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Cool Train Location in Plymouth, Indiana

Behind the Scenes | Posted on Sunday, April 11 2010 | By Josef Samuel

I recently photographed Jered and Jamie over in Plymouth, Indiana. The weather was great that week and it turned out that the day we scheduled the shoot, all these rain clouds rolled in. After checking the forecast, we moved the shoot earlier in the day to try to beat the rain but as my luck would have it, just when we got started, it started to rain. And did it pour. Well, we continued with the shoot. One thing that I did appreciate about the rain is that it provides more contrast in the background. For example, grass, when the sun is out, will be real bright green. But when it's wet, it's a darker, more colorful green. And this is true for most things that get wet in the background. Anyway, it was a great time. We explored an abandoned barn, discovered a cool train, and got soaked. Of course, as we were wrapping up, the rain cleared and the sun came out. That was so funny, we laughed about it on our way back. Check out the slideshow in the Recent category or click the "Read More" button to view some more photos.

Plymouth Indiana wedding photography

Tech Stuff | Posted on Friday, April 09 2010 | By Josef Samuel

This post is written with courtesy of Melvin Rivera of All Forces. Visit the original post here.

The default interface for Mail signatures allows you to do rich text signatures using the fonts and colors palette. You can even drag an image into the compose signature window and it will be included in every email as an attachment. This is fine for most people, but attachments should be just that, an attachment of a file I am sending, not an image in my signature. So here’s an easy guide on how to do CSS signatures referencing images on an outside server and not as an attachment.

This tutorial covers Apple Mail in Mac OS X Tiger v.10.4

Custom Signature in Mac Mail

Tech Stuff | Posted on Thursday, April 08 2010 | By Josef Samuel

I learned this little tutorial from Cartoon Barry's Blog. Be sure to check it out for other great info.

Adding the Code

This is a great way to customize your website icon (WebClip Bookmark) when an iPhone user adds it to his/her home screen. By default, it takes a screenshot of the site and makes that the icon. For some, that's just not good enough. As per the iPhone Developer Center, this is easy to do.

Step 1: Create a custom icon that is 57x57 and save it as a PNG file.
Step 2: Rename the file to anything you'd like, i.e. yourcustomicon.png
Step 3: Upload the png to your root directory on your server.
Step 4: Add the following code in the <head> element of your website:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/yourcustomicon.png"/>

Add the WebClip Bookmark to Your Home Screen

Then go to your site and add the bookmark icon on your iPhone. I have a page on my iPhone dedicated for websites. Below are some of the custom icons I made and added, each of them linking to one of my customized iPhone websites:

Pretty cool huh? It's all in the little details. But how do you add the WebClip Bookmark to your home screen? Keep reading, it's easy.

Going to Peru, South America

News | Posted on Tuesday, December 15 2009 | By Josef Samuel

I'm getting the final details worked out for my South America trip. I'll be leaving on Dec. 21, 2009 and return on March 1, 2010. There's a lot planned. And although email access will be limited, I'll do my best to reply as soon as possible. A few goals for this trip include creating 3 websites for a few different organizations. One for a missionary family, one for a school for poor families, and one for a radio station.

Boy, Photographed by Josef Samuel Girl, Photographed by Josef Samuel

Tech Stuff | Posted on Sunday, September 06 2009 | By Josef Samuel

The Problem

While working on my iPhone website, I realized that the galleries had suddenly stopped working. The little icons with the left and right arrows had disappeared mysteriously, so if a visitor clicked on a gallery, the first image would show up but that's all it would do. Chances are, if you have a smallfolio site, yours is doing the same. Pretty strange.

Here's a before and after, notice the icons on the top left: