Ambrosia Releases Killer Games Bundle

December 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

The Nikkai Barebones Digital TV Recorder (PVR)

December 21st, 2008

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 [...]

Custom CSS Date Blocks in Blogspot, or Elsewhere

December 20th, 2008

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 [...]

Built-In Screen Capture Key Combo in OSX

December 16th, 2008

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.

SEO Lessons from Google

December 16th, 2008

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 [...]

Last.FM Album Cover Quilt Your Mac Desktop

December 11th, 2008

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 [...]

Looping Through JSON & Wrapping Subsets with JQuery

December 10th, 2008

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 [...]

Joy That Can Be Seen and Heard (by Apple)

December 8th, 2008

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 [...]

CS4 Application Icon Replacement Set

December 7th, 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 [...]

Shell Scripting MySQLdump and FTP File Backup

December 6th, 2008

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, [...]