Is It Possible to Trace Gmail?

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

The sweet and short answer to your question is no, but of course the reality is more of a grey area. To lengthen the answer a little, there is no easy and sure fire way to find out the origin of a gmail sent email, but there are some means, and of course always the [...]

Last.FM Album Cover Quilt Your Mac Desktop

Thursday, 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 [...]

Finding Inspiration For Blog Posts & Articles

Friday, December 5th, 2008

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?

Don’t Be A McCain: Hype Machine Goes Political

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

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 [...]

CBS Scores Own Goal with cbseyemobile.com

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

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.

Listen App Brings Audio Recognition to the iPhone

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

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 [...]

Online Copyright Theft & Combatting It More Effectively

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Yesterday, having posted an article to MacSurfer last weekend, I came across an opinion snippet on a web site. The web site was in fact, injoydesign.com, a site that purportedly puts “joy into design”, the problem was, it wasn’t giving me much joy, the reason being that the snippet of the site I was looking [...]

Using Last.fm Web Service Data Feeds with PHP

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last.fm, rather kindly, provides a plethora of web service and data access formats for developers online. Via the audioscrobbler.net web site you can request data for user profiles, artists, albums, tracks, tags, groups, forums and countries in a variety of formats including, plain text, rss, xml, xpsf and iCal, where relevant.
In this article we take [...]

My iTunes Widgets and Why I Won’t be Installing Them!

Friday, April 4th, 2008

So maybe you have heard the buzz and seen the goods, and if you are still wondering, i mean Apple's new iTMS related widgets. This article highlights a few of the points as to why I think that the new Apple widgets for iTunes, for embedding on your web site, blog or social networking profile [...]

Track Your Listening Habits with MobileScrobbler

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Developed and released over the last few days, MobileScrobbler is the first AudioScrobbler / Last.FM client that brings decent scrobbling capabilities to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
For those you not offay with the way in which Last.FM works, basically, whilst listening to your favourite songs in iTunes, [...]