Today, Last.fm has announced the release of a new version of their public API. The massive upgrade is designed to further compliment and enhance existing data feeds over at audioscrobbler.net and to:
“Allow anyone to build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether they’re on the web, the desktop or mobile devices.”
Getting started is simple, with [...]

Del.icio.us has been my networked repository for links and web-based stuff I’d like to flag for some time now, but I recently took part in the Evernote beta and am moving ship. Wanted to take this moment out to recommend the service to others of you out there who, similarly, like to keep stuff in [...]

A blog post title is just that, not a book, not a word, not a memoir, but a title. It amazes me how many people will seem to write an entire blog entry in the course of the title of their post and then continue to harp on about the aforementioned topic for another [...]

The Backstory
Back 5 years ago when XOOPS was all the rage, alongside a bunch of other CMSes vying for each and every web developer’s attention, I completed a number of different sites with XOOPS. The problem is that as time has moved on, keeping the sites going on older versions has become tiresome at best [...]

As of June 8th, The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason, is now freely available online in eBook format for whoever and whomever wishes to share the book. In a move that signals marketing tactics for the 21st century and beyond, the author and publisher have both agreed that they should make the electronic format freely [...]

To some the process of SEO is a black art and like snake oil. That being said, it is clear that the choice of keywords in relevant positions on your pages does help drive traffic to your blog or web site. Keywords are just a small part, but a critical part in the wider context [...]

The pitfalls of work and a humorous look at a resignation note that never was one April Fools day.

If you love your chocolate and other epicurian delights, then Kaffee Haus at 185 S. Indian Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, CA is the place to go.
The list of the delicious, the heavenly and the down right “wrong” is endless and there is something for even the fussiest’s palette. Should the thought of such rich [...]

Having written many an article about how to make iWeb more search engine friendly, and highlighting all the areas where it lacks decent SEO support, I was contacted by the team at macwyse.com to discuss the possibility of giving a course or two on the topic as part of their wider web design with RapidWeaver [...]

Sites like ArtistData are beginning to mushroom across the internet. They claim to allow you to manage all your data in one place, and take the pain out of maintaining a personal brand online, as well as much more. But in reality how good can they actually be?
However great the internet is at making everyone’s [...]

If you have Airport-enabled Speakers and are addicted to services such as Last.fm or Pandora, it won’t be long before you decide that you want to play the music through those speakers; likewise, if you are a teacher and want tobark orders at your kids. Unfortunately, on Mac or Windows, you can’t just play such [...]

In yet another crazy venture from web 2.0, social networking and music recommendation site last.fm, people in the UK will be able to enjoy the sound of music at their local lido. Kicking things off on the 6th July at London Fields lido in Hackney, London, between 3pm and 5pm members of the public [...]

Over the last 12 months I have found that one single SSL-based host on my CPanel / WHM server occasionally drops back and starts generating “[hostname] has sent incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12263″ alerts when trying to load a secure page in a browser, in this case FireFox.
A quick search of Google and [...]

So, finally, after many a year, I have decided to start a blog. Why now? and just plain why? You might ask.
Well in short it is because the process of writing articles is a long and drawn out one, usually taking a couple of hours at least, whilst, by contrast, blogging takes a shorter time [...]

PangeaSoft are re-releasing the game Cro-Mag Rally for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Ordinarily I wouldn’t care as I am neither a gamer nor have an iPhone or iPod Touch, but for the fact that the vast majority of the artwork in the game was created by a good friend of mine, Marcus Conge over [...]

To promote its new street art walking tour, the Tate Modern is bedecked in 6 works by a range of global graffiti artists: Blu from Bologna; the artist collective Faile from New York; JR from Paris; Nunca and Os Gêmeos, both from São Paulo and Sixeart from Barcelona.
What does this tell us about the [...]