Blog Archives for 2007

With so many domain name registration firms popping up left, right and centre, and with many providing at least semi-decent interfaces for updating the domain details yourself, it is extremely cheap and easy to set up a domain and then setup a dotmac account for your web site, whilst at the same time using your [...]

It seems like for years people have been asking for custom field availability within the calendar module in Expression Engine. Somehow the feature still languishes on the request list. Here’s a quick and dirty guide on how to implement the "Mr Wilson" hack for adding custom field data into your weblog calendar so that you [...]

An Introduction Just out today is Easy Envelopes for Dashboard in OSX 10.4 (Tiger), from long time Mac games & utilities developer Ambrosia Software. It is a FREE widget that allows you to send professional looking envelopes in a 4 step process: Hit It, Address It, Print It, and Mail It! And because it is [...]

I was recently given a Targus Chill Mat as a present by my other half, mostly to quit my 3-year whine about how hot my 17” Mac PowerBook gets on many an occasion. My initial concern about the mat being too small was unfounded and not only did the item fit perfectly under the PowerBook, [...]

Late yesterday, London, UK time, Last.FM announced the PUBLIC BETA for the latest version (Mac, Windows, Linux) of their FREE web radio client that integrates the audioscrobbler technology. This release brings a slew of major changes to the software include, but not limited to: Integrated fingerprinting, rather than the standalone client as before. Import media [...]

We, or rather I, Vincent, recently accepted the job of scanning and converting into Microsoft Word a huge library of bound documents totalling many thousands of A4 sheets of paper. Now you might think that this is a totally nutty proposition, but then I never was one to shy away from a decent challenge! Initially [...]

You may have heard people talk about Microformats. It’s the new buzzword of the moment, much like XML was 5 or more years ago, and how AJAX was only just a few years back also. You may or not, also know what microfomats are, but for the benefit of those who don’t they are essentially [...]