesive color palettes from your artwork.
Want a color scheme that perfectly matches your favorite images? With Canva’s color palette generator, you can create color combinations in seconds. Simply upload a photo, and they’ll use the hues in the photo to create your palette.
COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles… All in the spirit of love.
Color Palettes for Designers and Artists. Discover the newest hand-picked palettes of Color Hunt, similar to Product Hunt, but for colors.
Colordot is “a color picker for humans”, using a unique interface. It also has an iOS app.
Generate fresh, new color palettes inspired by a theme or a place.
Last in our collection is Mucube, a color wheel to generate unique color palettes that are downloadable in .AI and .ACO file formats.
Chris and Marie talk about customer support. If you’re a regular listener of this show, you’ll remember that we’ve had a lot of success with customer support over the last year, the point that our volume of direct support is rather low. That’ll happen when you fix every major problem that comes up. But it also means that we have some space to do better! It’s a big bummer when we have a customer leave when they never reach out at all to get a hand from us on whatever they might need. It leaves us thinking… what else can we do? Can we help you with anything? We’ve been trying a handful of things to get better data and answers to these kind of questions.
And that Call-To-Action: If we can do anything to help you, hit us up.
WooCommerce is the premier eCommerce plugin for WordPress. MailPoet brings a fancy email builder right into WordPress. Combine the two and you get more than power of them individually. For one thing, you get extra powerful eCommerce email abilities — things like abandoned cart emails. Better, you can combine them to make a paid subscription newsletter, but powered by your own site!
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If you want your website to be found by your target audience, it’s important to take Search Engine Optimization (SEO) seriously. Part of that involves staying updated on Google’s ranking signals, to ensure that your site adheres to proven best practices. Google’s Page Experience update is the latest change, and places a heavy emphasis on […]
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NFTs flourish in many fields right from the music industry to real estate. Moreover, NFTs have all the chances to make a huge impact in the publishing sector, too. So, if you are a writer or working in the book publishing industry, you’d better find out how NFTs are going to shape the sector.
We tried to answer the most common question related to the NFTs for books. So, let’s begin...
NFTs for books retain both practical and creative significance. NFTs are digital collectibles. In other words, they are digital files with the ownership recorded in the blockchain which make them unique digital versions of items.
NFTs are different from the digital copies of books that you can buy online. While purchasing the ebook, you own it for as long as the online marketplace where you bought it, agrees to keep providing it. In this case, NFTs are similar to print book ownership where you own a unique copy within a series of different similar copies. For this reason, pirating an NFT book is difficult while the author’s copyright is protected.
Another great thing in using NFTs for publishing is the implementation of smart contracts. Usually, the process of publishing and selling a book includes various parties who earn a percentage of each sale. Depending on the publisher these are paid out several times a year. However, smart contracts eliminate this mechanism. Instead, the contractual payouts happen automatically and immediately since they are embodied directly into the transaction.
Check out "What Is a Smart Contract and Where to Use It?" for more benefits of using smart contracts.
Book cover. An author can sell an NFT version of the book cover, for example, an alternative cover or diverse versions of the cover arts.
Limited editions and book editions. As with printed versions book editions can influence the price and create demand. Thus, a writer can sell a limited amount of copies. Or perhaps, he decides to republish his book adding a new chapter, essay, or an alternative ending, by this means creating value to the 1st edition of the book.
Digital objects as an addition to the storyline. As if it is a computer game, digital objects may help readers to solve riddles inside the book, understand characters or build in the timeline of events of the storyline.
Additional content. An author can create video or audio content to supplement the storyline and give some extras to the readers.
Artwork. A writer can create any kind of artwork based on his book, characters, events and create unique artworks. For example, on Mintable, an author was managed to transform 64,000 words novel into an image. The imagination goes wild if you think how much you can create based on the book.
Build loyal relations with the readers. The people who enjoy the book usually want to receive an additional piece of content from the author. Something that is related to the plot of the book, characters, or storyline that the writers created. NFTs allow the author to give the readers what they want.
When a writer releases a paper print or online book, it offers only limiting options to the readers. To fully dive into the world you’ve created, ardent fans will strive for more access to the book. An NFT book and digital collectibles will provide readers with access to the book-related extras, at the same time providing an additional value to everyone who will buy the book.
New way of book promotion. Authors can expand the traditional ways of book promotion. In addition to social media promotion, the author can create various multimedia possibilities. For example, create an online event telling all the details about the NFTs book, read a few chapters or tell the process of book creation. One way or another, NFTs allow authors to focus on the new way how to promote the book.
Getting additional income. In case an author sells an NFT, he can ask for royalties each time the item is resold. The standard amount of royalties are 10% – 15%, but in reality, it could be higher. This can create an additional source of income for the author. It means that every time the book or other digital collectible related to your book gets sold, the writer gets the cut of the percentage.
Helps to attract investors. It won’t be only the readers who will pay attention to the NFTs. The investors also will be interested in promoting and investing in NFTs. For example, some book collectors are ready to buy the 1st edition of the book due to they think that the author has great potential while his works will worth millions in the future.
Offer limited editions. When a book is available for a short period of time, it works as an incentive to buy this item. You can set a certain timeframe when anyone can buy a book, after the time ends, collectors will yearn to buy the originals of the book that they have been missed.
Offer different versions of a book. You can introduce to your readers slightly different versions of each copy, meaning that each buyer will get a book that is genuinely unique. Think of the art of text that might supplement each book copy.
Sell alternative versions. Creating an alternative storyline or an ending is a great way to raise the demand for your book. After selling, for example, the first 150 book editions think of the alternative plot twist, so the next 200 editions will be the slightly different front the first ones. The readers who are hooked to your book will love the idea of the extra material.
Create digital items related to your book. Based on the storyline, the author can create digital extras to build a meaningful experince for the readers. So, you can think of digital artworks, audio or video content that could be officially sold and owned all due to NFTs.
Hell yes!
NFTs have a great effect on the art sector transforming the way people perceive ownership of digital art. Digital books are no different. NFTs books are just as real as physical copies. The new generation of readers understands the meaning of having the first edition of the digital item as clear as traditional book collectors eager to buy the first editions of the physical copies.
Plus, the NFTs in publishing allows to have several major benefits:
The ownership can never be stolen since it is recorded in the blockchain;
The NFTs book is more liquid meaning it is easy to sell;
Easy promotion of the book through social media.
Kevin Kelly in one of his essays said:
“To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.”
The author and editor predicted that the economics of creative activities will be transformed by the Internet and online community. Taking that into account, NFTs have the power to revolutionize the publishing sector allowing writers to build a strong community around digital books, propose extra value to the readers and fans, protect their copyright and monetize their digital books.
Currently, when you buy a book from Amazon, you don’t have the right to resell it since you do not own the book. This can be explained by the fact that the secondary ebook markets have the tendency to lower the ebook prices, so the publishers and authors earn less money.
A startup marketplace offering services of buying/selling books on the blockchain will provide a new value to the top online marketplaces, like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc. introducing services that the mentioned leaders do not have yet. Such startups will allow authors to self-publish ebooks and transform them into NFTs. So, by selling the ebooks, the writers can have certain royalties from the purchase anytime the NFTs are resold. A person who buys the NFT book will own it and will be able to resell this ebook on OpenSea or Rarible using their ETH wallet.
The writers strive to have new ways of connecting with their audience and protect the authenticity of their digital works. The technology has already arrived so the authors should try to gain maximum benefits from it.
To “mint” the NFT for your book will cost money. Usually, the cost depends on the amount of traffic that is running through the network. Meaning that the fee for mining an NFT or simply “gas tax” might be correlated from $10 to $100. Therefore, creating book NFTs at low points will not eventually benefit you as an author. The best tactic is when an author creates one expensive item or a large number of medium-priced items.
We believe that NFTs for the book industry will open a new chapter for ebooks. The development of NFTs in art revolutionizes the way we preserve authenticity and ownership of digital items. From ebook monetization to protecting the copyright for writers to providing extra content to readers, NFTs will continue to transform and benefit the publishing industry.
Hopefully, this article answers the common questions about NFTs book. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to fill in the form below, so we can help you in any inquiry.
As great as WordPress is, certain problems and glitches will inevitably come up. It’s just a part of the experience of being a website owner. And you can either deal with these issues the hard way – manually – or the easy way – via a plugin. There are a host of WordPress plugins that […]
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