Multipleverses wishes you a happy 4th of July with Erica Durance July 3, 2009

Chuck Season 1 Episode Guide June 29, 2009

Order Chuck on DVD, Blu-Ray or Video On Demand from Amazon

Michal- one of our Multipleverses staffers put together an excellent Episode Guide for Chuck Season 1- I added pics pulled  from our forums and some clips and interviews from our library. Check it out to learn more about this fun show!

Guide is in two parts

http://multipleverses.com/2009/06/29/mul….-episode-guide/
http://multipleverses.com/2009/06/29/mul….e-guide-part-2/

Coppermine Installation made easy if you can’t use an autoinstaller June 29, 2009

I have previously given details on easy set up of Coppermine using a free webhost as your server platform. Today I am updating that info to give you the steps to install the album application on your own if you can’t use an autoinstaller. Actually- installing yourself is fast and easy and in many ways better as many autoinstallers manage to generate unwanted code that can make future updates difficult.

Preparation:

1. Download the latest version of Coppermine  from the Coppermine project site http://coppermine-gallery.net/ and make sure your hosting company has all of the required scripts installed on their server. You will need a newer version of PHP , GD 2.0 and the ability to add a MYSQL database. Read through the documentation provided with coppermine and make sure you have everything required available on your server. At this time- peruse the Coppermine library ( http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/)of user templates if you want to use something other than one of the pre-made ones supplied with the application. You can download these from the Coppermine download resource area (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89658 )
2. Create a MYSQL database and a database user, then assign full privileges to your user. Make sure you WRITE DOWN your database and user info so you can retrieve it at any time.
3. Unzip the coppermine installation files onto your hard disk. Also unzip your template files if you have downloaded some additional ones. I usually have a folder on my drive for COPPERMINE and have these two things in two folders within it.
4. Open your FTP client- I use Filezilla and then go to your website and choose the directory to install your gallery into. If your site is going to be just a gallery, you can install it in your root directory, otherwise make a new directory and name it. This will be the address for your Coppermine gallery. ie http://mysite.com would be your gallery address if you published to your root directory- or http://mysite.com/gallery would be the address if you were having your gallery installed in a directory on your site.
5. Load all of the files within the Coppermine installation folder to your directory. Once added, you can add the themes you downloaded and unzipped to the THEMES folder. Each theme will need to be added singly into their own folder- don’t load them into a single one within the THEMES folder.
6. Set user permissions- the program needs to be able to write to your database to install your site. I usually go ahead and go to the top level of my installation directory and right click on it in Filezilla and select FILE ATTRIBUTES. Set the value to 777 to allow install to occur.
7. Once this is done- open your gallery directory in your browser. You should get a page directing you to the installation page for Coppermine. If you do not, then ad the suffix index.php to your address- this should fix this. At your install page you will be asked to provide your database name and user info. Fill in all fields and that is it! You will then be directed to your coppermine homepage.
8. Set your coppermine settings in the config panel. You can change your theme, add links to your website or forum, set every detail on using coppermine. Some recommendations: Use GD 2 to handle images and make thumbs and make sure you have selected /usr/bin/ as your path for converting photos or the thumbnail tool won’t work. Also- don’t use the random photo display option- it is a resource hog. Instead replace the breadcrum list with  breadcrumb/lastalb,2/catlist/alblist/lastup,2
9. I recommend not allowing people to register and making albums public to eliminate SPAMMERs from accessing your gallery.
10. If you load pics using the FTP tools, you will want to make sure you go in and set the file attributes to 777 before you try to add them to your gallery using the bulk loader.

HAVE FUN! Coppermine is a flexible tool and ideal for adding photos over time. Now you know how to install it on any PHP/MYSQL server.

For 1.5GB of free server space I recommend 000webhost.com

This will allow you to load about 1000 photos without any problems- make sure images are sized to about 1600px as maximum size for easy viewing and loading.

Free album hosting for fansites! June 29, 2009

I have previously talked about using my favorite webhosting service for hosting Coppermine galleries for your fansite or collections of photos. Today I want to talk about an alternate type of gallery you can load that is really easy to use and does not require any database programming.

How to set up a gallery

1. Sign up for an account on a webhosting site- click on the banner above to get 1.5 GB of free space from 000webhost.com
2. Download the web-album application J-Album from http://j-album.net/
3. Organize your photos on your hard drive into folders as you would like to display them in an album
4. Open j-album , pick a layout theme and start to build an album. Once you have all of your photos in the order you like in folders and you have added any links you would like in the settings area, click on the make album link. This will generate all of the html you need to link your photos into a nice album that is ready to publish to the web. I recommend choosing the option to copy originals so that all photos are in your album file for easy loading purposes. This is also helpful later. MAKE SURE THAT YOU NEVER CHOOSE TO REMOVE a folder from your album projects- just exclude them as one of the quirks of J-album is that it will remove your files from your harddrive erasing  your photos!
5. Once the album is made, you can choose to publish it directly from your J-album interface. It will first try to publish to the j-album site- you want to make sure you select the option to publish to an alternate site. At this point enter your ftp info. You will be asked if you want to load to the main directory- if your site is to be used just as an album- say ok and proceed. The program will run until your album is loaded. You can add additional photos later by updating your album project and adding more pics, then repeating the publishing protocol. You can load a j-album with up to about 500 HQ photos to your free 000webhost.com account without any problems. You can load many more photos if they are not HQs. To conserve space- I recommend not making slides and using intermediate pictures, just link the thumbs directly to your originals. This will speed up the time taken to make the album and publish it both.

That is it! Photo albums in a jiff! Make sure you register with J-album and get an account there. You can add your albums to your account and add counters and stats using thier album gadgets once your album has been published.

You can check out my most recent webalbum which has a collection of HQ promo photos for the defunct CBS vampire series Moonlight as an example:

I have a j-album address which will allow you to browse my other j-albums as well

http://jalbum.net/browse/user/album/240106/

You can access the album direct as well without the navigation panel

http://moonlight.hostei.com/

If you have more photos- you can use your paid hosting service and publish your albums to directories. To do this, instead of using the j-album publishing tool, use a ftp tool ( I recommend filezilla) and open your album project. You will see a variet of files, you want the album files. Open the album files up and then load all of the files in the folder to your hard drive in the directory you want to have your album appear on. That is it. Nothing else to do.

One tip for making a gallery with any application- make sure your photo and gallery names are not too long. Many hosting companies have limits on file names. Also- make sure your photos are sized to fit on your host. Usually I try to have my photos under 4MB in size. You can use a program like Easy Thumbnails or VSO Image Resizer to shrink the size of your UHQ images to ones more hosting friendly with ease.

Fixing XML Queue problem with Filezilla June 29, 2009

This is a quick tech tip that will take care of a really annoying problem.

The upgrade to Filezilla that I installed earlier this spring suddenly started giving me an error everytime I opened and closed the program- it said “XML queue document not formed well- queue will not be saved upon exit” and gave me a path to the document. After upgrading and reinstalling the software- which did not fix the problem I took care of it with this simple solution.

Follow the path to the file that has the error- on my PC it was in my ApsData Roaming folder- remove the file. I had two files titled queue – I removed both.

Shut down filezilla and then re-install the program. The missing file which had become corrupted is replaced with a clean working file and your program is restored to working order.

See- I told you this was a simple one!

82 Desperate Housewives Wallpapers June 12, 2009

American Idol Season 8 Official Wallpapers Collection June 11, 2009

American Idol Season 8 Official Wallpapers and Icons Collection

42 100×100 size icons with the top 13

122 wallpapers with contestants and judges

All files I including the icons) in one zip to download

http://rapidshare.com/files/24343746…Wallpapers.zip

Adam Lambert:

Alexis Grace

Allison Iraheta

Anoop Desai

Danny Gokey

Jasmine Murray

Jorge Nunez

Kris Allen

Lil Rounds

Matt Giraud

Megan Joy

Scott MacIntyre

Weekly Countdown Group Shots

Top 36

Judges, Ryan and General Walls

84 Lost Wallpapers in Zip file June 8, 2009

LOST Official Wallpapers Collection from 1024×768 to 1920 widescreen size

DL

http://rapidshare.com/files/242475653/LostWallpapers_Multipleverses.com.zip

Gallery View:

http://multipleverses.iimmgg.com/gallery/g33c5d0d4870354d90cdb1869febdea79/

All of these are from ABC or other affiliates airing Lost

I HAVE A HUGE HQ collection of UNMARKED LOST promo photos in our forums – all in rar files for easy downloading! Close to 2000 HQ and UHQ images. LOST fans- come on by and grab some great stuff!

HQ Photos and Screencaps in the Multipleverses TV & Movie Talk Forums

Smallville, Supernatural and much more!

Food Network – Recipe of the Day April 22, 2009

Check out the Food Network recipe of the day widget!

March 14, 2009

American Idol Top 13 Photoshoot

Check out the American Idol Season 8 Top 13 photoshoot