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18th Jun 2008 VisualHub To The Rescue
A cheap multi-format video encoder.
14th May 2008 Saving Memory on Media Temple’s (dv) Hosting
Simple tweaks, big gains.
11th May 2008 Wii Fit First Impressions
Yeah, it does make you feel silly.
20th Feb 2008 Using the Vista Fonts Without Vista
Install them in XP for free.
10th Feb 2008 Mid-February Link Dump
Bear, livestock, dog, pony, lemurs and more.
14th Jan 2008 Get The Wii Internet Channel For Free
It’s a bit of a faff.
12th Nov 2007 Mid-November Link Dump
Science, vectors, cows, animation, poultry, comics and more.
18th Oct 2007 Mid-October Link Dump
Animation, exploits, Morse, Ajax, SEO, games, amputation and beans.
21st Sep 2007 Mid-September Link Dump
Karma, fish, evil, dinosaurs, bugs and more.
30th Aug 2007 August Link Dump
Video, newspapers, marketing, ideas, bubbles and more.
6th Aug 2007 Flash Enhancements
11 ways to use it to extend the browser.
28th Jul 2007 Mac Backups With Mozy
Protecting data from fire and burglars.
20th Jul 2007 Scanning Sanity
Getting it working when Canon can’t.
18th Jul 2007 Mid-July Link Dump
Disaster recovery, games, PHP, video, messaging and domain names.
11th Jul 2007 Project/Account Management For Dummies
Repeat after me…
4th Jul 2007 The Uncomfortable Truth About PHP
PHP6 isn’t necessarily the best successor to PHP5.
23rd Jun 2007 Switch to Fast User Switching
No more disputes over that LOLcat wallpaper.
7th Jun 2007 “I have new mail…?”
How to get at messages lurking within OS X.
4th Jun 2007 Browsing By Ear
A video introduction to screen reading technology.
18th May 2007 In a Zen State
Just a brief e-commerce grumble.
27th Apr 2007 April Link Dump
GIFs, colours, templates, demos, clients, CSS, frameworks and maths.
14th Apr 2007 A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks)
Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites.
30th Mar 2007 March Link Dump
Lisa, fluid, stats, Python, brushes, Wii and time off.
26th Mar 2007 Typing Curly Quotes, Accents, etc. In OS X
Put that Option/alt/funny-symbol key to good use.
12th Mar 2007 Unicode-friendly PHP and MySQL
Getting web applications to think in UTF-8.
28th Feb 2007 February Link Dump
Torquay, Robocop, idents, flowers and more.
26th Feb 2007 Duck!
Aquatic avians invading OS X.
22nd Feb 2007 PaperVision3D’s Flashy Origami
Chucking polygons around with ActionScript.
24th Jan 2007 Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites
Sound advice from Flickr’s architect.
16th Jan 2007 Mid-January Link Dump
A new miscellany for the new year.
12th Jan 2007 Microsoft Kills Off CSS In Emails
A backwards step for developers and email marketers.
10th Jan 2007 iWant1
Yeah, yeah, I’m going on about the iPhone too.
28th Nov 2006 November Link Dump
Chicks, nukes, prime numbers and more.
7th Nov 2006 Spyware? Yahoo!
Oops.
2nd Nov 2006 Halloween.app
Even text editing software can offend people.
31st Oct 2006 Top Ten Timewasting Techniques
How to avoid getting things done.
23rd Oct 2006 Password Shouting
A nifty feature for CAPS LOCK USERS.
11th Oct 2006 Mid-October Link Dump
Miscellaneous URLs that were lying around.
4th Oct 2006 Odd One Out
“One of these things is not like the others…”
9th Sep 2006 Sweet Test Suite
Running OS X and Windows in parallel in Parallels.
4th Sep 2006 Securing OS X’s Personal Web Sharing
Keep prying eyes away from work in progress.
18th Aug 2006 Setting Up Apache, PHP, MySQL, .htaccess and mod_rewrite in OS X
I think the title says more than enough.
17th Aug 2006 Development Developments
I’ve switched, but I promise not to be a smug fanboy.
10th Aug 2006 Childish Games
Do geeky kids still get into programming?
7th Aug 2006 A-Week-Into-August Link Dump
A catchily-titled miscellany of web delights.
16th Jul 2006 Optimising Email
The neverending quest to make it flexible and reliable.
24th Jun 2006 WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes
Warnings for fellow web developers.
4th Jun 2006 May Link Dump
E-commerce, RSI, bogroll, generators, demons and scripts.
23rd May 2006 Headdress for OS X
Simplified Apache configuration for web developers.
6th May 2006 Comic Life: A Micro-Review
Another slick little bit of OS X software.
2nd Apr 2006 March Link Dump
A month’s worth of bits’n’pieces.
27th Mar 2006 Freshly Squeezed Documents
File Juicer for Mac OS X.
16th Mar 2006 Preventing Prefetching
Putting greedy browsers on a bit of a diet.
10th Mar 2006 Keeping Flash Active
Internet Explorer update forces changes to sites.
25th Jan 2006 Opera Mini (Operetta?)
A nifty free web browser for your mobile.
9th Nov 2005 Splog Generator
TV theme lyrics should be used for good, not evil
18th Oct 2005 Mid-October Link Dump
Quickly rustled up from miscellaneous leftovers.
16th Oct 2005 Minimal Navigation From Apple
No clutter of buttons on their remote control.
27th Sep 2005 Software Development Myths
A few misconceptions about programming.
8th Sep 2005 Even Fewer Popups with Firefox
How to close a popups-from-plugins loophole.
7th Sep 2005 Rubbish ROKR, Nifty nano?
Apple both delights and underwhelms.
4th Sep 2005 Finishing Touches: Useful URLs
The address bar is part of your site’s interface.
30th Aug 2005 Download This Weblog Entry for $2.99
The healthy market for ‘casual games’ and digital content.
29th Aug 2005 Coding Isn’t Important
What makes a good developer?
21st Aug 2005 August Link Dump
A clear-out featuring toast, games and more.
12th Aug 2005 Flashy Flash 8
New toys to play with from Macromedia.
7th Aug 2005 They Know Where You Browse
Browsers expose more data than you might realise.
28th Jul 2005 Yahooulator! Yidgets
Yahoo! sneaks onto the desktop with Konfabulator.
21st Jul 2005 Scratch’n’Save
Sounds and images can outlive their sources.
18th Jul 2005 “RAD Framework, Dude!”
Ruby has been on Rails for a while; now Python has Django.
14th Jul 2005 Dog-and-Bone-over-IP
Indulge your multinational pretensions with SkypeIn.
30th Jun 2005 Indie Racing
Online gaming changes everything for independent developers.
29th Jun 2005 iTunes Pushes Podcasting, Flirts With Phones
Apple takes podcasts mainstream. ‘iPhone’ imminent?
4th Jun 2005 More XML Goodness from Google and Microsoft
Google Sitemaps and Microsoft Office Open XML Formats.
29th May 2005 Where the Web Went Right
Ted Nelson v Tim Berners-Lee? The web wins by default.
22nd May 2005 Google Web Accelerator Aftermath
Lessons learned from the publicised problems.
18th May 2005 “Make clips of yourselves… and each other”
Yep, it’s another quoteplay mention.
13th May 2005 OSXford English Dictionary
Some surprising omissions and puerile inclusions.
12th May 2005 No Feline Wordplay Headlines Here
OS X Tiger is pretty good.
9th May 2005 Podcasting Miscellany
A collection of notes about the new medium.
30th Apr 2005 Safari So Goody (Sorry…)
First to pass Acid2; Internet Explorer still struggling with Acid0.0001 .
23rd Apr 2005 Using Flash’s Local Shared Objects for Good, Not Evil
Add nifty features with Flash’s answer to cookies.
7th Apr 2005 quoteplay Update
Imminent improvements, and an interesting alternative approach.
1st Apr 2005 Tinned Meat from WordPress
Search engine spamming’s bad, no matter who’s doing it.
28th Mar 2005 Time-Wasting Time
Changing clocks twice a year seems a bit odd.
27th Mar 2005 Easter Eggs
Sorry, no chocolate. You know it’s bad for you.
22nd Mar 2005 March Link Dump
A quick clear-out of this month’s notes.
14th Mar 2005 Validate While You Browse
Handy Firefox extension for developers.
10th Mar 2005 Yahoo Marketing
Iffy toolbar bundling by Adobe and Macromedia.
8th Mar 2005 Dog-eared Bookmarks
Have bookmarks/favorites become irrelevant?
2nd Mar 2005 The Knowledge of All Font
Simple freeware for managing typefaces.
17th Feb 2005 Quick Reviews: iPod shuffle, iLife, and iWork
Playing with more products from Apple.
5th Feb 2005 Link to Audio Excerpts With ‘quoteplay’
Podcast content can be opened up to deep-linking.
12th Jan 2005 iShopping
A people-watching visit to London’s Apple Store.
8th Jan 2005 Decentralise
Is Macromedia Central going anywhere?
6th Jan 2005 Anti-Spyware Validationware
Beta release accompanied by Windows validation scheme.
11th Dec 2004 Manufacturing Widgets
Building mini-applications for Dashboard and Konfabulator.
10th Dec 2004 Flash Resurrection
Macromedia’s Flash for ’phones brings an old adversary back to life.
3rd Dec 2004 Symbian Light
Create a rather feeble portable illumination device.
2nd Dec 2004 Bryce 4 Free
3D landscape rendering package on magazine cover disc.
30th Nov 2004 Sorry Walkman
Yet another music player lamb to the iPod slaughter?
21st Nov 2004 Viral Advertising
Third-party ad server adds malicious code to The Register.
18th Nov 2004 OS X 10.3.6: Killer App
Apple temporarily downgrades Powerbook to deluxe aluminium doorstop.
17th Nov 2004 Suffering for Their Arts
The controversy over working hours in the games industry.
15th Nov 2004 “Are We Nearly There Yet?”
A minor Firefox usability grumble.
14th Nov 2004 The Phony Browser/Search/OS War
A crucial countdown for Mozilla, Google and Apple.
11th Nov 2004 Alpha Pint
A possible brainwave for pubs? OK, perhaps not.
10th Nov 2004 Free Graphics Software
A few vector and bitmap freebies.
8th Nov 2004 Building Bridges
Civil engineering has never been so much fun.

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