Blog Archives for 2008

The sweet and short answer to your question is no, but of course the reality is more of a grey area. To lengthen the answer a little, there is no easy and sure fire way to find out the origin of a gmail sent email, but there are some means, and of course always the [...]

If you are heading to Six Flags Great America at Gurnee, IL this summer, and you are looking for a campground to stay at, then you might want to look at staying at Fish lake Beach Resort. It is the perfect place to visit and stay.
Just 13 miles away from SF Great America, and 40 [...]

Having written my review o the Nikkai A52HF, I can see that a bunch of people are search online for the manual and seem to be out of luck. I have therfore spliced my paper copy and put it through a duplex document scanner. So here it is:

Download the A52HF manual in PDF.

Here’s a little piece of retro chic for you as we come to the cusp on 2008-2009. The ION-Mac 560 still video system from Canon that brought a whole new dimension to computer imaging.
Back in 1992 the ION RC-560 was Canon’s top of the line Still Video camera, capturing images onto 2-inch reusable and interchangeable [...]

Recently, a client encountered problems when trying to send out and receive emails from the default email account in CPanel. That is to say that they were trying to send out email from an email account that happened to match the username for that account. The only problem was that when the remote smtp server [...]

Back some 6 months ago or more, I wrote a piece about eye strain and how to try and avoid it. This was pretty much because I myself had come to the very stark realization that I was facing, not just the symptoms of, but the effects of eye strain. If you have done any reading up on the topic you will know that this includes anything from itching eyes, to blurred vision, added light sensitivity, and more. That was 6 months ago.

A quick look at some of the options available for learning Cocoa Programming with Objective-C. The range of options include the FREE eBook “BecomeAnXcoder” from cocoalab.com and commercial and free videos on YouTube and from The Pragmatic Programmers imprint. It is now easier than ever to learn Objective-C and start coding for the OSX desktop and iPhone or iPod Touch.

When setting up your email for Talk Talk Broadband you need to establish it as a POP3 account in your email client, be it Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever else. The rest of the details are as follows:
Talk Talk Email Settings

E-mail address: username@talktalk.net
Reply-to address: username@talktalk.net
Incoming mail Sever: mail.talktalk.net
Incoming mail account type: POP3
Incoming mail [...]

Ambrosia Software is releasing the best games bundle of all time. This is what they had to say about it in their own words:
This year Ambrosia celebrates our 15th year of serving all of you, our fantastic customers! We are thankful for your support and feedback over the years, so we’d like to offer a [...]

Yesterday, I finally decided to get a digital Freeview box, not only because of Christmas, and all the great programming associated with it, but also due to the impending UK Digital Switchover, and that, despite living in Central London, the analog TV signal to my apartment is pretty dreadful. To this end I succumbed to [...]

When creating a new layout for your blog, blogspot, or anywhere else, you may want to design a nice CSS styled date block for each entry, rather than to have the publish date in plain text. In doing so though you will most likely hit a buffer pretty fast. The quickest & simplest way [...]

If I had a penny, cent, dinar or any other division of currency for every time I was asked the key combination for screen capture in Mac OSX, I would most likely be a millionaire by now.

Often SEO advice is provided by non-professionals and well qualified as a bad joke, so who better to take your SEO lead from than Google, the masters of the black art, if for no other reason than for the fact that they rule the search engine market with as much as 80% of the search [...]

One of the great features of last.fm user pages and widgets are the album and artist image quilts that they use in flash on the site and in embeddables. If you are anything like me, you will have thought how great it would be to be able to take such image quilts and actually place [...]

So, you have just received JSON data via an AJAX request and you need to loop through, what is effectively an associative array, wrapping every few generated html records in a wider tag set, creating record subsets and allowing you to generate the requisite code for a slider or pager. How do you go about [...]

In a follow up to my posting on “Apple’s Credit Crunch Christmas“, it seems that the onslaught from Apple is unrelenting. There isn’t a day that goes by that doesn’t see a marketing email, all gift wrapped and pretty, sitting in my inbox from yours truly. Whereas last time I commented on how Apple was [...]