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Archive for June, 2008

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Top Gear fuelled by Wordpress

I hope the title isn’t misleading. Clarkson’s Lamborghini Gallardo is NOT turning to Wordpress as alternative fuel source in the current petrol crisis. However the Top Gear blog is actually powered by my favourite platform – Wordpress! It’s not really that big a deal, WP is amazing and is used by a massive percentage of [...]

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Death to IE6!

A site I’m building at the moment has required me to consider the poor people who still unfortunately use Internet Explorer 6. I’d love to think it was a thing of the past, extinct along with any pre-XP versions of Windows and late 90’s pop music but unfortunately not.
As we all know, Firefox is steaming [...]

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Web News This Week

Well, my Monday morning trawl through the internet to find any interesting news or revelations in the web world has been delivered only a backwards look at the news of last week. So, suffice to say I don’t have any clever inside information or sneak previews to part with (do I ever?).
So, I will, like [...]

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Firebug for Firefox

Regarding Firefox add-ons for developers, of which there is a fantastic selection – please, everyone check out Firebug, unless you have already.
It is the NUMBER 1 ESSENTIAL ADD-ON FOR ANY WEB DESIGNER/DEVELOPER.
If anybody has recommended this to me before and I’ve not acknowledged it, I’m very sorry and very foolish not to have done.
Firebug tucks [...]

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Kindle Hacks

A couple of months ago I wrote an article, which I now realise to have been rather out-of-date, about the Amazon Kindle. I received a polite email from a visitor regarding further possibilities that the Kindle offers, and would like to share these with you.
 ”Hack Your Kindle: 100+ Tips, Resources, and Tutorials to Get More [...]

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D-Day for Firefox?

Don’t be ridiculous! Well it’s 08:50am GMT here, and the ticker on the Firefox Download Day website is showing a total number of [...]

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Silent Cry makes me smile

When a band you love disappears for a few years, it could be worrying. As is the way with the music industry, some bands make one great album then evaporate, while some hang on for years producing crap.
When a band releases a Greatest Hits (or in this case – The Singles) after 5 albums, it’s [...]

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A Quiet Month…

Hey all
Sorry this month’s been so quiet on my front. Even with so much stuff happening at the moment – the Yahoo/Google/Microsoft parades, news of the new iPhone release on the 11th July, MySpace is set to be redesigned and Jakob Nielson is still moaning about usability issues on the web.
I have however been busy [...]

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Web Awards is a Farce

Yeah you all know, everyone knows – the Web Marketing Association’s 2008 Web Awards entry deadlines has been delayed till the 13th June… which for some reason doesn’t surprise me.
I would love to have entered some of my work in the awards, not that I expect to win but let’s not forget it’s the taking [...]