Blog Archives for 2008

A dear friend and great game, icon and all round designer, Marcus Conge, has just released his update to the Adobe Creative suite 4 icon set. Drawing on the packaging for inspiration he has created some simple, yet definitely more inspired, selection of 17 icons to replace the existing ones, that by anyone’s admission are [...]

The purpose of this article is to give you a quick fire introduction to the world of shell scripting. It is by no stretch of the imagination a complete guide to the technique of shell scripting but It will give you the basis of a script for backing up your web files and mysql databases, [...]

Sometimes you may feel like the fountain of ideas has dried up and although necessity is the mother invention, said phrase may well not ring quite true. So How do you keep ideas fresh and in line with what people want? How do you even go about finding ideas to form posts from?

Having purchased my first 17″ Apple Powerbook back in 2003, I decided to buy a suitable bag for it at the same time. In perusing the available options I ended up buying a great looking bag from a startup company in San Francisco, namely Acme Made.  The fact that I am still using the exact [...]

If iWeb is designed to make the process of creating web pages easy, then Rage Software’s recently released iWeb SEO tool is designed to make the process of Search Engine Optimization for iWeb easier too.
As those who have been following my articles will know, I have often bemoaned the general joke that is the HTML [...]

Google Analytics tracking code – the little chunk of javascript that  you put on the bottom of the web page -  has been updated sometime in  the past few months. Apparently, if a user had ad blocking software
and/or certain types of security software – they would sometimes get a javascript error.
If you got or updated [...]

Based on the email marketing I just received from Apple, I don’t think anyone told them that the world economy is in crisis. This isn’t quite a time for a post-9/11 spend yourself out of a potential recession period, but more a time when people are tightening their purse strings for the long and cold [...]

With so many cool ways for photographers, graphic and web designers, artists, retailers and many more to put their portfolio online and to show off their work these days it seems criminal not to use something more flashy to help separate your business, services and other offerings from the pack. Here, we provide a [...]

Creating boxes with rounded corners and
fluid dropshadows, both horizontally and vertically, is just about the bane of any web designers life when developing with CSS/XHTML. Once you have found a way that works and is cross-browser compatible you have reached a Zen state.
Okay, well maybe not, but still it’s a pretty joyous [...]

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 Happen [...]

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 absolutely [...]

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 [...]