Blog Archives for 2008

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 zone [...]

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 doesn’t [...]

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 and [...]

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 [...]

AppZapper proclaims itself as the application uninstaller that Apple forgot about when it was creating Mac OSX. And the truth is that they are probably right!
A frequent complaint with OSX is that users are able to merely delete software from the applications folder with no recourse and end up encountering trouble or finding that remnants [...]

With the advent of iLife ‘08, and in particular the newest version of iWeb, it has become a lot easier to build an ecommerce site.

Until now you had to use tools such as iWebMore and iWeb Enhancer to add snippets of HTML code, which even then had to be post-processed after generating the site [...]

Having been released into the wild, after leaving Last.fm, I have been noticing a lot recently, on many web sites a plethora PHP fatal errors. In this article I take a quick look at a simple 1 line fix to suppressing PHP errors on production web sites.

The cool kids over at 9031.com in Japan have come up wIth a couple of really awesome Screensavers.

FliqLo – The Flip Clock Screensaver

The first is a super simple, but very effective flip clock style screensaver that dislays the system time in full view on a black background. As each minute rolls by the numbers [...]

Ambrosia Software’s Snapz Pro X is the perfect tool and enhancement to Apple’s Mac OSX built-in finder screen capture functions. Rather than trouncing the command + shift +3/4 key combination, Snapz Pro X supplements them by adding image capture and video capture combined with a whole slew of options. Whether you are switching from a [...]

We take a look at 1 of the possible ways to produce rounded corners on divs and other elements as well as your images in page, using css, xhtml and javascript.

Just released into beta, "Listen" a new app for the iPhone allows you to recognize the music you hear. It is very early days and the team of 1, Erica Sadun (of TUAW fame), is running a beta, but it is a great new addition to the music armoury of your iPhone.
When combined with an [...]