I have a friend who’s been a web developer for over 10 years. When asked about what his job involves he replied ‘I basically have to re-learn everything, everyday’. Web development is a fast paced and ever changing industry. Popular tools and common practices from even just a few years back are now obsolete. In another few years the things we think are … Read More
X - The Ultimate Theme?
Having used WordPress for a while now I’ve developed a sort of love/hate relationship with it. Love: A plugins for every need Hate: Plugins which break your site Love: Thousands of themes Hate: Spending days fixing themes Love: Lets clients edit content themselves Hate: Confusing content structuring (plugin, page, post, widget?) Luckily, there’s a new theme which solves most of these problems. The … Read More
Download Your Facebook Content
We live in a very lucky age. It is said that in 2 minutes we take more photos than were taken in the whole of the 19th Century. It is now remarkably easy to capture events in your life and upload them for everyone else to see. But are they safe? A few weeks ago a blogger named Laxman Muthiyah discovered that … Read More
My Rubik’s Challenge
Skydive, swim with dolphins, run a marathon, ride an elephant, go scuba diving, learn to surf, go parasailing, get a tattoo. These are just some of the items listed as the top 20 things to have on your bucket list. Not me though. Mine is much more pedestrian, and far more geeky. For example, here are the first 5 listings. 1. … Read More
Get Fit with Technology
Recently I was faced with a conundrum: either there was a worldwide conspiracy in which clothes were designed to shrink over time enabling companies to make millions from high stock turnover or I had put on some weight. These days dieting advice is everywhere and there seems so many different choices. There’s Atkins, Cambridge, Slim-fast, Weighwatchers, Alkaline and 5:2 to name … Read More
Smartphone vs DSLR: Top tips
Ever since the digital revolution, people have been buying more and more cameras. It’s now pretty common for most people to have a point-and-shoot compact camera lying somewhere in their house, and quite a few of these people own a more expensive DSLR as well. The problem is that because of the extreme growth and improvement of smartphone cameras (currently the iphone5 is … Read More
Docs in the Cloud
So, I’ve been using the whole Microsoft Office suite for a long time now and although I dabbled in Open Office and Libre Office, the whole Word, Powerpoint, Excel combo has always been my one stop shop for creating documents. Recently, however, I needed some cloud storage space and decided to download Google Drive to back-up my photos and something … Read More
Photoshop Witchcraft
Recently I received some work from a client which involved creating and editing lots of images to fit in with their Magento website. I didn’t have Photoshop at the time as I don’t generally do much design work so I’m used to relying on tools such as Paint.net and online image editors. However, I took the plunge and after a couple of hours … Read More
Adventures in Ubuntu
For the last 15 years I’ve been a Windows man. Not by choice really but by routine. I first started on Windows 95, I’ve never been rich enough to afford a mac and I always assumed Linux involved some sort of ninja qualification in using the command line. However, over the last few months I’ve gotten to that dreaded stage … Read More
SpeedQuizzing
Let me start of by saying I’m not exactly the world’s greatest quiz player. In fact I seem to be missing the trivia part of my brain, so the prospect of pub quizzes doesn’t usually excite me - until now that is. Speedquizzing is a system whereby a quizmaster hosts a quiz from a laptop and teams take part by downloading an app … Read More
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