Ever wanted to make a stop motion movie in which you were the subject? Well now with Gawker, the time-lapse application that makes movies with your web cam, you can, and with the tagline “Let your computer do the gawking.” it doesn’t leave much to the imagination  Other benefits of Gawker include the fact that [...]

If your mail server goes down, what happens to your emails? In this article, I run through the scenario and talk about the solutions, or the non-solutions, that you might like to consider in terms of safeguarding the loss of any of your clients's emails, as well as the how-to of implementing them. What Does [...]

What to do when Apple Mail seemingly stops working for no apparent reason? In this article we cover a quick array of possible problem areas, from network issues, mailbox corruption and even settings, help you to track down and debug the potential problems with crashing, slowness and connectivity that you might encounter with your Mac [...]

I recently received an email with a 33KB attachment that had been sent via pando.com. In the contents of the email it suggested that I go to http://www.pando.com/download and retrieve a piece of software to be able to open the attachment. I wouldn't say I fell off my seat laughing, but it struck me how [...]

Ever wanted to have super spiffy, quick and easy web form checking, web 2.0 style with AJAX? Well now, with Live Validation, you can set up form validation in 3 quick and VERY simple steps. Here is how ... Where to Begin with Form Validation For starters you need to have the form created in [...]

Update: Apple has announced a simple copy & paste functionality for embed code produced on many web 2.0 web sites, such as flickr & last.fm with iWeb '08, part of the iLife '08 suite of applications for OSX. We are as yet to confirm whether there is any templating functionality for embed code within iWeb [...]

Having the need for, and recently come across an article by Mark Schenk on the use of scaled images a a background with CSS, I thought that I would add my 2¢ to the equation as i think he is missing out a couple of points that would be super handy for any casual reader [...]

If you are getting a lot of SPAM sprayback, bounced emails and the like for your domain, you might like to consider the creation of SPF records to help inform receiving mail servers about what are and what aren't valid mail relays for your domain. SPF records create a "Sender Policy Framework" in your domain [...]

In this article we will be using Outlook 2003 as an example, but all versions of Outlook operate pretty much the same way, with the same looking screens. In the article we also assume that you have already set up the required email account under the "Mail" section of CPanel. If you don't have an [...]

Having recently read the following blog entry "Halloween Special: Secure Erase" about how easy it is to secure erase files in Apple's latest version of the Mac operating System, codenamed Leopard, I thought I would write a quick review of ways to secure erase, files and entire hard drives for those of us using not [...]

Hype Machine seems to have joined the political fray today by coming out in Support of McCain and Palin, or have they? It's kinda tricky to tell, but one thing is for sure, pictures of John McCain are all over the site as default user images. To be honest it is pretty off putting and [...]

Lawyer-by-day and all-round-creative-genius-by-night, Charlie Kratzer, has decided to decorate the basement of his South Lexington, KY home with Sharpie Magic Markers.  The feat of artistic endeavor includes cameos of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, as well as British war time leader Winston Churchill and eminent Irish author George Bernard Shaw. He obviously has a gift [...]

Even the mighty CBS corp isn't resilient to the adverse monkey behaviour of naughty social media subverts. User-generated content is all and well, and the internet's cheap means of production, much like reality shows are for tv, but if you don't maintain such content properly, it can easily and quickly come back to bite you in the arse, much like CBS has found out on the project, CBSmobileeye.com.

I am frequently asked by clients to set up a web page where their clients can upload files. These are often design firms who have to share files with printers and viceversa, and although the file transfer protocol was designed for this, it seems that FTP clients are not something that "most" people have, or [...]

So you have the book, you finally got it published and you even have a web site. Where to go from there? How do you make sure your book reaches a critical mass online? How do you generate interest and reach out to the prospective audience? In this article I cover a few points of [...]

One of the first things that any visitors considers doing when they hit your web site is to search. This is all and well if you are running an PHP/MySQL driven web app like OScommerce or Expression Engine, but what if your site runs on static pages like this one? You can't always rely on [...]