Blog Archives for 2007

So you want to use your own email on your Blackberry rather than using the default email setup by your mobile or cell phone provider? The solution is pretty simple, as it goes; and anyone should be able to get it up and running. Here’s how:

Setting Up The Email in CPanel

Irrespective of whether you have [...]

SEO expert and tipster, Eric Wolfram, recently had an interview with Eddie Codell on the LunchMeet #52 Video PodCast and had the following to say about his tips and tricks for people looking to perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on their web site and get it ranked higher in Google:
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) [...]

Recently announced from SentrySafe, and available after December 1st 2007, is the Fire-Proof and Water-Proof USB 2.0 Hard Drive case for Mac and PC. The model comes in 2 hard drive sizes, the smaller is 80GB and is priced at $260 (USD) and the larger is 160GB and priced at $320 (USD).
Target Audience?
The drives [...]

When trying to publish your web site online with Apple’s iWeb website design software and .Mac their online website host offering, you are already fighting an uphill struggle to get your web site into search engines like Google. That being said many people still make iWeb and .Mac their software and host of choice [...]

What Not To Do?
As soon as you realise that you have lost your files, the worst thing you can do is continue on using the computer with the files on it. In fact, if you are looking up this exact topic right now using the computer you wish to recover the files from, you [...]

Are you a recent PC to Mac switcher? Are you lost with the one button mouse? Confused as to how to find the contextual menus on the mac that are just one click away on the Windows PC? Well you would be glad to know that the answer is VERY simple:

Press

CTRL

on the bottom left of [...]

Given that there is no easy way to simply export contacts held in Apple’s Address Book application for Mac OS X, it makes it nigh on impossible to actually use the data for a mail merge in MS word. Now that’s fine if you only wish to print labels, but what about if you want [...]

How many layers of Mac security can you have? Well according to SubRosaSoft, who this week (12 Nov ‘07) announced the release of FileDefense, you can have more!
In brief, it is an application that “forms the first line of defense in file access”. It is a set of programs that “provide an easy interface to [...]

So far we have written articles about how to recover accidentally deleted files, how to secure erase data from your mac hard drive and how to import recovered data to applications like Apple Mail. Missing from this equation is an article on how to actually delete or overwrite data that [...]

The ability to create duplicate disk images of a boot device or external hard drive in Mac OSX can be useful for a variety of reasons, not least for backup purposes. There are a range of possible solutions for the task, but by far the easiest one of all is SubRosaSoft’s CopyCatX hard drive duplicate [...]

I recently came across a brief and informative article by the Cambridge University Press on how to acheive the best results in print and web design from the perspective of a client. They offered a 6 point plan for getting the results you desire and layed the onus as much at the door of [...]

Recently published by seomoz.org is the web designers SEO cheat sheet. It brings together SEOmoz’s Danny Dover’s experience and knowledge of 9 months into one easy place, and helps others to equally tick all the boxes required to optimize a web site for better rank in Google and other search engines.
The cheat [...]

Few designers even think much beyond the initial design, color patterns, using the mixer and perhaps a pantone book, let alone think about accessibility for the visually impaired.
Mostly, when people think about accessibility and visual impairment they think of the blind, but this is not always the case, making your web site, print material or [...]

Sometimes it is impractical to send files via the internet. For one, most FTP servers will have problems handling files over 2GB in size, and if you try and transfer a file of that sze via an IM client it might easily fail part of the way through and you won’t be able to resume [...]

Developed and released over the last few days, MobileScrobbler is the first AudioScrobbler / Last.FM client that brings decent scrobbling capabilities to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
For those you not offay with the way in which Last.FM works, basically, whilst listening to your favourite songs in iTunes, [...]

Have you ever wondered how hard it might be to print a mailing list, in paper form, on envelopes or as mailing labels? Well, actually it isn’t that hard, and in fact Apple’s Address Book software takes a lot of the pain out of the process, and makes it possible to sideline Microsoft Word’s Mail [...]